Meet Your Breathwork Clinician Certification Faculty:
NATHANIEL HODDER-SHIPP CADC-II, B Msc. he/him
is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and has worked with breathwork since late 2009, having trained others since 2013. He has helped develop this 1000-hour Breathwork Clinician Certification
– the most comprehensive in the field –
and has recently founded The American Breathwork Association to develop equity, ethics and regulation in the field of breathwork.
Nathaniel has been mentoring others in breathwork since 2013 having been certified in 2010, and he himself has clocked over a thousand training hours. Having been introduced to the work by Corrie Murguia, he studied with his former breathwork mentor* for over a decade and founded Breathwork for Recovery in early 2015 to train others to use breathwork to treat trauma, mental illness, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. His practice is rooted in contributing to the dismantling of the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. With this unique perspective and skillset, Nathaniel works full time helping empower people to make the necessary changes in their lives toward long-term health and happiness.
DR. JANOC VANCE PsyD in Psychology/MFT she/her
is a PsyD in Psychology/MFT and a proud native of Los Angeles, CA. She has dedicated her life to humanitarian, and philanthropic work as a vessel to strengthen and empower. Coming from a background as a professional in the Performing Arts industry, after intense self-reflection and prayer, Dr. Vance discovered an extension of her purpose within an even more in-depth style of the Arts. She realized the Arts was a true gift and passion used to guide her toward an even bigger purpose, within the field of, Behavioral Arts and Psychology. After receiving formal training and graduating with an undergraduate degree in Theatre and Minor in Dance from Prairie View A&M University, and UNLV, 10 years later she re-entered the academic world to further nurture her purpose through graduate studies. She then received her Masters in Clinical Psychology/MFT, concluding with a Doctorate of Psychology/MFT. She is currently a Doctor of Psychology, specializing in Psychotherapy treating adults and families dealing with dual diagnoses, trauma, depression, mood, and personality disorders. She is also a clinical consultant for film/script writers and character development. Dr. Vance works with integrative and holistic methods. However, she has taken a liking to differentiation methodologies, aspiring to assist those that are directly or indirectly struggling to differentiate the symptom vs the cause, the individual vs the system, and the facts vs the emotions. She currently works as a Clinical Director and has a private practice/business, Living is a Lifestyle, LLC, which specializes in clinical life coaching, clinical consulting within the psychology profession and entertainment industry.
DIANA ROSE HARPER she/her
Diana's practice is antiracist and antifascist; it is affirmative for LGBTQIA+ individuals; it is inherently trauma-informed; it is intersectionally feminist; it is imperfect and doing what it can to create a more inclusive, diversity-loving, nuanced, and caring world.
She has been engaged with 1:1 client work and group facilitation since 2016. The core of her work is assisting others in cultivating a more loving relationship with human beingness within the wider physical and spiritual ecologies of Earth.
She uses the language of astrology, but her toolkit includes energy work, clinical massage therapy & structural integration, poetics, and tarot.
ANNE HODDER-SHIPP CSE, ACS, she/they
is an award-winning, multi-certified sex and relationships educator with professional training in breathwork and natural dreamwork. They boast a unique understanding of age-appropriate sex education, trauma-informed healing, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence, and they bring a fun, friendly, and sex-positive facilitation style to every session, group, or event they host. Utilizing a non-judgmental and no-b.s. approach, Anne happily helps clients of all ages, experience levels and lifestyles heal, learn and grow. With an ability to convey complicated (and sometimes sensitive) information in an accessible way, Anne coaches, guides, and supports clients through profound healing and specializes in working with trauma and shame — especially the ways trauma and shame affect (and disrupt) our day-to-day lives. A cum laude graduate of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, Anne’s journalism and sociology background inspired a unique perspective of the public eye, which led them to work as a journalist, editor and blogger covering the business of pleasure and the latest in human sexuality research. After readers reached out with vulnerable sex questions, Anne recognized a genuine passion for being of service, and they decided to train professionally as a sex educator. Anne received their first certification and endorsement by the renowned San Francisco Sex Information program and continued their training via the American College of Sexologists International and Planned Parenthood Los Angeles’s School Based Sex Education Program, where they honed a special skill for working with adolescents. Anne is currently completing ANTE UP!’s justice-centered education certification and was recently certified through the renowned Kinsey Institute’s Human Sexuality Intensive. They also hold professional training in breathwork facilitation and natural dreamwork under the guidance of Kezia Vida. These two unique healing methods allow for deeper self-connection, emotional intelligence development, trauma resolution, and profound personal growth - and Anne often uses them in their one-on-one sessions. Anne has been working with, and writing about, sex and relationships in some form for more than 14 years, and they’ve loved every day of it. In addition to their private practice and public workshops, Anne is the founder of and lead educator at Everyone Deserves Sex Ed (EDSE), and leads treatment groups for clients recovering from substance use disorder, eating disorders, compulsive sexual behavior and other stigmatized illnesses. Anne also provides pleasure education and events through S3X Plus Productions, and is the CEO of Hodder Media Inc., the first sex-positive PR and marketing firm to specialize in sex toys and adult industry brands. Most recently, Anne released their first ebook, Speaking from the Heart: 18 Languages for Modern Love, a much-needed expansive update to the classic Love Languages, and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) honored them with the Professional Standard of Excellence award.
