HCH Staff

HOLLY HOLMES-MEREDITH:
DOCTOR OF MINISTRY, MA, CLINICAL DIRECTOR, LICENSED MARRIAGE FAMILY THERAPIST, CERTIFIED CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST, BOARD CERTIFIED REGRESSION THERAPIST

Holly's teaching and therapy is grounded in a four decades in education, psychology, hypnotherapy and metaphysics. She teaches with an engaging expertise, ease and competence that builds professional skill and confidence in her students. Holly integrates a psychospiritual perspective in her teaching, models client empowerment and practices hypnotherapy as an art. In the last fifteen years she began studying and adding hands on healing and energy therapies to her work including Reiki and EFT. Holly is an examiner and a founding member on the Board of Directors for the International Board of Regression Therapy.

She was awarded her Doctorate in Ministry degree in 2007. Holly's dissertation on Hypnotherapy as a Spiritual Practice evolved into her hypnotherapy textbook Spiritual Hypnotherapy Scripts for Body, Mind and Spirit. It is available at HCH or through Amazon books.

ANNIE BLACKSTONE: CERTIFIED CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST, SHAMANIC PRACTICES INSTRUCTOR
REIKI MASTER/TEACHER,EFT PRACTITIONER

Annie Blackstone teaches Shamanic practices, at HCH. Her goal is to  provide students with a solid foundation in Shamanic practices and create a supportive and dynamic community of healers, because the world needs us now more than ever.  Annie’s teaching draws on a variety of cultures, teachers and traditions which all stem from an understanding of working in relationship and reciprocity with nature and the unseen forces that shape our world.

Annie also teaches hypnotherapy and Reiki at HCH. She is a clinical hypnotherapist, Reiki master teacher and shamanic practitioner. In her practice she also utilizes and received advanced training in Biofield tuning, EFT, Past Life Regression, Spirit Releasment Therapy, Sand Play therapy, and Brain Spotting. Visit Annie online at  www.annieblackstone.com

SUSAN LYONS:
CERTIFIED CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST, REIKI MASTER

Susan Lyons is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Reiki Master. Throughout her life she has always been in some kind of a “helping profession”. Several years ago Susan found herself at an impasse. She felt she had so much more to offer the world and on a much deeper level. For Susan, Hypnotherapy and the HCH Institute has been a blessing both personally and professionally. Hypnotherapy has opened up a whole new beautiful world to her and dramatically changed her perception on life. 

Susan graduated from the HCH Institute in Lafayette, Ca. She also completed a 6 month long internship and advanced training in Past Life Regression. In addition to being Certified Hypnotherapist she is also a Reiki Master. Susan has witnessed profound and heartfelt transformations in her clients which has confirmed her belief that Hypnotherapy is an excellent empowerment model. 
She is dedicated to working with her clients so that they may break free from their limitations and discover their true self!

TAMARA NAKHJAVANI:
REIKI MASTER/TEACHER, CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST, ENERGY THERAPIST, THETA HEALER AND SHAMANIC PRACTITIONER

Tamara Nakhjavani has been an integrative teacher and practitioner of many modalities, some for over a decade. She is passionate about helping her clients let go of survival programming and helping them activate to their innate knowing and the power of conscious choice. Tamara is also an associate marriage and family therapist and is currently working with children and adolescents as a school counselor in Lafayette.

She has a background in science as a biologist and law as a CA admitted attorney. Her multi-faceted nature has helped her appreciate the unfolding nature of her dharmic path of service.  

 

 

RENATA MOREIRA:
REIKI MASTER/TEACHER, CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST, ENERGY THERAPIST.

Renata Moreira (she/they pronouns) is a graduate of the energy therapy, Reiki, EFT, and clinical hypnotherapy programs at HCH. Renata has been facilitating healing and spiritual development circles for over a decade. She is the co-founder of a collaborative healing practice, Refuge Healing Circles, an apprentice herbalist, and Social Impact & Equity consultant with 20 years nonprofit leadership experience in the Americas. She combines the knowledge gained at HCH with her Earth-based practices and ongoing study of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and intuitive gifts, to guide her clients, students, and organizations back to their own Divine wisdom. Renata is a long-time human rights advocate, medicine sharer and bridge builder. She was born and raised in Brazil, and currently lives in Occupied Lisjan Ohlone territory with her magical fairy child (Oakland, CA). IG: @renatametta Email: renatametta@gmail.com Ph#:(510)982-5502

KATHY TROST:
CERTIFIED CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST, SHAMANIC PRACTITIONER AND ENERGY CHANNEL.

Her path in healing started as a nurse. During her studies in nursing school, at Regis University, she was required to take a course in Eastern Religion. That Eastern Religion course became a pivotal force in her life ultimately resetting and awakening her to the magic of our ancestors . 

Since then, it has been her goal to pursue the blending of eastern and western schools of thought to achieve healing. As an Energy Healer incorporating all of the above modalities, she brings clients healing by helping them rediscover their full potential via self-love and their connection to Source. It is her belief and experience that this alignment with self, brings clients healing form past trauma (physical and emotional) as well as, medical conditions. 

Kathy resides in Mount Shasta, Califorinia. You can book sessions with Kathy online at Risingtideshealer@gmail.com or call her at 707-673-3038

DAVID LEONG:
LICENSED MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST. CERTIFIED HYPNOTHERAPIST. EMDR TRAINED THERAPIST.

David combines solid clinical experience, detailed theoretical knowledge and a very human approach to teaching. By encouraging the class to explore their experiences within new frameworks, he helps to broaden their knowledge and deepen their understanding of both the class materials and themselves. David is particularly interested in trauma work, neuropsychology, and is passionate about helping people move past the deep, often unconscious, issues that block their growth.

David is a skilled and gifted clinician, successfully working with issues of trauma, life changes, grief, gender and sexuality issues, as well as what has been called issues of self. He integrates a wide variety of techniques and modalities in the service of helping his clients heal.

COREY ROTHERMEL:
CERTIFIED SHAMANIC PRACTITIONER,
INTUITIVE HEALER,
PARAPSYCHOLOGIST

Corey is a graduate of the Shamanic Practitioner Training and Parapsychology programs at HCH. He has been studying the wisdom of the ancient and unseen worlds for over three decades and strives to bring their light and love to the modern age for practical application. Earth-centered and grounded in his techniques, Corey blends what is scientifically understood with that which is mystically unquantifiable to guide clients and instruct students in how to claim ownership of their lives and their place in the universe.

Gifted and experienced in both healing work and teaching, Corey also brings a background and degree in written and visual storytelling to his work and combines it all together to create interesting, thoughtful, and effective approaches to resolving personal issues and classroom instruction.

Corey sees clients in the East Bay and online. He is currently studying Reiki medicine and assists in the Shamanic Practitioner Trainings.