Counseling

Cindi offers intuitive counseling services where she uses her experience, education, gifts and energy to assist people to access their innate health and wisdom.  She helps people understand how their past or current experiences are great teachers but they can cover up or distract them from their health. 

She works from a vantage point to reconnect them to their wellness in the Now, knowing that nothing can damage their core health or consciousness. She shows them the inside –out nature of thought and experience, and helps them calm things down so that they can access their core health and rise above their circumstances. 

As people gain insight, they tap their intuition, gifts, and true Self, allowing them to get beyond dysfunctional habits and create healthy happy lives and relationships. They become empowered to maintain their own mental health, reduce stress and dysfunction, and dissolve their dualist view.  This process brings them to a place where they can experience joy and the life they desire. 

She works with individuals, couples and families supporting and assisting them through progressive ways of thinking that allow them to manifest positive experiences and heal traumas and relationships.

People seeking help from emotional, physical, relational, mental health, spiritual, energetic, chronic pain, illness or life circumstances report finding great support, connection and relief from the way Cindi listens deeply and helps people stretch in ways that honor their system. She facilitates them in aligning with their core health.

Cindi helps people with chronic pain or illness to access their internal sense of well being, assisting them in their recovery despite the outcome of their physical health.  She also counsels people on ways to prepare their system and energetic bodies for surgery, invasive procedures and treatment plans.

Many people crossover to do energy work with Cindi in addition to the counseling so they can unhook habits or patterns and heal faster.

Counseling History   

Cindi began her counseling career in the late 70’s in the field of addictions where she co-created some of the first programs for families who were affected by addiction.  In 1981, she co-created the first Dual Diagnosis programs in the Midwest at St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center and Abbott North western Hospital.  She also worked with people who had suffered head traumas, spinal cord injuries and burns due to their chemical use or mental health issue.

In 1981, she was exposed to the Health Realization/Resiliency model, using the three principles of understanding as it was introduced to the United States from Canada.  She immediately saw the dramatic results she had with her clients and set off to do an 18-month internship.  She worked in Minneapolis as a counselor in a clinic with author Joseph Bailey who wrote the Serenity Principle, Slowing Down to the Speed of Life and The Speed Trap.

In 1991, she felt called to work in the low-income public housing area and bring counseling and Health Realization to people who typically have less access to healthcare.  The community center was housed in the middle of a heavily gang-influenced area.  She created programs and counseled parents and children. The community became empowered; they change their lives and reduced crime.

 In 1995, she co-created a collaborative to build a family practice clinic connected to the community center.  In 1998, the clinic received the American Hospital Association’s Nova Award, which was one of the five clinics selected from 200 clinics nationwide.

Cindi Claypatch is the Founder and Director of the Health Realization Training Center, a center of Pillsbury United Communities, formerly known as the Glenwood-Lyndale Health Realization Training Center.  In addition to her 30 years of experience, she has been licensed as an alcohol and drug counselor in the state of Minnesota, holds a B.A. in Human Services with the study of psychology and corrections and has completed her Master’s in Human Development with a primary focus in the study of consciousness and holistic health.  The National Institute for Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine certifies her in intuition.