03: Explanation of the Condition

Shonna is a passionate advocate of the Gupta Brain Retraining Program, after using it to
fully reclaim her health and life in 2014. Prior to her recovery she was diagnosed with labels
such as ME/CFS, POTS, MCS, mold sensitivity, Lyme, food sensitivities and others. She
spent many years searching for solutions and implementing countless regimens, prior to the
success with the Gupta Program.

Shonna completed the 2-year Gupta Coach Training and became certified in 2019. She has a
health science background and graduated from the University of Alberta in 1993. She is a
Heart Math Trainer and Coach with The HeartMath Institute, a Neurolinguistic Programing
Practitioner, and a Support Coach and Student Advisor for the Gupta Coach Training
Program. She draws inspiration from the work of Dr. Rick Hanson who is the creator of
Hardwiring Happiness and Dr. Carolyn Leaf who is a Christian neuroscientist. She is
constantly learning about brain neurobiology, and how to use this information to support
health.

In her own healing journey, having a compassionate and encouraging coach who had
experienced a similar journey made all the difference in her recovery. Now she is honored
to be a supportive mentor in the journey of transformation for others. She works to create a
safe and accepting environment to help cultivate growth and support healing. In this
process, people can discover authentic self-worth and happiness.

Over the past 2 years, Shonna has become specialized in coaching people recovering from
Long Covid. The Gupta Program is highly effective in supporting the recovery of Long Covid.

Shonna lives in the Canadian Rockies, and enjoys several mountain sports and activities with
her family and friends. She volunteers and has been trained with the Royal Canadian
Mountain Police (RCMP) as a Victim Service Advocate for people in her community
experiencing crisis. Volunteering to raise and train guide dog puppies is also a more recent
passion.

Shonna meets with clients from all over the world by Zoom or phone and can be reached at
contact@shonnastokowski.com. If you would like to book an Initial Consultation or join a
Workshop/ Group Coaching, you can visit her website at shonnastokowski.com under “services.”

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Languages: Dutch and English

Guiding people to live more consciously, more friendly and to be more free: that is the passion of Caroline. By supporting clients to bring body, head and heart more into balance. In 2015 she started her practice for coaching, body-oriented psychotherapy and traumawork. She is also a mindfulness- and compassion trainer. In the Gupta Program she guides retrainers in their recovery and supports GP coaches in training by giving personal sessions and supervision.

Life itself has been providing her a learning journey. Caroline had several burnouts, diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME) and cancer. In her recovery process she learned how to use her high sensitivity and focus on her body as a key to healing. As a result she was able to allow more strength, vibrancy and joy into her life. In her approach she works with body and mind, creating space for relaxation, insight, vitality, focus and personal strength. She treats a variety of complaints and requests for help, including guidance with stress management and burnout, dealing with chronic illness, anxiety and depression, high sensitivity, insecurity, mourning and loss, personal development and career guidance. Her strengths are the ability to create the right atmosphere of trust, kindness, safety and respect and the ability to get to the core of your issues easily. This will take you to a deeper and broader understanding of yourself, your life, your strength, your relationships. Clients call her involved, warm, curious, calm, firm and sharp in her perception.

In addition to insightful conversations, she uses proven methods such as body-oriented work, traumawork (Somatic Experiencing, rescripting), mindfulness and meditation, (self) compassion, Compassion Focused Therapy, relaxation techniques, positive psychology, breath work, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), visualizations, systemic work (family constellations), gestalt and yoga.

The tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh is a big inspiration for her. She is also touched by the work of A.H. Almaas, of whom she is student since 2005. Furthermore she practices kundalini yoga almost daily, which encourages her to fully live from her heart. She lives in the Netherlands next to the forest with her husband. They have three teenage children and a lovely dog.

Caroline supports clients over Zoom or Skype.

Email: info@centrumheartwork.nl

Dutch website: www.centrumheartwork.nl

Skype: carolinevanlankveld

Julie Georgiana Cody started working with Clients in 2019 during her training and has been a Fully Certified Gupta Program Coach since 2021, she is a Master NLP Practioner and has Diploma’s in Neuroplasticity, Mindfulness and Meditation. She is Passionate about supporting clients on their journey toward health and Happiness.

