Breathe ~ A Somatic Psychology 8 Week Class

This will be a class that will combine somatic psychology, meditation, spirituality, and experiential work to help you get to know how to be with yourself in a new way. It will be a small group that will come together for 8 sessions to allow for community and relationship while going through this process. The group members will commit to all 8 sessions and will go through a short screening process with the group leader. Please RSVP here and by emailing celeste@withinholisticcounseling.com. The fee will be $75 for each 2 hour session and there will be a discounted rate of $570 if you pay all in advance.

This event will be hosted by Celeste Ballard, LPC-MHSP who is the owner of Within Holistic Counseling. Celeste’s passion for the field has been a lifelong endeavor and this is evident in the daily commitment to both her personal and professional growth. From this commitment to professional training and personal growth Celeste has cultivated specializations in the fields of psychology of disease, help with relationships, healing from depression and anxiety without medications, and changing trauma patterns in the mind and body.
Celeste has extensive concrete training in mind, body, and spirit, and has been in the counseling field for over 30 years. She has a bachelor’s in human services and a master’s in counseling psychology. Celeste became a massage therapist to learn anatomy and physiology and how the body holds patterns. She also completed a two year training in a somatic-based therapy training called Hakomi, and has been using her training in meditation-based somatic and psychological Eastern and Western techniques for over 20 years. She has done many trainings, including IFS training with Richard Schwartz, workshops with Harville Hendrix in Imago-based couples counseling, somatic workshops with Pat Ogden, Gestalt training, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training, Mindfulness-Based therapy to prevent recurrence of depression, and Jungian dream interpretation and training certification in Polyvagal theory.. She also holds a Pranic Healing certification, among many others.