I guide clients to connect to their inner core of stability, strength, and equanimity. In this process we foster awareness, resilience, nervous system regulation, and self-compassion through Mind-Body Therapy, Somatic Experiencing®, HeartMath, NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), Internal Family Systems and meditation.
If you feel that your quality of life isn’t what it could be, I understand!
Years ago, my search for a meaningful life with less anxiety and fear led me to yoga, meditation and then to Somatic Experiencing®.
The dramatic emotional and physical relief and change in perspective I’ve gained inspire me to share what I’ve discovered.
After many years as a social activist, I’m now focused on facilitating inner change. Self-compassion leads to a greater sense of well-being and promotes compassion for others – a powerful way to change the world.
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Member – United States Association of Body Psychotherapists
Member - Healing Touch Professional Association
Member - Somatic Experiencing International
I currently facilitate weekly meditation sessions at Legacy Healing Center (drug and alcohol rehabilitation).
I’ve provided workshops, continuing education or presentations to the following Southern New Jersey or Philadelphia organizations: Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science, Rutgers University School of Business, Princeton House, NJ Association of Marital and Family Therapists (Southern Chapter), Girard Medical Center, (Creative Art Therapists, Dance Movement Therapists), Inglis House, Black Horse Pike Regional School District, Bancroft Neurorehab, Woodford Cedar Run, Animal Welfare Association, Katz JCC, The Boys and Girls Club of Camden, Penn Program for Mindfulness, and Medford Leas.
In 2005, I began teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Management courses for the Penn Program for Mindfulness (UPenn Health System), in Philadelphia and Southern NJ.
During six years of facilitating courses, I found that some students were suffering from post-traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety. This awareness ignited my interest in nervous system regulation and led me to become:
Through personal practice and continuing coursework with leaders in the field, I’ve learned to help those seeking to live with greater peace and a better quality of life.
Developing curriculum and teaching with Dr. Dan Gottlieb has been inspirational and another opportunity for growth and learning.
The approach to nervous system regulation has changed radically in recent years, with an increasing recognition of the importance of including the body in the healing process.
Remembering well my own experience with anxiety and panic, I bring compassion to every individual session.
It would be a privilege to help you uncover the calm, clarity, and resilience that are part of your true nature, beneath the layers of distress.
Beginning his career as an addiction specialist, Dr, Dan soon became a well regarded clinician, teacher, and supervisor of psychiatrists, psychologists and clinical social workers, teaching at Hahnemann University and consulting with many other faculty members throughout the region.
Personally, he was happily married and loved being a father to his young daughters. However, in 1979, his early successes were tragically interrupted when a near fatal automobile accident left him paralyzed from the chest down.
As expected, there were years of despair and depression and even more loss after his wife left the marriage and passed away several years later. And, in the ensuing year, Dan also mourned the loss of his sister and his parents.
Despite all the adversity, for the last three decades Dan has been observing life with passion and learning valuable lessons about what it means to be human and how adversity can teach us how to live and love better.
For more than thirty years, Dan hosted “Voices in the Family,” an award-winning mental health call-in radio show aired on WHYY 90.9 FM, Philadelphia’s local public radio station. For 15 years, he wrote a highly regarded column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, reflecting his perspective on the intersection of events in our world and events in our minds and hearts.
He has also published four books, including the international bestseller: Letters to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life. His newest book, The Wisdom We’re Born With: restoring faith in ourselves, was released to rave reviews from mental health professionals around the country. All royalties are being donated to the Khulani school for disabled children in South Africa.
Dan’s writing, radio presence and the more than 1,000 lectures he has delivered all over the world have been an inspiration to many. He is beloved to those have been touched by his compassion, understanding, wisdom and personal resilience.
The essence of his philosophy can be found on his business card. After his name there are no degrees and no fancy titles. His card simply says “Gottlieb. Human.”
Through personal and professional experience, Dan has learned that our greatest suffering is alienation and loneliness. That is these powerful emotions can produce prejudice, hatred, violence, withdrawal and depression. He has learned that all humans long for human contact, compassion and understanding. And without compassion, our spirits wither.
When asked to summarize his life’s work, he says simply: “I teach kindness.”
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