Julie is based in the UK, where she lives with her Husband, 3 children and her Blind Cat. She became unwell with ME/CFS in 2008 becoming housebound in 2014 when she found the gupta program in 2018 she was bedbound with Severe ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTs), Orthostatic Hypotension (OH), Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and many downstream symptoms from Migraines, Costochondritis, Chemical Sensitivities, Hypoglycaemia and Many more, all of which left her unable to care for herself, with fulltime care. Thanks to the Gupta Program she found her full health in 2020.

Julie uses her unique interpretation of the program to support others find their own health. She credits her ADHD for her creativity in the way she works, being able to think outside the box and uniquely tailer the program to the individual client’s needs, while also enabling her to bring complex information to clients in a easy to understand way.

Julie is passionate about working with “Parts” and combining that with her interest in Attachment Theory to support clients to create “Earned Secure Attachment” with their parts to create safety within the body, which in turn supports the calming of the nervous system through harmonious connection. She works with clients via Zoom from all over the world for Personal Coaching, while also running a series of workshops through the year.

E-mail: divine_serenity@yahoo.com

Website: www.divine-serenity.com

Language: English

Deborah is a Gupta Amygdala Retraining Coach (2016), and an Organic Intelligence® Certified Coach (2022).

Before finding these methods, she experienced improvements with energy work and flower essences and has been in practice as a flower essence practitioner since 2000. The Gupta Program was the final method she needed to recover completely from chronic fatigue, chemical sensitivities, electromagnetic sensitivities, and food sensitivities. People may choose to work with her solely for coaching, or any combination of modalities they are drawn to.

As well as offering individual coaching sessions by videoconference and telephone, Deborah also facilitates group coaching by videoconference (or join by telephone). Her group coaching workshops include writing exercises, and she is also a professional writer.  You may visit her website to see when group coaching series are starting, and to find out her current availability for individual coaching.

Website:  http://deborahmayaan.com

Languages: German and English

Ursula is a Gupta coach (2009) based in Germany, in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, near Heidelberg.
Originally a physicist, Ursula was intrigued by both the scientific foundations and the deep wisdom comprised in Guptaprogramme. After her own full recovery from Fibromyalgia and CFS/ME, Ursula felt a strong wish to share her amazing experience and help others recover. She set out by following a course in health counseling with Andreas Winter and completed a training class in Integral life coaching with Veit Lindau.

Drawing upon the principles of Gupta Amygdala Retraining, Ursula is working with clients suffering from symptoms of fibromyalgia, CFS/ME, MCS and EHS and specializes in digestive issues.
In this 2018, Ursula is celebrating her 10th anniversary of recovery, and her 9th year as a Gupta coach. During those years, her enthusiasm for the potential of the Guptaprogramme has only grown further, her understanding deepened, and she is more than ever convinced that this programme provides all the tools and the knowledge required so that, with both empathy and perseverance, all eventual obstacles can be unearthed and overcome.

Ursula is welcoming retrainers at all stages, while it is her favourite task to help stagnating retrainers on their last stretch to full recovery.
Ursula is offering consultancy and coaching in her clinic in Weinheim, as well as via telephone, Skype, or similar.
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E-mail: beratung@rothamel.info
Telephone: +49 177 7112844
Website: https://www.guptaprogramm.de/

Language: English

I am a highly experienced Gupta coach, who has been coaching with the program since 2012. I used the program to fully recover from CFS and fibromyalgia and was so inspired by it that I re-trained, so I could share what I had learned with others.

Originally, I trained to PhD level, as an environmental research scientist. I am now an NLP Master Practitioner, psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher, with additional training in positive psychology, self-compassion and resilience. I am qualified, through the Universities of Bangor and Oxford, to teach mindfulness programs and I often incorporate mindfulness skills into my coaching sessions for additional benefit. This is supported by my decades of mindfulness and Zen meditation practice and ongoing study with meditation teachers in the UK, US and Ireland.

I bring warmth, compassion and friendliness to my coaching. I ask empathic, insightful questions that can get to the heart of the beliefs and resistances that are keeping you stuck. I will work with you at any stage of your Gupta Program journey. My experience and insight can quickly help you understand how to adapt the program for your situation and give you additional skills to move you forward. I particularly enjoy helping you to reconnect with joy and rediscover purpose in life.

