Holistic psychotherapy uses traditional methods of psychotherapy along with nontraditional approaches to accomplish the deepest level of healing possible. The mind, body, and spirit are viewed as one unit, working in harmony and seeking integration and balance.
Hypnotherapy is a type of psychological therapy that uses hypnosis to help treat certain mental and physical health conditions. It can also be used to change habits.
Life coaches guide you to specific business and personal goals and transitions in many areas of your life. They help you grow by analyzing your current situation, identifying limiting beliefs and obstacles you face, and devising a custom plan of action to help you achieve your goals.
Dr. Kristine A. Schlichting, Hopewell Health Solutions
I founded Hopewell Health Solutions after years of working in schools and hospitals. I saw how often families, children, and adults were offered “one-size-fits-all” care that didn’t address their unique needs. I wanted to create a superior mental health experience within a holistic framework. I dreamed of a place where people could be truly seen and supported and where the community could support healing and growth. Hopewell grew out of that vision: a safe and compassionate center where clients and families can reclaim balance in their lives.
What makes Hopewell unique is the way we combine evidence-based therapies like DBT, individual and group counseling, and intensive outpatient programs with holistic practices such as yoga, mindfulness, animal therapy, and other somatic approaches. Our programming is intentionally designed to be both clinically strong and deeply personal.
We are the only practice in the area offering NeuroStar® Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive, drug-free treatment for depression and OCD for clients aged 15 and older. TMS has been shown to be highly effective, with research indicating that over eighty percent of patients experience significant relief from symptoms, restoring clarity, mood, and hope when other treatments haven’t worked.
By blending intensive programming and targeted counseling with innovative therapies like TMS, we’re able to meet people where they are and change the trajectory of their lives, whether they’re facing trauma, depression, substance use recovery, or simply seeking wellness. Clients often say the innovative treatments they received are life-changing.
One of the most meaningful Hopewell experiences is sitting in our Women’s Wellness Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) and watching the way women show up for one another. There is something powerful about how they authentically process struggles together, deepen their bonds, and learn to build healthier relationships with themselves and others. In those moments, I see the community forming a safe circle of support that extends far beyond therapy.
I’m also deeply moved whenever clients rediscover their inner strength, experience breakthroughs in therapy, find moments of calm in yoga practice, or reconnect with their families in healthier ways. Witnessing these transformations has been a dream come true for me.
Dr. Kristine A. Schlichting, Hopewell Health Solutions • Glastonbury, CT • HopewellHealthSolutions.com • 860.946.0447
Lauri Ingram, Awakened Pathways
I’m Lauri Ingram, and my journey to Awakened Pathways began with a deep spiritual awakening that urged me to look at my life from a new perspective. After more than forty years in corporate leadership, I felt called to step into a path that honored the whole person: mind, body, and spirit. I was inspired to create Awakened Pathways to help others navigate their own awakenings, life transitions, and transformations with clarity, compassion, and conscious awareness.
I integrate spiritual exploration with subconscious reprogramming, blending modalities like hypnotherapy, NLP, EFT, Reiki, and Crystal Dreaming®. This unique combination allows clients to not only uncover what holds them back but to release and rewire those patterns on a subconscious level. As an interfaith minister and spiritual coach, I also bring depth, inclusivity, and ceremony into the work, creating sacred, supportive containers where lasting transformation unfolds.
One of my favorite outcomes of my journey is when a client emerges from a session visibly lighter, saying, “I feel like myself again.” Witnessing someone reclaim their authentic self, whether through a powerful breakthrough, a deep meditation, or the gentle clarity of coaching, is the heart of why I do this work. It is an honor to walk alongside others as they discover their inner wisdom, release old stories, and step into the lives they were meant to live.
Lauri Ingram, Awakened Pathways • Hamden, CT • lauriingram.com • 203.435.5650
Ray Beyor, RAY Life Coaching, LLC
For me, becoming a Confidence Coming Out Coach wasn’t just a career move – it was a calling. My own coming out journeys – as queer, nonbinary, and polyamorous – taught me how vulnerable and isolating it can feel to live outside of traditional norms. I know the fear of losing love, safety, or belonging that can happen just from showing up as yourself.
