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.
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• I am mother to three fabulous young adults. 
• I am passionate about exploring other cultures and mind-sets from the inside out.
• I believe every person is unique and has vital worth.

​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.

• Because of this, I’ve lived to find my way again to joy, love, solid ground, confidence, laughter and frequent visitations of bliss.
• I don’t believe we ever reach a static place where personal evolution is no longer necessary.
• I love my life, am still growing, still learning.
• I believe nature is the most inspirational and healing place to be.

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.

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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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• MA in Transpersonal Psychology, DeMontfort University (Leicester, UK)
• Diplomate, Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy Education (London, UK)
• Life Coach Certification, Martha Beck Institute
• Nature and Forest Therapy Guide Certification, Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides & Programs
• Training in Jungian Analytical Psychology, IGAP London, and through various workshops in Europe, Hong Kong, and the U.S.
• Training in World Café Facilitation, Fielding Graduate University’s Institute for Social Innovation

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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. 

It is almost impossible to make a huge life change using only the conscious logical mind. Stories and fairy tales help us tap into stronger, faster, and more cunning unconscious parts of our psyches. They show us how to gain clarity about where we stand and how to draw strength for the challenges ahead. 

Leaving the Castle was written to ignite your imagination and courage, and to help you: 

• Recognize that there are worlds beyond what your mindset has allowed you to see 

• Reclaim powers that the mindset you’re leaving had cast into the shadows 

• Move forward with the wisdom and strength that comes from honoring and utilizing your whole self 

• Build a bridge from what has fallen to new meaning and purpose 

• Illuminate the frightening in-between space – where we’re ready to leave but haven’t yet gone, and where we’re emotionally and psychologically centering ourselves for the journey ahead 

• Bring your contribution to the marriage dynamic into consciousness so you don’t attract and build the same situation again 
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• Rebuild and reconnect with your faith in yourself

This book is not only about leaving the castle you’ve known. It’s about claiming your own kingdom and building anew.

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?

This book is written to ignite your imagination and courage, to help you:

• • Know that losing yourself is part of your hero’s journey.


• • Find the strands of your own personal myth.


• • Understand why the way we see ourselves is so important.


• • Realize the need for recovering our own identity and our own will.


• • Know how to walk through the initial rings of shame and pain that often come with following our own path. 


• • Get you in touch with the strong woman, the wise woman, that you are.


• • Get you in touch with your intuition, so you can locate power and flow in your life.

The Frog Prince, Adam and Eve, the Celtic Prince Iain, and two amazing masters of archery are here to lead you back to yourself and your own power. 

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What do you want to do with your one wild and precious life?

- Mary Oliver
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