Dr. Carol Aalbers is the owner and clinical director of Westside Center. She is a licensed Psychologist, Marriage and Family Therapist and School Psychologist, with twenty years experience. Dr. Aalbers enjoys seeing adults and children in individual and group therapy. She is certified in EMDR, and has extensively studied dreamwork with renowned Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman, as well as Sandplay with leaders in the field. Dr. Aalbers believes psychotherapy is about healing past wounds in order to find your more authentic self.
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Martha de la Garza Adler, Lic. in Education from La Universidad de Monterrey. She established and directed la Biblioteca Central del Estado in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon; she also founded and directed for 14 years El Centro de Educacion Inicial, AC, an enrichment program for infants and toddlers. Martha presents and assists in Jungian-oriented workshops in Canada, Brazil, and Mexico. She completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program in 2003.
Caryn Aman, MA is owner of Full Circle: A Jungian Counseling Center in Portland, Oregon. Caryn is a Jungian soul therapist, teacher, and workshop facilitator. A deep respect for the work of C. G. Jung, dreams, the unconscious, and the wisdom of the body, combined with roots in music and voice, and a desire to help others reclaim their bodies, voices and souls, led Caryn intuitively to the BodySoul Rhythms work of Marion Woodman, Jungian Analyst. Caryn has studied with Marion as a participant in BodySoul Rhythms® Intensives and completed the Marion Woodman Foundation Leadership Training Program. Caryn has taught a number of affiliated workshops including Maskmaking Intensives, Dream Workshops and Groups, and Women’s Wisdom Circles over the past several years.
Lauren Artress, MA, DMin, an Episcopal priest and honorary Canon at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, is known for her exemplary work with the labyrinth. Her book, Walking a Sacred Path, and her workshops are known worldwide as she has dedicated her life work to activating and facilitating the transformation of the human spirit through the Labyrinth Experience. Lauren is an MFT psychotherapist.
Wendy Bratherton, a Jungian Analyst, integrates BodySoul work and Craniosacral Therapy into her practice. She facilitates Infant Observation seminars for The Society for Analytical Psychology in London. She has trained in trauma work with Babette Rothschild.
Ursula Carsen, M.T.C. is a Toronto based Psychotherapist in private practice, course facilitator and former Body-Soul Writing Instructor (UBC Writing Centre). Her analysis and many years of study with Dr. Marion Woodman, along with her lifelong love of dreams, metaphor and symbol inform her work as Jungian therapist and teacher. With a diploma from the Centre For Training In Psychotherapy Toronto, Ursula also holds a Master's degree in Therapeutic Counseling (MTC), and is a clinical member of the Canadian Association For Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT). A graduate of the first BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training program, Ursula has been leading Body-Soul Intensives since 2003, and teaches Body-Soul courses, such as “The Conscious Body as Sacred Container” and “Dreams, Archetypes and the Body-Soul Connection” in Toronto, Canada and abroad. Her work’s emphasis is on the aliveness of consciousness, and the integration of body, soul, heart and mind.
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As a professional writer, editor, small press publisher, and writing coach, Catharine Clarke serves the creative process. She believes that connecting to the source of our being through deep inner work allows us to fully realize the gifts we’ve been given to live.
“We recognize these gifts through what we love, what moves us, what brings us alive."
By the very nature of our humanity, we are creative people; it is our birthright. My work is to help my clients make real what they imagine. If a client wants to write a book because she believes she has a story to tell, I help her make a plan and hold her accountable. If she wants to be a writer but does not believe in herself, I guide her to the page as mirror. If she knows her book is already written inside her, together we find it. Writing from an authentic voice asks a writer to be fully who she is, to connect to the source of her being, to explore the depth of her soul, and to embody spirit.
Since 2003 Catharine has co-facilitated Soul Journaling, a workshop series dedicated to creative discovery through exploration of the body’s wisdom, working with dreams, and writing as self-expression. She is at work on a historical novel, The Motherline, which interweaves three stories of women who speak truth to power across three centuries. Its thread reveals the mysterious continuum of life, where courage can turn fate to destiny and reaching back can move one forward.
Catharine coaches other’s creative process individually and in groups.
She founded Soul Garden Press in 2009 to give voice to those who may otherwise not be read or heard.
