Monthly Archives: November 2021

Lina Navar, MA, Med, LPC – Holistic Therapist



Lina offers a holistic perspective to wellness and healing. She has graduate training and experience as a body and transpersonal psychotherapist, and has expanded her practice to include psychospiritual coaching and guidance. Her approach is psychospiritual, heart-centered, embodied, and intuitive. In working with her clients, she recognizes the importance of compassionately and mindfully addressing the physical, spiritual, psychological, and emotional components of their experience in order to have a whole person understanding of their life challenges.


Ryan Gottfredson, PhD – Researcher and Leadership Consultant



Ryan has a Ph.D. and is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of “Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership.” He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.


Dr. James Greenblatt – Functional and Integrative Psychiatrist



Dr. Greenblatt is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine and has been treating patients since 1988. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr. Greenblatt completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA and serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine. Dr. Greenblatt has lectured internationally on the scientific evidence for nutritional interventions in psychiatry and mental illness. He is the author of seven books, including Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD. He is the founder of Psychiatry Redefined, an educational platform dedicated to the transformation of psychiatry, which offers online CME-approved courses, webinars, and fellowships for professionals about functional and integrative medicine for mental illness.


Doug Finklestein and John Begnini – Founders of Empathic Health



Today, I’d like to welcome Doug Finklestein and John Begnini, founders of Empathic Health, an organization that provides mentorship, education and safety information when considering the use of psychedelic substances. I am honored to be in the first cohort of mentors for the community at large since there is a renaissance of using these medicines in treatment resistant depression, end of life anxiety and other medical issues. We will dive into more of this but first I would like to introduce Doug and John.


Nate De Young – Personal Chef and Founder of Honeybread



Nate De Young is the chef and owner of Honey Bread Meal Prep on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Before starting Honey Bread, he worked as a food technologist where he learned the inner workings of the processed food industry. Having learned the harmful effects of processed food, he now dedicates his professional life to preparing healthy home-cooked meals for busy families and those with special dietary needs.