Coaches

Joanne Brem brings seasoned, hands-on expertise to the field of leadership development. She has integrated into practice, the principles and dynamics of sustainable high-impact performance and life/leadership mastery, which form the philosophical foundation of her leadership coaching approach.

Joanne is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and is accredited as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation of which she is a member.

Richard Cuadra, MS has had a private consultation practice for 20 years working with individuals, organizations, and couples. He has incorporated the Principles of Attitudinal Healing as a modality for enhancing relationships and developing emotional resilience. His psycho-spiritual approach is based on  the premise that we can reclaim our innate ability to be peaceful and loving and in so doing, become more resilient, confident and less fearful in response to life’s challenges.

Richard offers workshops on emotional resilience facilitation, care giving, bereavement, and relationship dynamics. He has trained facilitators from the United States as well as from Japan, India, Mexico, Russia, England and Canada. Richard has worked in association with Jerry Jampolsky for 20 Years and was the program director for the Center for Attitudinal Healing for nine years. He is currently the Chair of the international board for Hope Project India, an NGO that provides school, health clinic, vocational and income generation training.  

Don Joseph Goewey has worked for three decades helping people transcend extreme stress to reach a higher potential. His long career includes collaborations with Carl Rogers, PhD, founder of humanistic psychology, and Gerald Jampolsky, MD, founder of Attitudinal Healing.

During his tenure as director of the Center for Attitudinal Healing, he worked with people and organizations besieged by stress. Through these relationships he learned much about stress and the fear that generates it, and how  the power of a fearless attitude moves our lives from feeling overwhelmed by circumstances to a way of being that makes us larger than circumstances.

In 2006, Don co-founded ProAttitude, dedicated to ending stress in the workplace. His new book, Mystic Cool: A proven approach to transcend stress, achieve optimal brain function and maximize creative intelligence is an Amazon bestseller.   

Melissa’s life coaching practice is Lanikai Blue… a retreat for your soul™.

Her purpose as a Life Coach is to serve as a guide, helping and inspiring others to attain their goals, live their divinity and to live with greater peace and meaning. Melissa’s life coaching experience stems from over 15 years of clinically based social work, and within the last 5 years she has added Attitudinal Healing, New Thought and other similar spiritual dimensions to her work. She is a Unity of Berkeley Prayer Chaplain and leads the annual World Prayer Day and World Meditation events at Unity of Berkeley, as well as teaches life coaching workshops at Unity of Berkeley and Unity of Kailua on Oahu.

Melissa provides spiritually-based services for people seeking help with career, relationships, identity, purpose in life, grief and loss, self-esteem and/or wanting less stress and more peace in life.

David Kirksey, MA, CLCC uses a humanistic and flexible approach to help people enjoy a happy life—to develop new skills, pursue individual and collaborative goals, manage change, and improve relationships. As founder and director of an Attitudinal Healing Center in Charlottesville, Virginia (2001-2006), David’s psychotherapy and coaching practice respects and reflects both the science and the art of Helpinhealing—an application of Attitudinal Healing that he has developed over the past decade.

David chooses to focus on each person’s strengths and goals and unlimited possibilities for happiness. He recognizes that we serve “as students and teachers to each other” and he believes that ultimately we all find our own answers through a process of inner guidance.

David believes his finest training as a therapist and coach comes from enjoying a happy life, rich in relationships and experiences that have helped him continually to evolve as the best caring, patient and non-judgmental helper he can be.

Showing humans how to have the best relationship possible with their horses and how to keep it has always been one of Franklin's main goals. To be good with horses at a high level requires us humans to come forward with our best qualities and attributes.

Similar to a 'great parent', successful relationships with horses require compassion, kindness, precision, patience, clarity, real knowledge (not just opinions and projections), great leadership, acquired skills and more. Practicing appropriate interaction with horses helps humans to become more highly functional in all their relationships. Thus, in all his programs, Franklin teaches success with horses as life enrichment for the human as well as the horse.

