Founder & CEO, Dr. Elizabeth Esalen
Dr Liz Esalen is the Founder and CEO of Luminous Trauma Center and The Lotus Collaborative, eating disorder recovery centers in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, California. Dr. Liz has dedicated her career to creating quality, heart-centered healing organizations that foster mind-body-soul reconnection and profound transformation. She is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and a licensed psychologist with 12 years of organizational leadership and over 25 years of holistic clinical experience.
Esalen's personal and professional mission is to inspire people to achieve a thriving life filled with health, love and bliss. Over the last six years, Esalen's own transformational journey has involved ecstatic dance, restoring optimal health after trauma and autoimmunity, training in MAPS' MDMA-assisted therapy, Internal Family Systems, the enneagram, gender diversity, racial and gender equity, and shamanic energy medicine. At Luminous Healing Center, Esalen's work is at the forefront of her field, offering new and progressive evidence-based treatments for psychological trauma, PTSD, and mind-body anxiety. Dr. Liz has a passion for leading shamanic dance journeys and feminine leadership at various retreats around the world. Her personal and professional mission is to help people ignite their inner light, empowering them to not just live, but to thrive and be of service, to the healing and liberation of all people.
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
M. Williamson
Dr Liz Esalen is the Founder and CEO of Luminous Trauma Center and The Lotus Collaborative, eating disorder recovery centers in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, California. Dr. Liz has dedicated her career to creating quality, heart-centered healing organizations that foster mind-body-soul reconnection and profound transformation. She is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and a licensed psychologist with 12 years of organizational leadership and over 25 years of holistic clinical experience.
Esalen's personal and professional mission is to inspire people to achieve a thriving life filled with health, love and bliss. Over the last six years, Esalen's own transformational journey has involved ecstatic dance, restoring optimal health after trauma and autoimmunity, training in MAPS' MDMA-assisted therapy, Internal Family Systems, the enneagram, gender diversity, racial and gender equity, and shamanic energy medicine. At Luminous Healing Center, Esalen's work is at the forefront of her field, offering new and progressive evidence-based treatments for psychological trauma, PTSD, and mind-body anxiety. Dr. Liz has a passion for leading shamanic dance journeys and feminine leadership at various retreats around the world. Her personal and professional mission is to help people ignite their inner light, empowering them to not just live, but to thrive and be of service, to the healing and liberation of all people.
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
M. Williamson
Jeanne Willis, Lead Therapist
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist # 94883
Jeanne Willis, our Lead Therapist, brings a wide variety of creative therapies to Luminous. Formerly Assistant Clinical Director of The Lotus Collaborative, helping clients overcome the effects of trauma has always been the work closest to her heart. Jeanne has been addressing trauma during her work in treatment centers since 2014, in her private practice since 2018, and in her former hypnotherapy practice since 1996. Jeanne is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. She utilizes multiple treatment modalities in her work including EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Expressive Therapies. She has presented workshops at the National IFS Conference in Denver, Castlewood Treatment Center in Pacific Grove, and The Lotus Collaborative Treatment Center in Santa Cruz. Jeanne finds inspiration, peace and joy in nature.
Marybeth Weinstock, Group Therapist
P.h.D, BC-DMTDr. Marybeth Weinstock has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and a Master’s Degree in Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) from Hunter College in New York. Dr. Weinstock is a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist. She has worked in psychiatric hospitals, schools, mental health facilities, and in private practice with a broad span of patients, specializing in eating disorders, trauma, body image, and issues of age.
Dr. Weinstock’s theoretical orientation includes Jungian, feminist, Internal Family Systems, and existential approaches. Dr. Weinstock leads groups using Internal Family Systems and Dance/Movement Therapy. She believes both methodologies contribute to the healing of psychological trauma through embodied integration of the fractured mind and spirit, which opens the door for experiences of living in authentic Self. Dr. Weinstock has served on the CA Chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association as both President and Communications Chair, and is currently Member-at-Large for the national association Western Region. She is also the national representative to The Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH) . Her mentor Anna Halprin certified her to teach Movement Ritual and she is a certified facilitator in The Body Positive model. She has a private practice in Pacific Grove, CA where she also teaches dance. |
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Liz Cruz Porter, Director of Business Development
Liz Cruz Porter has worked in the field of mental health care marketing and business operations since 2014. She started as The Lotus Collaborative's Outreach Coordinator and moved to Director of Operations and Business Development in 2016. She is currently the Director of Business Development for both Luminous Healing Center and The Lotus Collaborative. She brings with her years of sales and business development experience, as well as a background in health and nutrition. She attended San Francisco State University where she earned a B.S in Dietetics, providing her with a deep understanding of the psychological and emotional connections associated with the way we eat.
As Director of Business Development, she is responsible for overall administrative management of services, the direction of strategic operational development, brand development, marketing and awareness activities, and special projects such as insurance contract procurement, operating applications management, and website development.