"I was delightfully surprised to learn how all the different practices I do - Zen, 12-Step programs, reading other authors, and bodywork - are harmonious. I also heard the description of a past issue of someone else that resonated with my own experience. The anger process is something I've been looking for, for years. Finally something made sense." Toronto Workshop - Toronto, Canada - 4/2001
Anne Marie Jackson
'It was the right workshop for me at this time of my life. I found deeper insights into my inner self that offers me new opportunities for healing & growth. The Inner Bonding process provides me with a guidance to future growth on my own.' Rowe, MA Workshop, 4/08
Raymond J. Crowley
'There are so many pieces falling into place, leading me to a deeper knowing of how to handle my life and relationships. The tools are invaluable and clear and easy to use. I am just so very happy I came to be a part of this!' Los Angeles Weekend Workshop, 3.11
Caroline Waters
"It was truly transformative and enlightening. Generous, well-done in terms of not being heavy-handed. The one-on-ones with Margaret & participants was the most powerful and helpful. I've never been a 'group' person but learned so much from others." Kripalu Workshop, Lenox, MA, 10/09
Karin Pendley Koser
"[The workshop] really opened my eyes and my heart to compassion...around my addiction to shame. Helped me see the need to accept my helplessness over others. Margaret was excellent - outsides match insides - can see the work of the six steps in her life."
Susan Bennet
'I came into this workshop knowing only the information my Aunt fit into a 30 minute explanation before we came. Without having any background knowledge, I was able to gain a good grasp of the 6-step process and was able to truly experience more than I ever thought would be possible. Even if I were not to study this concept any further in the future, I feel like I have the tools to lead a more fulfilling life and love for myself because of this workshop.' Los Angeles Workshop, 1/09
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Emily Agnew, M.M. Rochester NY 585/385-6363 |
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Michael Barmak, CSW, LCSW, Interfaith Minister New Jersey: 908-276-8191 |
| In the summer of 1994, I was very depressed after an intimate relationship ended. A friend recommended that I read "Healing Your Aloneness" and as I started reading, I felt like every word had been written just for me! For the first time, I understood how I was creating my despair. I attended Dr. Margaret Paul's next weekend workshop and two months later I was at my first five-day intensive. After having spent ten years trying different kinds of therapy, I was finally on a path to building a spiritually connected loving adult and healing my wounded child. By practicing the Six Steps of Inner Bonding, I felt more joyful and began expressing my essence in all areas of my life including writing music and ballroom dancing. Once I moved into personal power, I met my wife, Connie, and knew that I wanted to share my Inner Bonding experience, so I became a Certified Inner Bonding Facilitator and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I work with individuals, couples and families who are struggling with anxiety, depression, codependence, eating disorders, addictions, relationship problems and post traumatic stress. I am trained in Thought Field Therapy (energy release work), Imago Relationship Therapy(for couples) and Multiple Personality Disorder treatment. I also help my clients explore their dreams as a source of guidance. If you are interested in finding out how Inner Bonding would be helpful for your personal situation, please call me for a free phone consultation. I am also available for individual sessions, phone sessions and workshops. I look forward to helping you rediscover your joy! Website: michaelbarmak.com |
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Jeanette Boerger Fort Wayne IN (260) 422-9372 |
| Jeanette Boerger is certified in the state of Indiana as a drug and alcohol counselor since 1978. She has been practicing Inner Child work since 1983 after attending a 3-week intensive course at Rutgers University on Adult Children of Alcoholics taught by the late Janet Woititz. She integrated the Inner Bonding process in her practice after attending 4 Inner Bonding Intensives since 1991. She recently attended an Inner Bonding Intensive with her 29 year old son and describes this experience as the most inspiring, insightful and enriching she ever recalls having. Jeanette is presently in private practice at Gerard & Coslow Association in Ft. Wayne, IN, facilitating groups, working with individuals and running workshops. Jeanette is enthusiastic about and passionately committed to the Inner Bonding process both for herself and others. The greatest joy in her life is companioning others on their journey toward more wholeness and working toward the same for herself. |
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Patricia Gerrish Windsor ONTARIO, CANADA 519-962-9861 |
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Ivanka Jankovic Missassaugua ONTARIO, CANADA 905/241-6928 |
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Deb Klugger Ocala FLORIDA 352-266-9163 |
