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ABOUT
Hi, I'm Adrienne
I am a trauma-informed mindfulness educator, somatic practitioner, hypnotherapist, and energy worker dedicated to fostering awareness of our regenerative connection to life and the planet. I help individuals and groups reintegrate aspects of their consciousness—body, mind, emotions, and spirit—that have been repressed or fragmented due to survival mechanisms and stress responses in the nervous system. While many of these adaptations may have once kept us safe, they can later hinder growth and potential as energy patterns become stuck or "frozen."
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As a coach and mentor, I provide tools and practices to help clients release deep-seated nervous system patterns, which are often beyond the reach of traditional talk therapy. I work collaboratively, non-judgmentally, and confidentially to develop a personalized action plan, guiding you toward results that reflect your highest potential. This holistic approach honors the power of the self as co-creator with life, shifting more traditional perspective of individual power and agency, that creating new possibilities for living. Using a range of modalities, I support you in facilitating positive change in areas where you feel "stuck" or experience reoccurring patterns.
Adrienne Lopez, MA, CHT, RYT
Integrative Healing Coach, Somatic Practitioner,
and Energy Healer
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​Education, Training, and Influences:
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BA, Writing and Cultural Studies: California State University, San Marcos
MA, Writing and Cultural Politics: University of Edinburgh, Scotland
MA, English Teaching Credential: Fortune School of Education, CA
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Advaita or Jnana yoga with guiding teachers:
Ramachandra Fry (Roger Fry) in the lineage of Ramana Maharshi
James Swartz, Advaita Vedanta
Vipassana and Mindfulness Meditation guiding teachers:
Mindfulness Schools Yea-long Facilitator Training: Chris McKenna, Megan Cowan, Vinny Ferrero and Pam Dunn
Diana Winston, Director of UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC)
Matthew Brensilver, Teachers Council and Guiding Teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Mark Coleman, Senior Meditation teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Non-Violent Communication, Restorative Justice guiding teachers and influences:
Marshal Rosenburg, Founder of NVC
Dian Killian, Founder of the Brooklyn Center of NVC
NVC Practioner Training: Kathy Simon, Senior Trainer at the Oakland Center of NVC
NVC Educator's Institute, Sura Heart and Jean Morrison, Olympia, WA
Certified Transpersonal Hypnotherapist guiding teachers and influences:
Holly Holmes Meredith, LMFT and Clinical Director
Milton Erickson, Advanced Past life Regression Practices
Emotional Freedom Technique, Levels I and II
Native American Traditions of Shamanism
Reiki and Energy Healing with guiding teachers:
Reiki, Levels I and II in the lineage of Dr. Usui
Energy Active Point Energy Healing, Jim Gilkison, Massage Therapy Institute
Sound Healing and Cacao Ceremonial Residency, Thomas Love, Sounds of Light Mystery School
Intuitive Energy Healing and Readings, Intuitive Path Academy and Berkeley Psychic Institute
The AlchemE of Epi-energetics, Donny Epstein and the Epi-Energetics Institute
Hatha Yoga Teacher (200-RYT) and continued education with:
Dhyanyoga Center, Hatha yoga with Shri Anandi Ma with Janani English
Liz Heffernan, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT is an international yoga teacher and Integrative Yoga Therapist
Hridaya Yoga international, Module 1 and 2 meditation and Hatha Yoga, non-dual Kashmir Shaivism
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Group Facilitation guiding Teachers and influences:
Field Facilitation Training, Trauma Informed Relational, Somatic Processes: Rachel Rickards, Christian Pankhurst, Catherine Hale and David Cates
Creative Field Project, Small Group Practices and Facilitation: David Karchere and Sunrise Ranch
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I am a internal explorer, having traveled world wide visiting and living in different countries, from Asia to Europe and Central America, I currently reside in Portland, OR. No matter where I am, a sense of adventure has also been extremely nourishing for my soul
Over the last 30 years, I've also been called on an a self-healing journey, coming home to myself, and now serve as a tour guide of sorts, sharing my knowledge, wisdom, and experience of the terrain with other inner voyagers!
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Each client session is designed to be a collaboration, to ensure your unique needs are met, allowing a natural plan of action to emerge that best empowers you in life, as each person is on a different path. I enjoy working with adults as well as youth.​
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To find out more about the services I offer, please visit me go to the Services tab HERE.​
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Read more about "the work" below:
Important considerations when hiring any type of coach or mentor:
​Become clear about what style of coaching would work best for you:
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In order to make an informed decision about what type of coach you want to hire, it helps to familiarize yourself with the growth of coaching paradigms and main approaches that emerged from them. In his book, A Guide to Third Generation Coaching (2008), Reinhard Stelter articulates three generations of coaching methodology. However, he had yet to articulate a more updated approach which some call a "fourth" generational approach to coaching--which is "presence" based. To get a better idea about these approaches see this extended description:
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First and Second Generation Approaches: These can be described as "structure-centric" approaches that focus on producing external results, solving problems, improving performance, achieving goals, and winning. Recognizing the limitations of only focusing on external results, a second generation emerged that focused on producing internal improvements and positive mindsets.
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Third Generation Approaches: This approach introduced what be called "process-centric: coaching that focusing on the flow of the client’s self-experience in real time as a sensitive way to attune to what is arising and unfolding for the client and within the coaching relationship. Process-centric approaches are very powerful for deepening self-awareness, tapping into intuitive understanding, and getting unstuck.
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​Fourth Generation Approaches: This approach is "presence"-centric and builds upon the first three approaches, as each of those tends to focus on just one aspect of our dynamic being at a time. The fourth approach takes a more holistic view, integrating a neuro-cognitive perspective on presence, attention, the nervous system, and the reciprocal relationship between these elements. This, in turn, shapes our internal neuro-cognitive structures, which influence how we create safety, how we habitually focus our attention, how open or closed we are to life, the maps for how we orient ourselves to the world, how we process information, and manage the unconscious aspects of our mental, emotional, psychological, and physical aspects of our behavior. It also includes the impact of trauma on individual development and how it is imprinted and re-enacted within relational spaces.
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I use a fourth generational approach!
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​Know the difference between "trauma informed" vs. "trauma trained":
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I'm a certified "trauma-informed" yoga teacher, hypnotherapist, mindfulness educator, and somatic practitioner, which means I have completed over 500 hours of course work, practice, and demonstrated competency in understanding of what trauma is, how it can show up in people's nervous systems and lives, so that I can offer nervous system education, tools, and practices to create safer spaces for people with trauma to be in.
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Trauma informed practitioners are distinct from "trauma trained" therapists, that have usually completed an in-depth, professional training program, receiving supervision and support. I have not completed a professional 2-year therapy or counseling program, nor am I state certified therapist.
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