About Dorothea

Dorothea Hover-Kramer with her book Second Chance at Your Dream

Dorothea Hover-Kramer with her book Second Chance at Your Dream

Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D., RN,  D.CEP has been a psychotherapist in private practice for over 30 years and combines her career as a psychologist with a background as a clinical nurse specialist. She cofounded the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP), served as a past president and was instrumental in designing  implementing its certification program and is among its senior training  professionals. She  holds a diplomate in comprehensive energy psychology (D.CEP).

Dr. Dorothea is also the author of eight other books about energy therapies including Healing Touch: A guidebook for practitioners (Delmar/Cengage, 2002), Creative Energies: Integrative energy psychotherapy for self-expression and healing (W.W.Norton, 2002), the award-winning Creating Healing Relationships: Professional standards for energy therapy practitioners (Energy Psychology Press, 2011), and Healing Touch: Essential energy medicine for yourself and others (Sounds True, 2011). For further information about Dorothea’s other books, see her other websites DorotheaLifeArtist.com and HealingTouchBook.com

Dorothea is especially committed to bringing insights from the field of Energy Psychology to those facing the challenges and opportunities of the second half of life. She wants to help unleash the creative potential in every person and to encourage learning from pain’s lessons to overcome human suffering.

She is an activist in her communities as well as a performing musician, an exhibiting artist, and an appreciator of nature and wildlife. She lives with her husband and her great dogs on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest.

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“The age of audacious aging has arrived. … No one can combine aging, creativity and energy therapy like Dorothea Hover-Kramer.”

David Gruder, Ph.D., D.CEP

Psychologist, award winning self-improvement author and Founding President of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology