Dr. Crete Brown offers a expansive range of healing methods that cross over many paradigms.
She is a healer, a licensed psychotherapist, a scholar, a depth psychologist (working with the depth of the soul) and works in the realms of consciousness and new epistemologies.
She takes an holistic, integrative, quantum approach to healing that moves beyond just today's outline of behavioral medicine, and when applicable integrates techniques that focus on realms of healing the body, mind, spirituality and the soul.
Dr. Crete Brown completed her Phd. in Transformative Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2013. She earned her Masters in Social Work from Eastern Washington Univ. and has run her private Integrative Psychotherapy practice for more than 25 years.
She describes her work as "multi-paradigmatic", bringing together traditional and spiritual healing paradigms to create extraordinary outcomes.
Dr. Brown is a published author whose book on the Bear River Massacre is available on Amazon. Learn more here.
You can read her other scholarly writings here.
"We have much to learn from the ancient cultures about how to tend issues of the soul," she says.
She runs her clinical practice at Heartland Wellness Center in Pocatello, Idaho, where she spends several days a week doing integrative psychotherapy.
She provides various forms of traditional psychotherapy including:
Guided Imagery
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Short Term Problem Focus Therapy
Cognitive Restructuring
Traditional Talk Therapies
Groups
Among her specialities:
Certified Professional Mediator
Child Custody
Divorce Mediation
Post Divorce Family Restructuing
Dr. Brown is an expert in working on mind/body issues, identified as
people who have emotional issues and corresponding body issues, e.g.
fibromyalgia and depression, or migraines and anxiety or any number of combined issues.
Part Native American, she excels in areas dealing with cross cultural issues.
She has worked for 2 states human rights commissions, has a
degree in cultural anthropology, and is highly sensitive to native perspective, as well as those of other cultural minorities such as the catholic hispanic perspective and
world view.
She is very comfortable working with members of the LGBT community, with gay relations and problems in gay relationships.
She is a certified mediator, as well as a
Certified level 2 Polarity Therapist working with energy medicine.
Polarity therapy is akin to acupuncture without needles. It uses the energy of the practitioner and the patient to unblock the places in the body where healing energy is blocked and causing distress.
She is also an Advanced EMDR Therapist which she uses for the metabolization of unresolved and forgotten childhood trauma or issues.
In her own words:
"I received my doctorate in Transformative Studies from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. This degree marked the culmination of a lifetime of inquiry spanning multiple disciplines and cultural worldviews.
I moved to San Diego in 1967 and found myself surrounded by the cultural revolution of the times. I became politicized by the Kent State episode and joined in active resistance to the Viet Nam War. However, my spiritual inclinations soon outweighed by political verve and I decided to study Vedanta religion at a school on the island of Crete. Heading to the Panama Canal with my backpack, I started an Odyssey across cultures and epistemologies that resulted a new name and the desire to be an anthropologist.
I received my BA in Cultural Anthropology from WWU in 1976 and worked for both the Washington and Idaho Human Rights Commissions. In Boise, I met a Native holy man who encouraged me to find my “orphaned” father’s people. This resulted in finding my grandmother and great grandmother’s graves on the Nez Perce Reservation in Northern Idaho. The discovery of my Native heritage altered my essential sense of identity, sparked my genetic memory and fueled a deep search into the Indigenous and Perennial Wisdoms. The broadest academic field I could find at the time was systems based Social Work, so I received my MSW at EWU in 1986.
In 1987 I moved to Pocatello, ID to take a Social Work job. I slowly evolved my clinical work into a more integrative context working allot with my Shoshone neighbors. I discovered consciousness studies and enrolled in the transdisciplinary curriculum at California Institute of Integral Studies 9 years ago. My dissertational work involved taking 10 non-Native people on a transformative learning and action journey into the Bear River Massacre, the single largest Native massacre in US history, which occurred in 1863 near Pocatello, ID.
I am currently a practicing therapist, healer and educator in Pocatello, ID."
Personally, Dr. Brown was born and raised on an apple farm in Yakima, Washington. She graduated from Western Washington University with a BA in Cultural Anthropology 1976 Cum Laude.
She then went to work for The Washington State Human Rights Commission as a civil rights investigator and mediator.
She was recruited to the Idaho Human Rights Commission several years later.
In 1986 she completed her Masters in Social Work from Eastern Washington University.
She then moved to Pocatello, Idaho, where she worked for Idaho Department of Family and Children's Services in clinical support before taking a job as an LCSW at Aspen Crest Hospital.
She started her own private practice in 1992.
She has also taught as an adjunct professor at the Idaho State University Department of Social Work.
She says she has always had an inclination towards the spiritual realm and a deep understanding of the healing power of both mind and body working together.
Over the last 20 years, she has maintained her formal clinical training but has also studied many kinds of spiritual healing modalities. She brings a huge library of understanding of different cultures and different healing methods and can draw from them all to meet her client's needs and goals.