Lionheart Institute of Transpersonal Energy Healing Faculty

Deborah is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. In 1996 and 1997, she taught Sexuality as a Healing Tool to over 800 people in the program. Since 1990, she has been teaching workshops on Women’s Sexuality and Sexuality and Spirituality in the U.S. and Europe. Between 1998-2003, she served as Senior faculty at the Snowlion School of Healing in Trimurti, France (along with other Lionheart faculty Dan Buffo and Scott Bader). Currently, she has a private practice (Healer's Forum) in Santa Cruz, California. She is the facilitator of a series of women’s workshops (offered as electives at Lionheart) and beginning a leadership training for women in both the U.S. and Europe.  Deborah's passion is most alive in the area of relationship and group work, including family and community systems, intimacy and transitions, creativity and leadership.

Rinat holds a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology and a California State License in Marriage and Family Therapy. She has Certifications in Art Therapy and Naturalistic Hypnotherapy. Rinat has been in private practice since 1982, working with individuals, couples, families, and groups in Israel and the U.S. Her approach is eclectic, integrating West and East psychologies and philosophies.

Modalities are taken from Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Virginia Satire, Assagioli, Patanjali, and more. Rinat's passion and focus is on "here and now", meditation, interactive communication, expressive arts, and balancing of body-mind-spirit.

Scott is a chiropractor, healer and certified hypnotherapist. He comes to us from a senior faculty position at the Snowlion Center School, a 4- year healing training center in the South of France. With the express intent of exploring the bodymind, he has developed the Living Body and Soul Series and the Biology of Love, Consciousness, and Healing. Scott is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and taught for four years on the faculty of the School for Enlightenment and Healing in San Diego. He has completed the Center for Intentional Living's three-year clinical psychology program to deepen his understanding of psyche and soma. After completing a phenomenological family constellation training based on the pioneering work of Bert Hellinger, Scott now facilitates Family Constellations weekends around the country. For the past 12 years, Scott has remained active with Hospice, working individually and with groups. Scott maintains a healing practice and teachers with The Healers' Forum.

Ann is a Naturopath, Certified Nutritional Consultant, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Certified Iridologist, educator, author, and inspirational speaker. She has been in private practice for nine years in Studio City, California and specializes in allergies, digestive disorders, hormonal imbalances, blood sugar disorders, autoimmune diseases, and is an expert on the silent epidemic, Candida. Ann believes that perfect health, on every level, lies within one's own power. She was diagnosed with the debilitating disease Multiple Sclerosis and cured herself twelve years ago. Her book entitled, "Healing Multiple Sclerosis: Diet, Detox & Nutritional Makeover for Total Recovery" came out April 2007.

Dan teaches our Advanced Practice courses for graduates and advanced students. He practices, coaches and supervises energy healing in Santa Cruz, California and is a founding member of The Healers’ Forum, where he has been teaching healership, high sense perception, guidance, and energy work techniques since 1989. His passion is to teach these subjects to other healers in clear, useful, practical ways. He has served as Senior class Dean, and Teacher Training Mentor at Snowlion Center School in Southern France. Dan has completed a masters degree equivalent in depth Psychology with the Center for Intentional Living of New York and taught with the Barbara Brennan School of Healing for three years after graduating from this school in 1994. Dan has written articles on energy medicine, and operating room procedures for energy healers working with medical surgeons in hospitals. He studied clinical psychology for two years as doctorial candidate at the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. His doctoral studies were interrupted by chronic fatigue syndrome in 1987, which resulted in a year in bed and a personal introduction to the value and efficacy of energy healing, changing his focus from business and psychology to hands on energy healing.
dan@healersforum.com

Susan Crimmins has studied and practiced the healing arts for over 20 years. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of New York and holds a doctorate in criminal justice from City University of New York. Both her NIH-funded research endeavors in homicide, substance abuse and maltreatment and the death of her niece influenced her to shift from epidemiologically based work to clinical interventions in the healing of trauma. Dr. Crimmins has been trained extensively in several healing modalities including: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), medical qi gong, somatic bodywork, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Healing Touch, Energy Healing and she is certified as an Energy Healer Technician (EHT) in the State of California. Currently, Dr. Crimmins is a Professor in the School of Social Work at California State University at Los Angeles. In addition, she serves as a consultant to educators, therapists and criminal justice practitioners in the healing of trauma, conducts trainings and workshops with multi-disciplinary professionals and has a somatic energy healing practice in Santa Monica. She is completing a three year certificate program in Somatic Experiencing with The Foundation for Human Enrichment, in Colorado. Most importantly, she lives and loves her life fully.

