Meet the Faculty - Institute of Core Energetics

JIM JOHNSTON ACCEP

Academic Director

In Practice for 10 years, Jim began as a Core Energetics client and found tremendous personal transformation leading him to a practice in NYC, positions at ICE, NYC Living Core, Nyack Living Core, international teaching, and co-founding Corevolution NYC. He believes in the power of this work to change lives.

SHERRI BROWN, ACCEP

Faculty Member

Sherri has taught at Nyack Living Core and is the co-creator and co-facilitator of Corevolution: The Bridge Process, a 2-year personal transformation program. She has a full-time practice in NYC working with individuals, couples (EMM Certified), and facilitates group process. She approaches her work with intuition, creativity, passion and love.

SAM CAGNINA ACCEP

Faculty Member

Sam is a post-graduate of the Institute of Core Energetics, and is certified in TRE and mindfulness techniques. He works with individuals, couples and groups and brings consciousness to how we block our energy and recreate defense patterns adapted in childhood that keep us limited and disempowered. Sam helps others open to the fullness of their life-force, and supports others in bringing their unique gifts as they engage in the world.

BRIAN CAMERON, ACCEP

Faculty Member

Brian completed his certification in Core Energetics at the NY Institute of Core Energetics and has a private practice in NYC. He has held faculty positions with Corevolution and the Art of Intimacy programs, also in NYC. He has over 20 years of experience coaching and managing teams in business. He is dedicated to group process work, particularly creating space where men can find strength in their vulnerability.

CLARE CARR ACCEP

Faculty Member

Clare Carr is an Advanced Certified Core Energetics and Helix Healing Works Practitioner in New York City. Clare helps individuals recognize and navigate the pathway to their lives' fullest potential. Clare's practice focuses on individual, couples and powerful group experiences. She specializes in helping with the challenges of self-acceptance and helps her clients evolve as they move through the stages and ages of life.

CHARLES CORLEY, LMHC, ACCEP

Faculty Member

Charles is a senior teacher at the Institute, teaches internationally and is Co-Director of Core Academy in Rhode Island. He has 30 years of experience facilitating groups in areas including substance abuse, actor support, and men’s and adolescents’ groups. He has a full-time private practice as a Core Energetics Practitioner in NYC.

BETH MCKEE ELLIOTT, MFA, ACCEP, RSMT

Associate Faculty

Beth McKee Elliott is an Advanced Core Energetics Practitioner in private practice. Her background in dance and movement brings a wealth of highly specialized knowledge about the body, movement, and meaning into her healing. She has a unique way of working with clients, and her goal is to help each one find their healing path and to live their most fulfilling life.

AIMEE FALCHUK, MPH, M.Ed., ACCEP

Faculty Member

Aimee Falchuk, MPH, M.Ed., CCEP is based in Washington DC and in private practice. She is the Founder of the Falchuk Group.

Aimee writes and lectures on the Pathwork and is a contributing writer for the wellness platform Goop. Aimee’s paper, “Understanding the Core Energetics process” was published in the Journal of Dance Movement and Spirituality.

Aimee is a board member of Mental Health America and the Hadassah Foundation.

AIDAN FISHER, ACCEP

Faculty Member

Aidan is a certified Core Energetics Practitioner, Naturo-therapist, Radical Aliveness Process Leader and Exceptional Marriage Mentor. He is the Director of the Montreal Living Core 3-year program and Montreal Core Energetics Summer Retreat. In full time practice since 2009, Aidan works with individuals, couples and groups in Montreal, Canada. He loves this work.

JEREMY FULWILER LMSW, ACCEP, CTS, CPT

Associate Faculty

Jeremy, is a body psychotherapist with extensive post-graduate training in Core Energetics, yoga, trauma recovery, pain management, personal training, aromatherapy and energy healing. He is founder of Wellness Beyond Words in Metro Detroit, focusing on embodied group and relational experiences for supporting individual and systemic evolution.

BRIAN GLEASON, LCSW, ACCEP

Faculty Member

Brian is a licensed psychotherapist and has been in private practice for 20 years. With a special interest in working with individuals and couples around committed relationships, Brian and his wife Marcia have developed a process called Exceptional Marriage, which integrates Core Energetics into relationship therapy. Brian is a senior faculty member with a private practice in North Carolina.

MARCIA GLEASON, LCSW, ACCEP

Faculty Member

Marcia Gleason, LCSW, brings 35 years of experience, passion, and heart to her work as a body psychotherapist. Trained as a clinical social worker, Marcia began training 25 years ago with Core Energetics and other body psychotherapies. Together with her husband, Brian, she developed the Embodied Couples Training (Exceptional Marriage Mentoring®), which weaves Core into couples work. They lead advanced couples workshops and train body psychotherapists and bodyworkers throughout the world.

JONATHAN GODFREY CPRA

Faculty Member

Jonathan is a Radical Aliveness and Core Energetics Practitioner who teaches internationally. He leads workshops throughout the U.S. and has a private practice in Philadelphia and New York where he works with individuals, couples and groups. Jonathan's focus is on empowering his clients to realize their full potential and creating inclusiveness for all people and all perspectives to be seen and heard.

KEN GOLDBERG MD, ACCEP

Faculty Member

Ken is a preventative medicine specialist and educator with a private practice in Portland, OR. The main modalities in his practice of somatic psychotherapy are Core Energetics and the Pathwork. Ken enjoys working with the full spectrum of development and traversing from personal and psychosomatic issues to transpersonal, archetypal, and spiritual growth issues.

