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ACISTE Certified Mental Health Professional (ACMHP) Profile

Marie Grace Brook PhD

ACISTE Certified Mental Health Professional (ACMHP)

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Call me at:+1 970-903-8630
Currently licensed profession

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

First year of licensure

2009

Professional Licenses
License # State
60397 CALIFORNIA
Additional Certifications
Certification Organization/Issuing Body
ACSGC (ACISTE Certification for Spiritual Guidance Counselor) Fordham University Certificate of Spiritual Direction
Areas of practice

 

Specializations
  • Kundalini experiences
  • Near-death experiences
  • Non-western STEs
  • Out-of-body experiences
  • Paranormal experiences or aftereffects
  • Spiritual emergencies
  • Spiritual experiences
  • Teens/Young adults who have had STEs
I can help with these STE associated concerns
  • Anxiety
  • Confusion
  • Dealing with dual realities
  • Feeling ungrounded
  • Finding life's purpose
  • Grief or loss
  • "Homesickness"
  • Hypersensitivities
  • Identity issues
  • Issues related to sharing
  • Kundalini
  • Psychic aftereffects
  • Relationship issues
  • Struggles with value shifts
  • Troubles with integration
My approaches
  • Coaching
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Counseling
  • Dream Interpretation
  • Eclectic
  • Existential
  • Family/Marital
  • Family Systems Therapy
  • Gestalt
  • Guided Visualization
  • Humanistic
  • Interpersonal
  • Meditation
  • Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychodynamic
  • Transpersonal
  • Writing Therapy
  • Other (please specify below)
Other approaches I use

Residential Support at Retreat House: JasmineGardenOasis.com

Modalities
  • Individuals
  • Support Groups
  • Families
  • Couples
Languages Spoken
  • English
How I can help

I am a psychotherapist and spiritual director, as well as researcher in the field of integration of spiritually transformative experiences. The basic principle I use in helping people to integrate spiritually transformative experience is mindful and loving attention combined with personal experience and professional study of how to integrate spiritually transformative experiences. I draw upon personal experience of 35 years of kundalini awakening and Christian mysticism, combined with many decades of personal practices of meditation, centering prayer, yoga and QiGong/Tai Chi. In addition to in-person and on-line video consultations, my husband and I run a small residential guesthouse available for spiritual retreats and extensive directed retreats for individuals integrating spiritually transformative experiences. See JasmineGardenOasis.com.

About me and my approach

 

My Personal Interest in STEs

I have been challenged by experiencing four spiritual emergencies at the the ages of 25, 38, 42 and 57. Each one was distinctly different, and each one required many years of diligent devotion to the process of integration of my own identity and of my work in the world. I am a former board member of ACISTE, a member of SEN (Spiritual Emergence Network), a researcher in transpersonal psychology, and an active member in a larger international research community working to make the world a better and safer place for spiritual emergence.

My Philosophy

I approach each case individually, finding appropriate ways of helping each person with particular needs and desires to assist them in integrating their spiritually transformative experience and emerging into their spiritual calling. I treat each person mindfully and authentically with dignity, helping them to develop clearer connection and trust in their own inner knowledge, and drawing upon wisdom of spiritual traditions.

Higher Education
Degree School Year
PhD Sofia University (formerly ITP) 2017
Graduate certificate in Spiritual Direction Fordham University Graduate School of Religion and Religious Studies 2007
Masters in Social Work Denver University Graduate School of Social Work 2004
Where to find me

 

Office Address

1837 Alice Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
United States
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Phones
  • +1 970-903-8630
I can meet the following ways
  • In my office
  • By mutual arrangement
  • Other (please specify below)
  • Other (please specify below)
Other ways I can meet with clients

I meet with most of my clients through online video. In addition, my husband and I run a retreat near the coast of Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz. Participants have the option of non-directed retreats, retreat with one psychotherapy session per day, or a directed retreat which includes supervision of practices, diet, etc.

Availability

Contact me about availability.

Insurance

No

Sliding scale

Yes

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