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  • Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) – Dr. Janina Fisher (in progress)

    Certificate in Trauma-Informed Studies – Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

    Certified in Coherence Therapy – Dr. Bruce Ecker

    Integrated Attachment Therapy & Ideal Parent Figure Protocol Training (Level 1) – Dr. Daniel Brown

    Certificate in Polyvagal Theory – Dr. Stephen Porges

  • Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Training – Dr. Peter Levine (in progress)

    Certified in Integral Somatic Psychology – Dr. Raja Selvam

    Certified Transforming Touch® – Dr. Stephen Terrell, PsyD

    Somatic Regulation & Resilience Training – Dr. Kathy Kain, PhD (in progress)

    Certificate in Somatic EMDR – The Embody Lab

    Body-Mind Centering® Training – Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

  • Emotionally Focussed Therapy

    Imago Relationship Therapy

  • Certificate in Sex Therapy – California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)

    Somatic Sex Educator – Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education (in progress)

  • Certified Psilocybin Facilitator – Naropa University

    Certified Somatic Psychedelic Facilitator – The Embody Lab

  • Certified Ayurveda Counselor – Kerala Ayurveda Academy

    Certified Tibetan Medicine (Sowa Rigpa) Practitioner – Sowa Rigpa Institute

    Certified Tibetan Medicine (Sowa Rigpa) Counselor – Sowa Rigpa Institute

  • Mindfulness, Early Buddhism & Theravada Tradition

    Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher (MMTCP) – Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach, Sounds True

    Certified Mindfulness Meditation Mentor (MMT) – Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach

    3-Year Experienced Practitioner Program – Gil Fronsdal, Sati Center

    3-Year Early Buddhist Meditation Path – Bhikkhu Anālayo, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

    The Jhānas (Concentration States) – Leigh Brasington

    Vajrayana Tradition

    8-Year Terma Cycle Program of Dzinpa Rangdröl (Natural Liberation of Clinging), combining the teachings of Machig Labdrön with Dzogchen (Great Perfection) – Lama Tsultrim Allione, Tara Mandala (in progress)

    7-Year Master’s Program in Sutra and Tantra, Gelugpa Vajrayana Tradition – Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Thought, Nalanda Monastery (in progress)

    Certified Shamatha Meditation Teacher – Tulku Pema Khandro, Buddhist Studies Institute

    Certified Feed Your Demons® Facilitator – Lama Tsultrim Allione, Tara Mandala

    Advanced Chöd Practitioner – Tulku Pema Khandro, Buddhist Studies Institute (in progress)

    Chaplaincy (Clergy) Training

    2-Year Vajrayana Spiritual Care Foundations Program – Yangti Yoga

    2-Year RISE Program for Women of Color in Ministry – Union Theological Seminary

    1-Year Buddhist Chaplaincy Training – Gil Fronsdal, Sati Center

    Year of the Black Woman: Womanist Spiritual Care – Dr. Pamela Ayo

    Movement Chaplaincy – Faith Matters

  • Woman Leader in Buddhism Grant - Frederick Lenz Foundation

    Sacred Writes Fellowship - Northeastern University

    Common Good Fellowship - Western States Center

    Community Chaplaincy Grant - Schwab Charitable Program

Coherence Therapy

  • When we’re very young, or when something overwhelming happens, the mind scrambles into protecting us. It tries to make sense of the moment to keep us as safe as possible in that moment. Either because we’re too little or because the situation is too intense, this learning doesn’t form as a thought. It's more of a felt sense — a wordless rule about who I need to be and what the world is like. It can take shapes like:

    “If I show my true nature, I’ll get hurt.”

    “If I’m not perfect, I’ll be shamed.”

    “Unless I’m big and impressive, people will leave.”

    This isn’t a weakness or a pathology. It’s the most intelligent, creative, adaptive response that was available at that moment. A liberatory move. And thanks to what neuroscience now understands about emotional memory, we know that these early rules live in a subcortical part of the brain that doesn’t update on its own. It is timeless and contextless.

