Emily Agnew is a spiritual counselor and facilitator who works with individuals, couples, and groups, helping them live by their highest spiritual guidance. Inner Bonding is at the center of her work with clients and also of her spiritual life, which has been filled with more and more joy and abundance. Through her daily practice of Inner Bonding, she lives in connection to Spirit moment by moment, and sees her life as an unfolding opportunity to enrich and deepen this divine connection.

Emily's earliest yearning for connection to the divine was expressed through music. She trained as a classical oboist, and has many years of professional experience as a professional orchestral performer, chamber musician and teacher, including five years as a member of the Honolulu Symphony. Her struggle with performance anxiety led her to read and train widely on the psychology of peak performance, self-actualization, and self-esteem.

Emily brings the stillness and openness of fourteen years of Zen practice to her presence with others. Extensive training in Nonviolent Communication has given her an ability to listen and an empathic presence which clients have described as "amazing." Clients, colleagues and workshop participants have described her as "deeply open and gentle," and also "wise and powerful."She has a unique ability to use metaphors and images to explain the concepts of Inner Bonding in a clear, easy way, and to seamlessly weave together processing and learning. She weaves focusing and the inquiry work of Byron Katie into her Inner Bonding facilitation.

Emily holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music and Master's Degree in Music in Oboe Performance from Indiana University and Northwestern University, respectively, and continues to teach and to perform. She has completed over five hundred hours of formal training in Nonviolent Communication and has attended three Inner Bonding intensives since 2003. Emily is a member of the Rochester Zen Center. She practices yoga, studies Continuum bodywork and enjoys reading about psychology, personal growth and actualization, spiritual growth through relationship, and parenting. She lives with her partner Duke and daughter Claire in Rochester, New York.

In addition to seeing individuals, couples, and groups in her office in Rochester, Emily is also available for phone sessions and workshops. Her new website, luminoscounseling.com, will be up early in 2007.

Mark has found that more important than what has happened in the past, is how we are relating to and aligning ourselves right now, in this moment.  At the heart of the work he does with all clients is teaching them how to develop a loving relationship with themselves and to contact and align with the divine within.  He has also worked specifically with men, supporting them in becoming both more empowered and more loving in their intimate relationships.

Before dedicating himself full-time to CoreQuest, Mark was the clinical manager at an intensive outpatient program (IOP) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he helped to build the program from the ground up.  He worked for five years as both an individual and group therapist at Life Healing Center of Santa Fe, a residential treatment center where clients came to heal addictions and underlying trauma.  He has worked extensively with clients whose issues include chemical addiction, sex and love addiction, eating disorders, financial disorders, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, codependency and spiritual emergence.  

Mark’s psycho-spiritual approach to healing is influenced by his own interest in spirituality.  He has studied a variety of spiritual paths and methods which he integrates and brings to his therapeutic practice.  He feels deeply honored to accompany people on their own unique path of maturing into full human beings as they become increasingly transparent to the divine in daily life.

Mark also holds a second-degree black belt in Aikido, a peaceful martial art, which teaches us how to find our own “center” (or Hara), to extend “ki” (life force), and to blend our energy with opposing forces and redirect them in skillful ways.  Mark is passionate about using the principles of Aikido and Hara to assist clients in creating safety, which helps them become more present and centered in daily life.  When we feel centered within ourselves and safe in the world, we are able to contact and express our true divine essence and to more skillfully respond to the influences which pull and push on us at home and in work life.  

Mark has an undergraduate degree in psychology, a graduate degree in international management (M.I.M.), and a graduate degree in counseling psychology (M.A.).  Mark has trained in a variety of therapy modalities and his counseling approach is eclectic and unique to each client.  He is an approved affiliate and certified facilitator of Inner Bonding®.

New Mexico LPCC License# 0099171

Colorado LPC License# 5091

www.corequestpotential.com

Simply put, Inner Bonding is liberation. Not that you'll never feel fear, or loneliness, not that you won't have challenges and heaps of learning opportunities...but life can shift form being a burden to be endured to an adventure to be embraced - we r-e-l-a-x into authentic aliveness. Believe me, I've been on both sides and if I can do it, so can you.  For me, it represents the missing link of my personal and professional quest for the last 25 years -- it has helped to cultivate a palpable faith that I am always exactly where I need to be...gratitude is a beautiful thing.

I was led to Inner Bonding by a rather circuitous route, one of which I now realize Spirit was holding my hand every step of the way.  Being a student of "A Course In Miracles" and committed to a disciplined meditation practice for several years, I had cultivated an appreciation and connection with a Loving Creator, but I had not yet allowed my relationship with Spirit to become deeply personal and penetrate my core. As if on cue, just as when the teacher appears when the student is ready, I read about Inner Bonding and Margaret's retreat weekend and immediately signed up and began working the six steps. It has been my experience that the process of Inner Bonding operationally defines what "A Course In Miracles" advocates.  The ego (wounded) self is so steadfastly committed to perceiving and interpreting one's experience through its own deeply distorted lens, all masterly geared to protect against pain. Before IB, I would dissociate from my pain in order to connect with Spirit, and the six steps of IB helped me to validate all my experience while gently guiding me toward Truth. This was pivotal for me - you mean I can actually embrace and compassionately hold  all of my feelings while simultaneously holding Spirit's hand and taking full responsibility for how I create my pain, even when that's the last thing my ego (wounded) self wants to do? Who knew!  This process has been deeply freeing for me.  At my first Intensive in the California desert, I had a lucid dream where I met my two Spirit Guides-- Old Warm River and Honeysuckle Breeze, two Native American Indians -- wise old, (and fun!) souls, which further solidified my personal,
ever-evolving relationship with God.

