Sophia's Bio

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My vocation began in 1974 as a Scientific Researcher at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, now called Radboud University, after receiving a Drs. degree in Sociology, with minors in Social Psychiatry and Criminology.  I studied Criminology with Prof. Dr. C.I. Dessaur, also known as the brilliant writer Andreas Burnier. 
I added some time as a Scientific Researcher at the Institute for Applied Sociology in Nijmegen.  
Then I got Certifications in Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy from the Institute for Psychotherapy in Arnhem, the Netherlands. 
For seven years I worked with institutionalized criminals 
and as a Consultant for Mental Health Professionals.

In 1985 I made the move from Amsterdam to New York City and received a three year, full-time training and Certification in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Blanton Peale Institute of the Institutes of Religion and Health. The Blanton-Peale Institute is nonsectarian and non- denominational, founded by Reverend Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and psychiatrist Smiley Blanton.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale is the author of many works, amongst them The Power of Positive Thinking. Simultaneously I trained to be an Imago Relationship Therapist (certified in 1992).
I hold the status of Advanced Clinician of the Institute for Relationship Therapy in New York, founded by Helen LaKelly Hunt and Harville Hendrix, now called Imago Relations International. 
I am a member of the American Association for Pastoral Counselors, since the late eighties. 
For most of my life I researched Ancient and Perennial Wisdom, Metaphysics in general, as well as the lives and works of the best, the beacons, the engines of every generation on earth.

After conducting a psychotherapy private practice in the San Remo building in New York City for almost two decades, I longed to facilitate undivided awareness and prosperity, through working with the whole person, as well as the entire web of interrelated circumstances of that person.
Discontentment, affliction, conflict, stuckness, it all stems from a divided or incomplete condition.
Since the goal is complete being and ultimate accomplishment, I decided to bridge the divide between the compartments of sociology, psychoanalysis, relationship therapy, spirituality and genius. 
My intend was to get out of the limiting, confining box of each field and create new unified wisdom out of the ultimate knowledge of all the fields, to enhance current methods and get better, faster results.
I show people stirring possibilities where they can't see them for themselves just yet. 
Then we use active imagination to open up new vistas.  I also use an acute perception, a sharp 6th sense as a tool.  I tune into the energy of the person, situation or relation(s) and read an X ray of obstacles. 
The title Destiny Consultant represents the unique, holistic way of unlocking prosperity and creating new destiny.  We don’t walk the beaten path, we walk your path only.  Your essence is calling the shots.