    So even if life has changed and we’re no longer in danger, the old rule still surfaces. It shapes how we see ourselves, how we handle relationships, and even how we make professional choices. And because it was never verbal in the first place, we don’t always know why we’re reacting the way we do. From the outside, what was once liberatory - what once saved us - can now look like a symptom, something that's “wrong,”.

    Coherence therapy offers a way to find this hidden emotional rule again — not by analyzing it or thinking hard about it, but by helping the felt sense of it arise in a safe, therapeutic environment. When the old emotional truth is held side by side in a felt sense with the reality of one’s current life, an important neural connection is made: at the felt level we experience that the two truths no longer match. That felt contradiction is what, according to neuroscience, allows the old emotional learning to dissolve. There’s no forcing, no replacing the belief, no trying to behave differently through willpower. The process isn’t about overriding anything. It’s about uncovering what once protected us, honoring its intelligence, and letting the nervous system naturally release what is no longer needed.

    That’s the heart of coherence therapy — non-pathologizing, respectful, and rooted in how emotional learning actually works in the brain.

    Learn more here and here.

Integrated Attachment Therapy/IPF

  • This is what is referred to as insecure attachment. The term simply points to a familiar lived experience: not quite feeling grounded, safe, or fully valued in our earliest relationships.

    When that happens, it can echo into adulthood in all kinds of ways. In our relationship with ourselves, it might feel like never being “good enough,” struggling with boundaries, pushing ourselves endlessly, or relying on harsh self-criticism to “stay in line”. In family relationships, it might show up as distance, mistrust, or hiding parts of who we are. In romantic relationships, it might take the shape of doubting our lovability or having trouble trusting our partner. At work, it can look like overworking, burnout, perfectionism, or not having a clear sense of what we actually want.

    None of these patterns are a personal failing. They’re simply adaptations to an early environment that wasn't able to provide steady emotional safety.

    Ideal Parent Figure (IPF), developed by Dr. Dan Brown and based on Buddhist practices, offers a way to rewrite those early imprints. Instead of talking through ideas, IPF uses a guided, felt-sense meditation where we imagine caregivers who are consistently safe, warm, attuned, and emotionally grounded. Caregivers who are able to take care of their own needs, and don't need us to meet thier needs. Caregivers who understand our particular personality, and delight in meeting our needs.

    As this practice is repeated, our body and mind start to take in that sense of safety and worthiness. Feeling valued, cherished, and understood becomes something we actually experience from the inside. Over time, that internal shift begins to change how we relate to ourself and others—toward more trust, clearer boundaries, and a steadier sense of being worthy of love and connection.

    Learn more here and here.

Integral Somatic Psychology

  • The body reflexively tightens: our breath stops for a moment, or our muscles tense. This is the body recognizing that the arising emotion is quite intense and is intelligently trying to stop taking in more input. In such a situation, there may be one or a few locations in our body that are particularly trying to hold the entire experience. When the system narrows like that, the emotion doesn’t fully move through us and gets stuck. Later triggers reactivate the old, unmetabolized experience instead of this new moment.

    Integral Somatic Psychology helps the body expand the energy of the emotion, and helps more parts of the body participate in metabolizing the emotion. That lets the energy flow instead of getting trapped, which makes the experience manageable & metabolizable rather than overwhelming. Once the emotion is metabolized, clearer thinking, fresh responses, and new possibilities naturally follow.

    Learn more here and here.

Transforming Touch®

  • That early lack can echo later as migraines, digestive trouble, chronic fear, or other physiological symptoms.

    Transforming Touch works by bringing soft, steady awareness to the parts of the body that never got to feel fully safe: the brainstem that tracks survival, the limbic system that shapes how we feel loved, the adrenals that manage fear, even places like the ankles that anchor regulation. In virtual sessions, there’s no physical contact—we place mindful attention on these areas together.

    When those systems feel this kind of non-intrusive presence, they register safety in a way they may never have before. And with that safety, the body begins to develop capacities that were delayed or halted early on, easing old patterns and supporting healthier physiological functioning.

    Learn more here and here.