Recommended Practitioners
I highly recommend the practitioners listed below for individual, small group and organizational healing work
Amanda Blaine, M.Ed.
I wanted to make BIG change in the world. I went from Princeton to organic farming to Harvard to teaching public school. When I encountered Sarah’s work several years ago I dove right in and immersed myself in learning and healing with her.
Now I use everything I’ve learned to support other purpose-driven people eager to give their gifts and do their best work in the world.
I draw on Nonviolent Communication, Holacracy, Depth Empathy, Empathic Coaching, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Family Constellations, and more. I love to support change makers one-on-one in their personal, vocational and relationship journeys. On an organizational level, I help leaders and groups evolve new, life-serving systems for working and living together.
“Amanda is a blessing to behold! She has a masterful fluency of both inner, emotional work, as well as community and global systems –understanding the essentialness and interconnection of both. I have so thoroughly enjoyed working with Amanda. – Jenny G.
Rates
Sessions with Amanda: phone, video, in-person: One-on-one: $150 / hour, Couples: $350 / two hour session, Small group transformational community: gift economy. Organizations/groups: email Amanda for more info.
Contact
Email me or visit my website to sign up for a free 30 minute discovery session.
Eric Bowers
Eric has assisted and co-facilitated with Sarah since 2011. He uses resonant-language empathy, unconscious contract/sacred vow work, time-travel empathy, and constellations to help people integrate trauma and create successful relationships with themselves and with others. Eric is the author of Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success.
Hours: 8am-7pm Pacific Time
Rates
$150/Hour with special rates for packages
Contact
Contact Eric at 604-442-8811
forest chaffee
i warmly accompany integration of wholeness. together we honor: your body’s truths; tenderness & power; and meaning in relationship to personal & systemic. honoring your experience, we nurture cohesion and living truth. my work is depth of being with in relationship… rooted in consent, somatic empathy, nervous system vows, inner part rescues, constellations, trauma integration, and attachment repair through a lens of relational neuroscience.
i offer a free 10-15 minute call to find if we are a match to work together.
“i learned the sacredness of being myself… i have awe, respect, and gratitude for forest’s work which reminds me and takes me back to my depth…”
– anonymous
Rates
3-session intro-package: $540
6-session current client packages: $1,080
Contact
contact forest: www.forestchaffee.com
Gail Donahue
Gail’s passion lies in merging together neuroscience knowledge and learning about oneself; guiding one into a deeper connection with self and others. She skillfully supports individuals and organizations to connect, understand and depersonalize conflict. This new perspective helps transform challenging personal or workplace issues and supports enhanced relational connection and personal fulfillment.
Gail has studied with Sarah Peyton for over 11 years, is trained as a coach and is a CNVC Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. She has also
trained in Convergent Facilitation, Depth Empathy processes, NVC in the Workplace, Family Constellations, Attachment Theory, Group Facilitation, and Interpersonal Neurobiology.
Rates
Sessions with Gail:
Phone, zoom or Skype
Fee: $90.00 USD /hour one-on-one
Groups or Organizations please email to set up a consultation to discuss
Contact
Gloria Lybecker
Gloria has worked and co-facilitated programs with Sarah for over 13 years, she facilitates resonant language empathy, unconscious contract/sacred vow work, time travel empathy and other modalities to support growth and healing.
In the Spokane area, at Healing You Sanctuary, Gloria offers Constellations with Horses Events and Partnership with Horse Workshops that combine professional development with deep personal growth and healing.