In addition to being an IB facilitator and psychotherapist in NYC and Jersey City, NJ,  I also have a certification in Creative Arts Therapy and Performance Wellness from the New School for Social Research; I really enjoy working with people intrigued by their creativity (and by the way, we are ALL creative!).  I'm also in the process of becoming certified in Couples Therapy at the Gottman Institute. I'm a songwriter, a lover of words and poetry, an enthused appreciator of nature as well as loyal Dad to L.V. , a mini-dachsund and mentor for always modeling the pivotal importance of curiosity in the celebration of life.

Inner Bonding continues to be a cornerstone on my path toward wholeness. When we practice IB regularly, it provides a treasure map to that what so often feels like a far-away, distant land --  our authentic self.  We're all in this journey together, and I consider it a sacred privilege to assist others in this process of embracing and re-claiming all of who they are. I am available for in-person sessions in both Manhattan (Chelsea) and Jersey City, NJ, as well as phone sessions, and I work on a sliding scale.

Pattye believes so much in the Inner Bonding process that, no matter all the other theories she studies, she comes back to Inner Bonding as the keystone in her work as a therapist. In addition, Pattye uses Inner Bonding as the foundation from which she lives her emotional and spiritual life.

Along with being an Inner Bonding Therapist In-Training, she is credentialed as a Certified Spiritual Director, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and Workshop Presenter, a Certified EMDR Facilitator, and a Certified Developing Capable People Facilitator.

Pattye is whole-heartedly committed to championing others in their healing and wholeness and to her own healing and wholeness. She believes in the emotional release of painful experiences in order to evaluate the false beliefs and values formed from experiences; to bringing these beliefs and values to Higher Guidance for truth; and for the action/s the loving Adult needs to take for healing and for the journey to wholeness of the True Self.

Pattye honors her intuitiveness and her gifts of empathy, compassion and connectiveness as she champions others in their journey of healing and wholeness. Pattye sees individuals, couples and families in her Houston/Stafford office and is available for phone sessions.

Dr. Krems is a licensed psychotherapist with over 17 years of experience in clinical psychology and a total of 27 years of experience in patient care. She has a private practice in Culver City, California. Dr. Krems has attended four Inner Bonding intensives, and practices Inner Bonding in her own life. Within the context of a caring and collaborative relationship, she uses the Inner Bonding process as the core of her practice. Dr. Krems has found that Inner Bonding works successfully within the framework of psychotherapy in order to alleviate anxiety and depression, increase self-esteem and joy, improve relationships, and achieve personal goals.

Dr. Krems consults with Dr. Margaret Paul on a weekly basis. Her specialties include: anxiety, depression, relationship issues, self-esteem, career concerns and spiritual psychology. She also is trained in Emotional Freedom Techniques. Both in person and private phone sessions are available, as well as evening and weekend appointments. Most PPO and POS insurance plans are accepted. She can be reached at (310) 287-1466 or via email at ilene@drilene.com.

For more information, please visit her website at www.drilene.com.

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT, 1997) - State of California

Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology (1993) - Antioch University

Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (1981) - Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine

Bachelor of Science (1977) - Pennsylvania State University

Member of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)

I'm a High School health teacher for 11th grade and immediately came home and started teaching Inner Bonding to my students. Believe it not they embraced it really well and I started to see a way that I could really help them become happier and more productive in their lives as well as more peaceful in their skins especially during years than can be so difficult and stressful for them. I incorporated Inner Bonding into a 3-day retreat I take my students on and saw miracles happen. I'm convinced the younger this process is taught the happier our children will be.

.Julie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who worked for many years in Los Angeles and has recently moved to the East Coast. She earned her Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Social Work from The University of Pittsburgh.

Julie has worked with many populations and specializes working with people dealing with trauma, addiction, eating disorders, codependency /relationship issues, and life transitions. Her style is highly compassionate, empathic and caring, yet at the same time she is appropriately confrontive when necessary.

Inner Bonding has been a foundational element of change in her life and in and her work with clients. Julie has been in the healing arts for over 13 years and has found that Inner Bonding picks up where other healing modalities leave off. One of her favorite things is witnessing her client's heart's begin to open as they discover the truth of who they really are.

In addition to seeing individuals and couples in her office in center city Philadelphia, Julie is available to work with clients over the phone.

See Julie's website at www.heartfocusedtherapy.com.