| In 2001 I watched my already shaky marriage to an alcoholic crumble within moments of discovering a shocking secret. Such betrayal, how could this be? We had a family, owned and operated a business together, shared a ton of friends, my entire life revolved around him! My life seemed as though it was careening out of control---right along with his. I was depressed, had panic attacks, and was a total insomniac. I felt abandoned, unloved, unlovable and alone. I kept searching, reading, attending workshops, anything to relieve the pain. When a friend mailed me a copy of Margaret’s “Do I have To Give Up Me To be Loved By God?” explaining how this book and the 6 step process had been life changing for her---and I could see that it was---I dedicated myself to working the same steps and in time it was for me as well. Just as I searched for the light at the end of the tunnel, it appeared not as a freight train as I had feared, but as a process called Inner Bonding. I found that by working the process of Inner Bonding, eventually my inner child began to feel loved (a love no one could ever take away again) and she no longer felt abandoned. Through dedication to this process, I was able to build confidence and peace in areas of my life that had been so illusive to my endeavors to heal before. I began to experience amazing inner strength, more joy and a passion for life. I built stronger, healthier relationships and my career flourished. Eventually, as I continued to heal, my life’s purpose became evident. To help others heal and gain empowerment from the challenges of their lives. After nearly 7 years of training, practicing the 6 steps, attending many Inner Bonding intensives, working with Margaret Paul individually and learning other complimentary modalities such as N.L.P, (I am a certified NLP Coach) Tapping and Life Coaching, I am excited and honored to be helping folks gently advance in their process of healing and self discovery. I now work with clients from both the USA and Australia. I am currently available to support others on their journey both in person as well as in phone sessions. My website is www.debbieklugger.com. |
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Karen Kral, MA., LPCC Berthoud COLORADO 505-466-2999 |
| See Karen's current listing of 5-Day Intensives under 'Events and Retreats', and visit her website at www.corequestpotential.com.
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Dr. Ilene Krems Culver City CA (310) 287-1466 |
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Mark Lersch, MA, MIM, LPCC, LPC Berthoud COLORADO 505-466-2999 |
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Mike Moran, LMSW, LCSW New York, NY, & Jersey City, NJ 646-298-5227 |
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Sharon Clark Pearson, Ph.D. Pendleton IN (765) 620-1667 |
| Inner Bonding put all the pieces of understanding myself and others together for me; in fact, through Inner Bonding I learned how to put all the pieces of me together. At the bottom of Inner Bonding is learning to attend to all we are with grace and compassion. Prior to finding Inner Bonding, I had learned to be authoritarian with myself, interspersed with bouts of permissiveness, but I did not know who I was and what I needed. I duplicated the perceptions and actions of my home of origin (parents) towards myself, and attempted to control myself in the shame/blame paradigm of my heritage. As a child I experienced occasional abuse, abandonment by my father, molestation by a grandfather, and lived with my mother's emotional/mental illness (which began with severe trauma as a child). I also suffered through an assortment of spiritual abuse in my home and in church. My early deep faith and church life did not include skills of appropriate self-care or healthy boundaries. As I matured, and even earned degrees in Social Work and Religion, all the good thinking in my personal world could not help me address my wounds and fears--too deep for me to calculate or understand. How frustrating to search so hard for answers and to still feel lost and confused! Inner Bonding taught me to follow and live in God in a new way, which is to love myself as God loves me-- all of me. I had to learn what God’s love truly looks like and then to apply it to myself experientially. I also learned that when I am able to be truly loving towards myself, then I am able to be truly and consistently loving to others. I have discovered, on ever deeper levels, that my sense of God's love and spiritual connection for me is directly affected by how loving or unloving I am being towards my self. If I am not aligned with God’s love for me and others, I do not feel God’s Love. While my training and career has been as a social worker, minister, and professor, I experience my deepest joy when I see persons, groups and communities learn God’s Love in an experiential way. I love to see the miracles that happen when someone, in the intent to love, attends to their own fears and hurts in such a way as to find healing and hope. Such healing is compelling and contagious. That is the kind of learning and healing that makes all the difference—for all of us. My professional credentials are listed below: 1974 B A in Social Work 1979 MA in Religion: Bible 1985 Ministerial Ordination 1993 Ph.D. in Theology (Bible) 1996 Certified Inner Bonding® Educator/Facilitator 1994-Present Private Practice Inner Bonding® Educator/ Facilitator with Private Clients, Small Groups, Weekend Workshops, and Assisting Dr. Margaret Paul in her IB Intensives. My training in R.I.E. (Resources for Infant Educarers-Ages 0-3) and in Monty Robert’s non-violent Horse Training also informs my work with clients. Contact Information: Sharon Pearson P.O. Box 92, Oakville, IN 47367 Phone: (765) 620-1667. siclarkpearson@gmail.com |
