I LOVE CULTIVATING THE POWER,
PLEASURE AND PURPOSE IN PEOPLE’S LIVES. Our thoughts create our reality – and imaginary limits. Working with thoughts to help them serve our inner self inevitably and (dare I say it) magically sets us on a course that feels inspired, natural and well. YOUR MIND IS A FANTASTIC TOOL TO HELP YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF THRIVE IN THE WORLD. YOUR ESSENTIAL SELF WILL DRIVE YOU CRAZY IF CONTINUALLY IGNORED – AND SABOTAGE SUCCESS. A glimpse into my life and career Although I spent my childhood on grape vineyards by Lake Erie in Pennsylvania – I’ve since lived and worked in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Philadelphia and now work from Ithaca, NY - carrying on seeing my international clients as well as working with local clients. My career began in a New York human resource consulting firm helping companies and individuals reach their best potential. It was in this job I recognized my attraction was directed to the personal aspects – working directly with people and their stories, hopes, stumbling blocks and strengths.
When we become accountable to ourselves, we can re-author our lives. Anything I have to offer with even the slightest glimmer of wisdom was born out of my own experiences with the darker sides of life. I, myself, have lived through massive upheavals, episodes of depression and anxiety, kitchen renovations, graduate school, a contentious divorce, publishing two books and shepherding four 12-year-old boys through a crowded amusement park.
I do not ‘have it all figured out’ and have been known to snap at loved ones when under stress and occasionally wake up with a walloping bad attitude – though these scourges are handled better and more efficiently now than they were in years past. I am grateful to all my clients – present and former – whose openness, courage and incredible transformations inspire me daily. |
My Education and Training
My training is integrative, concentrating on transpersonal psychotherapy. The integrative part of that statement means that I’m able to draw on a wide range of approaches and wisdom – including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral therapy, art therapy, working with dreams and creative imagination… Each individual is so different and therefore the approach needs to be just as flexible. The transpersonal part of that statement seeks to discover the person who transcends an individual’s body, age, appearance, culture etc. My approach to therapy and coaching seeks to align a person’s life with who they really are. When our outer world is not in alignment with our innermost selves, nothing feels right.
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Leaving the Castle: Finding the Confidence to Begin Again uses myth and fairy tales to explore what happens inside ourselves after the collapse of a marriage, as we search for the confidence to start over. |
Claiming Your Kingdom: Breaking the Spell of Invisibility is for the trailing spouse, or any woman who has begun to feel lost and powerless. Using myths and fairy tales, Wendy Hammond explores the importance of waking to our own inner voice and finding the courage to live that voice out loud. How do we claim back a sense of our own power? How do we change our own lives when they are so intricately bound with another in almost every way? How do we find meaning when there are now so many complex levels to our understanding of the world, our relationships, and ourselves? |
What do you want to do with your one wild and precious life?
- Mary Oliver
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