The following is an evolving list
of practitioners who are members of ECaP.
These individuals have submitted information concerning
their credentials, licenses and practices.

Please review this information carefully and seek
local references with credible sources whenever possible.
This listing is provided for information purposes only
and does not imply or suggest a clinical affiliation
or endorsement for any individual.

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Alabama

Alwyn S. Whitehead, Jr, Psy.D
Pamela Jo Pierce-Whitehead, RN, BSN, Psy.D
License: Clinical Psychology (in MO & AL)
Level I ECaP Professional Training - completed May, 2003
Healthcare Empowerment
4508 Aladdin Court, Springfield, MO 65807
Phone: 417 881-2800
Email: alwyn911@msn.com or pamejo2000@aol.com
The focus of their practice a holistic approach to healing cancer which includes medical, psychological and spiritual methods and individualized treatment and care in a therapeutic environment using visualization, music and meditation.

Alaska

Arizona

Anne Corssen, RN, CRNA
License: Registered Nurse
1722 E. Waltann Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85022
Phone: 602 971-9079 Fax: 602 971-9079
Email: anneofarizona@aol.com
Anne has been in practice for over 15 years and has attended ECaP training workshops. She encourages healing through inner work using dreams, drawings, feelings and movement. Love heals when one's essential nature is exposed to consciousness. Anne conducts a weekly cancer patient support group.

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Bernie Siegel, MD conducts a support group in Woodbridge, CT on the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month. For more information on location and time, please call Lucille Ranciato, LPN at 203 397-0416 or email Bernie at bugsyssiegel@sbcglobal.net

Bernie also conducts another monthly support group on the first Wednesday of each month in Simsbury, CT. Anyone facing an illness or health challenge is welcome to attend. For information or to register, please call Keith Siegel at 860 651-1172. $25 per person. Space is limited.

Delaware

D.C.

Florida

Nancy A Feldman-Saylor, LCSW-CHTP
License: Social Worker
7451 West Mercada Way, Delray Beach, FL 33446
Phone/Fax: 561 499-3601
www.innervisionstudioinc.com
Nancy has been in practice since 1980 and has participated in ECaP training workshops. Her philosophy is to empower her clients to discover the resources within themselves to meet challenges as they create their path to wellness. Her integrative approach to healing addresses the whole person - mind, body and spirit. Treatments are tailored to meet the needs of each person and is a collaborative process. Her practice specializes in assisting people with acute, chronic and critical illness. Nancy is a certified Healing Touch practitioner.

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

William Linson, MD
License: MD, specializing in Psychiatry & Environmental Medicine
Member, American Academy of Environmental Medicine
3445 E. Boulder Heights Drive
Boise, ID 83712
Phone: 208 388-0400
Email: wlinsonmd@cableone.net
Level I ECaP Professional Training - completed September, 2002
Dr. Lenson provides individual and group therapy, hypnotherapy, pharmacotherapy, as well as an assessment of the toxic body burden that may be contributory to the patient's illness. He has extensive experience with CAM, having explored a great number of treatment possibilities for himself for colon cancer, and for his wife with breast cancer.

Illinois

The Reverend C. Scott Giles, D.Min.
License: Minister
1211 East Pershing Avenue
Wheaton, IL 60187-6735
Phone: 630 668-1141
www.counselingministries.org
Email: CSGiles @uuma.org

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Ruth Vanden Bosch, RN, MA, LLP, LPC
License: Professional Counselor, Registered Nurse
Level I ECaP Professional Training - completed October 22, 2000
779 Maywood Avenue
Holland, MI 49424
Phone: 616 786-9370
Email: ruthvandenbosch@yahoo.com
Ruth has been in practice for over 18 years. Ruth uses Counseling, Drum circle facilitation, Touch Drawing, Reiki Attunement and Reflexology instruction as well as support groups to help individuals with chronic illness or cancer to heal physically, emotionally and mentally in an atmosphere of compassion and unconditional love.

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Alwyn S. Whitehead, Jr, Psy.D
Pamela Jo Pierce-Whitehead, RN, BSN, Psy.D
License: Clinical Psychology (in MO & AL)
Level I ECaP Professional Training - completed May, 2003
Level III ECaP Professional Training - completed October, 2004
Healthcare Empowerment
4508 Aladdin Court, Springfield, MO 65807
Phone: 417 881-2800
Email: alwyn911@msn.com or pamejo2000@aol.com
The focus of their practice a holistic approach to healing cancer which includes medical, psychological and spiritual methods and individualized treatment and care in a therapeutic environment using visualization, music and meditation. Support group sessions for people facing cancer are also available.