Catharine has completed the Marion Woodman Foundation BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training program. She acts as Consulting Editor to Psyche’s Journey where she writes seasonally.
Contact Catharine Clarke at clarke.catharine@gmail.com or 845-246-1803. Her website [soulwriting.com] is currently under development.)
Sue Congram, Chartered Psychologist, is an organisation and leadership consultant based in the UK. Her practice is rooted in Gestalt and Jungian ideas, which also inform her PhD research in leadership at Cardiff University. She is a visiting trainer at institutes around Europe, teaching Gestalt in organisational practice. Sue uses the arts and active imagination when working with personal and professional development and is an editor of Education and Imagination: Post-Jungian Perspectives, published by Routledge (2008). She completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program in 2003.
Marian Dunlea, MSc, is a Jungian Analyst working in private practice in Dublin, Ireland. Her training and experience encompasses Psychoanalysis, Psychosynthesis, Authentic Movement, voice work, and theatre. She has taught in psychotherapy training institutes and in university programs, and she facilitates workshops nationally and internationally. She teaches regularly for the Marion Woodman Foundation, where her particular focus lies in working with dreams in an embodied form. She completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program in 2003.
Jean Esther, MSW, LICSW, has been practicing psychotherapy for the past 30 years, specializing in the treatment of trauma. A meditation practitioner since 1975, she currently teaches Vipassana (Insight) Meditation at Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley in Western MA and at IMS in Barre, MA. Jean also teaches in Continuing Ed at Smith College School for Social Work. Integrated into her work is her prior training in physical theatre. Jean completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program with Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman, movement specialist Mary Hamilton, and voice coach Ann Skinner.
Patty Flowers directed continuing education programs in the arts, humanities, health & healing, and psychology at University of California Extension, Santa Cruz for more than 20 years. She specialized in programs exploring Jungian psychology, including programs held in Switzerland from 1980 through 2001. She worked extensively with Dora Kalff, bringing her to the US to teach Sandplay throughout the 1980s, and taking students to her in the Sandplay in Switzerland programs. She was Program Director for the Marion Woodman Foundation for 9 years from its inception through 2010. She worked closely with Marion Woodman in the creation and management of programs offering an experience of BodySoul work; she also completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program. She now devotes her time to Caring for the Soul Conferences. She has been a life-long student of religions and is currently pursuing research on the Divine Feminine as manifested in the world today.
Mary Hamilton, MEd, a pioneer in dance and theatre education, is a graduate from the Canadian National Ballet School. In 1973, she implemented the first secondary school dance credit course in Canada and started teaching theatre with Marion Woodman. Mary, a former professor at the University of Western Ontario where she taught modern dance, improvisation, and choreography, is also a member of the Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association. In 1980, she began co-creating and teaching the BodySoul Rhythms® Intensives internationally. She is the author of Under the Horse's Ass: A Love Story Human and Divine, The Dragonfly Principle: An Exploration of the Body's Function in Unfolding Spirituality, and one of the authors of Leaving My Father's House: Journey to Conscious Femininity. (The Dragonfly Principle: An Exploration of the Body's Function in Unfolding Spirituality can be purchased from Mandala Books at www.mandalabookshop.com)
Joan Harcourt has post-graduate Diplomas in Psychology and Education and is trained in analytical group work, gestalt therapy, and body psychotherapy. She has danced Gabriel Roth’s 5Rhythms for many years. She has recently retired from private practice. Currently, Joan leads groups exploring the Crone archetype, both in Australia and Cambridge. As of September 2010, the Crone workshops will be held in Sydney exclusively.
Elaine Heroux is a psychotherapist in private practice who uses dreams tohelp people access their inner world. She is a graduate of the Marion Woodman BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program. She has been a student of breathwork and meditation since 1991. Elaine's work is influenced by Carl Jung and Eastern Spiritual Traditions.
Polly H. Howells, LCSW, practiced psychotherapy in Brooklyn, New York for 38 years. She originally graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Russian history and literature. She now helps social and environmental activists navigate our increasingly crisis-ridden world, as a facilitator of the Pachamama Alliance’s Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream symposium and Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects. Polly completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program with Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman, movement specialist Mary Hamilton, and voice coach Ann Skinner.
