A Warm Welcome to You . . .
Welcome to The Healthy Love Practice.
“Our Relationship does not live in you, and it does not live in me. Our relationship doesn’t even live in our dialogue, it lives in the space between us, and that space ~ is sacred.”
– Martin Buber
I have devoted my life to the path of personal transformation and dancing :~).
I love stories. I live for our stories. I am, in fact, a Sacred Storyholder and also a Storybuster! Connecting the dots and unraveling the tangled and twisted threads of our relationship history to liberate us from being slaves of the past is my greatest fascination. My practice is to hold a very safe and sacred space to make sense out of your story and to support you in moving beyond the limitations your story imposes upon you.
If we work together, it is important you know more about me, as therapy is a sacred intimate relationship.
Please take a deep breath and exhale (a Healthy Love practice) as I share some of my intimate details with you . . .
ABOUT ME
I am a licensed psychotherapist, certified Master Integrative Coach in Shadow Work, and trained Imago Relationship Therapist. Affectionately known to my clients as Love Coach Rachel, I am also a community builder, dancer, and guide, devoted to practicing and teaching the skills for Healthy Love.
Conceived underneath the Hollywood sign in 1960, born and raised in Los Angeles, I believe it was destiny that led me to bring the consciousness of California to Miami. I have made this Magic City my home since 1985. Insecurity, lack of self worth, being an only child with the desperate need to be liked, mixed with sex, drugs and rock & roll, brought me to my knees in self-destruction by the time I was 18 years old (L.A. is a fast town : ). It was then, in 1978, that I took myself to est, Werner Erhard’s transformational seminar at the Ambassador Hotel. Transformation changed the course of my life.
Practicing what I preach, I turned my wounds into wisdom after then stepping onto the path of 12 Step Recovery. Through the program, I fortuitously met my first Miami friend, Debbie Ford, who became an author and internationally recognized expert in personal transformation working with the shadow. 12 Steps and 12 years later, then a trained psychotherapist, I followed Debbie in the belief that addiction can be healed through the transformative power of embracing one’s Shadow Side. I became a modern day missionary, educating, producing and enrolling Miami into The Shadow Process (a 3 Day Emotional Education Workshop developed by Ford).
Married and still fighting with my then husband, I refused to work with couples until I could work through the power struggle stage of our relationship and have the integrity to help others from having done the work of relationship. So in 1999, I deepened my path as a teacher and coach by becoming trained and certified in Imago Relationship Therapy created by the genius of Harville Hendrix; Implementing and teaching the new language of empathy and developmental theory laid out in his book Getting the Love You Want (the work of finishing the unfinished business of growing up psychologically, emotionally and relationally. Devoted to the work of healing the pain of abandonment and rejection wounds into my practice, I teach the art of conscious communication, building the bridge of empathy, called Intentional Dialogue. My very precious beloved “wasband” of 18 years, Henry (who has since passed) did the training work with me and was my Love Lab and practice partner in how to heal and grow in relationship.
GLOBAL ONLINE COMMUNITY
In 2015 I founded an online 12 Step inspired program for Healthy Love which I lead on a global recovery platform that can be joined at www.InTheRooms.com. Healthy Love begins with knowing ourselves, intimately. After all, intimacy is really in-to-me-see. The willingness and capacity to "see" ourself is essential to the transformational and therapeutic process. We practice Empathy.
Every Thursday night at 9:00pm est, a community of individuals committed to Healthy Love from around the world gather live on this incredible platform. We share our experience, strength and hope with each other after I offer my transformational recovery wisdom and teachings integrating the 4 Pillars* for Healthy Love.
It is my privilege to share the gifts of empathic connection, the skills of bridge~building, the process of shadow mastery and cultivating conscious loving relationships in all my practices with you.
THE 4 PILLARS OF RACHEL’S PRACTICE
Transformation (Werner Erhard, est & Landmark Education)
12 Step Recovery Wisdom (Greatest Self-Help Program all over the World)
Shadow Work (Debbie Ford)
Imago Relationship Therapy (Developmental Theory for Conscious Relationships by Harville Hendrix)
In Devotion to Healthy Love,