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Sylvia Poareo, M.S.W. Fullerton CA 714-334-2044 |
| Sylvia Poareo grew up in Southern California in various foster and relative homes. Despite her chaotic beginning, her personal connection to the Divine sustained and guided her to seek the light in the darkness. Still, as a young adult, she felt lost, alone, and unlovable until she learned about Inner Bonding. With Inner Bonding, she learned to love and re-parent herself and create the life she always wanted. Having experienced transformation, she was drawn to helping others heal. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Azusa Pacific University, a Master’s Degree in Social Welfare at UCLA, and became a certified spiritual counselor with the Association for the Integration of the Whole Person. For over 15 years, she has shared the power of Inner Bonding through social work in hospital, adoption and foster care settings, as well as, with children/families in the elementary schools using play/art therapy and training others in these processes. She continues to provide Inner Bonding support with individuals, children and families, serving as a “midwife to the healing process”; gently guiding clients through an inherently intuitive exploration to nurture loving and compassionate connection within, with God and with others. She also facilitates a deeply nurturing and supportive monthly Inner Bonding Support group in Fullerton, CA.
Having been inspired by her own amazing and challenging experiences of pregnancy, birth and motherhood, she also developed a focus on supporting mothers. She enjoys offering compassionate support to pregnant and parenting mothers through individual sessions, Conscious Mothering Circles, Blessings, and the Red Tent. She feels passionately that motherhood is an incomparable time of growth, learning and healing, to be engaged in consciously so we can be truly loving to ourselves, to our precious ones, and the world. More recently, she established www.connectingwithin.com, as a safe and sacred online space that is an antidote to our disconnected society with its focus on real connection to self, to God/love, nature and each other. She feels privileged and blessed to share many powerful healing tools and help others reconnect to their true beauty and wisdom! When not doing the work she loves, she deeply enjoys growing and playing with her family, writing,hiking, dancing, yoga, suburban farming, traveling, and being present in each glorious moment! |
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Shelley Riutta, MSE, LPC Green Bay WI 920-265-2627 |
| Shelley Riutta MSE, LPC has been a holistic psychotherapist since 1994. She initially trained as a traditionally trained psychotherapist, receiving her degree from the University of Wisconsin -Oshkosh. She has done extensive training in powerful transformational processes that assist clients in connecting more directly with their beautiful essence and their spiritual connection. She is a Master Level Breathwork practitioner. She assists clients in shifting their lives from the ego based living of the wounded self to living from the Joy of their True Spirit. She has a special interest in supporting clients to be in the higher vibrational states of Joy, Creativity, Passion, Purpose and Fun - which are the natural states of the Essence. She has been integrating Inner Bonding into her practice since 1998. She has assisted Margaret Paul at 4 Inner Bonding Intensives and has co-facilitated 3 Inner Bonding Intensives in upstate New York. She works with clients nationally and internationally. In addition to being a therapist, Shelley is a writer and has a column in a local alternative health publication. She also is a speaker and workshop leader-leading popular workshops titled "Living in Joy", "The Power of Your Own Pleasure", "I am Fabulous: Embracing and Celebrating You", "What Do You Really Want: Finding Your Life Purpose" and "Free Your Spirit." Shelley can be reached by phone at 920-265-2627 or through email at SRiutta@gmail.com. Her web-site is www.RadiantLifeCounseling.com These are comments from clients who have worked with Shelley: "My experience with Shelley has been - well, life-changing. She and her methods: Inner Bonding, breathwork, visualization, not to mention her profound compassion and endless wisdom create the difference between an average therapy session and true healing. Working with Shelley allows me to heal pains of the past that stifled the pursuit of my true dreams and joys. For me she is an angel on Earth." L.R., Green Bay, WI "Shelley is so gentle with her wisdom and insights. I appreciate that - I always feel she understands the process and challenges of learning Inner Bonding. Every session there is always a gem of an offering that I take away and it becomes part of my practice. I am truly grateful for her help. Finally, after years and years with other therapists, do I now get it and I have Shelley to thank for helping through the hard stuff..." M.G., Nantucket, MA |
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Susan Settle, M.A., E.T. FLORIDA |
