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Chemeketa Community College

• Associate Degree Science, graduation 1983.
  Oregon Registered Nurse

Marylhurst University

• Bachelor of Art and Psychology, graduation 1993
  
• One year of graduate study in Art Therapy

Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP)

• Master's of Arts in Transpersonal Studies, graduation 1997.
  Focus in transpersonal psychology, religious studies, mind-body consciousness

Certifications The Uses of Imagery in Medicine (one year) By Jeanne Achterberg Ph.D. and Frank Lawlis Ph.D. Wellness Counseling and Mind Body Consciousness (one year) Designed for ITP by Drs. Lawlis and Achterberg Interactive Guided Imagery (13 hrs) By The Academy for Guided Imagery Nurses Certificate Program in Interactive Imagery (one year) By Terry Miller, RN, MS and Susan Ezra, RN In cooperation with The Academy for Guided Imagery Holistic Nursing (one year) By the American Holistic Nurses Association Tarot Counseling (three years) By Christine Payne-Towler

• International Academy of Nursing Editors

• American Tarot Association

• American Holistic Nurses Association

• Oregon Holistic Nurses Association

• Association of Transpersonal Psychology

• Spiritual Emergence Network

• Integrative Mental Health Care of Oregon

Alternative Journal of Nursing
Editor
(541) 327-7749
www.altjn.com

An on-line journal that networks holistic nurses and is committed to exploring and furthering the evolution of the nursing profession.

Private Practice in Transpersonal Counseling
6-96 to present.

Description: As a certified holistic nurse, I offer a variety of healing arts to clients with serious physical illness and injury. These healing arts include guided imagery, energy work, meditation, expressive arts, Tarot, dream interpretation and mind-body consciousness.

I facilitate three therapeutic groups: Meditation as Medicine teaches the individual meditation and imagery techniques that promote health and healing; Dream Interpretation introduces students to creative dream work techniques for use in self-development and self-healing; Inner Journeys an ongoing experiential provided to help individuals explore levels of our inner consciousness through the use of guided imagery, dreams, Tarot and shamanic journeying.

• Instructor for Archetypal Tarot Counseling™ course for health professionals

• Jefferson Historical Society & Museum, Chair of design committee

• Director, Oregon Holistic Nurses Association