About Us:
Board of Directors
Sophia Cayer is an internationally renowned EFT Master, and author of EFT Language - Creating it & Going With The Flow. She was one of the 5 experts who joined EFT founder Gary Craig in California for a week long intensive with veterans suffering from PTSD. The results of this work are in a documentary, presently in post-production. She was also featured on the question panel in Mastering EFT DVD series, as well as a guest speaker on multiple radio shows. As an EFT pioneer and passionately dedicated coach/teacher, Sophia has delivered EFT successfully for thousands of physical and emotional issues. She brings to her workshops the Heart‘s wisdom along with her depth of knowledge and experience, holding her audiences enthralled, leaving them wanting more. While she has specialized in trauma and complex cases for years, including working with hurricane Katrina victims in the field, and combat veterans in her private practice and in research with the Soul Medicine Institute, Sophia’s greatest passion is teaching with the intention and desire to share the powerful efficacy of EFT with a s many as possible. Her website is: www.sophiacayer.com
Don Varnadore, (Co-Founder) EFT-ADV has spent most of his life helping people achieve more of their potential. He has written personal growth and leadership development programs that have been used throughout the world. He has provided training and been a featured speaker in every state in the United States and in over 50 foreign countries. He has also served at the highest levels of leadership in both public and private corporations and has served on numerous national boards of directors including the Jerry Lewis/MDA Foundation and the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. Dons passion continues to be to assist corporations, organizations and individuals to overcome limiting beliefs, self sabotaging behaviors and experience new levels of success and achievement. As a teacher and trainer he uses an arsenal of techniques and experiences including Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) in which he holds an Advanced/ Level III Certificate. Learn more about Don at: www.selfmanagementstrategies.com
Lori Lorenz, M.A, received her BA in Psychology with an emphasis in physiological psychology from UCLA where she worked on cutting edge research identifying the effects of stress on the development of the brain. She earned her Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, immediately beginning her career with sexual abuse survivors, mothers of abused children and perpetrators, both fixated and regressed. For 18 years she’s specialized in complex cases of sexual abuse, children of borderlines, and most especially, cult, ritual abuse and torture survivors. EFT founder Gary Craig featured her in his Specialty Series 1 DVD training program. She is also one of five EFT experts for his week long intensive with veterans suffering from combat PTSD, scheduled for release as a documentary in 2010. Best known for her integration of bio-psychology with her compassionate and meditative presence, Lori’s focus is on supporting one's core resources as an integral part of healing. For 40 years, she’s studied Eastern and Western spirituality, becoming a Taoist Priest in 1998. Today, Lori works with clients all over the world, including Australia, Europe and North America, and is now a leading trainer in the application of EFT for trauma. She consults psychologists and psychiatrists in court-involved child abuse cases, as well as complex trauma. Residing in Southern Oregon, she serves on two boards: The Personal Peace Foundation, and The Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library.You may contact Lori via e-mail at: Lorilorenz@charter.net
John Skuja (IT Consultant for PPF) has spent most of his life around high performance
automobiles, repairing and modifying them. In his hours away from work, he has spent
a great deal of time in spiritual studies and pursuits. John is Buddhist at heart, but
only interested in personal Dzogchen practice. In his early 50's he discovered the
computer, attended classes at ITT and City University in Computer Networking and Web
Design. While his IT work used to be a hobby, it has now become a primary interest.
John continues to expand his expertise through extensive intense courses and is
rapidly becoming an IT expert. His future plans include doing much more work in the IT
area, along with things of a more creative nature.
A message from John: My devotion to the principles of the Personal Peace Foundation come
from being of draft-able age in the mid sixties, I did not serve, but many of my friends and
classmates did, and they were never the same after... If I can do any small thing to help
veterans of any conflict integrate back to themselves and be as they were before they served,
just a bit wiser perhaps, I will. You can contact John at:
itbear@personalpeacefoundation.net
Ingrid Dinter
is the founder of Healing Now in Hopkinton, N.H. She has been an ordained
Interfaith Minister and EFT coach since 2002, in addition to her broad
background in energy modalities. Ingrid specializes in helping veterans
and their families heal from the trauma of war with EFT, offering introductory
and advanced classes, as well as an EFT maintenance program that consists of
mentoring, tele-classes and seminars. Ingrid was honored to film
a documentary about EFT for combat veterans with Gary Craig, the founder of
EFT. She has since given many interviews and published several articles in
a peer reviewed magazine. Ingrid is registered with the NH Board for Mental
Health Practice as a rostered, alternative provider.
