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About Aimee
Licensed Psychotherapist, Transformational Coach and Group Facilitator
I believe that feeling alive & vibrant is our birthright.
I believe that risking the expression of what is truly burning in our hearts is worth everything.
Some of My Life story…
When I was 8 years old, I stopped talking completely for many months, and depression became my childhood companion. In a difficult and neglectful home environment with mentally ill parents, this established a lifelong pattern of shutting down my voice and my authentic self to stay safe and hidden. My innate life force kept wanting to shine through in creative expression from piano to art to premiering my dance skills on American Bandstand.
However, shutting down to stay safe continued to be my pattern.
My creative self expression kept rising...
It was trying to show me a way out of the shutdown but it wasn’t until I turned 50, on the heels of years of inner healing that I was able to create a one-woman autobiographical performance about my life. The process of recreating my life journey through spoken word, movement and music revealed to me the sustainable creative life force that had been knocking at my door my whole life, waiting for me to invite it in.
Now I have reclaimed this creative life force and am so grateful to be able to express it and support others to do the same. I love art and all forms of self expression. I am a painter, a writer and dancer. I’m also a music lover, and I am passionate about nature and love spending time in redwood trees, by the ocean, with animals and loved ones. I believe in the power of embodiment, and creative expression.
As we connect with our bodies and hearts, we connect with courage.
As we
connect with courage we can
be in service of healing ourselves and the challenges in our troubled world.
My Professional Experience and Trainings/Certifications:
- M.A. in Integral Counseling, California Institute of Integral Studies
- B.A . in Applied Art and Design
- Psychotherapist, licensed MFT for 18 years
- Certified Intentional Creativity Coach - with Shiloh Sophia, Musea
- Certification in Integrative Medicine from California Pacific Medical Center with focus on Expressive Arts and Guided Imagery
- Sacred Depths Coach training with Joanna Lindenbaum
- Woman Centered Coaching/Feminine Power process - with Claire Zammit
- Currently training in Mindfulness meditation teacher training (Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield)
- Training with Aline LaPierre in Neuro Affective Touch (NAT)
- Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven and Somatic Attachment work with Karen Rachels, MFT
- Certified in EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Levels I and II
- Brainspotting Training - Level I
- Certified in EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique, Level I
- Certified Level I Reiki practitioner
- I have worked with many different people in various settings including private practice, hospitals, cancer patients, and hospice grief support.
- Years of training including: somatic therapy, Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, Hakomi, Somatic attachment work, IFS - Internal Family Systems, Authentic movement and Dance/movement therapy
- Certified Breath of Love practitioner
- Certified yoga therapist Integrative Yoga Therapy
- Over ten years of study in the Diamond Approach
- Vispassana meditation Practitioner for 20 years
- Winner of American Bandstand Dance contest with partner Dave Carter in 1986
Aimee truly gives all of herself as she holds you and the entire group with great compassion and kindness.
You feel heard, understood, mirrored, supported, and gently guided as you explore your inner depths and obstacles to feeling fully alive and well. Whether you travel your inner journey in the company of others under Aimee's guidance, or by working with her in private sessions, you will always leave feeling clear and uplifted. That is guaranteed!
—Francoise