Guest Profile
Adele Ryan McDowell
Adele Ryan McDowell, Ph.D., is a psychologist, higher consciousness teacher, and writer who came to her current place in life through the frequent and not-so-subtle prodding of the gods. She likes looking at life through the big view finder and is a perpetual student who believes in the power of an open heart, and a good laugh.
Dr. McDowell is a psychotherapist with more than 30 years experience; a teacher of meditation, intuition development, and psychospiritual issues; an international workshop facilitator; and energy healer. Adele was the director of outpatient treatment at Liberation Clinic, a substance abuse clinic in Stamford, CT. She was founder/director of The Greenheart Center, a holistic, psychotherapeutic, and psycho-educational center in Stamford, Connecticut; creator of Faithwalk, A Psychospiritual Approach to Transformation; and founder/director of the Institute for the Study of Symbolic and Shamanic Energies.
Adeles work focuses on helping clients find hope and balance in the face of crisis and trauma. She has worked with suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault crisis hotlines, survivors of Hurricane Katrina and 9/11, clients struggling with addiction as well as those moving through profound life changes such as grief and health challenges. Adeles work integrates psychology with spirituality to help clients move through crises and restore balance by accessing core soul issues and to discover, and find comfort in, their authentic selves.
Adeles writing life began in the 1990s when she began writing book reviews for professional journals. In 2006, she started writing a column entitled wavelength for UPIs religion and spirituality site and has since posted columns on the ShamanPortal, Examiner, International Hypnosis Research Institute, and SelfGrowth sites. Adele is a contributing author to the best-selling anthology, 2012: Creating Your Own Shift. Her next book, Help, Its Dark in Here is planned for a 2011 release.
Adele a Texan by birth, upbringing, and pioneering spirit lives in Connecticut where you will often find her driving along the highways and byways, singing loudly in her car.
