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Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies: Holistic Health Education & Transpersonal Counseling Psychology. In addition to conventional training in academic psychology, research and statistical methods, and supervised professional training in health psychology and cognitive and behavioral therapies necessary for becoming a licensed clinical psychologist, my background includes training in a variety of holistic health and transpersonal techniques learned from many teachers. This professional training began while earning my master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies, and has continued with additional training in the 20 years since then. These include study and supervised training in: Acupressure & Meridian Therapies Altered States Therapies Autogenic Therapy Shamanic Counseling Tai Chi Chuan / Qigong Transpersonal/Spiritual Crisis & anomalous/paranormal experiences Yoga for health (hatha) and concentration (raja) While I don’t present myself as an expert in all of these areas, I am experienced and knowledgeable with them and include elements from these disciplines as needed when developing an individual treatment strategy. I employ a “Functional Psychology” where individualized treatment, focused on the needs of the person and not the dictates of institutional or insurance authorities, is the guiding principle in our developing a treatment approach. This provides a more comprehensive type of therapy, as consideration is given not only to mental and emotional issues, but to the entire body-emotion-mind-spirit complex a person embodies. For example, in addition to “talk therapy” or biobehavioral therapy in regularly scheduled sessions, complete with homework focused on cognitive or behavioral skill development, it is common for me to prescribe outdoor exercise when working with depression, or daily Qigong exercises when working with anxiety. Although many of these holistic and transpersonal techniques have demonstrated effectiveness in treating a variety of physical and emotional challenges, they are considered “experimental” by institutional authorities. This is particularly true of any transpersonal or spiritual considerations, or of techniques that address human beings as living energy systems (and not simply as machine-like bags of chemicals). Therefore, much of my practice is experimental in nature, including use of biofeedback, which is considered experimental by many conventional medical practitioners in spite of over 30 years of solid laboratory and clinical evidence of its efficacy. For more information call Dr. Coffman today. Or you can email him at
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