Pamela Brinker

Pamela Brinker has been a well-respected and experienced social worker, and integrative psychotherapist for over 30 years. She is a committed mental health advocate, helping others transform difficulties into foundations for strength and compassion as they find gratitude, hope, and freedom in everyday living. In addition to receiving a traditional education, she integrates skills from: somatic experiencing therapy, dreamwork, EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), meditation, and yoga into her trainings and sessions. Pamela recently transitioned from her individual counseling private practice to pursue her dreams of becoming a published author and international speaker to get her messages out and to reach larger groups of people needing her guidance. She keeps a limited therapy practice. She teaches “whole-being awareness,” along with many other tools and practices she designed or refined, to cultivate and embed principles of conscious bravery. Pamela’s personal life experiences dealing with and caring for her own family with mental health challenges and addiction, her diligent personal yoga, meditation, and dreamtending practices have influenced her life and her work. They contribute to her being a recognized expert in these fields. Pamela has taught groups and led workshops on a variety of themes including: grief, supporting loved ones with addiction, mental health, conscious bravery, eating disorders, sports psychology, and dreamwork. She’ll be teaching about whole-being leadership as well. Pamela enjoys poetry, music, and art, is a level one sommelier, and adores traveling the world. A former elite athlete, she loves biking and hiking, skate skiing and yoga, plays piano and the ukulele, and brings tenacious joy into each of her passions. She and her husband David divide their time between the mountains and the ocean.