Jacqueline Hermida

Jacqueline Hermida has over two decades of experience teaching, healing, and counseling individuals of all ages and abilities. Through a whole-person approach and the integration of various cultural teachings that subtly culminate into a unified paradigm, individuals are guided and empowered to heal, transform, and self-actualize.

In her Western training, Mrs. Hermida has earned three distinct Master’s Degrees in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Special Education, and Educational Administration. Her career path began as an Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapist, to becoming the Crisis Intervention Director of the STEP Program at Sagamore Children’s Psychiatric Center, to becoming the Director of Wellness at St. Joseph’s College, Counseling and Wellness Center.

In her Eastern training, she began her journey through studying the Martial Arts with particular attention to Wing Chun, Chi Gong, and Tai Chi. Through studying the Martial Arts, she was led to the practice of Yoga. After practicing daily for several years, she went on to complete two separate and in-depth 500-hour teacher training programs. Currently, she is a certified yoga therapist through the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and teaches in the tradition of T. Krishnamacharya & TKV Desikachar, Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM). Both Martial Arts and Yoga have led to years of meditative study and practice from Buddhist Mindfulness lineages, traditional martial arts, and yogic meditative practices.

In her Southern and Northern training, Mrs. Hermida has studied with Shamans, Medicine People, and Energy Healers throughout her life learning metaphysics and the ways of the natural healing world. Her South American Native heritage continues to guide much of her work today. Currently, she practices natural spiritual healing processes from the traditions of Shamanism and various Energy Medicine healers throughout the world.

Currently, she maintains her private practice where she offers Psychotherapy and Counseling Services. Mrs. Hermida is a licensed psychotherapist who has been clinically trained in both psychodynamic and humanistic orientations and practices as a transpersonal psychotherapist. Mrs. Hermida is currently completing her Ph.D. dissertation work in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and is a Special Topic Editor on Transpersonal Psychotherapy for the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies (IJTS).

The medicine women of South America carry the healing presence of their lineage and honor their ancestry through all their work in the world. Mrs. Hermida works as a Medicine woman devoting her efforts to helping children and women empower and free themselves from historical conditioning; dedicating herself to continual study and practice, effectively applying alternative healing methods from these foundational teachings.