Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
About Claire
Claire is a psychotherapist and health coach in private practice, licensed in Minnesota as a Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), and is a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC). She is a board-qualified supervisor for the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy and a mentor coach.
Claire received her M.A. in counseling and psychotherapy from The Alfred Adler Institute (now Adler Graduate School) and an M.A. in integrative health and wellness coaching from the University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing (CSpH). She completed additional graduate studies at CSpH in integrative guided imagery, Reiki, shamanism & shamanic healing, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), yoga, Ayurveda, and traditional Tibetan medicine including two 3-week courses of study in India. In 2009, she completed professional training to facilitate mind-body medicine skills groups from the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC.
Claire has long been passionate about living a healthy lifestyle and pursued studies in alternative and complementary healing practices. As a young adult in the 1970s, she was introduced to alternatives to conventional health care, including mental health, significantly through the work of Dr. Andrew Weil who has written extensively on the subject. Dr. Weil’s work with indigenous healers seeded her interest in cultural and individual differences. She specifically chose to pursue graduate studies in Adlerian psychology which emphasizes the need to understand people within their social context. Adlerians recognize that individuals have personal freedom, responsibility, and are understood to move according to their goals and unique view of life. Her Adler studies were a natural segue from Claire’s undergraduate work in American Indian studies where she experienced cultural differences in worldview and ways of being. Since 2005, her studies in professional health coaching have added new depth to her practice of psychology. Today, Claire’s training in psychology and health coaching enables her to share her passion for alternative and complementary healing practices while in service to others.
In her personal time, Claire enjoys yoga, Pilates, reading, movies, road trips, gatherings with friends and family sharing good food, camping, hiking, and canoeing.
Credentials
- Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Minnesota (LPCC#405)
- National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC#440089357)
- M.A. Counseling & Psychotherapy – The Alfred Adler Institute (now The Adler Graduate School of Minnesota)
- M.A. Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching — The University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing
- Mind-Body Medicine Advanced Professional training – Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Washington, DC
Professional Affiliations