Diana is committed to the creative practice of healing and has shared its awe with others for over 15 years. Currently, as a Transpersonal Energy Therapist, Diana's passion and wisdom of numerous energy-related arts and sciences has inspired many to further their own studies at Lionheart Institute Midwest in Hartland, Wisconsin. In addition to her commitment as Director of Lionheart Midwest, Diana maintains a private healing practice and center for beauty and wellness in Shorewood, Wisconsin, known as Sacred Space. Her practice combines unique approaches to enhance mind/body harmony and wellness for teens, elders, couples, and women's groups. Diana holds a degree in Art and is a Certified Graphologist and Licensed Aesthetician. She has completed the Center for Intentional Living's three-year clinical psychology program in 2009. 

"We are Living and Eternal Art"

Diana may be reached at: diana@lionheartinstitute.com

Laura Fannon is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. While also maintaining an active law and mediation practice of many years, she earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Transformative Psychotherapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California, in 2007. Laura has worked with individuals and groups in a variety of contexts, using an integrative approach that holds psychotherapy in a spiritual framework informed by nondual Eastern traditions. Laura has long had an interest in energy healing and the bodymind connection, having graduated in the late 1990s from both Alive & Well Institute of Conscious Bodywork in San Anselmo, California, and the School for Enlightenment and Healing in San Diego, California. Laura previously has served as a Teaching Assistant for Lionheart's Transpersonal Spiritual Counseling class and is honored to be a member of the Lionheart faculty. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Laura has a Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from San Diego University of Integrative Studies and a Masters of Arts Degree from University of Miami. She has practiced as a licensed Holistic Health Practitioner for 25 years in the field of body/mind therapies and is co-founder of Lionheart Institute. Laura originated The Energy System of Acting (ESA), and is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing as well as two years of Kabalistic Healing with The Society of Souls. She has taught at several alternative healing schools and developed a research project in wholistic healing for post-surgery heart transplant patients at U.C.L.A Hospital. Laura's career has bridged the creative and healing arts having worked for twenty years professionally in the theater as a director and acting teacher such institutions as Manhattan Class Company, Barnard College and Riverside Shakespeare Company in New York. Having faced, survived and healed from a life-threatening illness, Laura has a recognition and value of each moment of life and compassion for the struggles of the mind and heart. She shares her experiences in her book, "Laura's New Heart, A Healer's Spiritual Journey through a Heart Transplant", also available through Amazon.com.

Maria has a Master's Degree in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and is a California Board Licensed Acupuncturist. Maria holds a Master's of Medical Qigong certification from the International Institute of Medical Qigong, and is a Doctoral of Medical Qigong (China) candidate with the IIMQ, and the Hai Dian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, China. At the age of 12 Maria began training under World Grandmaster David Chaanine for 12 years in the martial art of Tae Kwon Do, earning a second-degree black belt. Since 1996 she has studied eastern and western styles of therapeutic bodywork, and has traveled to China in 2001 and 2002 to experience medical Qigong treatments and instruction under Master Su Jian Wan, and his master students trained within the Shaolin Temples. Maria’s undergraduate training comes from the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1994, and she has taught theatrical movement, stage combat, and breathing techniques to children and adults in Los Angeles and Boston. Maria has been with Lionheart since 2005, and has also taught anatomy/physiology, massage, meditation and medical Qigong with the Touch Therapy Institute, and the National Holistic Institute in Los Angeles. Maria has been in private practice since 1998, and can be reached by visiting http://www.SacredSpaceAcu.com.

Robert trained at University of Southern California and completed his residency at UCLA. Although he valued his western medical education, he found its view of health and disease incomplete. This motivated a search for deeper understanding which he found in homeopathy. His passion led him to India to continue his studies with the masters there. Using this technique, the practitioner follows the patient to the energy disturbance that is the cause of the pathology and thereby understands its source. This process leads to tremendous healing that is gentle and lasting. Dr. Gramlich practiced this superlative method of homeopathy full time for 12 years and is now teaching it to other practitioners and students.

