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Paula Dowd M.A., C.C., Executive Director
Paula earned her M.A. in Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, which specializes in mind/body/spirit integration. She is a certified life coach who has been personally trained by Dr. Alice Domar to teach Harvard’s Mind/Body program for fertility. She has been in practice for the past five years, specializing in fertility workshops and transformative coaching. She enjoys a successful private coaching practice in Redondo Beach and Santa Monica. Daily Breeze Article about Paula Dowd
Lisa Heller, LCSW, Clinical Director
Lisa
is a psychotherapist who has been in clinical practice for 20 years. She received her graduate degree from University of Southern California and completed a post-graduate program in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Wright Institute Los Angeles. She specializes in working with individuals and couples struggling with infertility, who are experiencing depression and anxiety. Working from a mind/body perspective, she integrates a wide range of therapeutic approaches and mind/body interventions that cater to the specific needs of an individual or couple.
Acupuncturists
Danica Thornberry, L.Ac., founded Well Women Acupuncture in 2001. She combined her scientific background in Molecular Biology with her interest in women’s spiritual transformation, to create a new and empowering style of acupuncture intended to help today’s women raise their level of conscious awareness, as well as their fertility rates. She has been featured twice on the Lifetime TV show “Speaking of Women’s Health,” where she presented acupuncture as an effective treatment for infertility and PMS.
Virginia Prior, L.Ac., was trained in the Well Women Acupuncture tradition after completing a fertility-focused, post-graduate level internship with Randine Lewis, L.Ac., the author of The Infertility Cure. Feeling called to work with women and a strong desire to practice an alternative form of medicine, she was naturally guided to study acupuncture for women’s health. Her compassionate nature and excellent listening skills provide the empathy and wisdom women need during the emotionally challenging aspects of fertility protocols.
Massage Therapists
Elaine Woolley, C.M.T., works with the Well Women Acupuncture team as their in-house massage therapist. Her “Warm Heart, Hot Hands” approach to massage has an amazing ability to soothe patients and facilitate the release of their emotional pain, as well as physical pain. Currently a third year student of acupuncture, Elaine has been working with the fertility patients at Well Women for over two years, and has learned to intuitively understand their needs at all different stages of the fertility journey.
Michelle German, C.M.T., has been practicing massage therapy for seven years. She specializes in all types of massage therapies and she is passionate about prenatal massage therapy and women’s health. She received her pre and post-natal massage certification from Carol Osborne-Sheets and practices with a warm and nurturing touch.
Counselors
Dr. Kimberly Peak is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Monica. She has had personal experience with infertility and she has led groups for couples struggling with this issue. Dr. Peak sees women on an individual basis for consultations and therapy. Dr. Peak earned her Doctor of Psychology from Pepperdine University in 1999.
Dr. Bonnie Tauber is a caring and compassionate licensed clinical psychologist practicing in Santa Monica, California. With over 10 years of experience in every area of psychology, she has been drawn to work with women. She specializes in infertility, and the emotional issues resulting from this and other problems. Dr. Tauber's mission is to help women to become more empowered in their lives when dealing with such issues. Her approach is heart-centered and humanistic and with her experience, skill and intuition she draws upon a number of perspectives when working with a client.
Howard Newman, Psy.D. has been leading groups and treating men who have experienced male or female factor infertility since 2003. Dr. Newman, who has had personal experience with male factor infertility, began this specialized work when he began running the men’s group for the Mind Body Institute in Los Angeles. Dr. Newman earned his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from New York University in 1985, his Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1992 and his Doctor of Psychology from Pepperdine University in 1996. He is also trained in and practices hypnosis, and he is a senior candidate and faculty member at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies.
Nutritionists
Susan Dopart, M.S., R.D., is a nutrition and fitness consultant with a private practice in Santa Monica. She is also a consultant for the UCLA Medical Center where she teaches nutrition classes. She specializes in all aspects of women’s nutrition, infertility, pregnancy and infant nutrition.
For more information or to make an appointment, call 310.373.WELL (9355) or email info@mindbodywellnessla.com.
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