“I have been working with Gloria for a number of years, and her presence in my life has been a true blessing. The healing I have experienced in her sessions and groups have been profound. When I am at a crossroads or facing difficulty, I often think of her warmth and wisdom as light posts to assist me in finding the ground of my own. She holds space with integrity, skillfulness and love, and I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with her. The authenticity and life experience she brings to her work are a rare and heartfelt gift.” – Josie Simpson, Maui, Hawaii
Rates
Distance sessions; 30 minutes, 1 hour, 90 minutes, or 2 hours (includes audio recording or ZOOM video if desired) $150 per hour for individuals $180 per hour working with two (10% discount with packages)
Contact
Contact Gloria: (509) 876-1802 | www.HealingYouSanctuary.com
Jaya Manske
Jaya’s warm presence has supported clients to have significant breakthroughs, to transform from the inside out, and to move forward powerfully. She has studied NVC and been an empathetic practitioner since 2001 and currently works as a part of Sarah’s team, as well as assisting in workshops. Jaya’s work is a unique blend of empathy, trauma healing, and coaching offerings, which allows her clients to be met right where they are. Jaya offers resonant empathy, unconscious contracts/sacred vow work, time travel empathy, as well as is a certified mindfulness and wellness coach.
Jaya provides distance support to clients all over the world from the U.S. to China to Australia. Distance sessions are 1 hour or 90 minutes and include an audio recording or Zoom video if desired.
“I’m Glad and Grateful for our session together. Our session uncovered a lot of buried feelings that were unaddressed and hurting me. Afterwards, I was able to have a discussion with my partner about something I had been struggling to talk about for a really long time. Somehow, the exercise we did made it possible. I’ve had years of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and never had a breakthrough like that.” ~Shelby G.
Rates
Referrals through Sarah’s site: $175 per hour (discounts and sliding scale available).
Contact
Contact Jaya for a free, half-hour discovery session: coachingcompassion@gmail.com | 505-228-8730
Website: http://www.coaching-compassion.com/
Jenna Card
Jenna’s warm empathic presence invites individuals into a deeper connection with their own heartfelt truth and innate wisdom. With resonant body-based empathy, Jenna accompanies others in cultivating inner compassionate resources and transforming the beliefs and patterns that limit the flow of joy and full expression in life. Sessions can also include movement practices, grounding meditation, and work with inner parts, core belief, sacred vow and constellations.
A student of Sarah’s since 2012, Jenna integrates resonant somatic empathy, interpersonal neurobiology, family constellation, and attachment theory into her work. A Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer, Jenna leads public and private NVC training and as well as offering Empathic Coaching to support tangible, meaningful change in people’s lives.
Session offered by Phone or Video call or in-person in Vancouver, BC and are 30, 60 or 90 minutes in length.
Rates
$100 – $140 per hour (USD or CAD based on residency)
Contact
Web: www.heartspring.ca
Ph: 778 2 3 9 7471
Kangs Trevens, MHRS
I am an empathic counselor learning, teaching, and living the principles of Nonviolent Communication since 2008. I bring presence and compassion to healing practices from various traditions: mindfulness-based techniques, somatic empathy, the Emotional Freedom Technique and addressing the past that is impacting present-day.
I am available for conflict mediation, support before or after challenging conversations, and for Mourning, Healing and Reconciliation processes to heal past wounds and repair disconnect in relationships.
In 11 years working as a mental health counselor in Residential Treatment, I have supported clients to manage mental illness and addiction. I specialize in the Queer/LGBTIQQA community and in transgender sensitivity. I provide care for diversity issues, underserved populations, nontraditional lifestyles, politically radical folks, activists, vegans, and highly sensitve people (HSPs).
I support people to heal depression, anxiety, trauma, challenges with suicidal thoughts, and other emotional struggles regardless of financial ability. I value the intentions of the gift economy, and I’m open to a wide range of payments or trades. I see clients in person in Oakland, California and via phone or Skype. Flexible hours.
Rates
Flexible, please reach out.
Contact
KangsEmpathicCounseling.weebly.com
Phone: (510) 658-2257 | Texts: (701) 526-472
Rev. Katherine Revoir
Through studying social neuroscience and family constellation facilitation with Sarah for the past 7 years, I’ve opened to new depths of my own self-understanding and self-love. Sharing this profound work with others brings me great joy and fulfillment.
My clients experience more emotional balance, peace, clear thinking, and choice. These changes can happen with remarkable ease.
Sessions with me might include unconscious contract/sacred vow work, resonant language empathy, and/or family constellation work. In our time together we can integrate your physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, so that you live with more joy, clarity, and freedom.