| After years of using creative and expressive arts in my personal healing, I went to Lesley College in 1996 to earn my masters degree. Poetry, art, music, dance, dreamwork, writing, storytelling, sandtray, and drama therapy - these are rich, deep and meaningful routes to finding and expressing the Self. For me, they are also inextricably linked to Spirit. One of the things that drew me to Inner Bonding was the focus on inner guidance and the Great Spirit which embodies all of life. My experience includes working with troubled adolescents; with children and adults recovering from trauma and abuse or navigating crisis and loss; and with Hospice clients dealing with grief, death, and dying. I am also keenly interested in Carl Jung's theories on the individuation process (spiritual integration) and the potential for transformation in the Third Age of life. Like other IB facilitators, I have a passion for the 6-step process. It provides structure and containment for powerful healing work. And what a joy to be connected to the fabulous people who are the Inner Bonding Community!! In addition to support groups and private appointments, I also offer phone sessions. A level two Reiki practitioner, I incorporate energy work into my practice, which is conducted in a nurturing, compassionate environment. I am the mother of a bright, talented adolescent boy, who is the best present I've ever received, as well as my greatest teacher. |
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Cindy Shore Syosset NY 516-319-9697 |
| My husband and I have been training in Inner Bonding for six years, both through many intensives, as well as in individual sessions with Margaret. As parents of a two year old with another on the way, we have discovered that the Inner Bonding process offers us a wonderful way to have a honest and loving relationship with our son, in addition to providing him with the necessary tools to help him develop into a joyous, grounded well- adjusted young adult. We have incorporated the inner bonding process into our daily lives and we are thankful for the gifts it has given us. I am now fully committed to becoming a certified Inner Bonding facilitator. It is time to give back to others what I have so generously received through this process. My passion lies with children. I am eager to teach parents an alternative way of communicating with their children through Inner Bonding. When I had my son I was an overwhelmed, frightened parent. I wanted so desperately to do everything right. Between the pressure I was putting myself under and the lack of tools to do so, I became paralyzed and depressed. Once I began to use the Inner Bonding I felt a tremendous shift from helplessness to hopefulness. I knew I could do this and be successful at it. My son and I now have a wonderful way of communicating that is warm and loving. I never have to resort to the more aggressive techniques that so many parents have to use out of lack of a better alternative. I assume if I went through these feelings and challenges so must every new parent. My goal is to play a significant role in making a change that will help parents to navigate their children through life with support and love rather than control and aggression. |
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Pattye Spezia, MFT Houston/Stafford TX 281-494-4325 |
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Nancy-Caroline Swisher, MA, MFA Iowa City IA 641-233-5072 |
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Nancy Weston Danbury CT 203-744-6823 |
| Nancy Weston is an Approved Inner Bonding Affiliate and enjoys assisting others in their efforts to incorporate Inner Bonding and Dreamwork into their lives. For individuals on a healing path, Inner Bonding and dreamwork both offer powerful techniques for deep inner exploration. It is Nancy's belief that looking at dreams through an Inner Bonding perspective can help give voice to all our parts, increasing our understanding of our core Self, wounded self parts, loving Adult, and our relationship to our Higher Power. As an experienced educator, Nancy brings knowledge of psychology, literature, and archetypes to dreamwork. She has studied with leading professional dreamworkers such as Jeremy Taylor, and co-facilitates dream groups, workshops, and courses. Nancy has successfully parented two young-adult children, she writes and dreams, and she is a performing folk musician. She brings a passion for life to everything she does. Her most-loved place on earth is Greece, to which she has been 4 times in the last 6 years (favorite trip: backing the Greek Isles with her 24-year old daughter!) Her favorite quotations are: "What is going on in your Innermost Being is worthy of your whole love" (Rainer Maria Rilke) and "When you pay attention to your dreams, you inhabit a much larger part of your soul." (Robert Bosnak) Trained directly by Margaret Paul, Nancy assists at workshops and intensives, runs workshops, facilitates ongoing monthly Inner Bonding support groups, and sees private clients. Located in western Connecticut, Nancy is available by appointment for phone or in-person assistance with both Inner Bonding and dreamwork, for workshops and presentations for your organization, and for assistance in forming a dream group. Member of the American Counseling Association; certificates from the Institute of Advanced Archetypal Studies, the American Hypnosis Training Academy, the Institute for the Enhancement of Dreamwork; training in Core Energetics. For information and fees: 203-744-6823 ; InnerKid2@aol.com |
