Where East Meets West
About Us
Mission Statement
To instruct and educate persons in the various forms of healing arts,
in order that they may heal themselves and educate others which in turn,
facilitates exponential healing of our world.
Claremont Healing Arts Center was established in 1994. Along with Western traditional services, such as Counseling, Hypnotherapy, Arthritis Foundation exercise programs and senior Aerobic classes, we also have spanned across the globe to offer eastern healing methodologies: Yoga, Tai Chi, Reiki and including the more esoteric: Shaman stone and Tarot readings and energy healings.
We provide a wide variety of alternatives to meet your needs and preferences. We believe that the combination of Easter and Western healing methods greatly increases well-being in every way: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Interested in learning to empower yourself as a healer or instructor?
Click on the 'Home' page to find out more about our Certification Courses.
Joanne is the Executive Director and founder of the The Claremont Healing Arts Center. She is a Drug & Alcohol Counselor, specializing in Codependency and Inner child work, after having interned at the John Bradshaw Center, Ingleside Hospital, CA. in 1992.
Her life-long interests and studies in natural medicine and healing arts led to a Holistic Health education program she taught at numerous locations, including Health Plans in So. Cal. In 1995, she designed the Healing Arts Practitioner Certification curriculum and has taught the program in her center to hundreds of students from all walks of life.
She continues her pursuit of knowledge in life-coaching, holistic health, hypnotherapy and Reiki Teaching.
She currently lives in Southern California with her husband, Doug, and their 3 furry children: Apollo (the Pomeranian) and the cats, The Empress Sophie and Miss “T”.
Julie is the Assistant Director for the Institute as well as a Healing Arts Practitioner and a Holistic Health Consultant and teaches Healing Arts Practitioner courses part-time at the Claremont Healing Arts Center.
Over the last 20 years she has taken classes in energy work, herbs and several alternative healing traditions. She is a Celtic Shamanic Practitioner having gained certification from the Irish Centre for Shamanic Studies in Dunderry, Co. Meath Ireland.
Residing in Southern California, she walks the path of the Wyrd and continues to seek out spiritual enlightenment and training, creating new healing tools, and satisfying her deep, insatiable wanderlust for green, growing places. She shares what she learns with other Seekers she finds along the way.