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Carista Luminare, PhD & Lion Goodman, PCC, PCC, PhD - Expert

Marriage/Couples Counselor

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About Carista Luminare, PhD & Lion Goodman, PCC

Are you…

    - Confused about how to create healthy love, and a secure, loving relationship?
    - Anxious about sharing your deepest needs with your partner?
    - Uncertain as to how to sustain lasting intimacy, where you feel safe to be you?

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When you were a child, your experience with your parents programmed your adult relationship dynamics.  But you’re not stuck with those patterns. With awareness and practice, you can swiftly re-wire your body, mind and heart so you can have the relationship you want. Visit ConfusedAboutLove.com.

ABOUT US

Carista Luminare, Ph.D.,  is co-founder of Luminary Leadership Institute and co-creator of ConfusedAboutLove.com. She has more than 30 years experience as a consultant, counselor and coach to executives, entrepreneurs, individuals and organizations. Her powerful life-changing programs bring participants into direct experience and embodiment of their True Self. She developed a comprehensive and holistic parenting methodology, and LLI's leading-edge evolutionary leadership program.

 After graduating from Harvard University in Psychology and Social Relations in 1978, Carista pioneered educational programs focused on the integration of the personality and soul.

In her private healing practice, she integrates her lifelong research on childhood attachment, and how our early bonding patterns with our parents profoundly affect our primary adult relationship dynamics. Carista is the author of the groundbreaking book, Parenting Begins Before Conception. She has lectured throughout the United States at conferences, hospitals, and universities, and has been featured in a variety of international media.  She serves as a member of the Hoffman Institute Advisory Council. Email: carista@ConfusedAboutLove.com.

Lion Goodman, P.C.C., has 35 years experience as an executive coach, counselor, and healer.  He has served hundreds of executives, business owners, coaches, and change agents around the world. He is co-founder of Luminary Leadership Institute, a consulting firm dedicated to bringing leaders of businesses and organizations into alignment with their highest virtues and their True Self.

Lion is the creator of the Clear Beliefs Process, a proprietary methodology for shifting beliefs at the core of the psyche, which he has taught to hundreds of coaches and therapists internationally. He served as Director of Men's Programs at The Shift Network, an Internet-based educational organization, where he created programs with more than 20,000 participants. He is a co-founder of The Tribe of Men, an initiatory program for men. He has taught workshops and trainings across the U.S. and Europe, and is the author of many books, including: Creating on Purpose; Menlightenment; Clear Your Beliefs, and The Narcissism Primer.  Email: lion@ConfusedAboutLove.com.  

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