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APPPAH Congress

The Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health is hosting their 14th annual International Congress, entitled The Miracle of Birth: Uniting Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science.

The Congress will be held April 24th through 27th, 2009, in Pacific Grove, California. For more information or to register, please visit the APPPAH Congress website.

Dr. Castellino will not be presenting at the Congress this year.

Interview with Chloe Faith Wordsworth

On September 24th, Dr. Castellino was interviewed by Chloe Faith Wordsworth of Resonance Repatterning on her internet radio show. You can listen to the show online for free, or purchase a transcript for $12.00.

The goal of Castellino Prenatal and Birth Training is to make Prenatal and Birth Therapy available to the world community for children, adults, and especially for babies and new families with the highest possible integrity, efficiency and compassion.

Dr. Raymond F. Castellino facilitates people of all ages to resolve and repattern prenatal and birth trauma imprinting. This includes facilitating babies and children in the family setting and adults in individual and small group settings. He also offers phone support for parents, adults, and professionals seeking supervision. He works both alone and together with midwife Mary Jackson.

In addition to working with people and their families himself, Dr. Castellino also offers educational services to train others in these skills. His educational services include a two-year (48-day) Foundation Training, as well as several different clinical training opportunities.

He is also the author and producer of numerous papers and videos on the subjects of pre- and peri-natal therapy and early trauma resolution.

About Dr. Castellino

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Raymond Castellino, DC (retired), RPP, RCST®, draws on almost four decades of experience as a natural health care practitioner, consultant and teacher. His current practice focuses on the resolution of prenatal, birth and other early trauma / stress through an approach combining polarity therapy, craniosacral therapy, play therapy, trauma resolution, birth simulation and pre and peri-natal psychology.

He is the Clinical Director of BEBA, a non-profit research clinic in Santa Barbara devoted to strengthening the bonds between babies/children and their parents and optimizing childrens' physical, emotional and mental development.

Dr. Castellino is on the faculty of SBGI which offers masters and doctorates in both Pre and Peri-natal Psychology and Somatic Psychology; he is a frequent presenter at national conferences including APPPAH, APTA, CSTA-NA and others; and he was a founding board member of the aTLC.

He has been practicing and teaching prenatal and birth therapy since 1993.