I draw cartoon images that help you understand how your brain connects with other brains, and I bring over 25 years of training and experience as a spiritual counselor. I’d love to support you in making your life more wonderful.
I also facilitate online and in person Happy Brain groups, where we study social neuroscience and Nonviolent Communication (cnvc.org) while making sense of our family history through constellation work – all in warm community. This is a mystical merging of components that help us make our brain a happy place to live. See my website for details.
“For years I have worked on healing the debilitating effects of trauma. In just a few sessions with Katherine, persistent patterns of self-sabotage have been transformed, and I’m more able to enjoy life instead of just managing or coping.” ~ Samantha White
“Katherine’s warmth helped me feel safe enough to do the healing I’ve longed for my whole life. I’m making sense of my personal history and returning to a more unified experience of myself.” ~ Richard K
Rates
Contact me for a free, half-hour discovery session. I work in person (in Mill Valley, CA), by phone, Zoom,or Skype. My rate is $165/hour (60 minutes).
Contact
Website: http://richerliving.org Phone: 415 381-9161 – Please do not text
Kristin Masters
Kristin brings attunement, resonance, insight and compassion to her sessions toward personal and social change.
Kristin began learning the principles and skills of nonviolent communication in 1994, when she worked with Jean Morrison in San Quentin Prison doing Alternatives to Violence programs. She realized the power of NVC when it saved her marriage one day in 2001, and decided she was all in.
Kristin became a Certified Trainer in 2010, after in-depth study with Robert Gonzales’ inner work of compassion and self responsibility. She has been deeply influenced by Miki Kashtan’s approaches and applications of the core commitments.
Kristin has worked closely with Sarah Peyton since 2014 and is grateful to frequently assist Sarah in her workshops. As a science geek and a healing enthusiast, Kristin uses Sarah’s framework of Interpersonal and Relational Neurobiology, using resonant language, sacred vows, unconscious contracts, time travel empathy, and family constellations work.
Kristin also draws on her background from beloved teacher/mentors and teams including: Lillian Roybal Rose, her mentor in diversity work and cross cultural communication; and Joanna Macy’s “The Work that Reconnects” to transform the despair we feel about the state of the world into an empowered sense of action on behalf of future generations.
Her long term association with the NLSJ team (http://nlsj.learnnvc.org/meet-the-team/) to envision, commit and create “Living Critical Social Change with Nonviolent Communication” has been a collaborative learning and healing space that is at the center of Kristin’s life.
Also at the center is Kristin’s work with and focus on grief and dealing with loss. She believes that “we only grieve that which we love” and that we are meant to grieve in community. Kristin works with individuals to hold our broken heartedness as sacred, to explore the love living beneath the grief around personal and collective losses.
While she teaches locally in Santa Cruz, California where she sits on the Board of Directors of NVC Santa Cruz., she also teaches nationally and internationally (including Australia, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Canada). Please check https://nvcsantacruz.org/ for upcoming workshops and retreats. Kristin offers individual coaching, workshops, retreats, and organizational consulting.
Rates
For referrals through Sarah’s website, Kristin works on a sliding scale with a middle of $180/hour for multiple party sessions, $160/hour for individuals. The scale is wide, moving up and down according to considerations for care for her situation and your own.
Contact
Contact Kristin Masters at kristin@nvcsantacruz.org or 831-246-0730
Marilyn Mullen, MA
As a CNVC certified trainer studying primarily with Sarah Peyton since 2012, I am grateful for how depth empathy has tremendously deepened my self-understanding and expanded my capacity for accompanying others into sacred empathic space.
Together we slow down and respectfully follow your body sensations with attuned deep listening and resonant language, toward more clarity, ease, integration and authenticity in the wholeness of your human life. Sometimes we also time travel to resolve early trauma.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) have also contributed to my own healing journey, and thus inform my offerings.