What I discovered is that “coming out” isn’t a single moment – it’s a lifelong practice of remembering who you are and choosing to live in alignment with that truth. That’s why I founded RAY Life Coaching, LLC. RAY stands for Remember Authentic You, which is the heartbeat of everything I do. My passion is helping people stop apologizing for who they are and instead step confidently into their truth, their relationships, and their lives. My uniqueness comes from combining lived experience with a structured, research-backed process. I specialize in supporting people who are coming out as LGBTQ+, polyamorous, or otherwise living “outside the norm” to create confidence and secure ways of relating. Where many coaches offer encouragement alone, I offer a step-by-step system: the Confidence Coming Out Process and its companion Courses. These tools integrate neuroscience, the Wheel of Consent (Dr. Betty Martin), Nonviolent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg), and Integrated Attachment Theory (Thais Gibson, Personal Development School). Together, they help people move past fear, regulate their nervous systems, and reprogram limiting beliefs so they can stand firmly in their truth.
At the heart of it, I don’t just teach people to “be confident” – I show them how to build the inner trust and resilience that allows them to belong to themselves first. That belonging becomes the foundation for more authentic relationships, deeper community, and healthier love.
One of my favorite memories came from a workshop where a participant attended not for themselves, but to gain tools for their own clients. During the session, something clicked. They later came up to me and said, “I get it now – this work is about coming out and opening up on every level. It’s something that will deeply serve my clients, and it’s also strengthened my confidence in the path I’m taking with my business.”
That was a turning point for me. It showed that the Confidence Coming Out Process doesn’t just resonate personally – it ripples outward into people’s professional lives, relationships, and communities. In that moment, I knew this work was landing exactly as I had intended: helping people unlock what was stuck so they could show up more fully – in business, in love, and in life.
Ray Beyor (they/them), Founder, RAY Life Coaching, LLC • ray@reneebeyor.com • raylifecoaching.com • 860.966.5677
Dr. Nancy Grechko, Grechko Training & Consulting
I’m Dr. Nancy Grechko, a licensed clinical psychologist and the proud founder of Grechko Training & Consulting. I have been in the mental health field for nearly twenty years, providing direct clinical care as well as supervision, consultation, and training to mental health professionals across various disciplines, both in Connecticut and around the world.
As a holistic provider, I offer the Low-Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS) and red light therapy, which support mental health needs where it really counts: the nervous system. I’m passionate about supporting mental health from a holistic perspective that includes the LENS and red light therapy because I know talk therapy can only get us so far. Now, more than ever, we are looking to get to the roots of our mental health and emotional resiliency – and that means nervous system regulation. I’ve been in the mental health field for twenty years, and I’ve never seen results like this. With the LENS, we can see regulation occur in real time and achieve long-lasting, cumulative results.
As a holistic provider, I don’t focus on a diagnosis. We’ll talk about what’s getting in the way of you living the life you want. Maybe you’re having a hard time focusing at work or managing multiple demands; maybe you’re a parent who feels easily frustrated or overstimulated; maybe anxiety or low mood gets in the way of doing things you want to do; maybe you’re stuck in the therapy process or want to decrease/eliminate medication; maybe you find yourself having big reactions and you want to feel more in control; or maybe you just know life can be better. It can. The LENS can help.
I am the only psychologist in the state of Connecticut (to my knowledge) who not only has doctoral training from Yale University training programs but is also trained in technology-based holistic interventions such as the LENS and red light therapy. When you visit my practice, you receive truly compassionate, trauma-informed, science-based care tailored to your specific needs.
I am thrilled and humbled to be able to support folks who come to my office and tell me, “I’ve tried everything.” It’s truly a gift and a privilege to serve not only as a caring professional but as someone who can instill hope.
Dr. Nancy Grechko, Grechko Training & Consulting • Manchester, CT • drgrechko.com • 401.569.1099
Michal Klau-Stevens, Azure Psychotherapy
I’m an action-oriented person, and it’s gratifying to see people experience healing in short courses of therapy. I’m passionate about my work because it works, and my clients start to feel better fast! They love working with accelerated resolution therapy (ART) and ketamine-assisted therapy (KAP)
because they work quickly to resolve trauma and treat depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns. I call this “less-talk therapy.”
