Board of Advisors
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Jerry Donoghue
Jerry Donoghue is a communication coach who helps people learn to speak from their hearts with compassion. Jerry started his communication coaching business in 2003 to help people apply the powerful Compassionate Communication model to their lives. Prior to this, Jerry founded Montage Productions, Inc., in 1986, a successful training and development company. Jerry offers three public experiential Compassionate Communication courses that are helping people to deeply connect with themselves and others. He also offers custom courses to organizations and is retained by MAHEC to offer his course to health professionals and psychologist. He is currently writing a book on how to apply the Compassionate Communication model internally which will be published in 2008.
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Martina G. Barnes, MS, LPC
Martina G. Barnes, MS, LPC , a former bereavement counselor for CarePartner's Hospice, maintains a full-time private practice in integrative psychology. Her methodology is based upon her diverse yet integrative experiences in a lengthy career in the fields of psychology and meditation. She utilizes traditional modalities in combination with holistic approaches
such as meditation, guided imagery and body focused techniques.She is licensed by the state of North Carolina as a LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor and nationally by the NBCC, the National Board for Certified Counselors. In her work as a trauma recovery specialist, she maintains membership with ISSD, the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation as well as EMDRIA, the Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing International Association.
Martina has been a consultant to many companies including CarePartners in holistic medicine.She currently sits on the national board of the Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation for the support of the performing arts and
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Laura Allen
Laura Allen has been practicing energy work since 1993 and massage therapy since 1998. She is the author of the Plain & Simple Guide to Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork Certification (LWW, 2005) and One Year to a Successful Massage Therapy Practice (LWW 2008) and a frequent contributor to Massage Magazine. She also has a blog on the Massage Magazine website at www.massagemag.com. Laura is an Approved Provider of Continuing Education under the NCBTMB and is currently serving a term on the North Carolina Board of Massage & Bodywork Therapy. She is on the visiting faculty of the Obus School of Healing Therapies in Dublin, Ireland and serves as a mentor and practicum supervisor for students from many massage schools across North Carolina. Laura is the owner of THERA-SSAGE in Rutherfordton, NC, an alternative wellness clinic of over a dozen practitioners of different disciplines.
