Christine Donohue :: about Christine

Over the past fifteen years I have developed a holistic body-centered healing method that works with the interface between psychology, energy, and consciousness. My private energy healing practice and teaching curriculum are catalysts for transformation.

I have been teaching my own seminars in the Bay Area since 1999. The Art of Knowing: A Workshop for Women, A Multimodal Approach to Healing and Toning: The Transformational Power of Sound Healing seminars are taught in the Bay area and throughout the United States.

Between 1998-2003, I served as a faculty member at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (BBSH). My teaching responsibilities included training hundreds of second-year students in a model for personal growth and professional practice, in-depth chakra techniques, astral healing and high sense perception. During my final year at BBSH I was the co-director of the Creative Arts Program in the second-year curriculum.

In 2001, I graduated from the three-year program at the Center For Intentional Living (CIL) and studied psychoanalytic, object relations, humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Subsequently, I worked with the co-founder of CIL as a writer and editor, which deepened my knowledge of developmental and object relations psychology.

Other formal training in the healing arts includes a Certificate in Massage Therapy from the Diamond Light School of Massage, attendance at several trauma workshops including an introduction to Somatic Experiencing with Peter Levine (author of Waking the Tiger), a month-long Gestalt training at Esalen Institute and foot reflexology. I received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont.

In 2004, I began studying for a Master's Degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Since 2005, I have been working therapeutically with children, teenagers, their families, and adults in both school-based counseling and clinic settings. I use somatic, narrative, cognitive behavioral, and family systems approaches, sand tray therapy, art therapy, and play therapy to support my clients. I earned my Master's Degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology in 2006.

I opened to energetic healing work at the age of twenty-two. It became clear to me while working at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation that the life of a bureaucrat, albeit an environmental one, was not my path. I left my position and moved to an organic vegetable farm in Washington State. While tending the earth, spiritual and energetic realms opened up and became accessible. My passion to explore the connection between quantum physics and the consciousness held in the energy field was ignited and has been blazing ever since! I began to work with my healing gifts and felt “at home” with my purpose.

After two farming seasons steeped in stewardship, personal healing work and spiritual openings, I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to pursue professional training. Over the course of that year I learned of the four-year training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (BBSH). I circled back to Vermont and attended BBSH the following fall.

Making my home in Central Vermont, I served as the Co-Director of Woman Centered, a local Vermont non-profit organization that supported, educated and empowered women of all ages, backgrounds and income levels. I was responsible for the financial end of the organization and offered direct service and advocacy to women in crisis, provided peer counseling and co-led women’s support groups in local high schools. Concurrently, I maintained a part-time energy healing practice and attended BBSH.

Seven years after my initial journey to Washington State, I moved west to build my full-time healing practice in California. Since 1997 I have been in private practice in a lovely office located in Mill Valley. My work combines advanced energy healing techniques, counseling psychology, coaching and toning to support my clients to embrace their full potential.

During my spare time, I am active in free-form dance, hiking, kayaking, singing, writing, shamanic drumming, and celebrating life in nature and in community.