Cheryl Fromholzer Western Clinical Herbalist

Cheryl Fromholzer is the founder and co-owner of Gathering Thyme. She is a trained Western Clinical Herbalist having received her certification from the Ohlone Center for Herbal Studies in addition to advanced apprenticeships with an hispanic curandera and Matthew Wood among others. Cheryl provides a multi-faceted approach to holistic wellness combining customized organic herbal formulas with nutritional education and lifestyle guidance. She is an active member of the American Herbalist Guild, past instructor at the Ohlone Center for Herbal Studies in Berkeley, California, and current instructor for the Foundation of Western Herbalism classes here at Gathering Thyme.

Being a Western Herbalist means her focus is on using native plants to address imbalances, not just the symptoms, and to prevent disease. Cheryl’s goal is to stimulate each individual's innate healing power through the use of medicinal plants. Working with an herbalist is not a passive event, but a collaborative journey into self-healing.

• General Health & Preventive Healthcare
• Chronic & Acute Illness
• Insulin Resistance & Diabetes
• Cancer Support

Catherine Abby RichHerbalist & Quantum Biofeedback Educator

Catherine Abby Rich has been an herbalist and educator for over 40 years. She trained as a folk medicine maker in the Bavarian Alps, Mexico, the U.S. and in India, where she apprenticed with the well known Ayurvedic physician, Dr. Vasant Lad. Catherine Abby was a founding member of the Marin County Farmers Market and for 23 years was their resident herbalist. Her "Combining Forces” products are wildcrafted, organic and enhanced with flower essences she personally creates. In addition, teaching local plant medicine to all ages is one of her most cherished talents, her lifetime assignment and delight. In the year 2000, Catherine Abby began combining her herbal knowledge with the remarkable science of quantum medicine. She has become a respected practitioner of Quantum/SCIO Biofeedback*, and through this medium she is able to utilize her knowledge of both ancient and modern wisdom, helping others further their quest for optimal health and well-being.

The Quantum/SCIO is a computerized system that seeks to balance body mind and spirit, at the subtle energy level. This state-of-the-art, interactive biofeedback device manages both stress and pain and utilizes Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), analogous to a lie detector. Every cell, organ, neurotransmitter, parasite and emotion has a characteristic frequency or vibration. This device sends 9,600 such frequencies to the super-conscious via head, wrist and ankle bands. The device then records the degree to which our bodies react. Like an accomplished master, piano tuner, the SCIO finds what in us is off key and attempts to tune us back to perfect pitch and harmony. Each person's situation is unique. The SCIO prioritizes programs such as reducing stress through unblocking meridians in the electro-acupuncture system, utilizing injury repair, addiction protocols, anxiety management re-training program, brain-wave balancing and much more.

Kia Sanford Clinical Nutrition & Counseling

In addition to being an avid gardener and culinary adventurer, Kia Sanford holds Master’s degrees in both Human Clinical Nutrition and Marriage/Family/Child Counseling which she uses in tandem while working with clients to help them foster long term health. She has worked in the Oakland, San Leandro and San Lorenzo schools with economically challenged families and children, and taught 6th grade outdoor ed, rock climbing and backpacking to kids in the California foothills. Kia has taught nutrition and lifestyle classes and conducts individual consultations with clients all over the country. Whether challenged with cancer, recovering from surgery, changing body composition or working to prevent the onset of chronic disease, Kia firmly believes that what we eat, drink, and how we move everyday is vitally important. Kia’s love of good food, and understanding that food can be medicine, informs her positive focus on all the wonderful things we can and should be eating to create and maintain health.

• Personal Pantry House Calls
• Private Kitchen Coaching
• Private Clinical Nutrition Counsultations
• Get REAL: Realistic Eating & Active Lifestyle Program
• Group Classes & Workshops
• Corporate Wellness Programs
• Grocery Store Field Trips

Kassia Fiedor Holistic Private Chef

Drawing from a variety of experiences in the organic food movement, herbalism, and holistic nutrition, Kassia Fiedor uses “food as medicine” in every meal she prepares. From meticulously crafted living food treats to free-range meat dishes, Kassia ads her touch of love and creativity. As a Holistic Nutrition Educator certified at Bauman College, she can customize any menu to suite most dietary needs or food restrictions. A cook at Three Stone Hearth the last 2 years, Kassia is happy to incorporate the Weston A. Price principles of traditional foods into her cooking. A passionate supporter of the current grassroots healthcare movement, she is currently furthering her studies in herbal medicine. Kassia’s holistic approach truly embodies plant and herb-based nutrition to nourish the body, mind, and soul.

