A Holistic Health & Wellness Center

History

The Centre for Human Flourishing LLC is an independent health & wellness boutique offering Psychotherapy | Health & Wellness Coaching | and Consultation. The focus of the services I offer is on health, happiness, and human flourishing or eudaimonia. This focus, as it relates to psychotherapeutic services, does not disavow or disregard the significance or potential severity of psychological and emotional disorders, emotional distress, discomfort, or disturbing experiences but instead views all symptoms as meaningful, seeks to understand, embrace, and work with and through uncomfortable, unpleasant, distressing and disturbing experiences with an eye toward human psychological & emotional growth and development, integration of all aspects of being, and the development of wisdom.

“When confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing fate that cannot be changed, what matters most is to nobly bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.” ~ Viktor Frankl

The Centre for Human Flourishing is the harvest of a life characterized by broad contradictory experiences.  Obstacles. Hurdles. Midwestern working class upbringing. Emotionally traumatic experiences. Grief. Loss. Experiences that include marriage and divorce, custody battles, remarriage, & forming a blended family.  Roles that have included military spouse, single parent, attorney & itinerant United Methodist minister's wife, and then a widow — all before I earned my bachelor's degree.  On the brighter side, experiences of kindness and charity, in the Christian sense of the word, inspired my journey. As did Beautiful Strong, Courageous people I encountered along the way, and the Faith and Friendship of others.  Extensive travel within this country and overseas — including living & working for a time in Glasgow, Scotland, broadened my perspective further.  The English spelling of Centre is a tribute to my late “mum” & “pops” | Bill & Cathy Craik from Old Drumchapel, Glasgow, Scotland.  

‘When we are not able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves’

Mission

Led by a search for wisdom, sustained by faith, inspired by love, and determined by a hardy intrepid spirit, I learned to embrace unwanted experiences, make them meaningful and apply them to life.  The mission of the Centre for Human Flourishing LLC is to apply life experiences integrated with knowledge to the relief of human suffering, and toward the betterment of humankind: Health, Happiness, & Human Flourishing