AYE RODRIGUES SUNDRAM, LCSW (they/them)
is a psychotherapist, community organizer and builder, writer, parent, and perpetual scholar. They live, work, and organize on the unceded Tiwa territory colonially known as Albuquerque, New Mexico. Aye has advanced, in-depth postgraduate training and supervision in Brainspotting, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and perinatal mental health. They are passionate about integrating an anti-racist analysis with their vision and practice of individual therapy in order to connect individual healing to collective well-being. Aye's private therapy practice, Inner Path Wellness, primarily serves people of color, queer people, and trans and gender expansive people, with a focus on healing and transforming complex, racial, and intergenerational trauma. Aye is committed to bringing joy, connection, and liberation to anti-racism work and supports organizations in embodying their commitments to anti-oppression through enacting policy and practice changes.
BIANCA I. LAUREANO PhD, CSES, MA2 she/her
is an award-winning educator, curriculum writer, facilitator, and sexologist. She is a Foundress of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WOCSHN), The LatiNegrxs Project, ANTE UP! Virtual Freedom Professional Development School for Justice Workers, and hosts LatinoSexuality.com. She has written several curricula that focus on communities of color: What’s the REAL DEAL about Love and Solidarity? (2015) and Communication MixTape: Speak On It Vol 1. (2017) and wrote the sexual and reproductive justice discussion guide for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene published in 2018. Bianca has been on the board of CLAGS, the LGBTQ Center at CUNY, The Black Girl Project, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Bianca started ANTE UP! as she noticed the needs of many communities doing justice work and finding limited support in their own growth and development. Pulling from her experiences as an abortion doula, radical educator, sexologist, and dreamer, Bianca imagined a virtual space for collective un / learning and accountability that honors shifts and the ebb and flow of collective webs of knowledge. ANTE UP! is what Bianca needs for herself and her growth, she’s not only the foundress, she’s a certificate participant as well! She currently resides in Oakland, CA providing private supervision sessions, support, and writing her dreams into curricula and courses. She is the Lead Educator for the Netflix film Crip Camp (2020) and is leading the efforts to create a curriculum that is rooted in disability justice practice, self-determination, and social-emotional learning competences that are aligned to the Common Core State Standard! She will receive an honorary PhD for her work of justice, equity, and inclusion in the US sexuality field May 2020. Find out more about Bianca at her website BiancaLaureano.com.
CHAUNA BRYANT she/her
is a Breathwork Meditation facilitator, Pilates, and GYROTONIC® Instructor, and founder of Breath Liberation Society. She is dedicated to body and mind rejuvenation. With 15 years of experience, Chauna assists her clients in cultivating their mind, body, and breath alignment. She revolutionizes her multiple practices by integrating her multiple expertise into enriching client-specific experiences. Dedicated Pilates clients will cultivate stronger, leaner bodies while benefiting from breath-activating energy work with her methods. Participants in her private, group, and corporate Breathwork Meditation sessions benefit from her multifaceted experience and singular approach. When possible, Chauna offers Virtual breathing circles at inclusive pricing: a sliding scale pay structure and scholarships are available. You can catch her free, guided Breathwork Meditations on YouTube, InsightTimer, and InstagramTV.
