Amita Ghosh is a psychotherapist, educator, and retreat leader whose work reflects a rare integration of Western clinical psychology and Eastern wisdom traditions. With more than three decades of experience in behavioral health, counseling, teaching, and leadership, she has built a career devoted to helping individuals, couples, and professionals achieve profound emotional healing, relational growth, and personal transformation.

Amita holds a Master of Education in Counseling Psychology and a Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Her educational foundation is complemented by extensive advanced clinical and mind-body training, allowing her to bridge evidence-based psychotherapy with holistic and contemplative approaches to healing.

Her clinical specialties include EMDR trauma therapy, Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based interventions (MBSR), and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. She has been practicing EMDR since 2000, and Gottman Method since 2017. Her work is further informed by studies in trauma and embodiment, including training by Bessel van der Kolk on the mind-body connection and trauma recovery.

What distinguishes Amita’s approach is her sophisticated blending and lived experience of Western psychology with Eastern healing traditions. Drawing from yoga psychology, Buddhist psychology, mindfulness, Ayurveda, breathwork, and contemplative practices, she creates therapeutic and educational experiences that address both emotional and embodied dimensions of healing. Her background as a certified yoga teacher, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist, and mindfulness practitioner allows her to integrate nervous system regulation, self-awareness, and relational attunement into modern psychotherapy in a grounded and clinically sophisticated way.

As the founder of her private practice, she works primarily with discerning clients seeking high-level, deeply personalized care. She also develops and leads transformational retreats and continuing education programs for psychotherapists, professional women, and helping professionals. Her career aspirations center on creating internationally respected therapeutic, educational, and retreat experiences that combine psychological depth, cultural wisdom, emotional healing, and personal evolution in a way that is both clinically rigorous and profoundly human.

I am a somatic practitioner, located in Chicago, IL. I began my journey with massage training in Hawaii, in 2006, and then expanded my expertise to include certifications in Rosen Method bodywork, yoga, and somatic psychology.

My work blends relaxation-focused therapeutic massage with transformative bodywork to help you restore balance and well-being.

Whether you’re seeking relief from tension, pain, or emotional healing, I’m here to guide you on your journey toward greater vitality and inner peace.

Katie Asmus is a Somatic and Nature-Based Psychotherapist. With a Master’s degree in Somatic Psychology, over 30 years of leading individuals and group programs out in nature, and a lifetime of apprenticing to ceremony and rites of passage, Katie says the essence of her work is normalizing, celebrating, and bringing compassion to what it means to be human. For the past 25 years, alongside maintaining a private psychotherapy practice, she has taught graduate students at Naropa University and Prescott College in the areas of Somatic and Nature-based Therapies.
In addition, through the Somatic Nature Therapy Institute (and in collaboration with other inspiring colleagues), she created and facilitates both online and in-person workshops and trainings in Somatic Trauma work, Ceremony & Rites of Passage facilitation, as well as in a wide variety of wilderness, adventure, and nature-based therapy skills. Having sat with tens of thousands of people from around the world and from all walks of life, Katie is a tender of the thresholds and strongly believes in the necessity of following our deepest longing while simultaneously knowing and feeling our interconnection and belonging to the greater web of life.

Dr. Madeline Kay (PY61477178) has spent the last decade on an expedition undertaking the philosophical teachings and professional trainings of clinical and organizational psychology. Specializing in whole-person wellness and the resuscitation of the inner child’s dreams, Dr. Kay has created a healing practice that utilizes evidence-based techniques with the restorative art of human connection. The October Hour took many years to develop and thus, remains a precious and exclusive experience set apart from other therapeutic and organizational practices. Within The October Hour, Dr. Kay aims to cultivate purpose and empower creativity with an emphasis on individualization and relatability, which drives performance enhancement throughout one’s life and within organizations. This growth process focuses on constructing a personalized space for individuals to explore themselves and their world in a unique, safe way, as well as for leaders to unlock industry potential. 

CODY LUNDIN is an internationally recognized professional survival instructor with more than 34 years of hands-on teaching experience. Unbeknownst to him at the time, Cody’s love of all things self-reliant began as a child with the influence of his homesteading grandparents. Their rural South Dakota lifestyle of living close to the land and doing more with less was Cody’s first exposure to what the family still calls, “that good ol’ pioneer spirit.”

The only child of a military family, Cody moved frequently, including time spent in Europe. During these years of migration, with no formal base to call home, Nature became Cody’s constant companion, whether in the neighboring woods or the back yard. Cody’s life changed forever when he experienced a transformation in the red rock wilderness of Arizona. This profound experience with the natural world inspired him to change his life and share Nature with others. He then consciously entered a multi-year journey of hard choices, deprivation and self-correction.

In 1991, with an initial investment of less than $10, Cody founded the Aboriginal Living Skills School using the same passion, determination and psychological stamina he used to overcome personal challenges and heal his life. When not teaching for his own school, Cody is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College, Prescott College, and the Ecosa Institute where he teaches the survival and sustainability curriculums he created. He teaches with rare intensity gand humor to individuals, groups, schools, and various organizations throughout the United States and abroad. Cody lives in a self-designed, self-reliant, passive solar earth home in the high-desert wilderness of Northern Arizona in which he catches rain, composts wastes, and pays nothing for heating and cooling.

Joshua has over 15 years working in the behavioral health field, working with teens, adults, and couples. He helps clients through trauma, depression, anxiety, abuse, gender issues, relationship problems, religious conflict, LGBTQIA+ issues, and substance abuse issues! Joshua utilizes various modalities to help you on your journey, including CBT, EMDR, DBT, Mindfulness, ACT, Jungian Dream Analysis, and TF-CBT.

Arilda Surridge is a bilingual (English/Spanish) Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with extensive training, and experience working with adults, and couples on a broad range of issues particularly trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and family conflict.

In addition to providing therapy, she also leads and organizes couples retreats/workshops, therapist retreats (trainings), and Wellness Retreats.