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Certified Practitioners in the West and Southwest (United States)
Fran Dotson (Jackson, WY)
Fran is a Certified Practitioner of Healing From the Core® in Jackson, Wyoming.
Erica Eickhoff, LMP (Seattle, WA)
Erica's mission is to empower you to be your most joyful and vibrant self. Healing soul wounds, renegotiating trauma and reclaiming ALL of who you are. Purposefully transforming every aspect of your life to fully embody ALL your potential. You may choose to attend to physical and health issues, emotional challenges, mental blocks, spiritual questions, perceptions about life, dreams you'd like to interpret, karmic and past-life lessons, discovering your life purpose, or anything at all that would make you and your life feel more integrated, whole and empowered.
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She implements Healing From the Core® principles in all her private and group sessions. Her practice combines BioEmotional Transformation, Somatic Experiencing- Trauma Healing, Transformation Coaching, Integral Hypnotherapy, Medical Support Hypnotherapy, Past-Life Regression, Shamanic Healing, and CranioSacral Therapy. With over 25 years’ experience her grounded presence creates a profound container for healing.
She offers sessions online, on the phone or in-person in English or Spanish. Email Erica, call her at 206-293-4927 or visit her website.
Carmel Javier, MA, CMT (Sacramento, CA)
Carmel is a gentle and kind soul dedicated to creating a safe space for you to heal. Prior to her journey into bodywork, Carmel completed a Master’s in Religious Studies which explored various religious traditions and spiritualities. Soon after completion, she felt called to do massage therapy. She was especially interested in how trauma can manifest in our body and was especially drawn to Upledger CranioSacral therapy and SomatoEmotional Release. Carmel has now been practicing as a massage therapist for 10 years and has been volunteering at the local VA’s Women’s Clinic to help women with PTSD for over 4 years.
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Carmel is also trained as a Systemic Family Constellations facilitator and draws from both this tradition and CranioSacral therapy to inform her work as a Healing from the Core® practitioner. On her free time, she likes to study herbalism and acupuncture.
Carmel believes that self-care is a form of self-love, and that the movement toward Full Body Presence is a profound act of self-love.
Email Carmel, call her at 916-467-4202, or visit her IAHP profile.
Zabeth Kim (Oakland, CA)
Zabeth is a well-established body therapist in CranioSacral Therapy, Visceral manipulation, distance healing, and several other modalities. She provides a collaborative exploration to empower your inner wisdom and bring physical, emotional and spiritual health.
“It was amazing that I could feel so connected with myself after one session” - Dr. Matt Green D.C.
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Zabeth was born in North Africa and raised in the South of France, where she earned her Nursing Degree. She has worked in many capacities in different kinds of medical offices, including nursing and administration, and has maintained a private practice for many years.
Her private practice began with a certificate in massage therapy in 1993. While the foundations of her work are CranioSacral and SomatoEmotional Release, other modalities that she incorporates include Visceral manipulation, Reiki, Energetics, Jin Chin Acutouch and her own inner knowing of spiritual energy’s power to heal.
She is a long-time student of embodied Relational Gestalt, and has had her own practice of yoga and meditation for over 30 years.
She believes in nurturing the relationship with the body in order to listen to its innate intelligence and truth. She approaches each person as unique and holds a safe container for them while engaging curiously in exploration together. Through this, she also bears witness to her own healing experiences.
In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, being in nature, gardening, cooking, eating, creating, kayaking, traveling and enjoying art and culture of all kinds. She also delights in just Being.
Call Zabeth at (510) 406-4551.
Kate Mackinnon, PT, CST-D (Livermore, CA)
Kate Mackinnon is a diplomat certified CranioSacral Therapist through the Upledger Institute, a Certified Master Practitioner for Distance Healing from the Core®, as well as being a licensed Physical Therapist in both California and the United Kingdom.
She is a passionate advocate of CranioSacral Therapy and having it be clearly understood by everyone.
Learn More About Kate
Kate has found the work of Healing From the Core to be a key component to her successful Cranioscaral Practice and uses everything she has learned through her training in all aspects of her life.
Kate is the author of From my Hands and Heart: Achieving Health and Balance with CranioSacral Therapy and co-author of Elements of a Successful Therapeutic Business.
