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WORKSHOPS, RETREATS & PRESENTATIONS

I frequently lecture or give ongoing workshops that explore women's issues, health and the body. Please contact me if you are interested in having me speak to your organization or group, or be a part of a larger symposium.

Past topics have included:

I Want My Body Back: Reconnecting to Your Body Through Cancer

Finding a Voice in Your Life: The Path of the Empowered Woman

Creating Win-Win Situations

Taking Your Body Back: a Workshop for Survivors of Sexual Assault

Their Bodies/Themselves: Bodymind Approaches For Your Patients

The Spirituality of the Body: How Our Bodies Awaken Us to Our Lives

Eating Right For Life

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS:

"Five hours was like five years of spiritual work."

--Spirituality of the Body retreat participant


"Thank-you. This not only changed how I see my body, it changes how I see my life."

--I Want My Body Back workshop participant

WORKSHOPS & RETREATS HAVE BEEN GIVEN AT/THROUGH:

City of Hope Cancer Center

Whole Foods, West Los Angeles

Holy Spirit Retreat Center

A&E Television Network

Lifetime

ID Media

The Cancer Support Community (formerly The Wellness Community)

WeSPARK

BlogTalk Radio

ARTICLES/PRESS

I was the monthly emotional wellness expert on caregiving.com and The Caregiving Journey radio show, and have been featured in Morgana Rae's 'Money Magnet' website, Esperanza and Social Work Today magazines and msn.com's 'relationships' section as well as in the books Talk to Your Body: Confessions of a Hypochondriac by Ben Moses and The Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind by Karen Linamen. I welcome press inquiries and am happy to answer your questions.

RADIO

Interviews on various topics are available through these links:

On the importance of the body relationship for transformation, wellness and weight loss:

http://www.edrugstore.md/articles/expert-interviews/weight-maintenance/anna-stookey

On the significance of forgiveness for healing:

http://www.caregiving.com/2011/03/forgiveness-part-4/

Professional Affiliations

California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)

Group Therapy Association of Southern California (GPASC)

American Massage & Bodywork Professionals (ABMP)

United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP)

American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS)

EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)

Education & Additional Certifications

MA in Clinical Psychology, Antioch University,

Los Angeles, CA, 2004

LAISPS Certification in the Treatment of Eating Disorders, 2011

EMDR Training Completion, EMDRIA, 2008

Creative Imagery Certification, Hypnosis Motivation Institute, Van Nuys, CA, 2004

Medical Hypnotherapy, The Hypnosis Institute, New York, NY, 2003

Hypnotherapy, The Hypnosis Institute, New York, NY, 2002

Kripalu Bodywork Training (various), Kripalu Center, Lenox, MA 1990-1992

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