RON AND LOIS COTTLE
Ron is a representative of Recovery International and is the leader of the local chapter of Recovery International. He studied and taught communications as an instructor at Brigham Young University. Ron has a long history of volunteer service to the community, including BSA Council Training staff, Election committe member for State Rep and Senate candidates, teaching at-risk students in Ogden City and Weber County School Districts, Ogden City Diversity Council Member, Orem City Certified Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.), NAMI “Bridges” coordinator for the first year at SL County Jail, Governor Leavitt’s Outstanding Volunteer of The Year Award 1999 for his work with , High risk, Hard to place Job program for UT Dept. of Corrections, and BSA, Silver Beaver Recipient.
Now Ron serves through his leadership of the Utah County Recovery International Group, which meets Wednesday nights at the Orem Community Hospital.
Ron can be reached at 801-318-0354. His e-mail is stand2fish@yahoo.com
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NINA FAYE ISAACSON, M.S.O.M.
Nina is a licensed acupuncturist and graduate of the Traditional Chinese Medical College of Hawaii. Nina is trained extensively in acupuncture techniques including the NADA Protocol, and has traveled to Kenya with volunteer relief efforts, providing acupuncture to heroine addicts in a treatment center in Mombasa to alleviate withdrawal symptoms and improve addiction recovery rates. Nina is currently coordinating with the Utah correctional programs to bring acupuncture services to inmates in the prisons.
Nina operates “Healing Points Acupuncture,” a very busy acupuncture clinic in Spanish Fork. Her website for the clinic is http://healingpointsacupuncture.biz/index.html. She can be reached at 801. 310. 6947
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PAM BLACKWELL, PH.D
Pam is a psychotherapist in private practice and author of novels, plays, and non-fiction. She has taught meditation workshops throughout the United States and Europe, where she emphasizes the integration of Eastern and Christian contemplative traditions. Her newly released book is entitled, “Christ-Centered Meditation: Handbook for Spiritual Practice.”
Pam has posted a video of some brief meditation exercises on youtube, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVq5I-pdNy8 Pam has a website at http://morningstarmeditation.org. She can be contacted at: morningstarmeditation@comcast.net
NANCY NAPIER, LMFT
Nancy Napier is a Marriage and Family therapist in New York City. A psychotherapist and hypnotherapist, she specializes in treating trauma, as well as focusing on relational and attachment issues, mindfulness practices, and spirituality. She is author of three books: Recreating Your Self; Getting Through the Day; and Sacred Practices for Conscious Living, and co-author of Meditations & Rituals for Conscious Living. Nancy ise on the faculty of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and teaches Somatic Experiencing in New York City
Contact Info: njnapier@aol.com
212-877-2594
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LESLYE MOORE
Leslye Moore is an instructor and member of the Board of Directors at the Art of Living Foundation. Leslye has 20 years of experience in humanitarian work, including being Executive Director at International Rescue Committee, Program Officer at Family Health International, Project Manager at University of California, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, and Agriculture Extension Agent at Peace Corp
ARCHANA THIAGARAJAN
Archana is a member of the Salt Lake chapter of the Art of Living Foundation, and a volunteer for the organization. She has practiced Sudarshan Kriya Yoga for fifteen years, and helped many others learn to use it.
You may contact the Salt Lake City chapter of Art of Living by calling 801 352 2352 or emailing artoflivingslc@yahoo.com.
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CAROL KIM
Carol has been working behind the scenes as a cohost, researcher and assistant for Healing Talk Radio throughout the current season. Carol has an undergraduate degree in broadcasting, and a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. This week she will host healing talk radio with guest Allison Ellsworth.
ALLISON ELLSWORTH
Allison is a member of the Marriage and Family Therapy Association and has taught several parenting classes at Brigham Young University.
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BARBARA NICHOLSON
Barbara is the cofounder of Attachment Parenting International, and author of the new book Attached at the Heart: 8 Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children (released March 2009).
Barbara holds a masters degree in Education, specializing in learning disabilities and has led parent wordshops for over 25 years. In 1994, Ms Nicholson, with Lysa Parker, co-founderd Attachment parenting International as a non-profit parent education and support organization. Ms. Nicholson has served as the President of the Board of Directors of API for 15 years. She has spoken internationally to parent educators, university classes, conferences and juvenile probation officers about parenting as a prevention model for societal violence.
In 2010 she became an accredited infant Massage instructor through Infant Massage USA. Ms. Nicholson is the mother of four adult sons and resides in Nashville, TN with her husband Gary.