Vicki, Energy Healing Therapist and graduate of the Lionheart Institute of Transpersonal Energy Healing, serves on the faculty at Lionheart Institute Midwest as Student Services Coordinator/Administrator. Along with generating awareness of Lionheart Institute and working with potential and existing students, she also co-teaches Introduction to Transpersonal Energy Healing at the Midwest Institute. Vicki holds a degree in Sociology and Communication and is also a graduate of the Center for Intentional Living in Santa Cruz, California – a three-year intensive program that is based in spiritual psychology. She is passionate about the connection between creativity and spirituality and has taught workshops based on author Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity.  In addition to practicing healing and transpersonal counseling, Vicki has extensive business experience in the printing and publishing industries.

Vicki may be reached at: vickijoy@lionheartinstitute.com

A Board Certified Family Physician, Dr. Hakimi has had diverse medical training and has combined his knowledge of medicine with specialized alternative medical modalities to create an integrative and comprehensive medical practice. Dr. Hakimi's philosophy has at its core the natural healing process of a living organism. He believes "Health" is a dynamic process in which energetic, hormono-chemical, structural, physical, emotional-mental, and spiritual aspects converge to produce balance and harmony. He is the medical director of Body of Harmony in Beverly Hills, CA.

While finishing his residency at USC with the Department of Family Medicine, he was elected Chief Resident and Assistant Clinical Professor at USC Keck School of Medicine. Educating the public is a priority for Dr. Hakimi; He holds lectures in different venues and on two different T.V. channels on a regular basis. Dr. Hakimi's list of lectures: Homeopathy for clinicians, Chakras & Energy Healing, Success, Shame the master emotion, Secrets of Mind & Body, Evolution of Psychiatry from Mesmer to Classical Psychiatry,...

Dr. Hakimi offers a Western-Eastern medical practice, which encompasses Osteopathic structural fitness, hormonal and chemical balance through natural medications and detoxification, adjunctive clinical Homeopathy, coaching and counseling.

Rob has been helping individuals overcome a variety of "incurable" illnesses in his private practice for over 20 years. Integrating his knowledge of Craniosacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Joint Manipulation and Biomechanics with his ability to perceive subtle energies, Rob has developed unique healing methods that facilitate the integration, alignment and coherency of the macro (human energy field), micro (cellular, molecular and atomic) and sensory (physical systems) levels of consciousness. He is the developer and teacher of various training programs, including "Perceive and Heal the Human Energy Field", "Healing the Respiratory Mechanisms of the Body", and "Qigong Plus". Rob is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and is currently interested in raising funds for research to explore what effect if any; intensive and integrative natural healing will have with kidney disease, liver disease, and cancer. He plans to make the research project into a documentary film.

Carolyn McCormick is a certified life and business coach with two decades spanning the personal and professional development field, Carolyn has trained and coached thousands of professionals, executives and entrepreneurs to achieve their goals & desires in less time with more fulfillment. McCormick’s direct approach helps people create a life of both success and fulfillment, eliminating the obstacles in their way.

With a client list consisting of the who’s who in the personal development field, Carolyn has partnered closely with industry leaders Tony Robbins, producing his personal development seminars around the world. She partnered with Bob Proctor (The Secret) co-training a thousand aspiring coaches and trainers to start their own business as licensed speakers for the best-selling book, The Science of Getting Rich. McCormick has trained Silicon Valley Executives on 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for Stephen Covey’s organization. She was recently invited by a publisher to create a coaching program based on Napoleon Hill’s original, lost book, The Law of Success.

She also trains aspiring coaches how to start their own 6+ figure coaching business in her Award-Winning “Grab Your Ultimate Dreams” Coach the Coach Certification. This training is a turn-key system providing both cutting-edge coaching competencies as well as strategic business building systems.

