Lori Austein is a certified trainer and facilitator of the Council process and a certified hypnotherapist and transpersonal life coach, as well as an educator, lawyer, and mediator. 

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She completed the full trainer's path for Credentialed Council Trainers at the Ojai Foundation in California and spent five years at an urban middle school in Los Angeles helping to bring weekly Councils to over 2,000 students. Since 2002, she has facilitated numerous Councils in various settings throughout the Western United States and Canada, and trained many others to do the same. 

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In 2010, Lori received certification as a hypnotherapist through the Wellness Institute in Issaquah, Washington, and continues to pursue advanced training in clinical psychotherapeutic hypnosis. She has also been trained in Transpersonal Life Coaching from the Wellness Institute. Lori is not a Registered Clinical Counselor. 

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She continues her education and training in working with altered states of consciousness for healing and growth by participating in professional training at The Wellness Institute in Washington. She is currently in the Mentors Program meeting three times a year for four days of ongoing professional  development and personal work. 

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Lori lives in Duncan, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, with her husband, son, and Bob the Dog.