I have first-hand experience of going back into a workplace after my CFS recovery and balancing working full time, with a family of three sons. I can help you develop the resilience skills and practices to make recovery sustainable, long term.

I have personal experience of hEDS/joint hyper mobility and its links to anxiety and MCAS, use of a low histamine diet and how to use the Gupta program effectively with these conditions. A growing passion is learning how the menopause transition can lead to CFS and fibromyalgia, as well as IBS and histamine issues. I have also worked successfully with long COVID clients.

Although I am based in the lovely market town of Todmorden in West Yorkshire, England, I work internationally, via Zoom/Skype or phone, offering Gupta program coaching one to one and in groups. I also offer life coaching, meditation training (1-1 and groups) and some online psychotherapy (contact me to discuss). I work with adults of any gender, over 18 years old.

When I am not coaching, I love to be out in nature, meditating, walking in the mountains and my local Pennine hills and woods with my dog. I enjoy organic gardening and cooking, wild swimming, painting in pastels and watercolours and working creatively with textiles.

Email – stressresilience@hotmail.co.uk
Web – www.stressresilience.co.uk

Language: English

Frances as a Gupta Coach (since 2008) operates from Sheffield, UK and offers coaching online for all by Zoom, and group coaching for women. She is a practitioner of Hypnotherapy, EFT, NLP, Life Coaching, Bodywork, Family Constellations and Internal Family Systems. She specialises in coaching people on aspects of the Gupta Program with all limbic systems related chronic health issues, on working with people who have experienced trauma prior to illness developing using tools from Gupta Amygdala Retraining, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to assist release, and also on relationship and sexuality issues having more recently trained as a coach in this field with Layla Martin.

Frances had ME/CFS herself for 5 years from 2002-2007, and has enjoyed many years of full recovery including developing a full health coaching practice supporting others to recovery, developing Gupta Program Training, undergoing intensive training in many coaching and therapeutic modalities, running three half marathons, writing a book and since July 2013 becoming a mum. She is passionate about supporting you on your journey to more health, joy, purpose and pleasure in life.

Website: http://www.francesgoodall.com
Email: frances@francesgoodall.com

Languages: French & English

Phone : tel:+33 (0) 62 29 84 446,
Email: sophie.schlogel@hypersensibles.com
Website: Hypersensibles.com 

Sophie is an experienced health practitioner and therapist based in Paris and Aix-en-Provence. She earned a University Degree at Medical School in Dijon in accompanying people suffering from CFS, Fibromyalgia, Electro Hypersensitivity, Chemical sensitivity and other neuro functional pathologies as Panic disorders, Attention disorders, Irritable Bowel Syndrome. She specializes in coaching hypersensitive people.

She offers counseling on global Health working with the Gupta program as well as other therapeutic tools and methods. Consultations are available in French and English. Face to face sessions as well as skype or phone consultations. Speaking groups are held in Aix-en-Provence once a month.

Sophie Schlogel est installée depuis plus de 10 ans en tant que praticienne de santé naturopathe et psycho-praticienne. Elle est basée à Paris et Aix en Provence.  Sophie est diplômée de l’Université de Pharmacie et Médecine de Dijon dans l’accompagnement des personnes souffrant de troubles neuro fonctionnels (Syndrome de fatigue chronique, fibromyalgie, troubles anxieux généralisés, Troubles de l’attention, Sensibilité chimique multiple, Électro hypersensibilité). Elle se spécialise dans l’accompagnement des personnes hypersensibles. Dans sa pratique elle utilise l’accompagnement au Gupta programme ainsi que d’autres techniques Thérapeutiques et approches naturelles (phytothérapie, aromathérapie, nutrition, diététique….) Consultations en face à face, au téléphone et par Skype sont proposées en Français et en Anglais. Groupes de parole organisés à Aix en Provence une fois par mois. N’hésitez pas à me contacter.

Jen is a certified Gupta Program Coach since 2020.

She lives and works in South Wales (but dreams of moving to the Canadian Rockies!) and offers sessions online via Skype or Zoom.

After a lifetime of reoccurring digestive and respiratory illness, and many years of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Jen found the Gupta Program and everything changed. Using the program as her foundation, Jen went on a transformational healing journey.