Sandra teaches Developmental Life Stages and an elective course on Relationship Dynamics. Sandra comes to us form Croatia, via Switzerland and Canada. In her work she combines two of her passions: body-centered psychotherapy and scientific research. Her training is in psychodynamic counseling, craniosacral therapy and energy work (Snowlion Center School in Switzerland). In addition, she is a certified Imago Relationship Therapist, and practices with Maureen Brine and Associates Ltd. at the Canadian Institute for Imago Relationship Therapy, in Toronto. Sandra has received her PhD in Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich (Switzerland), and has done extensive research on the mechanisms of communication and interactions at the molecular level of cells. Bridging her scientific and psychotherapy backgrounds, she is committed to exploring human communication and contact – on both molecular and inter-personal levels. Currently, she is attending a three-year clinical psychology program at the Center for Intentional Living. Her intention is to encourage and embrace moments of re-membering deeper aspects of ourselves, experiencing the larger force that supports our lives, and creating more fulfilling and joyful relationships. ribapriba@hotmail.com

Stacey has been studying and practicing bodywork and healing in the New York City area for over thirteen years. She originally studied at the Ohashi Institute in New York City and began her career as a Shaitsu and Swedish Massage Therapist. As a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, Stacey joined the staff of Michael Mamas' School for Enlightenment and Healing in 1994 where she taught for four years in New York City, San Diego and Aheville, NC. In 1998, Stacey returned to her practice full time. A master at understanding and working with the energy field, Stacey currently has a healing and modern psychoanalysis practice in New York City while completing master's degree in Modern Psychology.

Bunny retired in 2007 from Lionheart, as the school President and Co-Director of Lionheart Texas, but continues to have a part-time private practice in San Antonio in wholebody therapy, which includes transpersonal energy healing and counseling, Shiatsu, therapeutic massage, positional release therapy, EFT and Inner Relationship Focusing. She has been practicing and teaching personal and spiritual growth since the early 1980's as a training coordinator with Lifespring, a personal growth training company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. After battling two unrelated cancers diagnosed within a year, her cancer became her mentor and her path turned towards wholistic healing. As a cancer survivor, she was also President of the Office of Cancer Survivorship and a regular presenter at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center. She is also a visiting teacher at the University of TX Health Science Center School of Nursing. A graduate of the School for Enlightenment and Healing and the Lauterstein-Conway School of Massage in Austin, she has studied with many healers including the Barbara Brennan, Barry Krost with Positional Release Therapy, Center for Intentional Living, completing a three-year Master’s level clinical psychology program, and most recently completed Inner Relationship Focusing and Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy, with Anne Weiser Cornell in California. In addition to her role as the school’s President and a Co-Director at Lionheart Texas, Bunny taught Introduction to Transpersonal Energy Healing and Tools and Techniques classes during her 11-year tenure with the school.
bunnybrush@gmail.com

Nino is a graduate of Snowlion Center School in Switzerland, a four year training in psychodynamic counseling, craniosacral therapy and energy work. He has also completed Clinical Training at the Canadian Institute for Imago Relationship Therapy in Toronto, and is Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. Currently, he is attending a three-year clinical psychology program at the Center for Intentional Living. He has a private practice in Toronto and can be reached at ninos5@sympatico.ca.

Larry is a Los Angeles based, licensed psychotherapist, with a PhD in clinical psychology. His specialty is working with adults traumatized as children. He integrates Somatic Experiencing, EMDR and relational psychotherapy. Larry has over twenty-five years experience with indivduals and couples, developing an innovative process working with couples using Somatic Experiencing. Larry has a passion for teaching, training and mentoring interns and professionals integrating body, mind and neurobiology in their work with others. He is an AAMFT approved supervisor, training interns at the Hollywood YMCA Counseling Center and has served as an adjunct faculty member at Antioch University, Los Angeles and Ryokan College where he has taught alternative methods of healing as well as neurobiological and developmental psychology.

Michele Shay is a Tony nominated and award-winning actress, director, Transpersonal energy healer and certified coach. She has performed on and off Broadway, in Regional Theaters around the country,on television and film. Clients include prominent actors, scientists, engineers and professionals from many walks of life. In 1999, through a grant from the Fox Foundation to study the connection between acting and the healing arts, Michele was introduced to the Energy System of Acting and Laura Fine whose exercises and wisdom about he human energy system and performance Michele incorporates in all of her work as an actress andteaches at intstitutions around the country. She was also trained as a Coach by world-renowned Master Coach Julio Ollala of the Newfield Network, studied NLP with Fortune 500 Coach Linda Sommer, Mask work with Pierre Le Favre; Dreamwork for Character Development with Alvaroand Gabrielle Lopez-Waterman; Acting with William Esper, Hank Berrings,Sandra Seacat,Harold Guskin, Corey Allen and Margie Haber; voice with Kristin Linkletter and Fran Bennett.