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Pedro Alvarez Cadiz, Spain |
| I went to the university to become an economist but later my creative side made me become a graphic designer. Today I own a very successful studio that specializes in advertising, corporate and marketing advising. The studio is in Cadiz, southern Spain, where I live. My mother died when I was 3 years old and 7 years later my father died. I was raised by my older siblings and family. Because everybody around me was so wounded I was provided with everything material but most of my emotional needs were unmet. I always felt a deep loneliness, so deep that I wasn't even aware of it. In 1995, after a crisis in a personal relationship, I realized that I was missing something out of life. I started looking and researching. I did therapy, went to seminars, read tons of books. One of the books was Healing Your Aloneness. Somehow It clicked inside of me. A couple of years later the book was still lingering in my head. I tried to contact Margie through friends in the states but it was impossible. in January year 2000 during a short vacation in the USA I just called information service asked for Margie's phone number. They gave it to me, I called and Margie answered!. She told me about Inner Bonding and the intensives. I decided to make the effort because even if I have to sell my car or spend all my savings I owe it to myself. I went to my first intensive in May that year and since then I have healed so much that had you told me before I wouldn't believe you - no way! And I even have a much, much better car! While still in my healing journey I decided to commit part of my time and energy to make INNER BONDING available to more people, especially to the people in Spain and Spanish speaking people. I have been training since then to facilitate in Inner Bonding. yopedro@hotmail.com |
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Penny Boyle, M.A. MA 413-575-6613 |
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Maria Rosa Casanovas Barcelona, Spain 34-93.436.29.50 |
| Some years ago a dearest friend of mine shared with me his passion for the work of Dr. Margaret Paul and the Inner Bonding Process. He gave me the plastic card with the 6 Steps and since then I have always carried it with me in my bag. I have been working as a therapist since 1995, trained in Gestalt Therapy, Focusing, and Louise Hay Teacher Training. I have been offering workshops in Spain during the last 14 years and also one-to-one sessions. In my work as therapist I have specialized in the tools and processes that develop self-esteem, and one of the approaches I like the most is the Inner Child Healing Process, since I realized that it is the "shortcut for healing". The only book of Margaret Paul's published in Spain, "Healing your Aloneness," allowed me to add the vision of Margaret and Erika to the work I was doing, giving me a deeper clue and a more complete understanding of the need to create a loving Adult for our Inner Child. In my personal healing journey a turning point took place in November, 2004, when I participated in the 5 day Intensive with Margaret Paul. It was a very deep experience. I learned so much having the privilege to see the miracle of healing through the presence of Truth and Love! I was very impressed by Margaret and also by the power of the Inner Bonding Process! My wish is to be able to have the spiritual strength and connection that Margaret has and I know I need to strengthen my spiritual work every day and the Inner Bonding practice is a way to achieve it. It also gives a powerful sense of responsibility and a way to heal the ego false beliefs. At present I offer my services as a therapist and coach in Barcelona, Spain. I also travel all over Spain to facilitate Transformational Self-Esteem Workshops. I can be reached at 34-93.436.29.50, cell: 653.370.455. |
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Kashia (Catherine) Coulouvrat, M.D. Paris, France +33 (0) 6 89 68 30 92 |
| Inner Bonding has been a life saving experience for me. I started working with Margaret Paul in the beginning of 2004, after years of being disconnected from Spirit and after a serious illness. The work helped me to reclaim my life and become an independent, whole person, free from the pain of difficult relationships. I began to learn how to love and appreciate myself and as a result, love and appreciate others. If you feel lost, if you feel unhappy, or if you feel that you have everything but still something is missing, Inner Bonding can help you create the life you want and deserve. I'm a psychiatrist living and working in Paris, and I'm available for individual or phone sessions in French, English or Polish. |
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Grace Escaip Palm Beach County FLORIDA (561) 244-8899 |
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Kelly James, M.A., MFT Anaheim Hills 949-651-2805 |