DIYANAT ALI (he/him)
is an outdoor and experiential educator from Hyderabad, India. He is a transformation life coach and a somatic embodiment coach serving clients to find meaning, purpose and authentic self-expression. He enjoys creating and facilitating experiences that bring out profound reflections and learnings through hands-on, reality-based experiences in the outdoors, nature, and life in general. Diyanat has been facilitating adventure, outdoor and experiential learning programs for groups for over 15 years, and his passion deepened to work with personal development and healing using experiences in the outdoors and nature. Diyanat facilitates experiences using the whole person approach, including the head, heart, mind, and spirit and honouring the client's innate capacity to heal and grow. Diyanat loves designing and creating profound healing experiences through wilderness quests, rituals, and ceremonies, many of which he learnt with his teachers in the Shamanic, Vedic and Sufi traditions. Diyanat has profoundly benefited through the journey of working to be a breathwork clinician. The breathwork for recovery training helped him deepen his inner journey and heal from within. The breathwork practice with the teachers and course partners enabled him to go deep, heal from within and show up from a place of deep authenticity and presence. He loves being part of the breathwork for the recovery community and mastering the craft of facilitating wholeness and healing through breathwork practices. As a facilitator and coach, Diyanat has a flair for understanding participants' needs, Listens deeply and emphatically, holding space for participants to co-create learning moments and invite change. He has an innate ability to create safe and engaging spaces to help participants open up in conversation, share, learn and heal within deeply.
JENN ACUÑA (she/they)
is an intuitive, passionate student of life. They have spent decades engaged in discovery of spirit and self. It is her understanding that our energetic bodies have a profound and encompassing influence on the world in and around us. Jenn’s deepest desire is that we as individuals feel anchored in our empowerment so that we may contribute to our collective wellbeing.
As a sensitive child, Jenn was overloaded with all kinds of feelings but not always aware of their origin. It wasn’t until their early 30’s that she began to dive into the truth of what it was to be an empath, slowly learning how to harness her gifts. After being introduced to Generative Somatics, she experienced the onset of what it felt like to be in tune with not only her emotions but her body. With the help of meditation and this new awareness of embodiment, they were able to find a safer space within themself and really begin her journey towards self love and acceptance.
In 2013, Jenn enrolled in Healing Hands School of Holistic Health in Southern California. They completed over 1000 hours of training in massage therapy and holistic health courses, including an introduction to breathwork with James Beard. She was grateful to be able to take the course a second time around, and really allowed herself to sink into the practice. The connection they felt to their body was unprecedented, sparking a renewed enthusiasm for Somatic integration. She is familiar with both western and eastern philosophies of study and is a level II Usui Reiki practitioner. Jenn employs a systems-oriented, relational, and intersectional approach to their work. They have a passion for the LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and underserved communities looking to grow and thrive in the face of trauma and oppression. The continued training with Breathwork for Recovery has deepened Jenn’s understanding of what it means to be an ethical and expansive practitioner. She believes working with a spectrum of individuals is imperative to our universal liberation. Jenn is a heart centered individual, incorporating warmth and compassion into every session. With curiosity, shared support and wisdom, they believe we can move through any obstacles uncovered during the integration process.
JENNIFER PATTERSON she/her
is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, and words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing. A queer and trans affirming and centering, trauma-experienced herbalist and breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding scale care as a practitioner through her private practice Corpus Ritual and is a member of The Breathe Network. She has facilitated workshops at healing centers, LGBTQ centers, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, online with the Transformative Language Arts Network, sexual violence resource centers, at colleges and universities, veterans hospitals, the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do? and a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish healing center. She is also a teacher in training programs with The Breathe Network and Breath Liberation Society. She is the author of The Power of Breathwork: Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing (Quarto). Editor of the anthology Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016), Jennifer speaks across the country, and has had writing published in places like VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, 580 Split, OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, Nat. Brut, The Establishment, HandJob, and The Feminist Wire. A graduate of Goddard College’s MA program, Jennifer is finishing a book project focused on translating embodied traumatic experience through somatic practices and critical and creative nonfiction. You can find more at corpusritual.com.
