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MARY-THERESE DUFFY – Raymond, Maine Mary-Therese is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and an NBCC Approved Clinical Supervisor practicing in the State of Maine since 1997. A Yoga Practitioner since 1972, Mary-Therese has been an early and tireless pioneer in the integration of mindful and somatic based practices in the field of psychotherapy and counseling. She holds a master’s degree in Expressive Arts Therapies issued in 1994 from Lesley College in Cambridge, MA; a Certificate from the School for Body-Mind Centering in Amherst, MA, and has received advanced training in both traditional and somatic fields of healing. Valuing, trusting and honoring the innate wisdom, guidance and medicine as found deep within the Self continues to be the cornerstone of Mary-Therese’s practice. |
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CAROL HOHLE – Chicago, Illinois Carol is an educator, environmentalist & spiritual activist. She speaks, leads workshops & retreats on spiritual practices and eco-spirituality. Her organization, Inspiration House, is dedicated to nurturing spiritual vitality for a just and sustainable planet. This fall she is offering a variety of programs about eco-spirituality & creativity & facilitating a women's spirituality group. She also is available for one-on-one spiritual companionship & guidance. |
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Women who have participated in my facilitator training are invited to post their bios and any offerings of Deep River groups or workshops that incorporate Deep River material. I am currently training facilitators twice a year; please check here periodically for additional bios and offerings. Thank you!
JUDY HUSTON – Berkeley/Orinda, California
Judy is an ordained United Church of Christ minister and California licensed Marriage and Family therapist, and for twenty years she has been practicing and teaching in numerous settings. Currently, in addition to sitting and being with psychotherapy clients in her Orinda office and assisting them in embracing their whole deep Self in life and love, she is a pastoral counselor for a church in Berkeley and offers ongoing meditation circles for women which include Deep River principles and practices.
KATHLEEN V. SULLIVAN, LMHC, CADAC, LADC-I – Plymouth, Massachusetts
Kathleen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who is also licensed as an addictions counselor. In addition Kathleen is a reiki master. She is a member of the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors (MaMHCA). Kathleen has a private practice in Plymouth, Massachusetts in which she helps clients gain balance in all areas of their lives: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. She is a spiritually focused therapist who emphasizes the Mind-Body connection, guiding clients to allow limitations to drop away and helping them to find the value in going within to find joy, peace, relaxation, and healing.
Information for connecting to Kathleen may be found at Psychology Today.com. Click under Find a Therapist and put in her zip code 02360. The Plymouth therapists will be listed and her practice is among them.
Current Workshops Offered:
Kathy Parliment Benson, LCSW – Groton, Massachusetts
Kathy is a clinical social worker with over fifteen years experience working with children, adults and families; she has been an individual psycho-therapist and an emergency service clinician working in local hospitals and schools. She has trained with Abby Seixas in the Deep River program as well as the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at UMMC. She is drawn to working with women in group to awaken inner wisdom and empowerment.
Leslie Ackles - Concord, MA
Leslie A. Ackles is director of the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute Organizational Development and Training Group and she is also a work/life balance coach. Leslie recently completed the University of Massachusetts Medical School Mindfulness Stress Reduction Program. She is certified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Leslie received a Masters degree in educational administration from Harvard University. She also has a BA in human development from University of California, Davis. Leslie has been passionate about the issue of work/life balance since she became a working mother in 1985. She negotiated a balanced work schedule and has since assisted many women in creating that balance between home and work life. Leslie was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2003. She has worked to eliminate her own symptoms through melding the mind, body, spirit practices of yoga, breath work, mindfulness, exercise, rest and diet. Through this work she has found inner quiet and presence. She was awakened to her body’s natural wisdom and is now working with others to find the same inner peace, to find their inner oasis.
