Astrid is a Neurolingist (Licensed Master NLP Practitioner), Psychiatric Nurse, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Certified End of Life Specialist. Her specialities cover Integrated Medical & Dental Hypnotherapy (including pain, diagnosis and treatment management. pre-op preparation and post-op healing), Parental Alienation, Narcissistic /Toxic / Emotionally Immature Relationship Abuse Management, End of Life and Grief, Mindfulness, Resilience & Stress Management, and general change work.
As a Registered Psychiatric Nurse in Australia, she gained extensive experience in personality disorders within hospitals and various clinical settings.
Upon moving to the States she built a new career in Engineering (O&G Production and Reservoir Analysis). Eventually starting her own independent, successful companies and designed the first live and integrated software platform for curative & due diligence in O&G.
In returning to mental health it was evident that big pharma and political-social ideologies now seem to dominate the mental health landscape, often by therapists and social workers with little to no formal pharmacology training, ‘prescribing’ meds in what seems as a priority over effectively guiding their clients to ‘own their own journey’ with effective strategies, better skills for identifying and managing needed (self) change, resilience & adaptability competencies and tools to resolving past experiences and importantly, responding to and creating the best ‘now’ and future.
It is Astrid’s position that ‘rapport’ with a therapist should not normalize a false narrative (where it exists) of a client because it may suit the therapist’s own ideological biases. This is something she has witnessed more than once. Rapport is important, but so is truth, especially about oneself, and where others are involved; how to leverage therapy and change of self upon that is key to authentic and therapeutic change work.
Everyone is on a sacred journey of their OWN sacred lives and self, towards the highest purpose and meaning they alone can aim for… and those goals may change over life… whatever the stage of the journey, the better equipped and clearer one is for their individual purpose, the more joy and even ‘Divine connection’, can be experienced, the better for the world as a whole.
Nearly all those seeking therapy require deprograming of the maladaptive and reprogramming of behavior, mental and emotional facets with new strategies, scripts and skills to own their own potential with better confidence; healthy boundaries, to ‘grow up’ with self determination and ownership; a clearer ‘soul map’ with exciting goals and purpose is good ‘medicine’ itself.
Astrid found that NLP and its associated modalities melded Brief Psychology and Human Engineering as a neuro-engineering multitool of many strategies for an often fast, profound, distinct and beneficial change for many individuals.
For the past number of years, Astrid has been a practicing Neurolinguist. A Licensed Master NLP Practitioner, gained under the auspices of the cofounder of NLP, Dr Richard Bandler. Along with many Hypnotherapy certifications including with co-NLP founder, Dr John Grinder’s group out of the UK, she has studied deeply and gained qualifications in many associated modalities to enable better flexibility to better suit how a client may best change beneficially.
Not one modality works for everyone.
With years of specialized training in many areas of Hypnotherapy including Integrated Medical Hypnotherapy, Ericksonian, Stress Management, End of Life, Past Life Regression, Narcissistic Abuse Recovery, Stress Management and Smoking Cessation. Astrid has advanced certifications in Mindfulness, Stress Management, EMT, Sand Tray, and Life and Success Coaching and is also a Certified End of Life Specialist and Integrated Eye Movement Therapy Practitioner.
Astrid is a published writer, illustrator of ‘Reddy Get Ready,’ by Anna Goodwin, and editor of a Jungian therapist’s vision quest hero’s journey, ‘Face of the Rising Sun’, by Nada. She has 2 books due for release 3/4 2024. In addition, she is a Certified Tea Specialist and tea grower and often incorporates tea into therapy sessions.
In 2016 she was diagnosed as being on the neuro-divergent / autism spectrum - high functioning Aspergers, and discovered how this helped enormously in understanding her role in prior abusive relationships and in creating strategies going forward.
She is excited to enter a Doctoral program in Holistic Medicine later this year.
