About Adele R. McDowell
Adele Ryan McDowell, Ph.D., is a psychologist 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.
Adele’s work focuses on helping clients find hope and balance in the face of
crisis, trauma, and grief. She has worked with suicide, domestic violence, and
sexual assault crisis hotlines, survivors of Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, the Joplin
Tornado, clients struggling with addiction as well as those moving through
profound life changes such as grief and health challenges.
Adele’s 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.
Adele is the author of the Amazon best-selling Balancing Act: Reflections,
Meditations, and Coping Strategies for Today’s Fast-Paced Whirl. Adele is a
contributing author to the best-selling anthology, 2012: Creating Your Own
Shift. She is madly working on her next book, Help, It’s Dark in Here .
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.
You can learn more about Adele, her writing, and her thinking at
http://theheraldedpenguin.com and www.channeledgrace.com.
