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I love a beautiful mountain overlook, catching a live band and learning all I can about the mindbody connection. I love asking big and juicy questions about life, and living into my highest self… then listening for life’s response.
And I love teaching anyone who will listen the simple, learnable and empowering mindbody tools so they can live their highest life too! To connect with more of what matters, to feel more at ease and alive in life.
I love sharing deep, meaningful connections and spending time with those who really know me.
Authentic connections, fulfillment, aliveness… Aah, this misty land of sun kissed rolling hills. How can that pay the bills or help me meet that deadline? Aren't I supposed to be "adulting" now? Can we really dare to hope to receive our deepest dreams? to actualize a whole life, our true self? Shouldn't I be grateful and satisfied with the aspects of my life that are going well, or well enough?
Good Questions It all starts with questions,
with asking for what we really want.
I'm a holistic psychotherapist turned MindBody Mentor and Relationship Coach.
Women and couples who've been trying to heal painful emotional, physical or relationship issues come to me when they're really ready to shift patterns and release old energies, stubborn habits and experience more peace, new possibilities in their life. There are so many good, hardworking, caring people looking for true healing.
I'm on a mission to assist folks who are ready to enjoy more ease, energy and support in all areas of your life.
So many smart, sensitive, holistically-minded (creative) men and women walk around feeling drained, depleted and overwhelmed. Mind and Body Studio is a place for solutions to dissolve chronic health, functioning and relationship issues and to learn to become a better receiver so you can shift from lack and not enough (time, energy, health, wealth, love and connection, purpose) and move into deeply fulfilling, plentiful,
vibrant living.
I assist singles, individual partners and committed couples stuck going in circles with the same arguments or problems that never seem to really be resolved. I get you out of the frustrating, non-productive labyrinth of talking, by teaching potent Mindbody Relationship Keys so that you can finally heal and solve the relationship puzzle and luxuriate in the most nourishing, nurturing, passionate love of your life.
Why?
Because I believe each of us has a creative life force to gift ourselves and this world, and that life force is often dammed up behind barriers of doubt and disappointment, fear and fatigue, behind numbness, burdens and binds. It may be hidden behind masks, personas or imposter syndrome, diffused by distractions and weakened by the massive energy drain and vitality block required to keep all that up.
Lack mindset BS (belief systems) pervade our world. But not to worry, my programs and coaching are not about positive thinking and mind over matter. That's just more of the same message that we're supposed to do more and do better. IT DOESN'T WORK without depleting the heck out of us. I share keys to melting those blocks to fuel your life with the powerful currency of love, joy and fulfillment, effortlessly. Yes,
by doing less and receiving more!
And
Because once you get the hang of using mindbody tools
It’s Fun! A Big, Fat, Beautiful Adventure!
Move beyond psychotherapy and couples therapy limits so that you can live a lighter, more fluid, playful life, feel more comfort... So that you can root into your truest, most embodied self and shift working from depletion into using your natural body tech to draw on unlimited, replenishing, nourishing resources that support your highest possibilities.
And Because
I’m a natural born empath who’s fine tuned my gifts to what’s possible, what’s blocked and how to alchemize the two. Through alternatives to talk therapy and marriage therapy, by combining Mindbody Wisdom, Trauma Healing, Holistic Healing, Human Potential hacks and leading edge Relationship Science I'll show you how to dissolve crystalized emotions and old codes stuck in your system and transform what you long for into a life that lights you up.
Whatever area of life you might like to shift, I’m here to support you in activating the amazing resources that are freely available for us all!
Rumi's poem, A Great Wagon, invites us to Go All In for what we yearn for so deeply. This poem conveys my inspiration for the Mind and Body Studio. That radiant, aliveness that fills us, locks our attention and unlocks our heartsong… Inspired and resonant as we come in contact with something we want, it brightens us awake and our soul says
YES! This!
In the poem, A Great Wagon, Rumi describes love at first sight. What’s really important comes to the foreground. Everything else goes quiet,
falls away.