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SIEGFRIED OTHMER, PHD
Siegfried and Susan Othmer have been active in the development of neurofeedback for some twenty-five years. With an initial focus on ADHD children their work has increasingly migrated to the more serious childhood afflictions such as autism, epilepsy, childhood Bipolar Disorder, Tourette Syndrome, trauma conditions, and developmental delay. Another key focus of the work has been on PTSD and traumatic brain injury among our returning veterans, through their non-profit organization, Homecoming for Veterans. Othmers have been active in all aspects of the field: instrumentation development, professional training, clinical service delivery, and clinical research. They have also built a large practitioner network that now operates in many countries around the world. They have taught professionals in nine countries. Neurofeedback appears poised to become one of the leading techniques among Mind/Body therapies.
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CARRIE MAXWELL WRIGLEY, LCSW
Carrie has been a counselor for ove23 years, currently in private practice in Sandy, Utah. She has taught at BYU Eduction Week for 10 years on “Christ-Centered Healing from Depression” and other topics. Her passion is to promote healing from within, in individuals, marriages, and families.
Carrie can be reached at 801 676-3142
or by email at carrie@morninglightcounseling.com.
To view her websites to go:
http://www.morninglightcounseling.com (private practice site)
http://morninglightcounseling.org/ (online resource library)
A full transcript and a 55 minute recording of Carrie’s Education Week presentation on Christ-Centered Healing is available on the online resource library at morninglightcounseling.org.
Carrie’s online resource library is becoming a clearing house for books, forms, inventories and presentations that advance understanding in mental health, particularly depression recovery. It is well worth visiting and is frequently updated.
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SUZANNE CONNOLLY
Suzanne Connolly is a Licensed as Clinical Social worker, Marriage and Family Therapist and Independent Substance Abuse Counselor and an ASSECT certified Diplomat of Sex Therapy. She has maintained a private practice in Sedona, AZ for 25 years and has taught TFT for 14 years. She has gone on three trauma relief missions to New Orleans and five to Rwanda. She has participated in three research studies (one published and two to be submitted for publication) on treating trauma following large scale disasters. Her book: Thought Field Therapy: Clinical Applications, published in the US in 2004, is due to be published in Japanese this summer. The book can be purchased at http://suzanneconnolly.com/secure/book.html
Suzanne co-authored a research article on the treatment of PTSD in Rwandan child genocide survivors using Thought Field Therapy. The article was published in the Winter issue of the International Journal of Emergency Mental Health. The study is available at http://www.tftcenter.com/articles_treatment_of_ptsd_rwanda.html
Contact Suzanne by
Phone: (928.282.2627) or email (smc@thoughtfieldtherapy.net)
Visit her website is http://SuzanneConnolly.com
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DIANE HOPKINS
Diane is the founder and owner of “Love to Learn, a bookstore and mail order center for homeschooling resources. Diane personally reads and review these resources in her catalogue, and her books are used all around the nation by homeschoolers.
Diane has seven beautifiul, healthy children. She delivered the first one in a hospital, and the second in a homebirth with a midwife in the Netherlands. After comparing these two births she chose home birth for the rest of her deliveries, including a waterbirth for the last one. ”I wish I had known about water births with the first baby” she reports. Diana has a website at htt;://lovetolearn.net.
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KRISTENA EDEN
Kristena Eden is a long-time practitioner of meditation, an artist and a health advocate. (Kristenasfineart.com) she has taught at San Juan Collage in Farmington NM, and has traveled extensively around the world studying health and art. She is the mother of six children and has 5 grandchildren. She maintains the “Healthy Mom’s Blog” website, and has produced cds on meditation for self healing.
her website is http://www.healthymomsblog.com/
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WENDY ULRICH, PH.D
Founder of Sixteen Stones Center for Growth, Wendy is a licensed psychologist with over twenty-five years of clinical experience with adults and families. She has taught at the University of Michigan and Brigham Young University and has provided training and consulted for a number of major corporations. The author of Forgiving Ourselves (Deseret Book, 2008) and Weakness is Not Sin (Deseret Book, to be published in 2009), along with numerous professional articles and book chapters. She is a popular speaker, touring with Time Out for Women in 2009 and speaks frequently to both lay and professional audiences on the topics of personal growth, healing, spirituality, and change. She has served as president of the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists.
Wendy has a website at http://sixteenstones.net/Home.html
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LARRY BEALL, PH.D.
Psychologist Dr Beall is the Director and founder of the Trauma Awareness and Treatment Center in Salt Lake City, a non profit organization. Dr. Beall has over 20 years of experience as a therapist and over 17 years of experience in the treatment of trauma. He is trained in EMDR and TFT and also uses hands-on approaches to therapy such as sand tray, art therapy and experiential therapy. He presents seminars and trainings on sand tray therapy and treatment modalities for trauma. He is a member of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation and the International Society for the Study of Trauma.
In 2006 Dr Beall independently raised $90,000 in start-up funds and created a trauma treatment clinic at the Fourth Street Clinic for the homeless in Salt Lake City.
