About

Teachers/Healers

Partners-in-Learning
Faith Perkins
Karen Hedger
Sara Pierce
Stacey Pagnozzi, Office Manager / Coordinator

Contracted Integrated Awareness Teachers

Lansing Barrett Gresham, Founder
Marianne Cochrane
Mary Caldwell
Linnette Erhart
Robin Matthews
Greg Smith
Marjorie Peirce
Claudia Larson

Contracted Providers 

Shelley Vidas, OT
Darby French, SLP
Barrie Stager, PT

Board of Directors

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Faith Perkins, D.T., MEd

Developmental Services
Early Education Consultant
 Integrated Awareness® TeacherFaith is a certified Developmental Therapist and Integrated Awareness teacher. She has worked with children and families in Maine since 1983, bringing a functional and integrative perspective to her teaching, treatment and consultation.In her work with families and providers Faith teaches that learning about yourself and "going first" is a powerful incentive for change. In 1999 her own curiosity about the qualities of touch led her training in cranio-sacral therapy, and then to completing a 3-year certification program in Integrated Awareness. Her practice now includes health and healing services along with developmental work.Faith's developmental services include direct therapy and consultation for infants, preschoolers, school-aged children, and their families.

Faith teaches the healing process of Integrated Awareness to adults and children through
sessions and workshops. She offers this work as a way to experience possibility and
choice, enhance well being, create change, and promote healing. Her public workshops
to date include:

Parenting with Presence
Finding Peace Within
Choices in Healing
Sound Sense

Faith's areas of special interest include:Sensory Processing
Perception and consciousness
Learning styles
Literacy foundation skills
Behavioral issues
Autism
Learning differences
Program design
Creating change

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Karen Sjostrom Hedger, SLP

Karen is a Speech / Language Pathologist and Integrated Awareness® Teacher who has practiced Speech Therapy for over 20 years. In her current practice, she provides Integrated Awareness® sessions, pediatric Speech/ Language Pathology services, and Early Intervention consultations. Her Speech Therapy services include evaluation and consultation services to children (infant, toddlers, youth and school-aged) and their families, and workshop/training opportunities to community members. Karen works through partnerships with families, individuals, and teams, and enjoys innovative models for change.

In her integrative health and healing practice, Karen works with children and adults. She combines Integrated Awareness® and CranioSacral Therapy and uses expanded consciousness with gentle touch and movement. She works with her guests in table sessions, floor processes and aqua sessions.

Karen embraces the possibilities created by integrating complementary and traditional health practices. Self-healing through self-discovery allows the wisdom of our bodies to guide us through healing in physical, emotional, spiritual and energetic dimensions. Expanded consciousness with gentle touch and movement are the tools she uses in her practice, all of which encourage us to discover more of who we are in acceptance and compassion. Grace, harmony, healing and joy are possible.

"This is the best healing work I have found. Please join me."

Through this healing work, you may choose to experience the following:

  • Reduced stress
  • Increased energy
  • More emotional awareness
  • More connection with self and other
  • Increased self-trust
  • Changes in attitude and mood
  • Changes in relationships
  • Changes in lifestyle
  • Changes in self-care patterns

Karen's areas of special interest include:

  • Physical, Emotional, Energetic, Spiritual Healing
  • Learning Styles
  • Pre-speech & feeding
  • Infant Development
  • Assistive Technology for communication and learning
  • Literacy
  • Learning styles
  • Play
  • Interactions and relationships
  • Issues of Behaviors
  • Autism
  • Lifestyle changes in parenting, self-care and healthier, happier living

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Sara Pierce

In 1998, I was introduced to Integrated Awareness® and discovered an innately human set of skills for healing and wholeness through movement, touch and exploration in consciousness. Subsequently, I completed a three year certification program to become an Integrated Awareness® Teacher. I continue to participate in advanced work in Integrated Awareness®.

In May of 2003, I became certified in AquaCranial®. As a pediatric physical therapist specializing in infants and family work. I have worked and taught in the water for twenty years as well as maintained a private practice with multiple disciplines and providers. In addition, I have taken classes in Sensory Processing, Craniosacral Therapy ™, Zero Balancing ™, and Visceral Manipulation ™.

At the core of what I offer is the healing guidance of Integrated Awareness® - movement and hands on processes, guidance into expanded perceptual states and enhanced response capacities. As babies we were born with unlimited permission, unlimited movement and unlimited choices, in other words full potential. This potential continues to exist within all of us waiting for rediscovery.

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Please send questions and comments to: dtaus@hotmail.com or call (207) 667-6783

 

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