Guided Imagery for Letting Go

Glenda has created a CD that helps with the process of forgiveness and moving on... To hear a sample or to order click here:

Creativity, Connection and Community

Glenda and Kathy Jennings will be cofacilitating this five-session women's group starting September 8th at Adath Jeshurun Synagogue (Hwy 169 and Cedar Lake Rd).
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Creative Flow and Soul Purpose: The Power of Imagination in Connecting with Your Muse

Glenda will be doing this two-part workshop at the Studio at Rush Creek in Maple Grove on September 21st. For more info click here:

Reclaiming Joy: A Women's Daylong Retreat

This wonderful retreat is back by popular demand! Join Glenda Cedarleaf LICSW, Kathy Jennings CTP, Jean Frederick RN, and Noel Radcliffe MD on November 16th. For more info click here:

Glenda is a 1980 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. In North Carolina she provided counseling in a variety of settings including: an integrative holistic private practice, an oncology clinic, hospice, and home health care. She recently relocated to Minneapolis and is welcoming new clients. Her approach to healing is heart-centered and holistic. For over 25 years, Glenda has worked with individuals and couples facing emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges. She has taught wellness workshops and facilitated women's groups that incorporate guided imagery, journaling, art, and movement, using hypnotherapy and guided imagery to facilitate healing. She has pursued advanced training in guided imagery, somatic healing and hypnotherapy through many sources, including: The Institute for Health Psychology, National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, Wellness Institute's Heart Centered Hypnotherapy, and the Academy of Guided Imagery. Some of her teachers have included, Belleruth Naparstek, LICSW, Emmett Miller, MD, James Spira, PhD, Steve Gilligan, PhD, and Peter Levine, MD.

It has become clear in her own life as well as in her work with clients that the synergy of a mind-body-spirit approach to healing is most effective in producing positive change. Many people are intrigued by the possibilities for change offered through hypnotherapy, which Glenda makes use of actively. Hypnotherapy helps to reconnect with and release repressed emotions. It facilitates the ability to review anxieties and fears in a safe atmosphere. This process offers healing to the "inner child" and brings profound insights uniquely gained from the unconscious creative mind. This healing can transform the recurring dramas in life so that there is less reactivity and a greater ability to create a nurturing relationship with oneself and others.

Glenda creates guided imagery CD's that are custom made for each client. Their audio experiences incorporate uniquely designed words and images that offer comfort, insight and opportunities for accessing and releasing emotions, as well as important insights into healing.

She has released "Guided Imagery for Letting Go", a CD that focuses on the process of healing and forgiveness. For more information please visit her website.

She will be co facilitating a women’s retreat “Reclaiming Joy” on November 16, 2008. Click here for more information.

Glenda provides psychotherapy and hypnotherapy to:

• Address depression, anxiety, phobias, and low self esteem
• Navigate life transitions-illness, divorce, career changes, loss-grief
• Release emotions/body memories related to chronic illness and trauma
• Explore and unblock creativity - nurturing the artist within
• • Improve sports/academic pursuits
• Prepare for medical procedures
• Lose weight
• Improve relaxation and stress management
• Explore challenges and opportunities of midlife-menopause, and the "empty nest"
• Create, visualize and reinforce new pathways for life change