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    Christine Berger

    Dr. Christine Berger is an assistant professor of counseling and is licensed as a professional counselor in Maryland and Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Loyola University Maryland in 2009. Her research interests focus on the mental health applications of complementary and integrative therapies such as Emotional Freedom Techniques, energy healing, yoga, meditation, and mindfulness and she has published nationally on these topics. She is also a member of the executive board of the American Counseling Association division, the Association of Creativity in Counseling, and has been the Secretary of the Virginia Association of Counselor Education and Supervision. As a joint endeavor with Old Dominion University and the Integrative Therapies Institute, she offers training in complementary and integrative therapies to licensed professional counselors.

    • Guided Imagery, Meditation and Mindfulness

      Jun 03, 2019
      Originally this blog was going to be just about guided imagery and meditation and how it can be helpful in counseling. I was going to let you know how I was introduced to guided imagery years ago, when I worked the second shift at the local psychiatric hospital and struggled with falling asleep after working a shift that often ended around midnight, after completing an assessment with a client who was experiencing intense emotions.
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    • CAM and Counselor Education

      May 28, 2019
      Complementary and alternative modalities (CAM) have come under increasing interest by counselors and counselor educators in recent years. To assess how much and in what ways, I conducted qualitative research asking counselors, counselor educators, and counseling students about their interest in, knowledge about, and use of CAM in their education, teaching, research, and clinical work.
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    • Acupressure, Meridians and “Tapping”

      May 20, 2019
      The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP; energypsych.org) categorizes energy therapies by the energy systems of the body: chakras, meridians and biofield (aura). In another blog, we will review the chakras and biofield; this post will provide an overview of the meridians.
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    • Ethics and Complementary and Alternative Modalities

      May 13, 2019
      Complementary and alternative modalities (CAM) are health approaches that often combine treatments from Western and Eastern cultures. Examples of CAM approaches include yoga, meditation, mindfulness, acupuncture, Reiki, nutrition, and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), among many others.
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    • CAM (Complementary & Alternative Modalities): Holistic and Multicultural Wellness

      May 07, 2019
      Complementary, alternative and integrative therapies are a group of diverse medical, healing and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered a part of conventional therapy or medicine. These combine treatments from conventional approaches to health and healing for which there is some high-quality evidence of safety and effectiveness.
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