The board has no oversight over her practice.She has been a regular
author for the radio program Am Sonntagmorgen broadcast by Deutschland Radio
Germany since 1998. You can learn more about her work by visiting:
http://www.eftcoach.us
or with veterans:
http://www.eft4vets.com
Advisory Board
Miguel Gabriel Vazquez is a veteran from the Viet Nam era, with a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica in California. He is a Reiki Master, has been certified as a Hypnotherapist, and is an advanced EFT Practitioner. Miguel is a Counselor/ Life Coach who is interested in helping military veterans and others heal from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by utilizing Spiritual Psychology Counseling empowered by EFT. Miguel is currently a volunteer assistant in the development of a documentary film on the successful healing of combat veterans who have PTSD with EFT.
Jan Luther, Minister, EFT Master, Reiki Master, Meta NLP, TAT Grief Specialist, author of "Grief Is Mourning Sickness". Jan has been a long time student /facilitator of A Course in Miracles. A certified TAT practitioner/trainer, Meta-NLP Practitioner and licensed interfaith minister, she has been creating and presenting workshops since 1988. Jan is the founder and CEO of The Rejuvenation Station, LLC, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she is currently offering personal one-on-one sessions both in person and nationwide via phone. You can learn more about Jan and her work at: www.janluther.com.
Sue Hannibal is a medical intuitive/healer specializing in the treatment of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), and trauma. In nearly a decade of private practice, Sue has successfully treated hundreds of clients, many of whom were referred by psychiatrists, therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists and other licensed clinicians. In addition to her intuitive skills, Sue uses techniques such as EFT, the Emotional Freedom Technique, TAT, Tapas Acupressure Technique, and Seemorg Matrixwork in her practice. Sue is a member of ACEP, The Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology, ISSSEEM, The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy MedicineIONS, The Institute for Noetic Sciences, founded by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, AAETS, The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. For more information about Sue: www.suehannibal.com
Ted Bahn is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving aboard the USS Saratoga in VA-75 and on the USS Nimitz as Intelligence Officer. After leaving active service, he remained in the Navy Reserves, retiring as a Commander. As a civilian he led the Southern Region of Gartner, Inc., the premier information technology research and consulting firm. He also was the Chief Information Officer for Florida Department of Labor. He has masters degrees both in automatic data processing and management auditing. His interest in EFT developed from mercury poisoning leading to atrial fibrillation. He uses EFT to help control these incidents. He and his wife reside in Tyngsboro, MA.
Diane von der Weid, has always lived and worked in mixed international environments. She brings 8 years experience in working with the Political Advisor of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) headquarters in Geneva to the Personal Peace Foundation. She's a firm believer in EFTs' potential to achieve real progress in the field of humanitarian aid. Her great sensitivity combined with her unique capacity to communicate passion to people who have lost hope and self-confidence, lead her to become a successful Personal Performance Consultant and EFT-ADV practitioner. She is very active in making EFT known better in French speaking countries through workshops, newsletters, and more. She speaks fluent French, English, and Italian. Her website is: www.aequus-libra.com
Teresa Elias-Hooper, Psy.D., ABPS, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with over twenty years of experience in psychotherapy. Her Doctorate was obtained at Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, in Springfield, MO. with Specialty training in Neuropsychology. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychological Specialties in Clinical Psychology. Teresa has been searching over the past five years for a technique that allows her patients to heal more quickly and with the least amount of discomfort. Through the use of EFT, she has observed her patients move more easily from moments of crisis to enhanced experiences of well-being; to walk into their lives with a sense of renewed confidence and freedom with a tool they can use for the rest of their lives.
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Painting "Angel of Transcendance" by Arthur Douet (with permission)