Talk therapy has a place in my practice, but it is not the most direct way to treat some mental health issues. With ART, people find answers that feel right to them. With KAP, people break through their defenses and experience wholeness in a way that is not possible with talk therapy. With ART and KAP, clients honor spirituality and soul work, expanding on traditional mental health treatment to treat the body, mind, and spirit.
Clients use their imagination and inner resources for healing with these therapies. While the tools I use are important, my clients say our relationship and my ability to hold space for them to safely process their challenges are what they appreciate most, and improvements happen quickly.
While I rely on evidence-based treatments, I also work with them intuitively as a master trained ART therapist and certified psychedelic-assisted therapy provider. These modalities bypass painful recollections of the past in exchange for mind-expanding experiential processing that is gentler and more creative than talk therapy. People anticipate that working on their trauma or mental health issues will be a painful process involving talking about their worst moments and dredging up the past. People don’t expect laughter to be part of trauma treatment, depression, or anxiety, but joy and release are frequent during sessions. I love it when clients start smiling or laughing during ART sessions as they find creative ways to resolve their challenges. Seeing KAP clients move from being depressed, with a heaviness about them, to being happier, more grounded, joyful, and lighter in spirit brings some of my best reminiscences about the work I do.
Michal Klau-Stevens, Azure Psychotherapy LLC • West Hartford/Bloomfield, CT • azure-psychotherapy.com • 860.233.6914
Laura Manderino-Martins, May You Find Peace
Counseling & Wellness
I am so passionate about my specialty because I truly believe mental health affects every aspect of a person’s life. I became a holistic therapist – and hired phenomenal holistic providers to join my group – because I saw firsthand the effect chronic illness and pain have on the nervous system, and in turn, the mind and soul. The reverse of this is also true: imbalances in our chemistry, that display as, say, anxiety and depression, canalso cause physical pain in our body. It can become a vicious cycle, and oftentimes, people do not feel heard, as traditional medicine tends to downplay physical symptoms as “just anxiety,” when they are very real and very uncomfortable.
I wanted to create a safe place where people are heard, understood, and valued. What you feel is real, and knowing your provider hears you and believes you is an integral part of feeling safe enough to tell your story and heal. I often say that I want to change the landscape of healthcare. That is a huge undertaking – I am not naive to how difficult that may be. However, I always say we will do what we can from our corner of the world. We continually enact change, one person at a time, and that breaks the status quo.
As a true holistic therapy practice, when we say “holistic,” we mean it. We live it every day, in the way we see each client as a whole person. When someone comes to us with anxiety, for example, we don’t just look at their daily symptoms; we ask how they got there. Our therapists provide thorough assessments to include assessing for trauma and possible physical explanations for symptoms. Our APRNs thoroughly evaluate each client, not just through questioning, but also through lab work to assess thyroid levels, vitamin levels, and hormone imbalances. We know one size does not fit all, and we know that anxiety doesn’t exist for just one reason.
We offer Reiki and nutrition consultations, providing integrative, wrap-around services that allow clients to explore their symptoms deeply and thoroughly, while receiving multiple options for coping skills and comfort. We not only work with our clients, but we also teach them ways to engage in healthier living and skills that can help them in their daily lives when symptoms arrive. We bring together traditional counseling methods with evidence-based treatments, including CBT, EMDR, and IFS therapy. We are highly trained in the most sought-after and evidence-based models, in addition to highly specialized models, including somatic experiencing for anxiety and pain, and ICBT and ERP for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
We also use advanced resources, such as Genesite DNA testing, to match medications to a client’s unique genetic makeup, check vitamin and hormone levels that impact mental health, and offer complementary healing approaches, such as Reiki, when the client would like extra support.
My soul lights up when someone tells us they feel heard here, and they believe they can get better, and feel safe with us. Feeling safe in your body and mind, with us, in our offices – or through a screen via telehealth – is a big step toward healing, and if we are the people who make someone feel safe, so they can heal and create the life they dream of, that is the honor of a lifetime.