Larry has a website at http://www.traumaawareness.org/index.html and can be reached by phone at (801) 263-6367
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SUSAN MARKEL, M.D.
Doctor Markel s a board-certified pediatrician who has a private consultative practice specializing in parent coaching and child health. A graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Dr. Markel became a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1981, and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) in 1997. For many years she served as a medical liaison for La Leche League. She is also a medical associate at Attachment Parenting International. Dr. Markel can be reached via her website, AttachmentParentingDoctor.com.
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MADOLYNE M. LIEBING, PH. D
Doctor Liebing ”Maddy” is one of the owners of The Journey, LLC, and serves as the Clinical Director. She is a Licensed Psychologist and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has 37 years of experience working with adolescents, first as a high school teacher and then as a high school counselor. She first used wilderness “survival” trips with her students to reduce high school dropout rates. Later as a Licensed Psychologist she was one of the co-founders of Aspen Achievement Academy (then called Wilderness Academy) in 1987. Her main contribution in the wilderness industry was the welding of clinical therapy to youth wilderness programs. More recently in private practice, she has been working with underprivileged youth and their families. After many years in private practice, she and a group of dedicated youth advocates founded The Journey, LLC. in 2003. She has been a dedicated advocate for youth for many years and continues to work directly with the clients, the therapists, and the staff of the Journey Programs. She loves seeing youth learn, grow, and become.
Phone for The Journey 801-709-2670
NINA FAYE ISAACSON, M.S.O.M.
Nina is a licensed acupuncturist and graduate of the Traditional Chinese Medical College of Hawaii. She operates “Healing Points Acupuncture,” a very busy acupuncture clinic in Spanish Fork. Her website for the clinic is http://healingpointsacupuncture.biz/index.html. She can be reached at 801. 310. 6947
Says Nina, “It is the aim of Healing Points Acupuncture to facilitate the physical, mental, and emotional healing of families in our community through the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine.” In addition to acupuncture, Nina has experience in the healing modalities of cupping, moxibustion, electrical stimulation, and Chinese herbs.
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MERILEE VANWAGENEN, LCSW.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Merilee has 19 years of experience as a therapist, and has spent much of that time working in state facilities with individuals and families struggling with addictions and with relationship challenges. Merilee has also worked as a trainer and presenter for the Arbinger Institute in Salt Lake City.
Merilee currently maintains a private counseling practice in Woodland Hills, Utah. She can be reached at 801 423
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BJ STOBER
BJ Stober is licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and is one of the most experienced Equine therapists in the intermountain West. Her areas of expertise using equine therapy include marriage enhancement and repair, family therapy, corporate training, abuse and trauma recovery, work with small children, trauma recovery for veterans, addictions recovery, group therapy and personal growth/life skills enhancement.
CARISSA MCNAMARA
Carissa McNamara has 17 years of experience in breeding, training and competing with cutting horses, and has spent 
five years as an EAP horse professional. Her skill and knowledge of horses is outstanding. For the last several years she has sponsored and hosted the EAP trainings in Utah. EAP founders and trainers have described her therapy horses as “the best horses we have ever worked with.”
Carissa McNamara has a an Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy facility at BX Ranch in Elk Ridge, Utah (next to Payson.) There she has a herd of 16 outstanding therapy horses, including seven miniature horses for work with small children. Carissa works in partnership with BJ and has a therapy affiliation with the Salem Counseling Center.
Both BJ and Carissa and have joined the EAP mentoring program to become trainers, teaching EAP to other therapists.
contact information: Phone: BJ Stober, 801 616 6041; Carissa McNamara 801 472 9865
websites: bjstober.com, bxequine.com
email: bjstober@gmail.com, bxranches02@juno.com,
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KLAYNE RASMUSSEN, PHD, LMFT
This week Healing Talk welcomes Dr. Klayne Rasmussen, of IntraLife Performance Centers. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) Dr. Rasmussen has 18 years of therapy and training experience. The IntraLife Performance Centers feature a technique known as Neurofeedback, a form of applied neuroscience that is extremely effective for ADHD, ADD, Asperger’s, Anxiety, and Depression.
Dr. Rasmussen is also a marital and relationship specialist. He has adopted an approach to therapy that includes the spiritual influence on mental health as well as marital and individual functioning. He frequently gives presentations based on keys of successful marriage.
Prior to heading up the IntraLife Performance Center, he was in private practice for 12 years. Dr. Rasmussen received his Masters at Loma Linda University in California and his Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Brigham Young University. He is also the author of several relationship and mental healing books.
Dr. Rasmussen has offices located in Farmington and Draper, Utah. He can be reached at (801) 451-0054, or go to his website, www.intralifeperformance.com