Kari has worked in a number of community based clinical settings and offered individual, group and family services. Kari uses the ancient practice of group gathering to build a sense of communal support. Today, Kari offers Mind-Body Skills training in private, family and group sessions at Healing Pathways Medical Clinic. Kari has completed advanced training at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine under the direction of Dr. James Gordon and is a second year Mind-Body Medicine graduate student at Saybrook University, in San Francisco. Her specialization is in Healthcare Systems. Kari’s long term professional goal is to bridge the gap between traditional holistic wellness practices and western medical and psychotherapy services so that the entire self is engaged in the healing process. Kari has sought to weave holistic mind body practices wherever possible and has been appreciated by a great number of people who have participated in services with her. Kari is the owner of Sacred Bliss Mind-Body Methods, LLC.

Kari received her Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Chico and is certified as an addictions specialist (CAS-1) in the State of California. She will graduate from Saybrook University with a Master’s of Science in Mind-Body Medicine and a specialization in Healthcare services in the summer of 2012.

As a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Linda Ankeney welcomes clients of diverse ages, cultures, and backgrounds. She specializes in treating children, individuals, parents, and families who are challenged by issues greatly impacting relationships, health, and happiness. With a focus on wellness and positive outlook, she helps clients learn strategies to manage anxiety, depression, ADHD related concerns, and behavior problems. Linda supports the inclusion of all aspects of one’s life experiences, and aids clients in finding peace and acceptance by learning to be mindful and present. Whether it’s assistance with grief and loss, life transitions, stress (home/work), relationship challenges, or abuse issues, she equips clients with problem-solving and coping skills to help increase balance, harmony and well-being in daily life. She is familiar with all major theoretical approaches and customizes her strategies to fit whatever works best for the client.

Sharon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 20 years of experience with children, individuals, couples and families. Sharon has worked in the substance abuse field, mental health and school settings. Helping children,parents and families to return to a cohesive unit is one of the goals within the therapeutic process for Sharon. She helps people with their communication skills,setting boundaries in a healthy way, and approaching each other in a mindful,supportive and caring way. Sharon has a BS in Psychology,and an MSC in Counseling and over 20 years of experience in the Sacramento area.

Weight loss and diet management:
With over 20 years experience in the health and fitness field, Rebecca has seen the toll that being over weight can take on one’ s health, lifestyle and self-esteem. Using Cognitive-Behavioral therapy principles (“ What you think effects what you feel and do” ) coupled with warm acceptance, Rebecca focuses on offering personalized tools and support to help clients succeed in achieving long-term weight loss goals, even for those who have struggled and given up in the past.

ADD/ADHD treatment:
As a counselor intern working in the San Juan Unified School District, Rebecca has worked with many students struggling with the organizational, discipline and interpersonal problems that can result from ADHD. As a parent herself, Rebecca knows first hand the stress and frustration parents face in dealing with ADD/ADHD problem behaviors at home and school. Most importantly, Rebecca has care and concern for the spirit and self-esteem of kids who get an ADD/ADHD diagnosis. They – and ADHD in general – are often misunderstood and handled inappropriately. The good news is that with the right treatment, counseling and support ADD/ADHD kids can do just fine!

Couples counseling:
Regardless whether the issue is constant conflict or total disconnect, Rebecca thoroughly enjoys helping couples discover/reclaim safety, support, communication and closeness in their relationship. Having been married for a while,Rebecca knows that sometimes our closest relationships can be the most challenging and problematic (!), but believes that with relationship counseling couples can come to understand themselves, their partner and their conflicts in a way that can ultimately help the relationship not just survive, but thrive.

Adolescent girls:
Rebecca finds it easy to connect to girls of all ages, even those “ difficult teens” . Many teens walk into a counseling situation suspicious and uneasy, but Rebecca has found that with honesty, acceptance, understanding and humor she is able to build trust and a good working relationship with both teenagers and their (sometimes) beleaguered parents.

