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| Copyright 2009, Shelly P. Harrell, Ph.D. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be copied or reproduced without appropriate citation of the author and source. |
| About Dr. Shelly Harrell My Mission Statement To provide professional services that inspire, empower, and transform persons, relationships, and groups toward their highest and best in the ultimate service of the elevation of our collective humanity. My Inspiration I have a passion for participating in the development of greatness. I am blessed with the gift of being able to connect with the light that shines within others. I work with each person so that inner light illuminates, liberates, and gives full expression to one's strengths, gifts, and ultimate purpose. I have a deep passion for and commitment to social justice, particularly with respect to the elimination of all forms of social oppression. I have a strong faith in the amazing potential of people, groups, and communities to rise to their highest potential given the right conditions and inspiration. My Background I have been helping people and mentoring students professionally for nearly 25 years. I am a licensed psychologist in California and currently a Professor at Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, I have been on an amazing life journey that has taken me from the Motor City to Boston in 1978, and then to Los Angeles in 1982 where I now make my home. More to come... Education and Training Ph.D. 1988 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Clinical Psychology M.A. 1984 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Clinical Psychology B.A. 1982 Harvard University/Radcliffe College Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors Psychology and Social Relations Other Training: - Life Coaching - Meditation - Positive Psychology - Sports Psychology Member, American Psychological Association Member, American Association of Applied Sport Psychology |
| About Focus and Flow Focus and Flow represents a powerful integration of: (1) my diverse professional activities as a psychotherapist, professor, and consultant, (2) my passion for both sports and the performing arts, and (3) my strong personal and spiritual beliefs about the ability of all of us to utilize our strengths and gifts as contributions to the transformation of our world. I've been implementing Focus and Flow strategies with my students, clients, and people in my social networks for nearly 25 years. With Focus and Flow, I am bringing all of that together in the form of systematic programs, coaching and consultation strategies to help people on a broader scale. "Focus and Flow" provides workshops, individualized consultation, virtual services, and will be launching a CD/MP3 program for young and early career athletes, performing artists, writers, speakers, and students "who aspire to their highest and best". The services are designed to help you "do what you do" better and to your highest potential utilizing cognitive techniques, meditation, stress management, and positive life coaching. As a licensed psychologist, psychotherapist, and university professor with nearly 25 years of experience helping, healing, mentoring, and uplifting others, my approach is informed by applications from neuroscience, positive psychology, transpersonal psychology, and narrative psychology; as well as by my wealth of professional and life experiences. My original two programs, "Get Your Mind Right"™, and "Empowering Your Mind - Energizing Your Soul"™ are comprehensive, research-based, and emerge from my experiences: (1) teaching meditation and visualization to an elite youth basketball team based in urban Los Angeles, (2) as an effective speaker, trainer, and popular professor, (3) designing and evaluating curriculum and programs, (4) more than 20 years providing psychotherapy to a diverse clientele in Los Angeles, and (5) forming and directing a dance company, as well as performance and choreography in dance concerts and musical theater in my youth. In our current economy and with the change that is needed in our world, none of us can afford to be mediocre. We must all strive to be our best, as well as to live positively and optimally. Focus and Flow seeks to contribute to the evolution of our world one person, one team, and one performance at a time. |
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| Dr. Shelly P. Harrell Psychologist / Consultant / Life Coach |