Chronic pain therapist Maggie Phillips will speak in conversation with North Atlantic Books publisher and writer Lindy Hough at the fourth Alternative Medicine event sponsored by Berkeley Public Library and North Atlantic Books on March 20, 2010, from 2-4 p.m. at Berkeley Public Central Library in downtown Berkeley. This is part of the free series Get Well! Alternative Practitioners Talk With You About Healing, sponsored by North Atlantic Books and Berkeley Public Library.
A licensed psychologist with 30 years of experience in clinical practice, Phillips uses a variety of methods, including medical hypnosis, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Somatic Experiencing (a bodywork trauma method), and Energy Psychology to work through a variety of clinical difficulties including anxiety, depression, panic, phobia, and health imbalance, along with chronic pain and mind body symptoms.
Dr. Phillips travels widely, giving workshops in China, Europe, and the U.S., while maintaining a local practice in Oakland. “Ten Reasons People In Pain Don’t Heal and How They Can” is a popular presentation at conferences that explores how a ten-point program can address barriers to healing from a “bottom-up” as well as “top-down” perspective.
The first hour on March 20 will feature a public conversation between Dr. Phillips and Hough. The second half will be devoted to audience questions. Refreshments and a book signing of Phillips’ Reversing Chronic Pain: A 10-Point All- Natural Plan for Lasting Relief will follow the presentation.
“We hope to further the public discourse, and thus the readership, about alternative health, or complementary medicine,” Lindy Hough said. “A wider demographic should be able to use these kinds of medicine, know their history, and see how effective they are in healing many conditions inexpensively, without recourse to drugs or surgery.”
“The Berkeley Public Library is excited to be working in partnership with North Atlantic Books to better serve the interest in mind/body/spirit their readers are seeking,” said Douglas Smith, Deputy Director of the Library. “We’re pleased to be expanding our programming, outreach, and collections in these important directions.”
An Afternoon with Maggie Phillips in Berkeley: The Connection Between Trauma and Pain
Get Well! Alternative Practitioners Answer Your Questions About Healing series
Saturday, March 20, 2010
2pm-4pm
Berkeley Public Central Library
3rd Floor Community Meeting Room
2090 Kittredge Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
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