Co-Host Profile

InflexionPoint Podcast: 
Cultivating Change from the Inside Out

Creating a Brave Space for Conversations about  Personal Transformation, Racism, and Accountability

1st & 3rd Wednesday 3PM PT / 6PM ET

 
Enter a brave space to ponder solving The Cairo Question. Engage in dialogue based on the premise that dismantling racism goes beyond laws and legislation or politics or economics. It's an inside job where personal transformation ... Read more

InflexionPoint Podcast: 
Cultivating Change from the Inside Out

Creating a Brave Space for Conversations about  Personal Transformation, Racism, and Accountability

1st & 3rd Wednesday 3PM PT / 6PM ET

 
Enter a brave space to ponder solving The Cairo Question. Engage in dialogue based on the premise that dismantling racism goes beyond laws and legislation or politics or economics. It's an inside job where personal transformation and accountability impact social change in multiple dimensions: individual, interpersonal, systemic, and structural. It's a place to get comfortable with deconstructing your inner thoughts, ideas, and beliefs to examine what flows out into the world through your words, actions, and behaviors, particularly towards others who are different from yourself.

About

Gail Hunter, LCSW, BCD,LLC has been in Private Practice as a psychotherapist in the Pittsburgh area since 1979. She is a Reiki master and a holistic practitioner using EMDR, Brainspotting, neuro/ developmental approach, Reiki, Source Point Therapy, ‘Bars’, Theta Healing, TFT, EFT, and other Energy Techniques.  As a holistic practitioner, she has always believed in everyone’s inner capacity to heal into life; to remember the ‘truth’ of who we are innately; to reconnect to a ‘knowing’ of the abundance of possibilities we can manifest and to remember we all come from the greatest source of Love, always connected to Source and each other.

She is a Founding Member and the President of the Board of Directors for OMA, Center for Mind, Body and Spirit ( www.omapittsburgh.org ), which is a 501 (c) (3) organization committed to providing holistic approach for the wellness of self, family, and community. OMA integrates a variety of healing and therapeutic modalities in the areas of wellness, fitness, health, therapeutic, and educational programs. These are our current programs:

Art in the Garden (AITG) is OMA’s year-round youth and family program. Our summer day program and our after-school program which collaborates with Kingsley House, East End Pittsburgh, who also supports OMA’s mission along with our joint vision to reduce violence and create environments of harmony & reconciliation. Art in the Garden’s programs address the impacts of childhood adversity and trauma on health and learning.

Trauma-Informed Care Trainings Our vision is for Pittsburgh to become a model for best practices in trauma-informed care. To support this vision, we at OMA Pittsburgh hold Surviving to Thriving seminars. Surviving to Thriving is a bridge designed to connect educators, community organizations, families and professionals across generations and the healthcare spectrum.

 OMA Lecture Series is a biweekly event which is now presented on Zoom.  Each lecture highlights different holistic practitioners and experts from the Pittsburgh area and beyond and we invite them to share their knowledge with attendees.

Trauma Conversations  “You are not Alone”, was launched 11/2020. This is a virtual, monthly, program over a one-year period, that provides a forum for anyone who has experienced t    trauma from childhood or as an adult. Each session provides a panel of up to five who have experienced trauma, along with a therapist, and a moderator. The panel session is designed to create a space for the telling and sharing of our stories around our diverse life trauma experiences and to explore the connections between us all.   

 OMA Center for Mind, Body, and Spirit began about 15 years ago as a vision of an inner city community wellness center and a rural retreat center that would complement each other. Both would provide holistic services for anyone regardless of their socioeconomic, cultural, or spiritual/religious background.

"I have been ‘holding’ this vision as  a picture within a loving, grateful, and positive energy field since that time. Around ten years ago as I began to share my vision, what began to manifest was the appearance of one amazing person after another who each brought their own unique skills, experience, and passion to the development of OMA.

I have always believed and taught others that when you hold a picture of what you seek and envision it with gratitude as if it has already happened, it will then manifest. Thank you to all those who ‘heard’ my vision and have been working diligently to create OMA.

Our name OMA represents the Ohio, Monongahela, and Allegheny Rivers at the Point in Pittsburgh. It is an unusual occurrence in nature for two rivers to join at a geographical point to form a third river. I have been blessed to experience many ‘unusual’ occurrences of how the amazing  power of love, faith, and creativity can promote healing within us and then manifest as energetic connections to those around us. I believe that this same possibility lives and begins within each of us."

Gail Hunter, LCSW, BCD