| Kelly James is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT) and has a private practice in Anaheim Hills (Orange County), CA. She has been counseling couples, individuals and children for 10 years. She is passionate about healing and growth in her own life and the lives of her clients. Kelly specializes in intimacy/relationship issues, addictions, depression/anxiety and grief and loss issues. She has been working with Margaret Paul for over 8 years and uses the Inner Bonding Process as her core foundation/theory in her practice and in her own life. She loves assisting others on this creative and transformational journey as they learn to discover their divine goodness and worth through the eyes of God. She is passionate about learning the false beliefs that keep us stuck and replacing these beliefs with truth, light and compassion. Kelly is available in person or by telephone for private counseling sessions.She can be reached at (949) 651-2805. - Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT, 1998) - State of California - Credentialed School Counselor (PPS) - State of California - B.S. (1990) in Clinical Psychology - Brigham Young University - M.S. (1996) in Counseling Psychology - California State University, Fullerton - Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical Psychology - California Coast University - Member of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) |
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Suzi Korsak Merrimack, New Hampshire 603-557-2904 |
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Deborah Lange, M.Ap.Sc. (Social Ecology Hons), B.Bus. HRD, Grad Dip Lear Adelaide SOUTH AUSTRALIA +61 418 833889 |
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Lisa Lipton, M.A., MFCC Glendale CA (818) 913-5556 |
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Joyce Martell M.A., L.L.P. Troy MI (248) 362-4026 |
| Joyce Martell is licensed by the State of Michigan for the practice of psychology. She started her career as a substance abuse therapist in 1977, obtaining her Masters in clinical Psychology from Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, CA in 1982. She established an independent practice "Martell Counseling Inc." in 1991. Joyce was trained by Pia Mellody in 1989 to teach the "Survivors" workshop, which Pia had developed for the Meadows in Arizona. Joyce has adapted that in-patient process to a very successful out-patient procedure, that she has been practicing for 15 years. She discovered Margaret Paul's Inner Bonding work in 1992 and has since attended several week-end workshops along with 3 Inner Bonding Intensives. This process not only connected her to her Inner Child, but to a much deeper Spiritual dimension of herself. Joyce has incorporated the work of "Inner Bonding" into her own process of "Reclaiming the Self" which she states "feeds my very soul." Her delight is in teaching others to love, value and discover their authentic selves, which she first had to learn for herself. She sees Inner Bonding as the most effective tool for discovering and changing the false beliefs that keep us stuck. Joyce conducts classes at Renaissance Unity in Warren, Michigan, "From Inner Child to Inner Joy" in which she teaches the Inner Bonding concept. She is available for individual sessions and group therapy. |
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Kim Morrow Taff, EdS, LPC Atlanta GA 404-419-6082 |
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Meredith (Merry) Oislander, MS, PD Long Island NY 516-527-5371 |
I found Inner Bonding quite synchronistically back in the spring of 2003 and attended my first intensive that summer. From the minute I watched Margaret work with the first person and saw how quickly IB went to the depth of a persons soul, I knew I had found something really special and that this was for me. I realized during that intensive that a 5-day process of Inner Bonding did for me what 10 years of therapy didn't. I began working this process with Margaret very intensely and noticed incredible changes in my life. My search for internal happiness seemed to be a never-ending journey until I found this 6-step process. I really was able to start finding that happiness which I spent years searching for in this 6-step process. The layers of my wounded self started peeling away leaving me space to find my core essence and really live peacefully in it. I've handled life better and my relationships have become more real and connected as I connected to my core essence and my guidance and most importantly I have learned to share love. IB has taken me though some really tough transitions in my life and I am so grateful for this process.
With that said it is now time that I am interested in giving back to the Inner Bonding community and to others as well what I have been so genuinely blessed to find through the Inner Bonding process. I have been a High School Health teacher for 30 years and have taught about self-esteem and addiction. I'm a Master Practioner of Neuro Linguistic programming, Time Line Therapy, Hypnotherapy and have a certificate for Addictions Counseling. I'm certified in Reiki and a Kripalu Yoga teacher as well and am so very excited to now join the ranks of Inner Bonding Facilitators in training. If interested in working with me you can reach me at 516-527-5371 or e-mail me at merryooo@msn.com. I look forward to working with you!
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jackie Parkinson Port Dover ONTARIO, CANADA 519 583 3296 |
"If what you are doing no longer reflects who you want to be, then you know it is time to change."
