Wholeness Healing Center

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Deb England

Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner
Licensed Professional Counselor
Advanced Clinical HypnoTherapist

Deb England began working part-time for Wholeness Healing Center in September 2004 and began full-time in May 2005. Deb practices primarily in the Broken Bow office and offers telehealth services. Previously she had completed her practicum and internship at Morning Star Alliance, working in the Broken Bow and Grand Island offices.

Education
Deb graduated from Kearney State College with a Bachelors of Arts in Education with a major in English Education and a minor in Art. She later completed a Masters of Arts in English Education also from Kearney State College. She earned a Masters of Science in Counseling and School Psychology in 2002 from the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and she then completed the requirements for her community counseling license the same year. She has also completed the requirements for her Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapy certification at the Wellness Institute at Issaquah, WA.

Experience
Deb taught English and Art for many years to high school students, Art to elementary and junior high students and during that time, also worked as Asst. Speech and Drama Coach, Annual Staff and Newspaper advisor, and was a Quiz Bowl coach. She has been a Girl Scout Leader and a volunteer at I Believe in Me Ranch in Kearney. Deb was a foster and an adoptive parent and that began her journey to learn more about working with families who are struggling.

Deb has attended workshops in Attachment Disorder, Play Therapy, Methamphetamine Abuse, Behavioral Problems in Traumatized Children, Differential Diagnosis, Psychodrama, Childhood-Onset Bi-Polar Disorder, Love and Logic, and Psychopharmacology. She has attended attachment and bonding trainings by Nancy Thomas, Dr. Liz Randolph, Nancy Thompson, and Katherine Leslie.

In 2010, she began training for her hypnotherapy credentials and has continued that through the Wellness Center in Issaquah, WA. She also led Letting Go intensive weekend workshops and assisted numerous Personal Transformation Intensives (PTI’s), as well as facilitating spiritual intensive groups participating in nature and outdoor experiences. Her hypnotherapy training also included breathwork and how both can be instrumental in helping clients heal their trauma.

Deb is a member of the Nebraska Counseling Association and Heart-Centered Hypnotherapies Association.

Trainings
Deb previously presented to many schools concerning teaching children with oppositional behaviors and attachment disorder, including Callaway High School, Ravenna Public Schools, Sargent Public Schools, Burwell Elementary School, Broken Bow Elementary Schools, Doniphan-Trumbell schools, and elementary schools and day cares in Grand Island, as well as presenting to the Omaha Public Schools with Janie Watson on how to incorporate strong sitting in the classroom. She has also participated in presentations to support groups and to NAFPA.

Special Areas
Deb’s early work focused on families, working with adolescents and teens, often with attachment issues or oppositional behaviors. She has since shifted her focus to trauma resolution, mainly with the adult population.

Deb has completed the Critical Incident Stress Management Training and is a member of the CISM team, Troop D. She was a former Crisis Team Leader while teaching at Sargent Public Schools and continues to be involved in Crisis Care Network and responds to crisis, helping guide people through traumatic incidents.

Deb previously facilitated the Clean Break (smoking cessation) and Trim Life (weight loss and healthy living) hypnosis groups. In her clinical practice, she uses hypnosis to treat a variety of issues, from anxiety and depression, to peak performance (sports, academics) and past issues, including some mind-body issues. She also offers hypnotherapy, which is a modality that helps clients regress to past issues, process, heal, and set some new affirmations and goals. The hypnotherapy regressions are longer sessions, which move clients through a myriad of issues, to resolution, in a shorter amount of time.  Hypnotherapy is very successful in treating trauma, as well as for past life regressions, soul retrievals and even in dream hypnotherapy, using the unconscious to help unlock conscious blocks.

Personal
In her leisure time, Deb likes to ride horses and to kayak and through the spring and summer, heads to a river over the weekends. She also relaxes by reading and writing, mostly poetry. She raced go-karts competitively for over 20 years and enjoys watching NASCAR and most oval track racing. She also enjoys water sports, hiking, fishing and camping, as well as collecting art, especially Native American pieces, as her Cherokee and Cheyenne heritage are an integral part of her life. She owns a tipi and enjoys setting her tipi up and spending time with friends, educating others about American Indians and the Plains Indian way of life. Most weekends can find her at a cabin at a nearby lake, kayaking on a river, or reading on the deck.