2020 Conference

Master Mingtong Gu

Master Mingtong Gu, Chi Center founder, is a qigong master who offers the ancient teachings of Wisdom Healing Qigong. He was honored as Qigong Master of the Year by the 13th World Congress for Qigong & TCM. Master Gu is a speaker, healer, and teacher for programs around the world. He is author of books and online programs.

David Gruder, PhD, DCEP

David Gruder PhD, DCEP, is ACEP co-founder and 1st president. He is a 12-award-winning clinical and organizational development psychologist. President of Integrity Culture Systems™, David provides keynotes, training programs and consulting on making integrity profitable, leaders elevated, collaborators productive, happiness sustainable, and cultures healthy. His latest books are The Nimble C-Suite and The Nimble Company, and his societal wellbeing initiative is Revisioning Humanity.

Adam Rizvi, MD

Adam Rizvi, MD, is a neurologist specializing in critical care. His passion is to help us remember what it is to be whole and know that we are innately perfect, as this redefines our health and healing. He offers teachings with a unique blend of spiritual and scientific rigor.

Her Holiness Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi Mishra

Her Holiness Jagadguru Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi Mishra is a world-renowned spiritual master, healer, and humanitarian. With a unique fusion of Eastern spiritual wisdom, Western therapeutic knowledge, and energetic mastery, Sai Maa shares teachings designed to help people realize their innate power and become masters in their own lives.

Asha Clinton, MSW, PhD

Asha Clinton MSW, PhD, began to develop Advanced Integrative Therapy in 1999 and has created 15 AIT seminars. She is internationally known as an excellent presenter, for her skill in treating trauma, psychogenic illness, and spiritual impasse, and for her humanitarian aid work. She was a professor at Princeton University.

Peta Stapleton, PhD

Peta Stapleton, PhD, is a psychologist and associate professor at Bond University. She specializes in eating disorders, women’s health and adolescent issues, and is a leading EFT researcher. Her most recent book is The Science Behind Tapping. Peta has been named Psychologist of the Year for the whole of Australia by Allied Health Awards.​

Alfred Heath, MA

Alfred Heath, MA, fosters mind-body-spirit-energy wellbeing as a coach/facilitator/healer, and professional counselor. He is a certified hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner, Quantum Entrainment® Facilitator, independent Reiki master, and developer of ZeroPoint IntentionTM. He was designated by Be Set Free Fast™ developer Dr. Larry Nims to be its principal educator and trainer.?

George Limberakis, LCMHC, DCEP

George Limberakis, LCMHC, DCEP, ACAP-EFT, is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in private practice in Salt Lake City, Utah for 15 years. George is an ACEP member and is certified by ACEP as an advanced practitioner of EFT (ACAP-EFT) and Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology (DCEP).

Julie Brown Yau

Julie Brown Yau, PhD, addresses the challenging psychobiological symptoms of developmental and relational trauma using a unified approach. She is the author of The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma. She is also the director of education and program development at CCALS. Julie has a private practice in Newport Beach, CA, and works on Skype worldwide.?

Cyndi Dale

Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, healer, and business consultant and the author of 27 books about energy medicine, intuition, and spirituality. She has worked with over 65,000 clients and presented hundreds of seminars and workshops throughout the world. Her books include The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy, winner of four internationally recognized Publisher’s Awards.

Tapas Fleming

Tapas Fleming, LAc, a California licensed acupuncturist, created a simple technique (TAT®) that can gently and easily reduce stress, end limiting beliefs, and greatly enhance presence. One of the most celebrated leaders in energy psychology, Tapas has taught TAT to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.

Rick Hanson

Rick Hanson, PhD, is a psychologist, senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books have been published in 28 languages and include Neurodharma, Resilient, and Hardwiring Happiness. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR. He offers the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity that anyone with financial need can do for free.

Margaret Lynch-Raniere

Margaret Lynch Raniere

Margaret Lynch Raniere trains and certifies coaches, therapists and everyday people to be the most highly skilled, sought after and paid coaches in the world, following the methods in her best-selling book, Tapping into Wealth.

Melanie McGhee

Melanie McGhee, LCSW, is an award-winning author and the founder of Acceptance and Integration Therapy. After more than three decades practicing psychotherapy, Melanie developed this holistic and promising approach. It was created from dedicated study with master therapists coupled with decades long contemplation of nondual philosophy.

Anne Merkel

Anne Merkel PhD, ND, has practiced as an energy therapist for thirty years while researching holistic health, which she now integrates as a naturopathic doctor. Specializing in chronic health and emotional issues, she ties together functional medicine treatments for autoimmune, cancer, dementia, trauma, and more.

Tammy Nelson

Tammy Nelson, PhD, is a board-certified sexologist, certified sex and couples therapist, and certified Imago Relationship therapist. She is author of several books on sex and couples therapy. Tammy is the director and founder of the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute in Washington DC., a training institute and think tank focused on obtaining and creating sustainable relationships. ?

Andrew Newberg

Andrew Newberg, MD, is director of research at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health Jefferson University Hospital. He has studied mystical and religious experiences as well as the mind/body relationship, including the physiological correlates of meditation. His books include How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain and the best seller How God Changes Your Brain.

David Patterson

David Patterson, PhD, MSW, is an endowed professor at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work. He is director of the Doctor of Social Work (in clinical practice and leadership) Program and a UMASS Center for Mindfulness qualified MBSR teacher.

Norman Shealy

Norman Shealy MD, PhD, DSc, FACS, DABNS, is president of Shealy-Sorin Wellness. He created the concept of holistic medicine in 1971 with the introduction of spinal cord stimulation and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation unit (TENS). He was founding President of the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978.

Neil Theise

Neil Theise, MD, is a physician-scientist and professor of pathology at New York University School of Medicine. A global thought leader in clinical and scientific aspects of liver disease, he is also considered a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity. Delving into complexity theory has led him into consciousness studies. He is a long-term Zen practitioner and has recently been initiated into shamanic practice.  

Mary Sise, LCSW, DCEP

Mary Sise, LCSW, DCEP, is past president of ACEP, co-author of The Energy of Belief and author of Tapping the Panic Out of Pandemic. An international speaker, she has a private practice in Latham, NY.

Reginald Wesley

Reginald Wesley CEHP, is an abuse survivor. It was not until he found energy psychology that he really healed. He is now a is a CEHP with ACEP, and a member of the ACEP Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Reginald offers spiritual and life coaching sessions to individuals and couples.

Pam Altaffer, LCSW

Pamela Altaffer, LCSW, has been a psychotherapist for 30 years. She specializes in relationships and sees clients from around the world. She has been utilizing EP for over 20 years. She is a co-creator of the energy psychology technique Ask & Receive and presents internationally.

David Feinstein, PhD

David Feinstein, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has received nine national awards for his books on consciousness and healing. He has served on the faculties of Antioch College and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He and his wife, Donna Eden, have built one of the world’s largest and most vibrant organizations teaching Energy Medicine.