California

Better Life Teaching and Counseling Center
2515 Milvia Street #3
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-486-8268 Fax: 510-486-8265
e-mail: maggie@value.net
web: www.betterlifectr.com

Maggie van Staveren LCSW, CHT. IARRT President Maggie is a licensed psychotherapist and certified hypnotherapist and IBRT certified as a past life regression therapist. She works in her private practice in Berkeley as a therapist and also teaches personal improvement classes and gives lectures on a variety of topics including Dreams, Developing One's Intuition and Business
Principles. As a therapist she works with individuals and couples using a variety of techniques specializing in Past Life Regression Therapy.

She was born in The Netherlands and came to the United States with her family. Trained as an educator she taught children in Elementary, Middle, and Junior High schools in Michigan, Ohio and Utah. As a Social Worker and Therapist she has experience working with the elderly, with children and parents in custody evaluations, with persons who had substance abuse problems, and sex offenders, victims and their families. Maggie has also worked in a variety of medical settings.

Board President of the International Association of Regression Research
and Therapies. She has also served on Board in the capacity of
Nominations/Ethics Chair, Conference Coordinator and Education Director.

Member since: Life time member, Sept. 1993

Education: Ph.D. candidate. International University of Professional
Studies. Solano Beach, CA 1994 Advanced Certification in
Hypnotherapy. Institute of Thought, San Diego, CA
1986 MSW. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 MS in Human Development. Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.

Professional Organizations: IARRT - International Organization of
Regression Research and Therapies
Hypnotherapist Union
NASW - National Association of Social Workers
CASW - California Association of Social Workers

Career: current: Hypnotherapist, Transpersonal Psychotherapist
LCSW in private practice and medical settings
Teacher in Elementary, Middle and Junior high schools

Specialties: Past Life Regression Therapy, Hypnotherapy and
Transpersonl Psychotherapy

Courses taught: Pain Management of Terminally Ill Patients
Using the "Voice Within" in Past Life Regression Therapy
Dreams: A Tool to get Messages from the Soul
The Message of Joy through Time for You and Mankind
Better Life Center Hypnotherapy Certification program
Better Life Center monthly personal improvement classes

Publications: in progress: 15th Step Research, Doctoral
Dissertation, and a book entitled: "My Voice Returns"

Languages: English, limited Dutch