The Healing Way Method: A Path to Self-Guided Healing is the product of collaboration between William Phipps MS, MHP and Karen Kuenning, MS, LPC.

William (Bill) comes to this work with a broad background of both life experiences and education. He was a career military man and pilot, serving in both the U.S. Army and Air Force. He has a strong sense of the value and preciousness of life, making it through Viet Nam in 1967 and 1968. Like many others it left him with emotional as well as physical wounds. These and other life issues have been part of his personal healing journey, a journey taking him through his own “dark night of the soul,” a period of profound personal change, growth and transformation. He relates to the archetype of the Wounded Healer. His education includes a B.S. degree in 1975 from Brigham Young University and a Master of Science degree from the University of La Verne in Counseling in 1985. Since that time he has completed hundreds of hours of continuing training in diverse topics related to mental health and healing. He is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Mental Health Professional in Washington State. He was a Counselor and the Clinical Director for Adams County Counseling in Othello, Washington for nearly ten years; responsible for all mental health programs to include crisis and emergency services. His clinical expertise particularly qualifies him to work with survivors of trauma. His repertoire includes, among other things, Clinical Hypnosis, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Thought Field Therapy, Reiki, Spirit Releasement Therapy, Healing from the Body Level Up, Tapas Acupressure Technique and Guided Self-Healing, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Soul Retrieval, and Reconnection. As a clinician, he was exposed to many mental health treatment methods over the years and witnessed their outcomes with varying degrees of success and failure. As a result, he moved toward using alternative practices. Experience proved energy-based systems, interventions and intuitive practices were more successful, faster, and of longer lasting duration than traditional Western mental health therapies. His full-time private healing practice, assisting others in walking their healing paths, has expanded from all over the North West and Canada to other regions of the U.S.

Karen is a Nationally Certified Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon, in full time practice since 1985. She received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 1975 and her Master of Science degree in Counseling in 1977 from the University of Oregon. She completed a variety of post-graduate training including specialties in geriatrics, addictions, trauma and abuse. Believing that some healing and growth is best experienced in the powerful support of the group, she has worked extensively in developing and conducting groups, workshops and courses in a variety of settings including hospital, community colleges and private practice. As part of her specialty in working with trauma and abuse she developed and facilitated ten-month long intensive therapy groups for Adult Children of alcoholics/dysfunctional families and Adults Molested as Children. More recently she has been involved with the training of practitioners from multi-disciplinary fields in basic energy psychology techniques and co-developing/facilitating a five-week psycho educational energy training group as well as an ongoing energy based therapy group. Her healing approaches have been mixed, including traditional and energy psychology systems. Her path to energy work began in 1988 when she was first trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She observed that clients were able to heal issues in profoundly deeper, much faster and more effective ways than traditional approaches. Clients often found that previously worked issues resurfaced in this new process to be healed in a way that changed their whole being, not just the intellect or emotions. Witnessing these often profound, swift transformations forever changed the way she thought about therapy. She has since expanded her repertoire in alternative energy approaches with Tapas Acupressure Technique, Thought Field Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Healing from the Body Level Up, Guided Self-Healing and Seemorg Matrix (chakra healing), as well as Native American healing tradition.