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

    Internal Family Systems - Richard Schwartz

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

    Certified in Coherence Therapy – Dr. Bruce Ecker

    Certified in Attachment Repair Therapy & Ideal Parent Protocol - Level 1 – Dr. Daniel Brown

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

    Certified in Integral Somatic Psychology – Dr. Raja Selvam

    Certified Transforming Touch® – Stephen Terrell, PsyD

    Somatic Regulation & Resilience – Dr. Kathy Kain

    Certificate in Somatic EMDR – The Embody Lab

  • 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

  • Psilocybin Facilitator Training Certificate – Naropa University

    Ketamine Therapy Provider Training Certificate – Alchemy Community Therapy Center

  • Certified Ayurveda Counselor – Kerala Ayurveda Academy

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

  • Certified Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Teacher

    Political Extimacy® – Dr. Kesha Fikes

  • Mindfulness, Early Buddhism & Theravada Tradition

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

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

    3-Year Experienced Practitioner Program – Gil Fronsdal

    3-Year Early Buddhist Meditation Path – Bhikkhu Anālayo

    The Jhānas (Concentration States) – Leigh Brasington

    Vajrayana Tradition

    Certified Vajra Yoga Teacher (& RYT-500 yoga teacher) - Professor Robert Thurman

    Authorized Kālachakra Ngöndro Teacher — Khentrul Rinpoche, Dzokden

    Certified Shamatha Meditation Teacher – Tulku Pema Khandro

    Advanced Chöd Practitioner – Tulku Pema Khandro

    Certified Feed Your Demons® Facilitator – Lama Tsultrim Allione

    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 (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)

  • 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.

Attachment Repair Therapy & Ideal Parent Protocol

  • 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.

TIST (Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment)

  • TIST (Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment) is a therapeutic model developed by Dr. Janina Fisher for complex trauma, stabilizing clients with self-destructive behaviors—like self-harm, addiction, and eating disorders—before deep trauma processing, by integrating Internal Family Systems and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to help fragmented "selves" build internal safety and regulation.

    TIST emphasizes stabilization first, helping clients build internal safety, grounding, and emotional regulation skills before directly confronting traumatic memories, reducing the risk of re-traumatization.

    It is an integrative approach that combines:

    • Internal Family Systems (IFS): exploring and harmonizing different “parts” of the self

    • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: body-focused strategies to release trauma held in the body

    • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT): cultivating present-moment awareness

      Structural Dissociation Theory: understanding fragmented self-states

    TIST takes a holistic view, addressing the effects of trauma on the body, emotions, and spirit—not just psychological symptoms.

    Who it helps:

    TIST is particularly effective for individuals experiencing:

    • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)

    • Dissociation

    • Self-destructive behaviors (self-harm, suicidality, addiction, eating disorders)

    • Intense emotional dysregulation

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