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KATE HOLT, RN, ACCEP

Faculty Member

_{Kate Holt, RN, ACCEP, CTP teaches Core Energetics internationally. She has a private practice, working with individuals, couples, and groups. Kate provides supervision, coaching, and consultations for practitioners and leaders. Kate has a deep love for the work of Core Energetics and its ripple effect in the world.}

BARRA KAHN, MA, ACCEP

Faculty Member

Barra maintains a practice in D.C. where she works with individuals, couples, and groups. She also leads workshops, has taught Yoga and body-work for 40 years, and teaches Nonverbal Communication at GMU. Formerly, she was Artistic Director at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.

LISA LOUSTAUNAU ACCEP, OSC

Faculty Member

In Core Energetics practice for more than 22 years, Lisa trained under Core’s founder, John Pierrakos MD. An international workshop leader, process facilitator, teacher and supervisor of Core Energetics practitioners, Lisa is also among the top one percent of most-endorsed American psychotherapists on LinkedIn and practices in Stamford, CT.

CAROL LUTTER ACCEP

Associate Faculty

Carol’s deep reverence for animals and the Earth informs her work with all humans, with a special sensitivity to the challenges and trauma often experienced by social change activists. Carol helps people to embrace authenticity and self-care, align with desires and purpose, increase capacity for love, live life more fully, and expand their impact.

ANITA MANDLEY LCPC, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

Faculty Member

Anita Mandley is an Integrative Psychotherapist specializing in complex and developmental PTSD, Intergenerational and Cultural Trauma, Relational Wounds, Ancestral Wounds, and Interpersonal Violence.

Anita has over 40 years experience in the field of mental health and most recently, at the Center for Contextual Change for over 20 years.

ANDREA MARTIN MST, ACCEP, CPRA

Faculty Member

Andrea Martin, MST, ACCEP, CPRA, is a certified Core Energetics and Radical Aliveness practitioner with a private practice in NYC. She is a co-founder of Corevolution, a two-year intensive personal transformation program based in NYC. Andrea has been a student in the Vipassana Buddhist tradition since 1989, with many periods of long-term practice, and uses mindfulness-based principles and non-dual practices as a foundation in her work.

GERILYN SESTOK LCSW-R, BCD, ACCEP

Faculty Member

Gerilyn C. Sestok is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R), Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work (BCD), and Postgraduate Trained Certified Core Energetics Practitioner (CCEP). She has been in private practice for 25 years in Highland Mills, NY and has been a Core Energetics Practitioner and Exceptional Marriage Mentor (EMM) for the past 10 years. Gerilyn is dedicated to supporting the resilience of the human spirit driven to live its full potential in joy and compassion for itself and others.

DAVID PHILLIPS, ACCEP MeD, BBA

Faculty Member

David is the Founder of Energetic Awakenings in Cleveland, OH. He is a workshop leader and group facilitator for organizations dealing with topics such as racism, conflict, & LGBTQ cultural competency. David holds his Master of Education in Adult Learning & Development. He is a Certified Core Energetics Practitioner, Reiki Master, and Certified Coach.

DOUG WIRTH ACCEP

Faculty Member

Since 1989, Doug has worked with individuals/couples/groups. He earned a BSW from UWGB, his masters from Hunter College, graduated from ICE in 2011 and joined the faculty in 2012. Previously, Doug was a senior faculty member of the American Psychological Association, served on Institute of Medicine workgroups, and was a senior health policy advisor to NYC Mayor’s Dinkins and Giuliani.

ANNA SMITH ACCEP

Faculty Member

Anna brings a deep loving heart and commitment to the sacred work of self-transformation. An Intuitive Energy Healer, in private practice, she leads groups, and teaches energy healing. Anna studied with the School of Conscious Healing, is certified in IET, and Essentials of Trauma Treatment

SANJAY KEVIN EVRAN, CPRA, ACCEP

Faculty Intern

Sanjay is a Radical Aliveness, Bioenergetics and Core Energetics Practitioner in private practice and has been working with individuals and groups since 2016. He is passionate in supporting his clients come into deep contact with their body and holds a wide lens where systemic complexity can be seen and honored.

CHERYL MUSGRAVE ACCEP

Faculty Intern

Cheryl Musgrave, CCEP, is the founder of Liberating Flow LLC, based in Stamford, CT. She works with individuals and groups in her private practice. Cheryl believes that the path to wholeness and a life fully lived is through working with the body, emotions, head and will, guided by the Higher Self. She utilizes her additional training and grounding in sexuality, spirituality, energetic work and psychology as she guides clients on their journey of discovery of their true selves.

GAIL HOLLIES ACCEP

Faculty Intern

Gail Hollies is an Advanced Certified Core Energetics Practitioner based in the DC/Maryland area. With 30 years of experience in various modalities of transformational work, including Holotropic Breathwork, Voice Dialogue, Radical Honesty and Shalom Retreats, Gail enjoys finding creative ways of bringing her wisdom to sessions. Her love of expressive arts, in particular vocal and movement improv and SoulCollage®, allows clients the opportunity to explore non-verbal forms of self-expression.

MELISSA KAPLAN ACCEP

Faculty Intern

Melissa Kaplan, is a somatic therapist, based in New York City. She believes that eros is the awakening force that transforms our defenses, our negative beliefs and distorted feelings. She works with trauma that is held in the body in order to increase our capacity for pleasure and ground in our true selves. She teaches self-intimacy through body, spirit and emotional connection.