Bonnie Petrovich, M.Ed. Devens, MA
Bonnie is a coach and facilitator with extensive background in working with individuals and groups mostly in business settings. She has also run women’s empowerment circles and groups for single moms. Her Master’s of Education is in Counseling Psychology from Cambridge College, and she brings perspectives from her studies of Psychosynthesis, Gestalt, Eckhart Tolle, and the Abraham teachings to her work. Currently Bonnie has her own coaching and business consulting practice west of Boston -- particularly enjoying supporting entrepreneurs and those in career transitions to have more of the lives and businesses they desire.
Pam Swing, Concord, MA
Pam is an artist whose work is grounded in a practice of awareness and stillness. She is deeply interested in exploring how we access and sustain creativity. Her workshops provide a contemplative yet exuberant environment in which creative sparks and gentle intuitive nudges can be recognized and nurtured. She trained with Abby Seixas as a facilitator, and finds the Deep River process flows like an underground river through her work. She is also a certified SoulCollage® facilitator. In the summer, she holds retreats based at Blue Moon Yurt, her home in Tenants Harbor, ME as well as other Maine locations. She has served on the board and staff of Greenfire Women’s Retreat and has a PhD in Folklore and Anthropology. She is currently writing a book about the stones in her life.
MAXINE SUSHELSKY, LMHC – Arlington, Massachusetts
Maxine is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor offering Individual and Group Psychotherapy Services for people dealing with anxiety, depression, loss, trauma, life transitions and other mental health challenges. She works collaboratively with clients to create a trusting therapeutic alliance that promotes insight, self-acceptance and change. She uses talk therapy along with breathing, relaxation, guided imagery and art. Working with clients in out-patient counseling settings, partial hospitalization programs and a college counseling center has given Maxine the opportunity to work with diverse individuals struggling with many different kinds of challenges.
Authenticity1@aol.com or 617-458-9072
Karly Randolph Pitman –Bozeman, Montana
Karly wants to transform the lives of women through self-care. A writer, speaker, and mother of 4, Karly founded First Ourselves to help women meet their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. www.firstourselves.com Karly offers workshops on Finding the Deep River Within as well as workshops in overcoming sugar addiction, loving your body, and self-care for mothers. At firstourselves.com, you can download Karly's free books, Heal Your Body Image and Overcoming Sugar Addiction , as well as sign up for her free monthly newsletters on self-care, body image, and staying sugar free.
Rita Burpee, RN LICSW - Kingston, Massachusetts
Rita Burpee is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker working with adults and elders. As a Psychotherapist, Pastoral Minister and Registered Nurse, Rita’s work is holistically based, addressing the mind, body and spirit of the individual. The therapeutic environment in which she works is interactive, accepting and empathic. This creates a safe and confidential environment in which one can begin to know the self better including one’s deepest needs and desires toward a goal of living life to the fullest.
Rita holds graduate degrees in Clinical Social Work and Theology from Boston College. Her undergraduate work is in Social Work at Bridgewater State College and Nursing at Massasoit College in Brockton. In addition, she holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Trauma from Boston University. As a Pastoral Minister volunteer, she has visited the ill, home-bound and those at the end of life for 11 years. Rita Burpee has a private practice in Kingston, MA.
Information for connecting to Rita Burpee may be found at Psychology Today.com. Click under Find a Therapist and put in her zip code 02364. The Kingston therapists will be listed and her practice is among them.
Andrea Johnson, LICSW – Brookline, Massachusetts
Andrea Johnson has been a psychotherapist, consultant and supervisor at The Brookline Community Mental Health Center and in private practice for thirty years. Andrea has been trained in Abby Seixas’ Deep River group model and appeared in a segment on NBC's “The Today Show” featuring Abby Seixas’ work. Andrea also has participated in Harvard Medical School training in mind body medicine.
