Aura Walker, MA Cht Hypnotherapist, and Therapeutic Facilitator

bio & credentials

Aura Walker has a master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling, Psychology and Art Therapy, from the alternative Naropa University formerly the Naropa Institute in Boulder Colorado. She has an undergraduate in liberal arts and fine arts with a concentration in painting from Parsons School of Art and Design and the New School for Social Research both in NYC. Aura believes that creativity and enjoyment in daily life are important to one’s sense of fulfillment.

After college, Ms. Walker traveled the country researching American Indian tribes and their traditional spiritual practices. Thereafter, she lived in the Southwest for five years including Santa Fe, New Mexico and then Colorado, before moving to Minneapolis. She bonded with the Native American Indian communities in all three states, discovering that in the US, American Indian men have the highest rate of alcoholism of any other population. Miss Walker researched the direct link to over 500 years of social oppression and disenfranchisement. She found that art making was a useful non threatening tool, and a cultural bridge to open the door for American Indian men (and later women) to express their deeply wounded selves, and to gain some relief.

In 1998, Miss Walker finished her graduate thesis on self-esteem and focused her topic on Art-making as a Tool for Raising the Self-esteem of American Indian Men in Substance Abuse Recovery. Upon completion, she received her Masters degree diploma in Transpersonal Counseling, Psychology and Art Therapy from the Buddhist-based Naropa University formerly the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

Also in 1998, after completing her graduate school classes, Ms. Walker moved to Minneapolis and developed her own consulting business there. She co-founded Expressive Arts Services, Ltd. or EASL, with Melina Weir, former president of the Minnesota Art Therapy Association, and fellow alumnus from the Naropa Institute where they met in graduate school. Together they pioneered art-making workshops with therapy-based goals throughout Twin Cities agencies. Their workshops were held at schools, retirement homes, battered women shelters local government agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, as well as for profit corporations.

Aura moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and got involved in managing spas. She was interested in learning about developing wellness centers. In 2006 she became a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist from the renowned Hypnosis Motivational Institute in Tarzana California. Ms. Walker now lives in Los Angeles and is currently expanding her private practice as a hypnotherapist. She has consulted for the Psychological Trauma Center at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. She has worked with people of all ages including parents, teachers (grades 1-12), children, teens, adults in substance abuse recovery, adults and children with persistent emotional and mental illness, and the elderly. Aura welcomes the opportunity to use all of her varied and developed skills towards helping others gain greater clarity, self-awareness, joy, deep relaxation, success and creativity in their lives.

Credentials:

• Current Certificate for Professional Mental Health Counselors, American Professional Agency -Ongoing

• Certificate in Clinical Hypnosis, Hypnosis Motivation Institute, 2006

• Certified Mental Health Counselor, Current since 2006

• American Hypnosis Association Member - AHA, Member since 2006

• Hypnotherapist's Union Local 472, Member since 2005

• MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and Art Therapy, Naropa University, Boulder Co. 1998

• Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor Certification, Colorado Dept. of Human Services, 1998

• Certificate of Training for Ethics For Professional Counselors, Denver Health Services Dept, 1997

• Certificate of Training for Level II Domestic Violence Assessment, Denver Health Services Dept, 1997

• Certificate of Training for Preventing HIV, Colorado Dept of Human Services, 1996

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Please call (310) 382-6313.

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