About George
George MacIlwinen is a holistic Life Coach with 12 years of education and training in Somatic, Cognitive based, Equine-Assisted and Transpersonal modalities of psychotherapy. He practices Life Enhancement Coaching, Executive Coaching, Couples/Relationship Coaching, and teaches mindfulness techniques and other ways of utilizing personal resources to enhance quality of life and improve performance – informed by the latest in neuroscience. He is the creator of Charcterological Based Strength Training (CBST™) the world’s first registered modality that combines movement and physical training with Life Enhancement Coaching, to help facilitate lasting, positive change and associated positive habits
Services
Individual Life Enhancement Coaching
Life Coaching services to enhance quality of life; interrupt old ineffective patterns; establish new patterns of health including thoughts, actions, and beliefs. Mindfulness techniques are taught including: meditation, mindfulness-based emotional regulation strategies, & relationship repair and enhancement strategies – all informed by neuroscience research that indicates positive changes to the brain and body.
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Couples may seek coaching to improve their relationship, communication, attachment patterns, intimacy, resolve conflict, and more.
Couples are guided through a unique model, in which they both have input, to assist in bringing clarity to needs, boundaries, love, and nourishment of all kinds.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Guided Meditation
Mindfulness Meditation has been shown to stimulate the new neural pathway growth (neuralplacticity), reduce stress, anxiety, and make other healthy changes to the brain – including reduction in size to the amygdala – which plays a role in the fear response and hypervigilance. Meditations are guided, along with a live-played Tibetan singing bowl.
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Horses can be incredible companions in healing, allowing clients to build confidence, experience their own personal power, and safely explore boundaries. Horses are emotionally attuned to humans, recognize our energy, assist in the healing process, and may create insight into our issues by being mindful in their presence.
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Characterological Structure-Based Strength Training™ is a method combining psychotherapy, body work, and fitness/strength training. This not only addresses the mental and emotional components of the individual, but also the structural body issues that result from unhelpful negative emotions, thoughts, and beliefs, while emphasizing strengths and resilience the indivudal has developed. CBST™ is the world’s first registered modality that combines movement and physical training with psychotherapy to help facilitate lasting, positive change and associated positive habits. This method will include both Life Coaching and engaging in a specific Personal Training regiment.
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Georgia State University – Bachelor of Science in Psychology 2005
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory – 2010
Naropa University – Clinical MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology 2011
Gestalt Equine Psychotherapy Institute of the Rockies: Certification – 2011
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 2: Emotional Processing, Meaning Making, and Attachment Repair – 2012
ACE Personal Trainer – 2015
Reiki Level 3 Practitioner – A Healing Place, LLC – 2017