SANDRA KINDT, M.Ed. - East Lansing, Michigan
Sandy is a professional educator. Her work has been both with children and adults. Sandy sparks the child within all of us. Her training in adventure games & learning helps her lay the foundations of trust, communication, cooperation and fun into every endeavor. She has participated in the Courage To Teach® quarterly retreats designed by Parker Palmer that aim to renew heart, mind and spirit through the exploration of your inner landscape; reconnect you to your identity and integrity; plus create a context for careful listening and deep connection that honor diversity. Sandy is also a Reiki practitioner.
Contact Sandy at 517-641-5037, or fulajoy@hotmail.com
Michelle Wilson, MA, LMHC - Andover, MA
Michelle has a heart for encouraging women and adolescent girls. She is a psychotherapist and professional coach in private practice with over 15 years experience in the mental health field including creating and directing an eating disorders treatment center. She enjoys working collaboratively with clients to help them find strengths and inner resources to create more peace and joy in their lives.
After struggling to find balance as a mom of young children, Michelle developed the MOM OASIS Principles: Peaceful Strategies for Finding More Time, Keeping Your Sanity, and Finding Joy in the Everyday. She was then thrilled to discover Abby’s book, FInding the Deep RIver WIthin, which in many ways parallels her own path and yearnings. She completed the facilitators training in the Fall of 2009 and will offer workshops in the Andover and Southern New Hampshire areas.
You can read more and sign up for valuable resources such as “20 Ways to Create Less Stress and More Joy” on her website:
www.InnerOasisCounseling.com and find information for moms here: www.TheMomOasis.com or email: Michelle@TheMomOasis.com
LIBBY PARKER, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
Libby Parker is a personal development therapist in private practice since 1996, and the founder of Solutions from Within, which offers programs for women designed to transform their relationships and their lives through greater self- understanding.
A Deep River Facilitator since 2008, Libby has found in Abby’s beautiful work a powerful and effective guide along this sacred path of personal discovery and growth.
Contact Libby at info@solutionsfromwithin.ca
Brenda Joy Fingold – Concord, MA
Brenda is a wellness consultant committed to helping people restore balance and well-being in their bodies and lives. After 17 years in the legal profession, Brenda left law in 2001 to study and teach mind/body health practices. Her career change came as a result of a cancer diagnosis that redirected her life's work toward helping others live more full and meaningful lives.
Brenda is a certified nourishment and cleanse consultant, Kripalu yoga teacher, surgery consultant and SpiritSong sound healer. She is also a master trainer with Stanford University’s chronic disease self management program and has completed professional training with the Mind/Body Medical Institute and studied mindfulness-based stress reduction with senior teachers at the Center for Mindfulness.
Contact Brenda at brendafingold@yahoo.com or 617-413-7631
Jane Shustin, LICSW – Groton, MA
Jane is a psychotherapist who has been in the mental health field for thirty years, creating a practice that honors the whole person. At her offices in Groton and Concord, MA she combines traditional and alternative therapies to help others to enhance their internal strength and place the center of balance deep within themselves. She also leads educational groups focused on stress reduction, relaxation and mindfulness. Jane’s grounding in the approaches of Psychosynthesis and Spiritual Psychology enrich her understanding and belief in The Deep River Within process.
PENNY SARA – Melbourne, Australia
Penny is an experienced group facilitator and teacher, human resources consultant and business coach. Her formal qualifications are in education and management. She spent many years working as a manager in adult education organizations, and has recently devoted herself to supporting others in similar roles to solve problems and do their best work, while caring for themselves. She discovered Finding the Deep River Within a couple of years ago, and since then has recommended the book to many of her friends, family and clients. Penny has trained with Abby Seixas as a facilitator, and believes that the deep river process can help us to begin the work of freeing ourselves from the many pressures that prevent us from having joyful, satisfying and meaningful lives.