“Your idea of who you are is borrowed--borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.” Osho
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Sheryl Paul, M.A. Boulder CO (310) 382-0048 |
| As the daughter of two psychotherapists (yes, Margaret is one of them!), I grew up with the language and theories of psychology running through my blood. As a young girl, I vacillated between dreaming about one day being either a writer, a therapist, or a midwife. Having found the confluence of these three arts through writing about and spiritually midwifing people through life’s transitions, I feel deeply blessed to be living in the heart of my calling. While my writing and counseling work have primarily focused on the specific transitions of getting married and becoming a mother, in recent years I have felt called to broaden my practice to include the lifelong transition of life in all its beauty and complexity. For whether we’re on the verge of leaping into marriage, getting a divorce, suffering through anxiety or depression, struggling with an addiction, or birthing a new identity as a mother, we find the same issues of self-trust and control appearing again and again. The story line may change, but the spiritual seeker quickly finds that the areas that need attention reappear at deeper layers of the spiral on life’s journey. The tools of Inner Bonding cradled within the spiritual context of transition have created a powerful framework through which I can assist clients in finding their own voice, exploring the stories and beliefs that interfere with hearing this voice, confronting their need to control and the perpetual practice of learning to surrender, and guiding them as they make their way through life’s challenges and joys. My decade of working with clients in transition combined with my years of a loving marriage (not without continual consciousness and hard work!) and the privilege/challenge of being a mother have solidified my firm belief that, while guides are often necessary to help us find our way through the labyrinths, no one outside of ourselves and a spiritual source has the answers. In fact, I believe that, whether we’re talking about parenting, marriage, or anxiety, there are no definite answers; there’s only the process of discovering what’s right for you. In 1997, I graduated from Pacifica Graduate Institute, a depth psychology program founded upon the teachings of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, James Hillman, and the study of dreams, archetypes, myths, and the myriad ways that the unconscious manifests in daily and nightly life. As a writer, poet, and epic dreamer, I encourage my clients to explore their own creative outlets as pathways for connecting to Spirit and finding their own truths. In 1999, I launched my unique business, Conscious Weddings, and a year later published my first book, The Conscious Bride, which broke the taboo of discussing the underbelly of the wedding transition. In 2003, my second book, The Conscious Bride’s Wedding Planner, was published, and in 2004, I began working with impending and new mothers through Conscious Motherhood. You can read more about me and my work at www.consciousweddings.com and www.consciousmotherhood.com. |
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Julie Sponsler, M.A. MFT Philadelphia PA 267-471-3171 |
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Phyllis Stein, Ph.D. St. Louis MO 314-381-1036 |
| I was at the very first Inner Bonding intensive. My husband and I were married by Margaret at another intensive. We attended intensives every year after that for several years. When we got completely stuck, a phone session with Margaret would help us get unstuck. Margaret has been my invaluable mentor via e-mail as well. I was always passionate about Inner Bonding, but at the same time I knew I could not really help others, because I was not able to connect with a source of divine love. All this changed last year when my marriage suddenly ended and at about the same time the obstacles to connecting with spirit fell. I was propelled into a crash course in what Inner Bonding is really about. As a result, I was given the gift of deep healing that has brought to me a life of intense joy and finally enabled me to use my gifts to help others heal. In my several lives I have been a mother, a grandmother, a Lamaze teacher, a La Leche leader, a midwife and a log cabin dweller. I got my PhD in 1990 and am now a Research Associate Professor of Medicine, studying the rhythm of the heart. I am also a Reiki practitioner. I live in St. Louis and am available for telephone and in-person sessions. |
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Judy Wells, M.A. Westlake Village CA (805) 230-2417 |
| B.A. in Sociology from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles Masters Degree in Psychology from Antioch College. I have been a Social Worker for the past 15 years working with abused and neglected children and their families. I was told by Brugh Joy, a spiritual teacher of mine, that the reason I worked with abused children was to heal the wounded child within. That statement stayed with me even though I didn't quite understand what he meant at the time. Years later when I was introduced to Inner Bonding, I realized that I had been attempting to love and comfort those children for the lack of love and comfort I was giving myself. I have worked with Margaret through telephone sessions and intensives, and found that Inner Bonding is exactly what I had been looking for since I entered into the human potential movement years ago. Her book, "Do I Have To Give Me Up To Be Loved By God" was thrilling for me because it answered questions that I have been searching for all those years. It gave me simple and specific ways to connect with God, or my higher guidance, that I can utilize in any given situation. I feel privileged to be a facilitor in training for Inner Bonding and excited to share with those who desire a more joyful life by recognizing their false beliefs and connecting to their higher guidance. I am available to support and coach in Inner Bonding through telephone sessions and in person. |
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