wholebeingwellnesscounseling
wholebeingwellnesscounseling
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Valentine was born a “Navy brat” in Orlando, Florida and grew up in Canada and Texas. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, she is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA, where she earned a Masters in Counseling Psychology and a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology. She also serves as Chair of the Pagan Community Education program at Cherry Hill Seminary, and has a private practice in wellness counseling and shamanic healing in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Descended from Scots, Irish, French, and Native American ancestors, Valentine developed a combination of shamanism and art making (Healing Art©) to heal herself from cancer, and later founded a nonprofit organization, Orenda Healing International (OHI), devoted to promoting individual and community health and wellbeing. OHI umbrellas many of her research projects, which currently include the presence of the Goddess in Navajo spirituality; the possibility of genetic inheritance as the inspiration for shamanic practice; and shamanism as a root philosophy for many of our modern professions, including medicine, religion, and art. She has taught art to young people and adults and Healing Art© to AIDS and cancer patients; incarcerated, homeless, and challenged youth; developmentally disabled adults; and women in transition for over twenty years. She is a certified Reiki Master in the Usui Lineage.
Valentine is the author of the recently published novel, The River Goddess & Other Stories, which introduces young adults to communication with Nature, Spirit, and animals through the genre of magic realism. This first book of The Alyssa Chronicles series is the story of how a young girl comes into her power through the aid of a mysterious River Goddess, a number of helpful animal, plant, and insect guides, and a very old friend.
Valentine believes that her "gypsy lifestyle," which includes living in Mexico, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, California, Nebraska, Oregon, and New Mexico, and her travels in England, Ireland, the Virgin Islands, and the British West Indies have provided invaluable experiences which continue to inform her work as a counselor, educator, and writer.
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