He advises, Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. So often, after feeling inspired, our logical mind steps in to “talk some sense into us.” Responsibilities, messages about how we should be thankful and not expect too much out of life and other obstacles come to mind; Our inspiration fizzles and we put it away.
I ran across A Great Wagon after many years of “doing the right thing.” I honor the choices I made. Still, my longing for more in life was palpable, but I put it aside. I thought other things, other people were more important. I was fortunate and thankful for all I had. After a while my rationalizations no longer held up and I knew I was just living a fraction of the life that was possible for me. And giving from just a fraction of myself to those other important people.
This poem captures what I felt and something started waking up inside. I didn't know if or how, but I knew I wanted both, to take care of responsibilities and to respond to this yearning. And I knew my true life depended on going for it!
I began listening to the whispers of yearning, turning toward my dissatisfaction, and asking new questions - What if? Wouldn’t it be nice if?
I wonder how it can be possible for me?
Through this simple act of making space for the music my heart yearned to play, and by mindfully meeting the ache of this yearning, I received more than I even knew I could ask for! More than I even dared to dream for. I am thankful beyond measure. My heart rejoices and all I want to do is share this for others!

As a psychotherapist for over 25 years I've helped many people improve their lives, achieve their goals, enjoy more, and hurt less. Yet this new transformation process goes beyond the counseling container. We're making a journey from our head and listening more to the wisdom of our bodies and by doing so we can dissolve the dense pains, release the weight and contraction and create more space. More space to breath, to ground and center, more space for our True authentic selves, to receive and contribute and enjoy.
So much more is possible for our lives!
Sometimes our dreams and inspirations are fleeting. We may only sense them or not really even know what they are yet. Sometimes we just feel the void, the lack of something more inspiring, more fulfilling, more Us. Like finding our favorite song on a fuzzy old FM radio station, it can grate on our senses, We distract ourselves or just turn it off out of frustration.
So Hi! I’m glad you’re here. Mind and Body Studio is a place for holding space for learning and applying mindbody practices, so that you can receive more flow, harmony and joyful energy in your life... for planting the seeds of yearning so you can reap your heart's desire... so you can shift from over-efforting or autopilot to inviting, allowing and welcoming more and more of a life that lights you up!
B.S. Communications, Ithaca College, 1991
M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy, Hofstra University 1994
Certified Clinical Hypnotist, National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists
Certified Mind Body Healing Practitioner, American Institute of Mind Body Medicine
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, retired
Clinical Fellow, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, retired
Safe Harbor, alternativementalhealth.com
EMDR Institute
American Holistic Health Association
Imago Therapy, Harville Hendrix, Phd
Solution-Focused Therapy, Bill O'Hanlon, MS
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Paul Lounsbury, LMFT, Nancy Winston, LCSW
EMDR Basic, Dan Merlis, LCSW;
EMDR Advanced, Tracy Ryan Kidd, LCSW
EMDR Early Trauma Protocol, Sandra Paulsen PhD
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), Sue Johnson, PhD
Gottman Couples Therapy, John Gottman, PhD and Julie Gottman, LMFT
Sex, Love and Pornography Addiction, Patrick Carnes, PhD
Brainspotting, Christine Ranck, PhD
Integrative Mental Health, Andrew Weil, MD and Associates
Holistic Nutrition, Mayuri Sobti, ND
Integrative Mental Health, Alice Lee, MD
Yoga and Mood, Amy Weintraub
EFT Tapping extensive self-study Brad Yates, Gary Craig
MindBody Medicine, Kim D'Eramo, DO
Private Practice Psychotherapist, Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC
DC Holistic Psychotherapy, Columbia Hypnosis and Healing, Holistic Psych Solutions
Mind Body Coordinator, Kaiser Permanente
Social Worker, Family Therapist, Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service
Program Director, Child Sexual Abuse Treatment & Prevention Program,
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center
* Christine was licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist for 24 years. In keeping with the increasing impact she witnessed personally and professionally, Christine now fully focuses her practice assisting clients with natural MindBody healing and growth rather than the diagnosis and disease model of traditional therapy.
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