Through this eye-opening experience she found a new calling in supporting others on their own unique recovery journey. She now integrates powerful coaching and therapy tools including the Gupta Program techniques, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or tapping), Matrix Reimprinting, Meditation and Visualisation, NLP and Life Coaching to support healing, aligning to life purpose, and living in balance and joy.

As director of Balance + Flow Coaching and a passionate community builder, Jen runs group coaching sessions to create powerful and insightful connection. She is also an author sharing her healing experiences and insights from the journey in fiction and non-fiction writing.

For more information on working with Jen in 1-to-1 or small group coaching sessions via Skype, please see her website www.balanceandflow.org or email her at jenevanseft@gmail.com

Languages: Dutch and English

As a coach, Paulien has adopted the Amygdala Retraining Program and is a Gupta coach since 2013. She manages her practice, in which she supports clients with chronic fatigue and stress regulation issues. She guides people who are highly sensitive, helping them to navigate their inner and outer world, regaining their power and ability to find inner safety and security.

She experienced Lyme disease, EBV, chronic fatigue syndrome, among other health issues, from an early age, and used the program as part of her recovery.

Her coaching mainly centers around the Gupta Amygdala Retraining program, but she also incorporates knowledge from her background in Social Psychology (MSc, Utrecht University), NLP, Meditation and Mindfulness, Healing Touch (Biofield therapy/energy healing), and her studies into Transpersonal Psychology. She has drawn a lot of inspiration from the work of Caroline Myss, who had a major impact on her intuitive development, which she sees as a fundamental step into her healing as at some point in life it is required to put our trust and faith back into ourselves.

As a coach, she is known for her gentle and compassionate nature and her clear insights into rather complex situations.

Paulien works from the Netherlands (Haarlem) and France (Lyon), offering sessions mainly through Skype. You can contact her for a free introduction call.

Email: liefcoaching@gmail.com
Website: www.lief-coaching.net
Website in English: https://lief-coaching.net/english-2/

Skype: liefcoaching

Language: English

Heather’s personal journey of recovery from 27 years of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome using the Gupta Program is the foundation of her coaching since 2012. She maintains her role as a teacher in her community using her 25 years as a yoga teacher, 40 years of Vipassana Meditation practice and a Diploma in Buteyko Breathing.

She also incorporates her training in NLP, Time Line Therapy, The Work of Byron Katie and Re-scripting into her coaching practice. Having reclaimed her own health and happiness she is a passionate advocate of the Gupta Program.

Residing in Eastern Australia she works with clients from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. She originally trained in teaching and community health education.

Heather’s schedule is currently full but she welcomes enquiries for her waiting list particularly from Australia and New Zealand.

Skype: heather.m.boyer

Email: heather@mindfulnessyoga.com.au
Website: www.mindfulnessyoga.com.au

Lisa Irwin is a fully certified Gupta Program Coach (2019) and NLP Practitioner based out of the USA (New Jersey).  She loves working with clients and being able to help support them in their journey to health and happiness.  She specializes in helping clients go deeper into the root of their beliefs and provides a safe environment for clients to open up.  Lisa uses a variety of techniques tailored to each client and their individual situation.

Prior to becoming a coach Lisa worked in business both as an IT consultant and as a Vice President of Operations for a small business.  Lisa became a Gupta Program coach after using it for her own recovery from ME/CFS and Lyme disease.  She is thrilled to support others looking to improve their mental and physical well-being. 

Lisa enjoys working with clients over Zoom and Skype.

Email: lisamirwin123@gmail.com

Languages: Dutch and English

Fenna works as a body-oriented trauma psychotherapist since 1990 (certified at the Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands) and also as a Gupta Program Coach since 2008 and as a Supervisor and Trainer for the Gupta Program Coach Training. She had CFS for 11 years and understands the proces deeply. She enjoys life while growing towards retirement. She lives in Spain. You can contact Fenna for questions related  with deeper psychological reasons behind CFS.

Fenna does not take on new clients and works mainly  as a supervisor for Coaches. She developed ´duo-coaching´ within the GP: when a client has a coach for the GP retraining, Fenna does simultaneously trauma work with that client if indicated. She works from a holistic viewpoint and so the spiritual awakening of the client/coach plays an active role in the proces. Fenna uses techniques like: breathing awareness and working with the senses, mindfulness, and meditation,  body work, The Work of Byron Katie, nonviolent communication, working with re-scripting and spiritual awareness. She develops webinars in managing energy in multiple ways (light therapy, diet, building proces healing movement, circadian rhythm, hormises etc.) for healing energy problems.