• Local, Organic Nutrient-Dense Meals
• Customized Cleanse and Fasting Programs
• Nutrition Guidance

Amanda Pirot, CCHt Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist

Amanda Pirot, CCHt, is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist specializing in deep and rapid personal transformation. Initially practicing in the NYC/Connecticut metro area and now in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has helped over 500 clients GET UNSTUCK by moving from a place of fear and mental blocks into ACTION. Amanda uses an efficient, nurturing process combining both transformative hypnotherapy and life coaching. She brings extensive experience, compassion, practicality, and creativity to every client. Amanda received her Clinical Hypnotherapy Certification from The American Council for Hypnotist Examiners (A.C.H.E.) and is a Member of The International Coaches Federation (I.C.F.).

Areas of Specialty:

• Career and Life Transition
• Relationships
• Stress Management
• Phobias

Further, as a marketing/business Director-level professional with over 10 years marketing agency experience, Amanda uniquely bridges the gap between personal transformation and business transformation. She frequently helps stuck business owners to GET UNSTUCK.

Deborah Landowne Classical Homeopath

Deborah Landowne, CHom, CCH(Cand) studied Classical Homeopathy in San Francisco at the Pacific Academy of Homeopathy. She has used homeopathy as her primary healthcare choice for over 15 years, after experiencing a profound healing from both a debilitating acute infection and other chronic health conditions.

My primary interests are in helping people be the best they can be, physically, mentally and emotionally. Homeopathy can help relieve many complaints at all phases of life, by strengthening the body’s innate healing ability. I am especially interested in helping young adults become healthy so that their future children will also be healthy, with the intention of reducing the burden of chronic illness on our families and our society.

Robert Greenstein Acupuncturist

Robert Greenstein, L.Ac. is an acupuncturist specializing in women's health and infertility. He treats virtually every women's health problem with natural and effective therapies. Some of the many conditions which he has successfully treated include PMS, painful periods, bleeding disorders, fibroids and cysts, chronic bladder or yeast infections and a variety of postpartum problems. He primarily utilizes acupuncture and Chinese medicinal herbs, and incorporates diet and other nutritional therapies. In addition, he has helped many couples with fertility issues to conceive naturally or to improve success rates when used in conjunction with IVF.

I became interested in Chinese Medicine because although I have always been interested in health issues, I recognized that conventional medicine rarely addressed the underlying causes of disease, but instead treated the superficial symptoms. Furthermore, many pharmaceuticals have severe side effects. What I discovered is that Chinese medicine helps to bring the body back into its natural state of harmony and balance, which is a disease-free state.

I studied Traditional Chinese Medicine at the San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and am licensed by the state of California. I have been practicing Chinese Medicine for 23 years. I also hold a MA degree in human psychophysiology from Minnesota State University. I support women in their efforts to have optimal health. I invite you to call my office and discuss with me how I can help you to achieve a wonderful state of health and well being.

Arinn Testa Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Arinn Testa, Psy.D is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who works with individuals, couples, families and groups. To support her clients through their unfolding experience, she integrates an array of holistic methodologies with more than two decades of traditional psychoanalytic training. In addition to her private practice at Gathering Thyme she is a professor of Forensic & Counseling Psychology at Holy Names University.

Dr. Testa recognizes that imbalance in one aspect of an individual will ultimately lead to over or under functioning in the other aspects of a person’s life to compensate. Rather than traditional “talk” therapy, this approach seeks to bring balance into the biological, psychological, spiritual, and socio~cultural aspects of the self. All people have innate powers of healing in their bodies, minds and spirits.

Clinical Psychologist, License # PSY 22398

• Emotional and Neuroplasticity
• Unlocking Unconscious Motivations
• Trauma, PTSD, and the Effects of Stress on Health

Heidi IrgensSound Healing Practitioner

Heidi Irgens is a Sound Healing Practitioner trained in the Acutonics® system from the Kairos Institute for Sound Healing. As a lifetime learner in the field of Consciousness Studies she received her a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Consciousness studies from JFK University in 1989. Additionally she is a Dowser & Energy Medicine Healer. Her sessions combine Traditional Chinese Medicine with meridian work, Chakra work, and spirit journey work, using sound, vibration and intention to help the client come into resonance with his or her health with balance and grace.

Acutonics® is a non-invasive healing modality that works with sound, vibrations and intention to help a person move into balance, enabling the body to correct issues that can lead to and cause disease. Heidi’s toolbox includes precision-calibrated tuning forks that represent a natural harmonic series based on the orbital properties of the Earth, Moon, Sun and other planets; sacred geometry Light-Life Tools, Essential Oils, Flower Essences and dowsing, among other things. She can help clear blockages in the body for deep relaxation, and help look at the source of dis-ease by addressing it in the energetic field as well as the physical, emotional and psycho-spiritual.