Linda I. Kawer, LCSW, psychotherapist, has practiced in New York’s Hudson Valley for over 25 years. Her therapeutic approach embraces the use of dreams, myths, and metaphors in the healing of psyche and soma. Her foundation in biochemical research, as well as experience in community mental health working with trauma and addictions, has informed her understanding of psychodynamics, neurobiology, and human development. Linda believes in the transformative potential of therapeutic work, underscored by the body’s capacity for memory and healing. She is also trained as a Pathwork Helper.
Sheila Langston has been teaching voice for over 20 years, initially apprenticing with Ann Skinner at the National Theatre School in Montreal, Canada. She also has many years of movement experience, including dance, Authentic Movement, and martial arts. Sheila teaches at the Vancouver Film School and with Full Circle, a training program for Aboriginal artists. She completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training program in 2007 and has taught Marion Woodman Foundation Intensives® in Ireland, Switzerland, and Mexico. She also teaches Marion Woodman Foundation Affiliated Workshops.
Vicki Lanier, LPC, has a private practice, Pointe Wellness, as a psychotherapist in Newport News, Virginia. While she engages clients in traditional therapy, she also integrates other methods to relieve trauma held within the body. Vicki graduated from Marion Woodman’s Bodysoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program and continues to lead groups and offer individuals access to healing using the principles of this program which include dream work, journaling, movement, art, and voice work.
Patricia Llosa, MFA, is a visual artist with a background in archaeology and art history. She has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for the last 15 years as an administrator and educator. She is a candidate at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York City. She completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training program in 2003. A native of Peru, she has lived in Israel and is presently based in New York City.
Heather Miller, BScN, MEd, brings to her work a background of working and teaching in Maternity Nursing, Pastoral Care, Art Therapy, and yoga. The study of meditation, yoga, C.G. Jung, dreams and their connection to the body are lifelong pursuits. Heather lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Barbara Nicholson, M. Ed., has 25 years experience as a professional educator in New Hampshire and holds a master’s degree in Counseling. Barbara is a graduate of The Marion Woodman’s Bodysoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program. She leads dream groups and gives workshops in New Hampshire and Florida. The focus of her work is on movement, images, and body mind connections with dreams as the way to experience a deeper understanding and connection with the sacred Self. She nourishes her creative life with writing, dancing and painting her dream images.
Madeleine O’Callaghan, MA, works in the field of spiritual and personal growth as a spiritual guide, retreat/workshop facilitator and trainer. Since completing her degree in Spirituality in 1988, Madeleine has continued her formation, training in Ignatian, Jungian, and other approaches to the soul’s journey. Her long-established concern for the inner freedom and fullness of life of those with whom she works informs every aspect of her work.
Margo Palmer, MLS., has been a Board member of the Marion Woodman Foundation, which presents BodySoul Rhythms® programs. She has worked extensively in the Health Promotion field, and now organizes and curates Asian art exhibits and programs. Margo's particular interest is in the meaning of image, symbol and ritual and her current exhibit on Buddhist art, is planned for 2012 at the Museum of Anthropology.
Maja Reinau, MD, is a Zurich trained Jungian Analyst in private practice in Aarhus, Denmark. Maja also works as a psychiatrist for children and adolescents at the University Hospital of Aarhus, Denmark. Maja has facilitated workshops and given lectures internationally. Her special research interests are currently centered around the exciting interrelationship between the Jungian approach, recent developmental theories, and the new findings in neuroscience. She is eager to explore interrelationships that help us to appreciate, embrace, and encourage the multiplicity and diversity of the soul and its mystery.
Eva Rider, MA, LMFT, is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Cruz. She has served as adjunct instructor at John F. Kennedy School of Professional Psychology since 2004, where she has taught Jungian Theory, Dreamwork, The Myth of Psyche and Eros and Jung, Alchemy and The Hermetic Tree of Life. She leads groups and workshops locally incorporating dreamwork, fairy tales, myth, movement, art, with the imaginal in alchemical exploration. Eva is certified as a Master Hypnotherapist, Movement-Expression® teacher, has trained with Marion Woodman, Ann Skinner and Mary Hamilton since 1999, and has completed the Marion Woodman BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training in 2007.
