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Lindsey Benoit O’Connell: Meditation & Sound Healing (Tools for Mental Clarity and Emotional Healing)

Lindsey Benoit O’Connell is a meditation teacher, sound healer, breathwork facilitator, and the resident meditation expert for Woman’s Day magazine. She’s also the founder of The LAB Wellness, a wellness company that makes meditation and mindful movement accessible to everyone—no matter where they are in life—and Elevate Mindfully, a modern editorial platform for mindful living, purpose, and inspired productivity.
With over 20 years of experience in the health, wellness, and meditation space, Lindsey brings a powerful combination of science-backed strategy and intuitive teaching to every session. She’s a NASM-certified trainer, CSCS, 305 Fitness instructor, and certified Unplug Meditation teacher.
Lindsey has led mindfulness and breathwork sessions for major brands like Meta, WeightWatchers, Bright Horizons, FitPros, and more. Whether she’s guiding a stress-reducing breathwork class for corporate teams, leading a private sound bath under the stars, or helping clients reconnect with their purpose, Lindsey’s approach is grounded, empowering, and always personalized.
Her meditations can be found on the Unplug App and Insight Timer. And her mission? To help people feel strong, calm, clear, and connected—mind, body, and soul.
 
https://thelab-wellness.com/
https://elevatemindfully.com/
 
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Heather Meyer: Postpartum Emotional Health (Placenta Encapsulation and Other Tools)

Heather Meyer is a holistic health practitioner who focuses on emotional wellness, particularly postpartum wellness. She is a certified life coach, holistic brain health practitioner, and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) practitioner. Her services include Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and meditations, in-person and virtual one-on-one sessions, and postpartum support boxes and guides. She also provides placenta encapsulation. 
 
https://www.placentaencapsulationservices.com/
 
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Iga Amal Czarnawska: Qigong (Cultivating Mental Resilience, Emotional Balance, and Inner Stability)

Iga is an acupuncturist in the UK, a QiGong teacher, Taiji medallist, as well as a research lecturer and martial artist. After helping herself combat some internal demons, she now leads an online community of people who want to improve their mental health and energy through QiGong. You can try it out at www.igasqigongacademy.com (first class free!). You can see Iga’s QiGong in action at https://www.youtube.com/@IgaAmal.
 
You can grab more about me from the About section of my website, VitalityWithin.co.uk/
 
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Dr. Patrick McGrath: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) (An Evidence-Based Treatment for OCD)

Dr. Patrick McGrath is a leading expert in OCD and anxiety disorders, with over 20 years of experience in treatment and research. He is the Chief Clinical Officer at NOCD, a virtual therapy platform for OCD and related conditions, and a Lead Psychologist at Ascension Illinois Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital. He is also a member of the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Boards of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF). 
NOCD: https://www.treatmyocd.com/
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Dr. Mike J. Ng: Traditional Chinese Medicine (An Overview of Qi, Yin & Yang, and the Five Elements)

Dr. Mike J. Ng is a board-certified licensed acupuncturist based in San Francisco, where he was born and raised. With a summa cum laude degree in Communication and Chinese Studies from the University of San Francisco and graduate training in public health at UCLA, Dr. Mike brings a unique blend of health communication, integrative medicine, and traditional healing to his practice. Inspired by his grandfather, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor and martial arts master, Dr. Mike has spent over three decades immersed in internal martial arts, mindfulness, and movement therapy. A nine-time international grand champion and USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame inductee, he has helped hundreds of clients improve their well-being through mind-body practices. He later earned his doctorate in acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine from ACTCM, where he now serves as an adjunct professor, committed to training the next generation of holistic healers.
 