Dutch website: www.inner-focus.nl

Languages: Spanish, English and Dutch

Gupta Program Coach since 2013.

My name is Maria Jose Vergara. I am a registered Health Psychologist working at my own private clinic. My approach is integrative and client centred. The experience of having recovered  from MCS, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue is enriched by each of the patients at the clinic who kindle trusted me to lead their process of recovering from: depression, stress and anxiety problems, marital problems, identity and sexuality problems and sexual abuse among others. As a busy mother of two teenagers I have to ride often on a rocky road. Stay calm, focused and healthy is possible when we know what, how and why works for us. I offer Counselling, Coaching or Psychotherapy sessions by Skype or face to face in La Eliana, Valencia, Spain.

Master in Intervention in Clinical and Health Psychology, Master in NLP with DBM ®, Teacher Trainee MSC (Mindfulness Self Compassion), Diploma in Hypnosis and member of AEMIND (Spanish Association interested in the dissemination, application and research of Mindfulness practices).

Email: vergaramartinezmj@gmail.com
Skype: maria.jose.vergara.martinez1

Language: English

We are sorry to say that Susan passed away on Sunday 3rd March 2019. Susan was a warm and welcoming coach and loved by everyone at the Gupta Program. She will be greatly missed by the whole team. May her soul rest in peace.

Susan was a Gupta Amygdala Retraining Coach (2016) and an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Practitioner.  She also had more than 20 years experience as an Integrative Psychotherapist.  Susan worked to create a safe environment and relationship to help her clients cultivate healing and an overall sense of well-being.  Her approach was collaborative, integrative, and non-judgmental.  Susan’s interest in the Gupta Program began when she was investigating ways of healing herself from Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) and Chronic Fatigue. She supported her clients as they worked with various aspects of the Gupta Program. 

Nathalie is  a certified Dutch Gupta Coach since 2016 and collaberates closely  with Fenna van der Vijver.

She lives and works in the south of The Netherlands and offers sessions mainly through skype.

ME/CFS declared itself intensly in her life in 2008  leaving her house and bed bound for 4 years. The Gupta Program combined with Gupta coaching helped her to recover her life and vitality and set her on the road to become Gupta coach herself. Her coaching concentrates on the Gupta Program  in which she incorporates her extensive experience with The Work of Byron Katie,  and the basics of NLP. She is greatly inspirated by  Eckhart Tolle’s books and words.

She studied Marien Biology at the University of Amsterdam and Groningen, lived in Corsica for 15 years and she has a teenage daughter.

Email: nathalieguptacoaching@gmail.com

Skype: Piwilola

Language: English

Vicki is not taking on any new clients at this time.  She is a Gupta Coach (2008), TRE Trainer and Yoga Therapist.  She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and uses a number of integrated therapies. One of those therapies is TRE – Tension and Trauma Release Exercises (www.trescotland.com). She also offers Life Coaching to support you to re-integrate your new self back into life.

Website: www.trescotland.com

Language: Hebrew

Dana offers coaching sessions for individuals participating in the ‘Gupta Amygdala Retraining Program’ and interested in receiving professional facilitation. The sessions are conducted at Dana’s clinic in Jerusalem.

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Email: israelguptaprog@gmail.com
Phone: 050 5705059

Language: Spanish

Virginia Gasión Royo collaborates as Gupta Coach since 2014. She is doing research and PhD in Psycology at the University Of Zaragoza (Spain), where she works with clients with fibromyalgia, CFS and Quemical Sensitivity. She also  works on-line with english and spanish speakers.

She is been trained in Psychotherapy, Mindfulness-Compassion, Coaching and NLP at the University of Zaragoza, University of California (Santa Cruz) and the Institut Gestalt de Barcelona.
She is teacher,at the University of Zaragoza, Master of Mindfulness. She works with some associations of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia of Spain as Aragón o Vasc Country using Amygdala Retraining Technique and other aproaches.

Skype: virginia.gasion
Email: virginia.gasion@gmail.com
Telephone: 666265394