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

John Gatto, DCH
License: none (Doctor in Clinical Hypnosis)
Fight for your Life
1358 Burnet Avenue, Suite 1, Union, NJ 07083
Phone: 908 964-4467 Fax: 908 810-0255
Email: ggattohypno@aol.com
John has been in practice for 20 years and has attended an ECaP workshop. Individual and Group Therapy is available. His focus is catastrophic illness using pain management and other techniques.

New Mexico

Stephen P. Barrilleaux, PhD
License: Psychology
2741 Indian School Road NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Phone: 505 255-8682 Fax: 505 255-7890
Email: steve@cajunraven.com
Steve has been in practice for 30 years as a counseling psychologist. Having taken an ECaP workshop, he works with survivors of life threatening illnesses in both the Living Mode and the Dying Mode, meeting each person where s/he is in the healing process. He uses experiential and cognitive/behavioral psychotherapy and does spiritual direction with those who want this service.

New York

Warren Berland, LCSW, PhD
License: Clinical Social Worker
59 West 19th Street, Suite 4D, New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212 645-5332
Email: wjberland@msn.com
www.outoftheboxforlife.com
Dr. Berland has been in practice for 30 years and has attended numerous ECaP training workshops beginning 25 years ago. His solution-oriented, brief therapy approach helps people recognize that they have a choice in dealing with life's challenges. The most effective choices free us from the constraints of the ego, and lead us to profound emotional and psychological healing. His approach is described in his book Out of the Box for Life: Being Free is Just a Choice (Harper Collins, 1999).
"Warren Berland has learned what it takes to live an authentic life. Read his words of wisdom so you can break out of your box and live." - Bernie Siegel, MD

Eve R. H. Boden, MSW, LCSW, BCD
License: Social Worker
32 Sexton Road, Syosset, NY 11791
Phone: 516 938-7770
Fax 516 433-8967
Eve has participated in many ECaP workshops and has been in practice for over 20 years. She promotes healing by integrating her caring and compassion with good psychotherapy and the use of mind-body techniques which empower her clients to participate more fully in their own healing process.

Ms. Sonny Levinbook, LCSW, Psychotherapy
License: Clinical Social Worker
50 Roosevelt Avenue, Commack, NY 11725 or
3771 Nesconset Hwy, Suite 208B, South Setauket, NY 11720
Phone: 631 689-1854 or 631 543-1380
Sonny has been in practice for 18 years and has attended an ECaP workshop. Dealing with a serious illness can provide an opportunity to start living life the way you always wanted. Her goal is to help individuals re-focus and tap into their own inner strength and to develop a "survivor" attitude using mind-body approaches, empowerment and cognitive behavioral re-structuring.

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Christine Damukaitis, RN, LMT
License: Registered Nurse
Level I ECaP Professional Training - completed April 2001
Level II ECaP Professional Training - completed March, 2002
11419 Winterberry Lane, Chardon, OH 44024
Phone: 440 285-4262
Email: healingworks@adelphia.net
Christine has been in practice for over 35 years and has certifications in CRRN, HNC, HTP, NHA.
In her work, she tries to bridge the gap between traditional and integrative medicine using her skills to coach people who are looking for a change based on what feels right for them.
Therapies provided: Healing touch, Massage, Meditation, pre and post surgery counseling and La Stone Therapy.

Cindy Orlasky, PhD
License: Psychology
Level I ECaP Professional Training - completed April 2001
Level II ECaP Professional Training - completed March, 2002
Level III ECaP Professional Training - completed March, 2005
8131 Hubbard Valley Road, Seville, OH 44273
Phone: 330 769-3690
Email: efirth@neo.rr.com
Dr. Orlasky has been in practice as a psychologist for over 25 years, serving clients of all ages. She has provided mental health consultation and preventation services, and held various administrative positions. She has a special interest in working with individuals who are experiencing a life threatening or life altering medical condition. In addition to her training as a psychologist and through the ECaP program, Cindy completed training as a Life Coach through the Hudson Institute. She draws on all of these experiences to offer strategies to the individuals with whom she works.
Therapies provided: Psychotherapy: cognitive and behavioral.

Oklahoma

David R. Wakefield, PhD
License: Psychologist, LMFT
Level I ECaP Professional Training - completed May, 2003
Level II ECaP Professional Training - completed October, 2003
3820 South Oak Avenue
Broken Arrow, OK 74011
Phone: 918 286-5149
Fax: 918 286-5070
Email: david.wakefield@ctca-hope.com
David has been in practice for 24 years and embraces an integrative interdisciplinary team approach, providing whole person healthcare within conventional medicine. Mind-Body skills are taught and used to enhance the immune system and aid in the healing process. The goal is to empower, educate, encourage and support patients and their families to mobilize all of their resources to promote health, well-being and quality of life.
Therapies available: visualization, humor therapy, stress management, solution focused cognitive and behavioral therapy, massage, accupuncture, mind-body skills.