KRISTINE IVES LMFT she/her
is an LMFT in the state of CA and an LPC in the state of CO, a Certified Brainspotting Therapist, and a Certified Experiential Therapist Level 2. She is the founder of Mosaic Counseling, a virtual private practice, as well as the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of BraveHeart Retreats, which offers therapeutic retreats and training workshops in Southern California using somatic modalities including Psychodrama, Experiential Therapy, Brainspotting, Somatic Experiencing, and EMDR. She is passionate about authentic living and helping people deeply connect to self and others. Through honest exploration, Kristine realized openness and connection are the gateways to healing and spends her time illuminating that path for others.
Full bio:
Then Hansel said to Gretel, “Let us drop these bread crumbs so that together we find our way home. Because losing our way would be the cruelest of things.” Most of us have lost our way at various points in our lives. I know I have. But the beauty is in the process of reconnection. We leave breadcrumbs to remind us of who we are. Our passions. Our values. Our goals. These breadcrumbs remind us of what we are fighting for. A healing journey is the process of uncovering and reconnecting to those breadcrumbs and continuing to drop more as we evolve and grow.
Who am I?
I am a dedicated advocate for those who feel they do not have a voice, that they are not empowered to heal, or cannot envision a hopeful future. From my extensive experience working with issues related to trauma, eating disorders, addiction, relationship dissatisfaction, and depression, I can help you chart a course out of the maze of dysfunction and onto the path of authentic connection to self and others. I believe that deeply understanding who we are in relationships moves us forward in the healing process. Most of our triumphs and struggles occur in the context of relationships, especially our relationship to ourselves. By gaining a greater connection to our own passions, fears, and desires we can create a new way of functioning in the world.
Licenses and Certifications:
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California
Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado
Licensed Clinical Supervisor
Certified Experiential Therapist Level 2
Certified Brainspotting Therapist
Current Positions:
Co-founder and Director of Operations for BraveHeart Retreats Founder and Director of Mosaic Counseling, a virtual private practice seeing clients in CA and CO
Modalities:
Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy
Psychodramatic Bodywork Level 1®
Brainspotting
Experiential Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
I value, welcome, and affirm the full diversity of all people – supporting individuals of all genders, sexual orientations, races, and ethnicities. I am also passionate about adoption and attachment-related needs, drawing from my own experience as a parent of an older adopted child and my professional training in addressing the complexities of these courageous and often misunderstood individuals, couples, and families.
MADRE JAGUAR they/them
is a Curanderx, Reiki Master, Shamanic Healer, Clairvoyant, Tarot Reader, Teacher, Birth Doula and Intuitive Artist. They have always walked between the worlds. Ever since they can remember, Madre Jaguar has experienced visions, prophetic dreams, visitations and a strong clear connection to their Spirit team. The child of Salvadoran immigrants, of Nahuatl, Mayan, Pipil, and Garifuna descent, Madre Jaguar was born in the vortex that is Los Angeles, California and raised in Mexico, land of Catholic Mysticism and Magic Realism, where they currently reside. Nature was their first teacher. Most of their childhood was spent observing and studying the cycles and seasons of Earth, connecting and experimenting with the energy of the elements, animals, herbs, plants, flowers, rocks, crystals and beings seen and unseen. As a child, their maternal grandmother, Mama Carlota, taught Madre Jaguar ways to communicate with the plant kingdom; to sing to them and to listen to their songs. Their Abuela also taught them ways in which these plant allies could be used to treat all kinds of ailments from a tummy ache to a broken heart. As an adult, a passion for helping others and a strong desire to help propel positive change in the world, led Madre Jaguar on a path of self-discovery and exploration of different healing modalities including Reiki, Shamanic Practices, Folk Magic, Herbalism and Tarot. They have studied with indigenous healers and teachers in Mexico, Central America and Peru. Madre Jaguar believes that Love is our super power. As human beings we are here to bless and be blessed by all of creation. Harmony and Joy are our birthright. Through their healing practice, readings, classes and projects Madre Jaguar’s goal is to help you connect with the inner power, wisdom and magic that lies within; all while helping you remember your Divine origin and unique soul purpose.
