Brigid Guinan

• born 1952 in Ireland and raised in New York
• studied Business Administration and Hotel/Restaurant
   Management
• 1971-1985 worked in a diversity of sales and marketing positions,
   including in management, for large travel corporations and
   gastronomic businesses in New York and San Francisco
• 1985 established ARTREP – Marketing & Sales Consultancy for Artists
• Parallel to my professional work life, I pursued my growing interest in the
   field of health, psychology, and spiritual disciplines through educational
   and personal experience.
• 1991 moved to Bremen
• 1998 began private practice
• lecturer in health related and adult education fields


Training and professional development since 1991

• Gestalt Therapy 1995-1999
• State certificate as Healing Practitioner in Psychotherapy 2001
• EMDR 2005-2006
• Training in related health and psychology fields including trauma, stress,
   body-mind connection and transpersonal psychotherapy studies
• Long term meditation and yoga practice
• Ongoing participation in Explorations in Human Development
   Training, Ridhwan School, Berkeley CA.



Supervision with:

• Dipl.-Psych. Rahel Schüepp: Psychologische Psychotherapeutin



Languages

• English
• German


Seminars - Workshops - Lectures

• "Coping with Stress" - The significance of the individual disposition
• "The Inner Critic" – The roll of our super ego in our stress reactions
• "Perfect Madness!" – Women, Stress and Expectations
• "Sense and Presence" – The body as gateway to authenticity
• "A Year to Live" – Waking up to life by exploring our relationship
   to death


Cooperation Partners

• Women’s Health Center, Bremen
• Refugio Bremen – Counselling and Treatment Center for Refugees and
   Torture Victims
• Jacobs International University, Bremen
• University Bremen, Center for Continued Education
• Belladonna - Culture, Communication and Education Center for Women
• School for Adult Education, Bremen (Volkshochschule)
• Health Impulse - Diako Hospital

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