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Barry Bittman, MD
License: Physician
Mind-Body Wellness Center - home of ECaP
18201 Conneaut Lake Road
Meadville, PA 16335
Phone: 814-333-5060 Fax: 814-333-5067
Email: doctorb@mind-body.org
Dr. Bittman is ECaP's CEO. He is a neurologist, author, researcher and international speaker. Dr. Bittman is the director of the Mind-Body Wellness Center, and is co-author (with Bernie) of their clinical program, "Insights For Living Beyond Cancer."

James Vizza, M.Div., Psy.D
License: Psychologist
Level I ECaP Professional Training - completed April 2001
600 Somerset Avenue, Windber, PA 15963
Phone: 814 467-3613
Fax: 814 467-3629
Email: jvizza@windbercare.org
Dr. Vizza has been in practice for 21 years, providing an interdisciplinary approach. He believes that the focus must be on the person, not the disease, with the goal of healing rather than curing. Using his background in ministry and spirituality, he practices within an integrative health program.
Therapies provided: individual, couples, family and group Psychotherapy.

Gila Lesky, MSW, LCSW, BCD (Board Certified Diplomate)
License: Clinical Social Work
Level I ECaP Professional Training - completed April 2002
Squirrel Hill Professional Building, Suite 300
5725 Forward Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Phone: 412 521-3077 Fax: 412 422-5356 Gila's fundamental philosphy is one of patient empowerment, demstifying the mystique of medicine and teaching her clients to self-advocate with their physicians. She has a special interest in "POTS" (Postural Orthostatic Tachychardia Syndrome). Therapies provided: Cognitive, Behavioral and insight oriented for marital, family and adolescent issues, chronic illness, ADHD disorders in adolescents and adults; women's issues and life transitions. Her approach is compassionate, strategic, dynamic and solution focused.

Puerto Rico

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Esha Dakavana, MA, LCMHC
License: Clinical Mental Health Counselor
105 Highland Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301
Phone: 802 254-6860
Esha has been in practice for more than 30 years and has attended an ECaP workshop. She founded Vermont Healing Tools Project. There is much we can learn about ourselves when an illness strikes. It can provide opportunities to re-prioritize and re-direct our lives and give us permission to discover new vistas and the true meaning of our existence while we are working to direct our life-energy into the healing of our bodies.

Virginia

Washington

Sharon Gray Lester, R.C.
License: Registered Counselor
Living Roots Connection
P. O. Box 1653, Snohomish, WA 98291
Everett, WA 98201
Phone: 425 231-3846
Sharon is nationally respected for her gifts as a spiritual teacher and intuitive. She began developing her work 18 years ago after her near-death experience and her own healing through cancer. The result of her unique experience, The Living Roots Connection, is a process which utilizes the engery and wisdom of nature to heal; cultivating within each person and therefore, our Earth, a new strength, joy and peacefulness. Sharon's innate gifts have been deepened by working with gifted healers and indigenous people. With her intuitive guidance, clients can learn how to entrain to nature (the heart of beauty) and vitalize their health on every level. Sharon teaches others bring into their lives an authentic connection, tapping into their inner resources and wisdom. She believes that this awakening is more than personal growth: it is a key factor for sustainability and healing.

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Canada

Mexico

Donna J. Mansfield, LCSW
License: Social Worker
Level I ECaP Professional Training - completed September, 2002
Phone: 376 765-2703
email: djmansfield@sbcglobal.net
Donna uses cognitive restructuring to help individuals reconnect with their inner guide and rediscover the meaning of their life.

Argentina

Maria Jose Zorrilla, LPC
License: Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed School
Level I, II, III ECaP Professional Training - 2005
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone: 01154 11 5256-9863
Email: mjzorrilla@fibertel.com.ar

Maria lived in the US for 13 years working as an acccountant for the BiTech Industries. She returned to Argentina and received her degree of Counselor in Psychology and now works as a counselor helping people who are facing difficult challenges. She is a member of the group "Comunicandones", facilitating the L.E.C.I. workshops.

Maria vivio 13 anos en Estados Unidos donde trabajo come Contador Publico en una empresa de biotechnologia. Actualmente, es Counselor (Consultora Psicologica), vive en Buenos Aires y trabaja brindando acompanamiento psicologico a personas en situaciones de crisis. Integra ademas el grupo "Comunicandonos" facilitando los talleres L.E.C.I. (Los Espacios y La Comunicacion Interpersonal). Ella fue tambien paciente de cancer y completo el entrenamiento profesional de ECaP en el Mind Body Wellness Center para poder ayudar a pacientes oncologicos en el desafio que supone esa enfermedad y asi mejorar su calidad de vida fortaleciendose en ese trayecto.