Examples of some issues that she has helped others with include stress, pain management, depression, anxiety, allergies, cancer support, trauma and stabilizing energies as you move through transitions.

Susan Audrey Dreamwork Practitioner

Susan Audrey is a Certified Hypnotherapist and multi-disciplined Dreamwork Practitioner who specializes in guiding individuals and groups through the fascinating and transformative journey of discovering the wisdom of their dreams. When we listen to the important messages from our nighttime dreams, we tap into our unconscious, our soul’s “truth,” and gain access to our own inner knowing, which can inform us about our health, our relationships, and our emotional blocks to attaining our goals, as well as show us ways to ignite our creativity and reimagine our lives.

Susan Audrey, CHT, uses an experiential, embodied approach to dreamwork, gently guiding dreamers in “reentering” their dreams and bringing their dream images “to life.” This imaginal process allows the dream’s beneficial teachings to unfold organically and to reach their full potential for providing the emotional and physical healings they have come to promote. Susan also uses art, movement or song to help dreamers “meet” and learn from their dream images. The dream’s teachings are then integrated for use in the dreamer’s everyday life through reframing, creative visualization, and self-awareness and self–acceptance practices that encourage claiming the disowned parts of one’s self unveiled through dreamwork. Hypnotherapy may be incorporated as well, especially for work with nightmares and reoccurring dreams.

Susan offers guided dreamwork for individuals and small groups. Dreamwork groups provide an opportunity for bonding and building community as well as personal insight. When we listen to the wisdom of our dreams, we open to a healthier and happier life informed by a deeper understanding of who we truly are and who our soul knows we can become.

Susan Audrey, CHT, has studied Dream Tending™ with Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara; dreamwork and intuition with Jeremy Taylor, renowned dreamwork facilitator and author; and gestalt dreamwork with Randal Churchill, master hypnotherapy instructor and author of Become the Dream. Susan received her certification in hypnotherapy from the Hypnotherapy Training Institute of Northern California and is a member of the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners and the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Susan is also a writer, editor, artist and photographer. She became interested in dreams over 15 years ago when she began having prophetic (future-telling) dreams, which she finds helpful in providing guidance in her everyday life.

Susan Justice Spiritual Guidance and Energy Healing Practitioner

Susan Justice creates a sacred space and serves as a clear guide for those who desire to bring their lives into balance - in spirit and body. At age 37, Susan courageously faced a life-threatening illness. Through her commitment to healing herself and living in a healthy body, she realized that the illness had come as her teacher, not her enemy. She came to understand the illness as a clear and loving message from her Soul. By listening to the messages, Susan was able to heal on all levels of her Being, body/mind and spirit.

She happily shares her gifts and knowledge of healing that came through years of study, the purification of experience, as well as those which come naturally. Susan has a healing presence that inspires and radiates the love, gratitude and connection that she embodies. In private practice for twenty years, she has gained a wealth of experience in helping people to heal and awaken to their True Self.

Susan is a Certified Hypnotherapist, since 1990. She is an instrument for energy/spiritual healing and working with the Light Body. She is a Master Reiki Practitioner, Johrei Channel and Qigong Healer/Teacher using guided meditation, affirmative prayer, personal affirmations and invocations. Susan brings these practices together to help clients awaken to their True Self and their connection to Spirit; and to activate the body’s natural healing abilities, the innate power within to heal the whole Self, body/mind and Spirit. Each session is formed with guidance from Universal Source and is specific to the client’s path.

• Health and Spirituality
• Personal Growth
• QiGong classes at Gathering Thyme
• Silver Light Ministries

Lorina Mendoza Somatic Experiencing and CranioSacral Therapy

Lorina Mendoza MA, SEP, CST is Somatic Therapist and Bodyworker who uses Somatic Experiencing and CranioSacral Therapy to help people recover from traumatic injuries. The words 'gentle depth' encapsulate both her unique skill set and presence. At the heart of her work is a deep and enduring love for helping people access their own natural self-healing potency found at the meeting of body and mind.

Lorina began her body-centered professional path 14 years ago after completing a BA in Biology from UC Santa Cruz. Since then she has completed over 1500 hours of training-- including certifications in CranioSacral Therapy, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Resolution, Bowenwork and Wellness Coaching. She also earned a Masters degree in Holistic Health Education from JFK University.

She can regularly be found dancing, learning new skills, communing with Nature, laughing, writing and thoroughly enjoying herself. She can also be found at Google, employed as a bodyworker.

In her private practice she focuses on helping recover from traumatic injuries such as:

• Car accidents
• Falls
• Bicycle Accidents
• High Impact Traumas