Janice Stieber Rous is the creator of Body Dialogue, an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the body and the mind. She teaches yoga and breathing coordination, and has been a certified instructor in the Alexander Technique since 1979. Recently she was a choreographer and dancer with the Center for Contemporary Dance in Orlando, FL, where she lives. Currently she brings this body soul work to her students at Shine on Yoga. Janice completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program with Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman, movement specialist Mary Hamilton, and voice coach Ann Skinner.
Pauline Sayhi is a dance movement therapist currently working in mental health. Her work is rooted in Jungian theory, play therapy principles, and attachment theory. Her background also includes Pychosynthesis and Authentic Movement. She has 20 years experience teaching Arabic Dance and is particularly interested in the manifestation of the divine in daily life and in the dark and light aspects of our existence.
Marlene Schiwy, MA, PhD, is a Jungian counselor, writer, workshop leader, and university instructor in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her published work includes A Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal Writing Journey (Foreward by Marion Woodman), and Simple Days: A Journal on What Really Matters. Currently she is working on a new book and preparing filmed interviews with Marion Woodman for distribution. Marlene teaches Body Soul Writing, the first university writing course in Canada to bring expressive movement into the writing process, and Body Soul Sundays: A Nine-Month Jungian Program for Women. To all of her endeavors Marlene brings a unique blend of Jungian training, academic background, and a lifelong love of creative process.
Tina Stromsted, PhD, MFT, BC-DTR is a Jungian Analyst and Board Certified Dance therapist with a private practice in San Francisco. Past co-founder and faculty of the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley, she teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and other universities and healing centers internationally. With 35 years of clinical experience, her publications explore the integration of body, mind, psyche and soul in healing and transformation. She has studied with Marion Woodman since the 1980's and teaches regularly for the Marion Woodman Foundation. She completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training program in 2003.
Keren Vishny MD, MA, is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist practicing in Evanston, Illinois. Keren is also a physician and is very interested in psyche-soma connections. She practiced Internal Medicine and taught at Rush Medical College before retraining in psychotherapy. She holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University, and is on the faculty at Rush Medical College. She completed BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program in 2007.
Andrea Wells, MFT, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Cruz, California. She has studied with Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman, and has completed a 3-year BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program with Marion Woodman, Mary Hamilton (Movement Specialist), and Ann Skinner (Voice Coach). She has completed the Jean Baker Miller Advanced Training Institute (JBMTI) Practitioner Program 2003-2005 that culminated in a paper, In the Presence of Grief. This work was influenced by her 13 years experience with Hospice. She was a presenter at the JBMTI 2008 Summer Institute at Wellesley College. (Jean Baker Miller, MD, is a founding scholar of Relational Cultural Theory). Andrea is an Adjunct Faculty member at John F. Kennedy University in Campbell, California.
Sherry Wheaton, MD, began practicing geriatric medicine in 1985. Because of her commitment to education and self-responsibility in health care, she became a CBS On-The-Air health reporter. After a life changing accident in 2000, Sherry transitioned into the symbolic world of Jungian psychology, seeing modern medicine as a machine that eradicates the symptom while ignoring the deeper meaning. Because many of these symptoms have their roots in trauma, Sherry recently completed the Trauma Resiliency Model training. Sherry has facilitated workshops for women with chronic illnesses and uses movement in her practice. She holds a Blue Belt in the Nia Technique, which encourages the joy of movement, the body’s way.
Judy Zappacosta, MFT, is a Certified Sandplay Teacher in Sandplay Therapists of America (STA) and the International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST). She has maintained a private practice in Santa Cruz, California, for over 25 years; the focus of her practice is Jungian psychotherapy, Sandplay, dreams, and the integration of psyche and soma. She consults and supervises therapists using Sandplay, and has taught both nationally and internationally. She presently serves on the board for ISST and is Treasurer and board member for the Marion Woodman Foundation, where she completed the BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training Program. She is one of the contributing authors in Sandplay Supervision, edited by Rie Mitchell and Harriet Friedman, (Routledge), and Living the Tides of Uncertainty, (STA). Judy teaches summer programs abroad for Caring for the Soul Conferences offering two-week intensives for Sandplay training in Switzerland and Interior Rhythms, which integrate Sandplay, dreams, and body awareness in relation to inner and outer landscapes.