Dr. Ng runs a clinical practice called Optim Health and Acupuncture with his sister, Dr. Jennifer L. Ng. You can learn more about him and his work at their website: https://www.optimacupuncturesanfrancisco.com/about-us 
 
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Christi Tedeschi: Reiki, Emotion Code, and QHHT (Tapping Into Your Innate Healing Potential)

Christi Tedeschi is an energy medicine practitioner based in Haddonfield, New Jersey. With over 14 years of experience and having seen thousands of clients, she specializes in Reiki, Emotion Code, and QHHT. A mother of four, married for over 31 years and lifelong resident of South Jersey, Christi is passionate about helping others reconnect with their true selves. She finds great fulfillment in witnessing the transformative effects of her work on her clients’ lives.
Website: http://www.christitedeschi.com/ 
Email: christi@christitedeschi.com 
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Dr. Thomas Seager: Cold Plunge Therapy (A Tool for Correcting Mood Disorders)

Thomas P. Seager, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ and co-Founder and CEO of Morozko Forge. He has written a book titled Uncommon Cold: The Science & Experience of Cold Plunge Therapy which is the definitive scientific work on cold plunge therapy.  Thomas has also co-authored over 150 scientific articles related to human & infrastructure resilience, industrial ecology, and the environment.You can read more about his work on human resilience, personal psychology, and entrepreneurship at his personal blog https://seagertp.substack.com/.
 
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Noora Niskanen: Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) for Treating Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)

Noora Niskanen, LCSW, MFA, EMDRIA-Certified Therapist is a licensed clinical social worker and EMDR therapist. With a background spanning multiple disciplines, Noora brings a unique perspective to her work as a trauma therapist. Before transitioning to clinical social work, she earned an MFA in film production from NYU and worked in both the film industry—where she directed narrative short films and edited feature-length documentaries—and in finance as a biotech investor relations consultant.
Now, in her private practice in New York City, Noora focuses on helping adults navigate and heal from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) primarily using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. She is currently completing her consultant-in-training program, allowing her to supervise and support other EMDR therapists in their professional development.
In addition to her clinical work, Noora has been an educator, serving as an adjunct professor at Lehman College in 2019 and 2020, where she taught trauma-focused practice to social work graduate students.
To learn more about Noora’s work, visit www.nooraniskanen.com
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To find an EMDR therapist in your area, go to https://www.emdria.org/find-an-emdr-therapist/
 
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Carlos Tanner: Ayahuasca (Healing Emotional Trauma and Expanding Consciousness)

Carlos Tanner has been studying the science of ayahuasca and plant medicine in the Amazon Rainforest since 2003. He currently works as the director of the Ayahuasca Foundation, a non-profit organization he began in 2009 in Iquitos, Peru. He organizes healing retreats and educational courses led by indigenous healers, called curanderos, to help people in need of healing anything from depression to cancer or who are interested in learning the ancestral healing traditions of the Amazon.
 
Since 2017, the Ayahuasca Foundation has also hosted plant medicine research looking at how attending an ayahuasca retreat can impact people with depression, anxiety, or trauma. Over a dozen articles have been published from this research, including in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry demonstrating that attending an ayahuasca retreat can produce epigenetic changes that significantly reduce depression and anxiety. Research continues at the center and now includes studying chronic pain, PTSD in veterans, and changes to the gut biome as a result of attending an ayahuasca retreat.
He is always happy to answer any questions sent to him through the website or directly to his email (carlos@ayahuascafoundation.org). Visit the Ayahuasca Foundation website for more information at www.ayahuascafoundation.org. 
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Matthew Smith: Hydrotherapy (The History of Using Water to Treat Mental Illnesses)

Matthew Smith, Ph.D., is a Professor of Health History at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is the author of An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet and Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD. He has also published a book on the history of food allergy called Another Person's Poison: A History of Food Allergy (Columbia University Press). His current project, funded by the AHRC, is on the history of social psychiatry and the link between socioeconomic factors and mental health. He has won the Roy Porter Award, the Cadogan Prize, and the Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award for his research and writing, has been a BBC Radio3 New Generation Thinker, and is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland.
You can check out Matthew's article A History of Hydrotherapy and Mental Health in The Lancet here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02424-3/abstract
 
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