Cathy Stander is a licensed massage therapist, energy healer and bodyworker with over 12 years of experience in the field of healing arts. Cathy has worked in numerous medical settings. She is a graduate of Lionheart Institute of Transpersonal Energy Healing where she is now a part time faculty member. Cathy has a private practice in Studio City doing energy healing and massage therapy.

Gloria is a healer and counselor with a private practice in the Milwaukee area. She is dedicated to the cultivation of Health and Healing combining both Eastern and Western Traditions. She offers a variety of modalities to her clients and students including Hypnotherapy,

Flower Essences, Transpersonal Energy Healing, Diet and Nutrition, Meditation and Movement. She aspires to bring loving presence to the therapeutic setting to create a safe space that encourages self healing and self reliance. Her hope is to provide a service that nurtures compassion for all living things so we may exist in harmony and respect, mindful of our individual responsibility to protect each other and the planet we live on. She received her Hypnotherapy Certification from the Leidecker Institute in Chicago, Flower Essence Certification from Flower Essence Society in CA and is a graduate of Lionheart Institute Midwest.

She is currently enrolled in the Center for Intentional Living's three year clinical psychology program where she continues to pursue her passion to understand the Human Psyche. Gloria is part of the Midwest Lionheart teaching staff.

Sheryl Grant, is a somatic psychotherapist with a private practice in San Antonio. She is committed to living authentically and assisting her clients in uncovering their true essence, while seeking to find the ease that underlies transformation. She has worked with diverse populations, from abused and neglected children to the elderly. She brings a wide range of knowledge and training including the Enneagram, Death & Dying, the Relational Cultural Model, death and dying, trauma resolution, emotional release, addictions, eating disorders, and women’s studies. She is trained in Hakomi, which is a body-centered psychotherapy based on the Buddhist and Taoist principles of mindfulness, nonviolence, and the unity of mind and body. She currently serves as Co-Director of Lionheart Texas and can be reached at: sheryl@lionheartinstitute.com

Adrienne Wilde is an Energy Healing Therapist with a private practice in Studio City. She is also a Doula, movement and yoga teacher and has a background in the theatre arts having performed in TV and film in NY and LA. She has a special interest in parenting and the personal healing process that can take place when one begins this often bumpy journey. In addition to Lionheart West, Adrienne is on the faculty at the Pasadena Waldorf School where she teaches Parent Child classes. She has a BA in the History of Art, is a graduate of Lionheart Institute of Transpersonal Energy Healing, Circle in the Square Theatre and is a wife and mother.

Miyuki is a former Regional Director of Lionheart Texas, who currently resides in Melbourne, Australia. She is a native of Japan and spent 12 years in San Antonio, Texas working as a palliative care nurse, educator, and healer. She has a Master's degree in Nursing and worked as a registered nurse with dying patients and their families in both Japan and the United States for 13 years before she became a transpersonal energy healer. After the graduation of Lionheart Institute, she served the Lionheart Community as Regional Director of Lionheart Institute Texas for 2 years. She has had experience in working with various populations as an energy healer in Japan, Spain, France and Italy. She combines her scientific knowledge as a nurse with her intuitive skills and her heart in energy healing and spiritual counseling. She is now offering teaching programs on energy healing, Spirituality in Palliative Care, Characterology and Death Awareness work in Kumamoto, Japan. miyuki@senritsu-healing.com, (+61) 3 9888 7323.

Paula Davies, LMT

Paula Davies has been a massage therapist since 1998, specializing in energy work, pain and stress management, trauma resolution, movement therapies and somatic approaches to healing. Her exploration and study of complementary and alternative health modalities began as an avocation 25 years ago. She is a graduate of the School for Enlightenment and Healing for hands-on energy healing, a long time Zen practitioner, and has studied Continuum Movement with Emily Conrad.  In 2003, Paula initiated the Health and Healing Connection, a non-profit organization envisioning a change in the nature of health and healing in our community, connecting practitioners and the public with resources for healing.  Paula is a knowledgeable, warm, intuitive, responsive healer and teacher.