Depression/Anxiety:
Rebecca has a lot of empathy for those going through life sad, discouraged, stressed and/or worried. Pragmatic and results-oriented, Rebecca has found cognitive-behavioral and strength-based counseling interventions to be helpful on their own, as well as strong adjuncts to psychopharmacological prescriptions.

In her personal life Rebecca enjoys travel/different cultures, movies, reading, music, hiking, dancing, cooking, wine, people and keeping her sense of humor.

Althea discovered her passion for yoga and the healing arts while she was raising her family, and became a certified yoga teacher after studying at the world-renowned White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, California. She has been practicing yoga for more than 17 years, and has been a teacher since 1999. A popular and sought after teacher, she leads classes at studios and fitness centers in the greater Sacramento area, as well as corporate and specialty classes for groups, and leads yoga workshops and retreats on a regular basis. She incorporates a variety of Hatha Yoga traditions into her classes, and blends the best of these traditions to create sequences to meet her students where they are, emphasizing spaciousness, gratitude, humility and personal creativity.

The unique blend of her professional nursing background and experience and ongoing yoga studies and teaching guides her integrative approach to Yoga Therapy. She works collaboratively with physicians, psychologists, and other professionals in healthcare. Utilizing Yin, restorative, structural and traditional Hatha yoga, basic pranayama and meditation techniques, in combination with conventional nursing evaluation and client care planning, Althea works one-on-one with her clients in a very personalized and customized series of sessions, complementing their therapeutic work with other professionals. For the past 2 years she has been working with clients with acute and chronic pain, psychological and mental struggles, and other emotional and developmental issues, in yoga-based movement therapy.

As the Director of Yoga/CAM Services for Healing Pathways, Althea is responsible for evaluating clients for appropriateness into the Healing Pathways Yoga Therapy program, or for referral to other professional therapeutic practitioners within Healing Pathways Integrative Medical Services. She also accepts clients in her private Yoga Therapy practice at Healing Pathways.

In addition to being an RN and certified yoga teacher, Althea is a registered yoga teacher (RYT) with the Yoga Alliance, a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and is a complementary/alternative health provider with the Sutter Center for Integrative Holistic Health. She is also a certified fitness instructor through AFAA, and has been in the dance and fitness industry for over 30 years.

Althea is continually inspired and humbled by her students and clients, and her children are her greatest teachers. She believes that yoga therapy is the creative use of the techniques of yoga to guide, stimulate, support and maintain one’s physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health, and the real practice of yoga is the practice of life.

Andrea Hunt is Sacramento’s expert in a suspension yoga technique called WING WORKS yoga. This fusion yoga allows decompression of the spine through inversion therapy and incorporates, Pilates, calisthenics, dance, and aerial arts, while being suspended in the safety of a silk hammock. She is one of the first in the world to be professionally certified in this technique. She is blessed to have the opportunity to enrich the lives of others through her compassionate and fun teaching style.

Andrea received her training in New York City at the OM Factory under the instruction of Christopher Harrison (creator of Anti-Gravity yoga) and later received her certification in Salt Lake City at Imagination Place. She envisions sharing this gift with those looking for comfort and connection. In her class, students learn to trust, find levity, and do something out of their comfort zone. The positive results from this, often produces an increase of self-esteem and happiness.

Her background is twenty years of dance, and twelve years practicing Vinyasa. Her passion for fitness and wellbeing guided her to become an AFFA fitness instructor and CPR certified.

It is through life lessons, her husband, children and friends that have truly guided and deepened her yoga practice. Andrea teaches to be taught, and loves to “fly” high and be “airful.”

The practice of Yoga can be integral to many aspects of life, as Yoga therapist Shakti Huss demonstrates to her clients and students. Her integrated Yoga studies certificate from the California Institute of Integral Studies encompasses knowledge of the ways in which Yoga insights are intertwined with philosophy, physiology, psychology and the arts. She is certified as a Yoga instructor by the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre and certified as a Yoga therapist in the Integrative Restoration (iRest®) tradition. In addition, she has undergone training through the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in Yoga therapy techniques for people with multiple sclerosis. She has extensive experience working with people who have anxiety disorders and other chronic illnesses, including fibromyalgia, Parkinson’s disease and chronic fatigue syndrome. Shakti is co-owner of Ease of Being Yoga and Wellness Center, and for more than a decade has taught Yoga for Kaiser Permanente’s Health Education Department.