She has a private practice in Livermore, California, and you can find out more on her website: Kmackinnon.com.
Tali Manthey, PT (Hemet, CA)
Tali Manthey is a Physical Therapist with over 20 years of experience who has a Masters Degree in Physical Therapy from Loma Linda University.
Her fields of expertise include: Outpatient Orthopedics, Pain Management, Pediatric and Geriatric Rehabilitation, and CranioSacral Therapy. Tali's practice seamlessly integrates her education and extensive experience in Physical Therapy and her intuition with her CranioSacral and Healing From the Core® skills to empower each person she treats to step into their full healing potential.
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Healing From the Core has personally provided Tali the framework to be grounded, present, and neutral. Professionally, this allows her practice to maintain the utmost integrity in facilitating a deep healing experience that is loving, compassionate, and non judgemental for both Tali and her clients.
In a world where most move from one moment to the next in autopilot fueled by distraction, Tali values most her ability as a therapist to help her clients slow down and become aware of their own body’s wisdom and innate healing abilities.
While Tali is not in the treatment room or administering distance healing, you can be sure to find her horseback competing in barrel races with her horse, Donut, or trotting leisurely in her beautiful yard in Southern California.
Tali can be reached at 951-796-2455.
Meghan McGrath, CMT, CECP, CST (Livermore, CA)
Meghan holds a Master’s Degree in Communication Studies, is a Certified Massage Therapist since 2013, and is techniques certified in Upledger CranioSacral Therapy.
She has a healing arts practice in Livermore, CA where she offers CranioSacral Therapy and other complimentary forms of bodywork.
Learn More About Meghan
Her personal healing journey both led her into the world of bodywork and gives her a unique perspective as a healing arts practitioner.
She uses the principles of the Healing from the Core® curriculum in her professional practice as well as in her daily life.
Find out more information about her and her healing arts practice at www.UnwindingJourney.com.
Chery Owens, BSED, CST, MT, E-RYT (San Diego, CA)
Chery has an extensive background in teaching and the healing arts. She taught children for twenty years prior to becoming a body worker in 1995.
As a licensed massage therapist with specialties in Ashiatsu and CranioSacral Therapy she enhances her training, knowledge and skills with conscious presence and compassionate touch.
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As a teacher of yoga and meditation, she artfully weaves mindfulness practice into her sessions.
Her one-day presentations of Healing From the Core® are a fusion of Restorative Yoga and Suzanne’s teachings.
Chery’s passion is to facilitate a deep understanding of the self-healing potential of every human body.
Chery lives and works in San Diego County. Email Chery, call 618-531-6080 or visit http://www.cheryowens.com.
Ed Savay, M.D. (Capitola, CA)
Ed is an emergency physician and CranioSacral Therapist with over 15 years of clinical experience.
In addition to working in a hospital emergency department, he has a private craniosacral practice, where he has had great success with chronic pain, orthopedic injuries and other unexplained pain and symptoms that traditional medicine has been unable to resolve.
Learn More About Ed
Ed’s unique modality combines his extensive knowledge of anatomy, physiology and treatment of a wide variety of conditions, with a gentle and highly intuitive approach to the body – so he can quickly hone in on core issues and most effective treatment. HFC principles have become a way of life for
Ed and he seamlessly integrates them into his craniosacral sessions. He is especially passionate about waking up people’s ability to heal themselves.
He lives in Santa Cruz, CA, and enjoys nature, hiking, and studying mystical spiritual traditions.
Robyn Scherr, CMT, CST-D (Lafayette, CA)
A health educator for 30 years and healing arts practitioner for more than two decades, Robyn advocates for touch that is informed by a deep respect for our unique lived experience and an acknowledgment of the stressors society and culture place upon us. She promotes attuned and healthy compassionate touch because they provide resources our bodies can use immediately to calm the nervous system and release the effects of stress, injury, and trauma.
Learn More About Robyn
Robyn has lectured and published extensively on skillful and attuned touch, and is co-author of Elements of a Successful Therapeutic Business. The principles of the Healing From the Core® curriculum are woven deeply into her work and daily life.
Find out more about Robyn’s private practice, writing, and speaking at www.livinginthebody.net.
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