Wendy West is an educator, healer, and business-woman who began her life of service at fourteen when she started working with children beset by cerebral palsy. A political activist during her college years, her activism led to work in rehabilitating juvenile offenders in the court’s Pre-Trial Diversion Program and later as a Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA). Following college, Wendy worked with refugees from El Salvador and Vietnam while serving as an in home trainer for the Refugee Women’s Program.
An inveterate world traveler, she has worked in rural development and family planning programs in Brazil and Mexico, done social work with African refugees and Romani people in Spain, and volunteered among the street children of Sao Paulo’s infamous favelas in Brazil. It was while Wendy was living in Brazil that her husband’s near death experience transformed her life, eventually leading to her training as a Flower Essence Practitioner/Reiki Master and to Pacifica Graduate Institute where she received an M.A. in Counseling with a focus in Depth Psychology.
Based on her experience with both traditional therapy and alternative techniques, she developed an integrative, holistic approach to her practice. Informed by an interest in transpersonal psychology and quantum physics, Wendy’s perspective is also drawn from her experiences with cultural anthropology and working with indigenous peoples.
Wendy West was inspired to found Healers West in 2007 as a way to create a unified global network of healers and to provide an educational community resource for expanding public awareness of complementary and alternative therapies as related to integrative medicine.
She is married to the entrepreneur/solar social activist, and founder of Solgenix.net. They have three “young adults” and live in Southern California.
Photo by Molly Stein