Hope England may just be the Most Interesting Woman in the World. She founded a non-profit to bring laughter to the sick, @humorforhope, and a therapy practice, @PsychSomatica, where they find the best-suited treatment for each patient (which might include psychedelics). Lianna laughs with Hope about their shared background of comedy and acting and their interest in healing our minds and bodies. Hope shares her journey of surviving the Alaskan wilderness, volunteering at a children's hospital, and living on a commune in Costa Rica, just to name a few of her experiences.
Hope England is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, non-profit CEO, artist, and humanitarian. She received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College and obtained her Master’s Degree from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Clinical Counseling.
Hope most often utilizes a Holistic, Integrative approach that includes: Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Interpersonal and Psychodynamic Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Play Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Psychodrama and collaborative creative processes.
Hope’s clinical experience includes: inpatient psychiatric hospital based work, level 1 trauma center ICU & burn unit triage and private practice based psychotherapy. She also has experience running therapeutic process groups for students, trauma survivors, terminally ill patients and displaced populations in refugee camps.
In addition to western psychology, Hope has studied various forms of alternative healing modalities with shamans, sacred plant medicines, monks, indigenous healers in ceremony, mystics and natural healers. Hope’s interest include liberation psychology, activism, the arts and incorporating functional medicine into her work.