When he was an aspiring architect, William Huss experienced a series of spontaneous deep insights into what he calls the “true nature of things,” which led him to a higher calling. Now a certified Integrative Restoration (iRest®) Yoga Nidra educator and a licensed massage practitioner. William has a deep commitment to help people resolve their profound pain and suffering and experience deep healing and peace. He has been meditating and engaged in transformative practices for more than 20 years. He is at ease working with individuals who come to him with mental and emotional, trauma-related and chemical dependency problems, and he has extensive experience resolving physical pain, emotional upset and sleeplessness, and improving self-esteem. William is certified as a practitioner in Levels I and II of iRest Yoga Nidra and is a candidate for Level III certification. He has completed advanced training in facilitating iRest Yoga Nidra for Military men and women and their families. He travels regularly throughout North America with Richard Miller, Ph.D., founder and president of the Integrative Restoration Institute, mentoring at iRest trainings and meditation retreats.

Our specialist in the Viniyoga tradition is Vicki Mae Denman, a certified Yoga therapist and instructor who has worked with students for three decades. Viniyoga is an adaptive form of Yoga that accommodates people with a wide range of physical abilities and limitations attributable to back, hip and knee conditions. Viniyoga regimens are adjusted to suit the condition, needs and interests of the client. She has a teacher’s certification from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. She is a member of the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association , through which she participates in continuing education programs. She also has undergone extensive training in Viniyoga instructional methods, and teaches Yoga to groups and individuals.

With roots in the Iyengar tradition, Kim Wagaman is a Yoga 500-hour certified Yoga instructor with experience in numerous practice methodologies and ideas. She values the potential of Yoga for self-healing and for attaining a greater awareness of the body-mind continuum, and she takes pleasure in sharing the healing wonders of Yoga with others. Kim regards Yoga practice as a means to make new discoveries, to offer new ways of seeing, to achieve a different understanding or perspective. Her teaching emphasizes the cultivation of breath awareness for relaxation, and management of pain and anxiety. The asana practice she teaches focuses on releasing tightened and overtaxed muscles, strengthening weakened muscle groups, and preparing the mind for contemplation and meditation. Her severe scoliosis has shaped and influenced her practice and teaching significantly, and she has undergone teacher training in use of Yoga for scoliosis patients. She teaches regular classes, as well as gentle yoga classes with adaptive poses for people who have physical limitations. She conducts Yoga for scoliosis workshops, classes and private one-on-one sessions.

Behavioral psychologist Joseph E. Morrow is co-founder and president of Applied Behavior Consultants Inc. (ABC), which specializes in helping children with developmental disabilities and learning disorders. A board-certified behavior analyst, Morrow has expertise in autism. He has taught at California State University, Fullerton; Indiana University, South Bend (where he was department chair); and California State University, Sacramento, where he is a professor of psychology and behavior analysis, emeritus. He pioneered the academic discipline of behavior analysis in California, in which he created an innovative course in 1966. For more than three decades he has been a member of a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis, International, which in 2006 presented him with an award for “outstanding contributions to the international dissemination of behavior analysis.”

Brenda J. Terzich-Garland is a board-certified behavior analyst with extensive clinical experience in assessing and treating children who have autism and autistic spectrum disorders. She is co-founder, chief executive officer and chief clinical officer of Applied Behavior Consultants Inc. (ABC), which specializes in helping children with developmental disabilities and learning disorders. ABC performs assessments of each child’s development using standardized developmental milestones in play and social interaction categories. She is a member of the International Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA), California Association for Behavior Analysis (Cal-ABA), and the International Society of Behaviorology. Widely sought as a speaker, she has presented throughout the United States as well as internationally on a wide range of topics related to treatment and education of children with autism, ADHD and other developmental disabilities.