Laura Manderino-Martins, May You Find Peace Counseling & Wellness • Middlebury, CT, and Southbury, CT • mayyoufindpeacellc.com • 203.558.1143
Christine Bilotti-Peterson, Founder, Longview Vitality
Helping women create successful careers they’re proud of – while living healthier, happier, more fulfilling lives they love: This is my dream – and my reality.
For decades, I worked as a corporate HR executive, guiding leaders and developing teams. What I learned is that professional success doesn’t automatically equal fulfillment. Many high-achieving women find themselves exhausted, lonely in leadership, and quietly asking: Is this all there is? That’s when the inner work starts and the midlife awakening begins.
Helping women build careers they’re proud of – successful, sustainable, and aligned with who they truly are. Alongside professional development and career planning, I guide them through the personal transformations that make achievement meaningful: growing emotional intelligence, navigating identity shifts of midlife, and managing the challenges of perimenopause and menopause. The result is not just success at work, but freedom, peace, and a life they genuinely love.
Through my Longview Vitality framework, I blend career and mindset coaching with rapid transformational therapy (RTT) and high-performance self-care protocols. These are built around the DRESSS system – diet, rest, exercise, stress relief, social connection, and supplements. This combination removes limiting subconscious patterns while giving women practical tools to thrive in every dimension of their lives.
The outcome? Clients don’t just move up in their careers and financial power. They feel healthier, freer, and more fulfilled—living in alignment with their deepest values.
RTT for mindset coaching works so effectively because it is a hybrid method that integrates hypnotherapy, neuroscience, and therapeutic coaching. By working with the subconscious mind, it rewires beliefs that fuel perfectionism, imposter syndrome, burnout, or anxiety. Most clients notice lasting change in just one to three sessions, describing themselves as lighter, clearer, more relaxed, and more confident – both at work and at home.
My work is set apart not only by my decades of corporate leadership and career development expertise, but also by my true gift – creating a safe, intuitive space where women feel profoundly seen. From there, they can release old patterns, reconnect with themselves, and design success on their own terms. My clients achieve more than career growth—they experience health, balance, and the freedom to live a life they love.
A perfect example of this is a woman who came to me burdened by stress, identity struggles, and emotional eating. After just one RTT session, she said: “I don’t just feel different – I am different. I can finally relax, and I feel the mindset shift you described.” This was a key moment that has stayed with me and exemplifies the importance and effectiveness of my work. Moments like this remind me that true high performance isn’t about doing more – it’s about aligning career success with personal fulfillment.
When women achieve both, they stop merely surviving – and start leading, living, and loving fully.
Christine Bilotti-Peterson, Longview Vitality • christine@whatsyourlongview.com • longviewvitality.com • 860.906.4454
Courtney McMahon, Founder, The Radical Wellness
I’m Courtney McMahon, founder of The Radical Wellness, where I help women break free from gray-area drinking and step into lives of clarity, confidence, and alignment.
In 2019, I experienced a profound turning point. During meditation, I heard a clear message: If you stop drinking, your whole life will change. That guidance lit something inside me, and I made the brave decision to heal my relationship with alcohol. What began as a personal commitment soon revealed itself as a calling. Initially, I worked as a holistic health coach, but nearly every client who sought me out wanted support in navigating their drinking. I realized the Universe was pointing me toward my true path – helping women discover the freedom of living alcohol-free.
What differentiates my approach is the blend of expertise and lived experience I bring to this work. My background in holistic health, addictive behavior coaching, and rapid resolution therapy (RRT) forms the foundation of my practice. But it is my own journey through sobriety that gives me perspective and empathy.
I don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, my mission is to empower women to rebuild trust with themselves, listen to their intuition, and create alcohol-free lives that feel easeful, sustainable, and aligned with who they truly are.
The most rewarding part of my work is witnessing transformation unfold. When a client achieves a goal they once thought impossible, deepens their connection with themselves, or unlocks a new level of success – all because they chose to remove alcohol – it reaffirms why I do this work. Sobriety is not just about what you give up; it is about everything you gain in the process.