I meet with Marilyn once a week via Skype as I live in New Zealand. I actually don’t know how to express the depth of gratitude I feel for Marilyn and her skill set. It has changed my life for the positive in profound ways. She uses NVC methods of communicating with ease, she has a way of paraphrasing, reflecting, guessing needs and emotions that is flowing, natural and very perceptive. She sometimes makes guesses before I have gone there yet when she says it – I’m moved to a big ‘Yes’ instantaneously. She is genuine, empathic, fun, caring, respectful and skilled. So I can’t speak highly enough about Marilyn – except to say Tuesday mornings (6am) is a funny time for in-depth conversations yet I’m there with bells on because I value it so much. I have worked with Councilors over the years but never had the amount of internal healing, understanding and learning than I do now with Marilyn.
– Claire W.
Marilyn did a mediation between me and my daughter. She was able to be in support to both of us – quite a feat. Many times Marilyn’s answers illuminate a part of my own thoughts that were so needing a light shone on them to be brought into my own consciousness. I am truly grateful for her presence in my life and I carry her with me, as I feel she carries me with her as well.
– Nina O.
Rates
I provide sessions by phone, Skype, FaceTime, WhatsApp or Google Hangout at $75/hour
Contact
www.mullenmediation.org
Pernille Plantener
I believe in miracles; my own life being the proof. Resonant empathy has supported me in walking out of the prisons of bulimia and an abusive marriage, and today I live a life I didn’t even dare to dream of.
Certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) since 2011 and certified coach at PCC level, I teach coaching and NVC, have clients from all continents, and facilitate restorative mediations for the police in my home country, Denmark. I have co-authored “At Eye-level with Victims of Violence” on how to restore dignity, aimed at first responders.
My experience in personal development includes yoga and meditation, gestalt and body therapy, 12-step programmes, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). I enjoy my dream life in a same-sex marriage in a living community of women.
Having worked with Sarah since 2014, I offer resonant language empathy, sacred vow work, and time travel empathy for detecting, freeing the burdens of, and welcoming home disconnected parts.
Time availability: 8am – 8pm Central European time / 2pm-2am US Eastern time.
Rates
Fee: 125 USD/ hour. First 30 min strategy session is free.
Contact
Email: pernille@businessbyheart.dk
Sara Therrien
Sara’s strength is her ability to gently help individuals heal old wounds by creating new neuropathways that subsequently alter old unwanted behaviors and reduce reactivity. Over the last ten years, Sara has worked one on one with women facing significant life challenges due to trauma, substance abuse, and family issues.
Sara has twenty years of education and experience in counseling, trauma therapy, rehabilitation, recovery, conflict resolution, mediation and facilitation. In addition to her own personal journey of recovery, over the last 3 years she has experienced deeper healing and growth with new evidence based trauma therapy methods. After experiencing profound results from these methods, Sara began studying interpersonal neurobiology and these trauma therapy techniques with Sarah Payton and Susan Skye. She completed 6 weeks of intensive training in 2016 & 2017 and has implemented these life changing models into her work.
Sara holds a BS in Rehabilitation Services and a MA in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Peace and Reconciliation where she studied forgiveness, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mediation and conflict resolution. She holds two advanced training certificates in transformative mediation and holds a CADC in Maine. Sara is available for appointments via Skype or phone.
Rates
Sessions are offered on a sliding scale from $90-$125 per hour. Family & Group Mediation (2 hours @ $175.00)
Contact
Susan Skye, MA
I love working in depth with people who want to thrive. Most folks I work with have a long standing interest in growth, have many parts of their life working well but are frustrated by some repeated patterns of stress, or relationship or anxiety; usually also frustrated by much of the experience they have had with ‘standard’ therapists.
I work with a combination of deep empathy, long clinical experience, and within the context of the current marvelous breakthroughs in neuroscience.
I am certified as a trainer in Nonviolent Communication (20 years), MA in Psychology, and as a practitioner of EMDR (trauma healing). I specialize in redressing the damage of early childhood trauma and neglect.
Rates
Individual: Sliding scale from $120/hour to $ 160/hour
Couples: Sliding scale $145/hour – $170/hour
Contact
susanskye@gmail.com or 503 245 5735