Seattle Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center is pleased to offer a team of Mind-Body therapists, whose diverse expertise is available for ongoing counseling and psychotherapy services for all patients of the Center and their caregivers, at no additional cost.

Stacy Oxenhandler, ND, M.A.B.S
Mind-Body Medicine

Stacy graduated from Bastyr University with a degree in naturopathic medicine and continued her education by pursuing a Master's in Applied Behavioral Science from Saybrook University, LIOS Graduate College. In addition to conventional training, she also completed a three-year apprenticeship in shamanic healing which draws upon the wisdom of indigenous cultures.
 
Stacy believes that health is more than the absence of disease. She works with patients to achieve optimal wellness on all levels - physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally. She helps them use thoughts and intention to create the lives they truly want - as individuals, in family systems, and in community.
 
Stacy continues to seek an understanding of written and practiced theory from the field. For example, Angeles Arrien suggests that one of the four addictions in this culture is the focus on what's not working. By shifting one's attention to what is working in our lives, through practices such as mindfulness & gratitude, we set out on the path of deliberate creation.
 
Stacy invites patients to see what is working, to envision what is possible, and to align with one's greatest dream, deepest joy and purpose on the planet.
 
"Every person has a story to be told and I approach each patient as an individual with compassion, curiosity, and respect," she says. "Utilizing intuitive skills and array of eclectic tools, I work with patients to discover, create, and align themselves with the lives they want going forward."
 
This process of discovery may include: how to have more effective communication, how to set healthy boundaries, how to make self-honoring choices, how to engage more fully with all that life has to offer, how to live a life of heart and meaning, and how to navigate the "dark nights of the soul."
 
Stacy offers counseling to individuals, couples, parents & children, patients and caregivers alike. Her services are offered at no cost to patients of the Center. You can make an appointment by talking to your physician.

 

Lori Nelson, M.A., L.M.H.C.A, L.M.P
Mind-Body Medicine
 
Lori was inspired by bodywork in 1996, when she received her first series of Hellerwork Structural Integration. Trained as a gymnast when she was child, an athlete as a teen and landing in a desk job working long hours as a young adult, she was beginning to suffer daily aches and pains by her early 20's.

"My experiences with Hellerwork, yoga, psychotherapy and the other body oriented modalities in the last decade have allowed me to live with more ease, balance and peace than I could have imagined possible at one time," states Lori of her own journey to wellness.
 
As a result of her positive experiences, she felt inspired to learn how to help others live with more ease and balance in their bodies and in their lives. In 1996, Lori left a successful advertising career to complete primary training in Hellerwork Structural Integration. Since this time, she has continued to increase her skills.
 
Lori has been a student of yoga since 1994 and completed yoga teacher training with Ana Forrest in 2001. She began studying Craniosacral Therapy in 2001 with the Upledger Institute and completed advanced Craniosacral Therapy training with Ursula Popp in 2003. She received a Masters degree in Mental Health Counseling from Antioch University in 2009 with the intention of incorporating body centered and other forms of psychotherapy into my practice.
 
"I bring awareness of structure, alignment, psychology, movement education and presence of spirit to my practice," she says. "Whether I am assisting a client to heal from a physical injury, helping another to unwind years of stored tension or assisting an individual suffering from emotional challenges, it is my intention to help each of my clients lead more whole, balanced and healthy lives."
 
An essential aspect of Lori's therapeutic focus is that it looks beyond the individual history, to include universal themes of human existence as they play out in your life now. "I have a strong belief in the transformative power of the therapeutic relationship," she adds.
 
Lori applies several important tools to the practice of counseling including Focusing technique which accesses sensations in the body as a spring board for increased understanding, awareness and resolution of trauma. Moreover, Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems focuses on helping you become "unstuck" from unhealthy patterning that perpetuates ways of being, interacting, and feeling that are unhealthy. It helps you change how your brain processes anxiety, stress, depression and other emotions. Finally, mindfulness practices are incorporated as a way of gaining greater self mastery, increasing one's ability to be conscious of choices and able to make better ones.
 
"Given that my background is varied and includes training in both psychotherapeutically oriented and body oriented modalities, I may incorporate aspects of both into your therapy sessions depending upon your needs. I may suggest using touch during treatment to best assist you," she concludes.
 
For more information, or to make an appointment with Lori, just ask your doctor at the Center.