Courtney McMahon, The Radical Wellness • West Hartford/Virtual • theradicalwellness.com • 646.378.8595
Beth Reel, Beth Reel Coaching, LLC
I am passionate about my work as a holistic practitioner because I know how it feels to be disconnected from myself and from nature – and how transformative it is to find a way back. My path has led me through the corporate world and nonprofit leadership. Still, it has always been the practices of yoga, meditation, forest therapy, and women’s circles that brought me home when experiencing struggles.
Becoming a holistic practitioner was not a career move as much as a calling – a way to share the tools, rituals, and spaces that have helped me and countless others pause, listen, and remember who they are.
What sets me apart is the way I weave together professional coaching with earth-centered practices and community gatherings. My work is rooted in both structure and spirit – I hold space that is grounded and accessible, while also inviting myth, nature, and ceremony. I call this balance “roots and wings”: helping people stay grounded while also expanding into possibility.
One of my favorite memories is guiding a women’s circle by the river. As we opened, two great blue herons flew past, and we all paused in awe, sensing a gift in what we had just witnessed. At the end, after quiet reflection, as each woman shared their experience, the herons returned, punctuating the circle with grace. I asked each woman to reflect on what the herons might mean to them. The forest seemed to hold the circle, reminding me that when people gather with intention, healing and unexpected beauty naturally unfold.
Beth Reel, Beth Reel Coaching, LLC • Coventry/Tolland, CT • bethreelcoaching.com • 860.214.9164
Seema Dasani, MS, LPC, Alchemy of True Nourishment, Holistic Psychotherapy/Eidetic Imagery
It is awe-inspiring to watch clients inhabit more of their true nature after feeling and fighting through storms of overwhelm and distress. Often, they will report feeling calmer and having more capacity to navigate life.
As old hurts heal and lose their grip, more of our true selves can be embodied, and that cascades into every aspect of our lives, down to what movies, foods, and people we are drawn to. There is no separation between inner and outer. As we heal, our outer life reflects the inner landscape.
It doesn’t happen overnight, but old addictions or compulsions in terms of substances, triggers, habits, and so on can begin to fall away as the gravitational pull of such forces lessens. What suited a version of oneself that was battered and bruised by life can be replaced by choices and experiences that reflect one’s true nature and essence. It is a process of healing that requires the courageous participation of the individual who, in time, can reach a threshold point where holding on to old narratives of pain and victimization loses its grip. There is now capacity, courage, and desire to embrace the authentic version of oneself – wiser, deeper, and enriched by all the experiences one has had.
The technique I use is Eidetic Imagery, an evidence-based ancient practice that gives one access to deep (unconscious) currents of emotion, essence, and intuition. It’s a highly effective way of concretizing a problem situation into vivid images (think scenes from a movie) that can be accessed, walked around, and magnified where stuck and frozen old hurts and pains get examined, worked on, and metabolized to enable a healing elixir to flow into the mind and body. The soul-heart-mind-body connection is one – it is true holism.
My clients are typically in their mid-to-late 30s and older, a time when, for some, the surge of life that yearns to be lived and expressed surfaces, and old ways of quieting that voice no longer work. Distress usually shows up as depression, anxiety, and relationship problems. Clients across from me often experience a shift from more contracted states of victimization, anger (toward self and others), or overwhelm to their unique natural states of well-being. It’s so beautiful when clients see eidetic images, which are both visual and visceral, and integrate their true grandeur and beauty, which in turn changes how their energies flow. I remember a client session whose entire body posture and energy changed as she accessed a fractal of her essential nature. Her spine lengthened, and she began to radiate light and beauty. Breathtaking!
Regeneration (vs. degeneration) is real, and transformation is possible. I hold a high level of care for the well-being of my clients and a passion for their growth. Because of my history and devotion to healing, I carry a vibration of being strong while kind and soft at the same time. I sense that people feel safe and nourished in my presence, and they may be surprised by how quickly their deeply buried feelings surface in a highly attuned therapeutic container.
Seema Dasani, MS, LPC, Alchemy of True Nourishment • Wilton, CT • info@seemadasani.com • seemadasani.com • 203.493.1162