As an MS patient since 1981 and an advocate for disability rights, Linda Noble Topf is an ordained minister, a psychology and wellness coach, professional speaker, design and marketing entrepreneur, wife of 32 years, and published author. She is dedicated to assisting others in seeing that chronic illness, debilitating injury, or any kind of adversity in any stage of life can be viewed, through the principles of Attitudinal Healing, as a spiritual awakening, an opportunity for personal growth, and connection to the Higher consciousness of who we all are.

Linda counsels individuals and couples as they struggle with their fears, anxiety, pain and separation that might naturally emerge as a result of a diagnosis or advanced aging. Clients begin to shift, accept and acknowledge that most thoughts, feelings, and unexamined beliefs are all part of the human experience.

In 2000, she designed and created an exhibit profiling noted physically challenged people throughout history, entitled 'Inspirations' for The National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Her book, You Are Not Your Illness: Seven Principles for Meeting the Challenge, was published in 1995 by Simon and Schuster. Her second book, Wheelchair Wisdom: Awaken Your Spirit Through Adversity will be published next year.

Tom Pinkson, Ph.D. has played a key role in three social movements of the 20th Century: the establishment and growth of the second Hospice Program in the United States, the introduction of the Native American based Vision Quest to mainstream America, and the spread of Attitudinal Healing, a forerunner to today's popularity of "positive psychology.”

He helped Dr. Jerry Jampolsky start the internationally renown Center for Attitudinal Healing where he worked for thirty-two years counseling life-threatened children and adults.

Tom is the founder and director of WAKAN, a community based non-profit organization committed to restoring the sacred in daily life, and of "Recognition Rites - A New Vision of Aging," a program that shifts attitudes and behaviors towards what is called by some, "The Third Age."

Mark Roby, PA-C, ND is a physician’s assistant and naturopathic physician. He graduated with an advanced degree in natural medicine from Trinity College of Natural Health in Warsaw, Indiana, and attained his Physician's Assistant degree with honors from Touro College in New York. Mark has served as a clinical instructor of medicine at two major institutions: University of Detroit Mercy and Montefiore/NCB Medical Center (Albert Einstein School of Medicine Bronx, NY). For the past fifteen years he has lectured extensively on holistic and spiritual healing.

Mark became aware of Attitudinal Healing in 1983 when he read Jerry Jampolsky’s books on miracles and endless possibilities. They met in 1987 when he traveled to California to take a class. Mark was so impressed that in 1992 he co-founded the Metro Detroit Center for Attitudinal Healing in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Michael Scott has been a successful owner and manager of several businesses over the past 40 years. In order to unhook himself from a lifelong attachment to business as a career, he spent a year volunteering in several non-profits, and trained for a year at the New Ventures West school in San Francisco.

He currently serves as a coach and trainer, helping his clients work towards joyous, fulfilling lives which are genuinely their own.

Sandra Stephenson is a certified professional coach, and the founder of Infinity Coaching. She uses the ancient form of the spiral to help her clients move from a sense of immobility, to goal setting, and to actions that lead to their highest level of consciousness in the areas of spirituality and creativity.

In an earlier career Sandra was a professional actor who starred in movies and television. Currently she is a writer who has written many screenplays and children's stories. Her life experience and education amount to a highly knowledgeable and effective professional coach.

Sandra is certified in the areas of Spiritual Coaching, Life Coaching, Creative Coaching, Relationship Coaching, and Family Coaching.

Abby Tollefson is a leader in the field of communication and an advocate for maximizing personal and professional potential.  Abby’s coaching inspires clients to move beyond personal and professional barriers, achieving solutions and goals which previously had appeared impossible or difficult to attain.  

With over 15 years of Executive Coaching experience in both the private and corporate sectors, Abby has provided service to individuals from a wide array of professional arenas and industries.

Abby has a passion for her work and a dedication to service. She brings integrity, accountability and an unwavering commitment to the success of her clients. Her clients report breakthrough and life-changing results in all areas of life.