MEREDITH TURNER BA, BScN, RN, CBC she/her
is a grateful resident of the Sylix Nation Territory also known as Vernon, BC, Canada. She is a Registered Nurse, a career that has taken her through Critical Care Nursing in Neurotrauma, Intensive Care, Organ Transplant and a Clinical Associate at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. The thousands of patient encounters in this career helped her develop a deep understanding of the complexities of being human while navigating a variety of diagnoses. It also provided the opportunity to form a strong foundation of understanding of Anatomy and Physiology, which she loves to share with anyone who will listen. She is a humble land steward and owner of The Marigold Way, a heart-centred business with aspirations of creating a community centred farm focusing on mutually supportive systems of agriculture and education. Her passion for breathwork began 5 years ago at a retreat and she has never looked back, formally shifting her career to include more breathwork offerings. She combines her intuition, training and life experience to guide her breathwork, often walking between the worlds of human and spirit to bring in elements of healing and heart-centred awareness.
SHAYLEE GRAHAM LCSW she/her
is a psychotherapist and is trained in Reiki and Breathwork. She has been providing clinical care to individuals and families since 2015. Shaylee uses a holistic approach to therapy, recognizing the foundational connection between scientific, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual influences. Shaylee works from a lens of cultural and trauma awareness and use a strength based approaches to everyone with whom she works with.
Population focus:
Adults of any age in the care and treatment of: Anxiety Disorders; Depression; and Trauma.
Services:
Shaylee provides therapy to residents of Oregon and Washington.
Education and Experience:
Shaylee completed her master's degree at Portland State University in 2014. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Oregon and Washington. She has diverse experience working as a social worker in the following locations:
Portland State University Field Education and Adjunct Faculty Member - Field Instructor Facilitates social work intern’s understanding and application of social work values and ethics.
Rogue Community College - Faculty -Teaches courses in College Success, Race & Ethnicity, and Motivational Interviewing.
Asante Community Hospital - Inpatient Social Worker.
TAI FENIX they/them
provides tarot and astrology readings, ritual design, therapeutic trauma coaching, somatic sex education, writing, and workshops for individual transformation, liberation, and social change. They strive for authentic, compassionate connection in their work and life, and hope to bring others to a greater sense of sovereignty, self-understanding, and wholeness. Tai is dedicated to anti-oppressive trauma healing work utilizing empathy, embodiment, and pleasure. In 2015, they graduated form Antioch University Seattle with a self-designed Masters in Sacred Erotic Psychology, which was focused on uniting concepts from depth psychology, sacred sexuality, and neurobiology in order to assist understanding of the soul-spirit-body-Self.
JACKIE JONES (no pronouns, just call Jackie, Jackie)
is a certified breathwork practitioner with more than a decade of professional experience in addiction treatment . An effective communicator and passionate mental health professional, Jackie offers soul-connected education with a focus on recovery that is rooted in honesty, open mindedness, and willingness. Jackie engages clients in creative thinking using public speaking and group facilitation, and brings wellness to clients and colleagues through loving leadership and candid conversation. Jackie is also a trained Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention Counselor through The Trevor Project and has been active on the Lifeline since 2015, guiding LGBTQ young people seeking help.
BEATRICE
has one eyeball and razor-sharp claws that she uses with abandon. In a constant state of inner conflict, she can not decide between running for her life or sticking around for headbutts and prefers to peer at people creepily from around the corner. She is proficient in unresolved PTSD and useless at commitment.
GEORGE
is our resident "trash cat" with a broken zigzag tail, jagged tongue, and an overbite. Originally from the streets of L.A., he happily considers most organic substances to be edible and will lick your feet at will. We recommend wearing socks year round. He is proficient in being everyone's favorite and useless at leaving your toes alone. (We're serious about the socks thing.)
HARRIET
is our take-no-shit Matriarch and has been on staff for 16 years. She has four teeth, prefers to sit on your legs like a koala, and enjoys licking ice cream lids clean at the end of a hard day.
She is proficient in flower-eating (and flower-barfing) and useless in Microsoft Excel.
LESTER
is our newest recruit and is eerily muscular for a housecat. He is cross-eyed with massive feet, which our team prefers to call "murder mitts" for accuracy and transparency.
He is proficient in vocal communication and food consumption, but will 100% not ask before eating that yogurt he found in the shared fridge.
LUCI
(short for Lucifer) is our unofficial HR manager and has the softest fur you've ever felt. She won't cuddle but will sit next to you if you're sad. (Yes, she thinks she's better than you, why do you ask?)
She is proficient in conflict management and resolution, but useless at receiving bribes, so don't bother.