LOREN WESTON, CPCC - Marblehead, MA
Loren Weston is a ‘Certified Professional Co-Active Coach’ and Relationship systems coach trained through CTI (Coaches Training Institute) and CRR Global (Center for Right Relationship) in the ORSC (Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching) model. Loren has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and is also a Direct Care Counselor at a private non-profit mental health and social service agency in Eastern Massachusetts. Loren works with all types of relationship systems including individuals, couples and families and also student groups focused on anti-bullying, prejudice and discrimination. Loren is a coach and facilitator who creates an open and safe space for people to explore and expand possibilities and move toward more fulfillment in their lives. She is known for her intuitive big heart/bold strength combination and has been described as “a powerful leader with compassion, gentleness and heart combined with discernment and rigor.”
DEBRA HICKOK, CPCC, ACC - Harvard, MA
Debra is a professionally trained life coach and workshop facilitator who is certified through the Coaches Training Institute and International Coaching Federation. She is also a trained True Purpose coach through the True Purpose Institute. In addition to her bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy, Debra has been a facilitator of mindfulness techniques for over thirty years. She sits on the board of directors of The Renewed Hope Project, an organization that supports families dealing with addiction. Debra specializes in working with people who are unable to get “out of their heads” and are seeking a deeper sense of clarity about how to live a purposeful and authentic life.
Marianela Medrano-Marra - Naugatuck, CT
Marianela Medrano-Marra is a Dominican writer and licensed professional counselor with a PhD in psychology. She offers workshops and readings in various venues in Connecticut and other parts of the country. In her workshops, she combines literature, psychology, and her research on the Sacred Feminine to help others find new ways of knowing the wholeness of being human.
She has published the following poetry books: Oficio de Vivir (1986), Los Alegres Ojos de la Tristeza (1987), Regando Esencias/The Scent of Waiting (1998) and Curada de Espantos (2002). Her work also appears in literary magazines such as Brooklyn Review (1995), Punto 7 Review (1996), Callaloo (2000), and anthologies including Sisters of Caliban (1996) and The Afro-Latin@ Reader (2010), among many others.
For more information visit: www.marianelamedrano.com
Deep River, Daily Life:
Slowing down and finding your own wisdom and purpose. (2 workshops, see dates below)
Learn to protect yourself against the social pressures to be frantically busy, and find time to nourish and restore yourself instead. Using the Deep River process, you will tap into your inner wisdom and begin to shape and enjoy your life. Enrol now, before your New Year’s resolutions become a distant memory!
Sundays, 10:00am – 4:00pm (3 weeks) 18, 25 March and 1 April
$180, no concession
Location: Balwyn Community Centre, 412 Whitehorse Rd, Surrey Hills (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia.
To enrol phone (03) 9836 7942
ALSO
TUESDAYS 7pm – 9:15pm (7 weeks) May 1 – June 19 (no class 5 June)
$175 full fee / $150 concession
Span Community House, 64 Clyde Street, Thornbury (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia.
To enrol phone (03) 9480 1364
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION email penny.sara@westnet.com.au
Anna Coffman, RN, BSN, CHPN - Corvallis, OR
Anna Coffman discovered the Deep River work many years ago, at a time when she was trying to balance different roles in her life, including those of software engineer, mother of three teenagers, new wife, and nursing student.
She has since become a certified hospice nurse, and trained wilderness rites of passage guide. Anna draws on her training and experience in both of these fields, as well as her life experiences and longtime meditation practice, to offer a variety of workshops, groups, and wilderness programs.
For more information visit www.journey-home.net
The Path Within
Practical strategies based on the Deep River material, combined with additional mindfulness practices to support women in becoming more grounded and present in their own day to day lives.
Thursday evenings beginning March 1st through April 12th from 7 to 9 PM
Location: The Wholesome Café, Main Street, Ayer, MA
Contact: debrahickok@gmail.com or lorwest@comcast.net
Introductory Deep River workshop
February 12 (3-5:30p.m.), and a 7-week group starting on February 26.
Both are at The Awakening Center in Chicago. Click here for more information or contact Carol@inspirationhouse.org