Faculty

Francesca McCartney  PhD

Founder | Faculty Instructor | Executive Director

Since 1976, Dr. McCartney has worked in the field of intuition as a medical intuitive in an integrative health clinic, a pastoral counselor, author and educator. In 1984, Francesca McCartney founded the Academy of Intuition Medicine® in Mill Valley, California USA.

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Francesca synthesizes her thirty years of study in Eastern and Western spiritual and healing arts into a multi-modality approach which grounds her in respectfulness for the uniqueness of the individual. From her pastoral counseling and medical intuitive work with thousands of clients Francesca developed the Intuition Medicine curriculum.

Read Francesca’s story
Curriculum Vitae (CV)

CONTACT INFO
Email: francesca@intuitionmedicine.org 

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Jacqueline S Chan  DO, MIM

Faculty | Integrative Medicine Physician | Energy Medicine Practitioner

Dr. Jacqueline Chan made a conscious choice to integrate two empirically verifiable truths: a specific compound, herbal or pharmaceutical, can help “cure” an illness; mental thoughts and cellular trauma or feelings locked in the body can both cause illness and heal illness.

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She graduated from Mount Holyoke College magna cum laude in philosophy then did a short stint in an MBA finance program on Wall Street in New York City. Jacqueline decided her true calling was in medicine. In 1994 she graduated from Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Jacqueline is board certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine and Neuromusculokeletal Medicine. Dr. Chan spent 18 years honing her skills as an integrative physician by studying herbs, functional medicine, heavy metal detox, osteopathic manipulation, nutrition, bio-identical hormone balancing and functional lab analysis.

In 2012 she collaborated on a research study on chronic disease with Beverly Rubik, PhD at the Institute of Frontier Science. In 2013, she graduated from the Academy of Intuition Medicine® trained as a Medical Intuitive and remote healer. In 2014 she completed a Transformative Leadership Training; and created a Chakra Doctor Series and Energetic Boundaries Course within a yoga teacher-training program. Dr. Chan’s goal is to connect the patient to their truth, wisdom and own innate healing force within their body. As a holistic medicine physician she believes that compassion, presence and grace are crucial healing forces along with intelligently applied clinical knowledge.

CONTACT INFO
Email: docchan22@gmail.com
Voice: (415) 945.3213
Web: marinnaturalmedicine.com/jacqueline-chan-do/

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Danny Geren  DAOM, Lac, MIM

Adjunct Faculty | Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

Dr. Danny Geren specializes in the combination of acupuncture and Intuition Medicine® in treating emotional and spiritual conditions, including the connection of how this can affect the body in various ways that don’t tend to follow traditional patterns.

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He is also faculty at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a college of the California Institute of Integral Studies, which is the same college that he graduated from in 2012. He has a private practice in Tiburon, CA and also specializes in treating acute/chronic pain and neurological conditions.

CONTACT INFO
Email: wellspringmarin@gmail.com
Voice: (415) 968.9294
Web: www.wellspringmarin.com

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Gitanjali Kapur  DBA, MIM

Adjunct Faculty (California & India) | Spiritual Coaching

Gitanjali graduated the Master Certification in Intuition Medicine® program in 2020. She has been a teacher for the Academy since 2020 enjoying tutoring, mentoring and teaching students Intuition Medicine®.

Prior to the academy she was an Educational Technology professional at UCSF for over two decades. Always intuitive, she was involved in spiritual work at the university for patients in end-of-life support.

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Gitanjali uses eastern and western wisdom traditions to guide her “next chapter” spiritual coaching practice. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area and India.

CONTACT INFO
Email: gitanjali.kapur@gmail.com

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Connie Prodromou  LAc, BA, MSTCM, MIM

Adjunct Faculty | Medical Intuitive

Connie Prodromou has operated her own private practice since 2000 specializing in Energy Medicine and Acupuncture. She is certified in BioSET, Neuromodulation Technique, and Emotional Freedom Technique® which she integrates into her sessions along with Intuition Medicine®.

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She graduated from the University of Illinois in 1975 with a BA in Economics and has an MS in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1999 from the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences in Oakland, CA. After moving to California in 1978 she spent almost 20 years in the corporate world of Workers Compensation Insurance. It was due to her own health challenges that she turned to energy medicine when no solutions could be found in the Traditional Medical World. The life-changing success of the energy work inspired her to change her career to pursue a degree in energy work so that she could help others who were also not finding solutions to their health issues.

Connie is a senior faculty in the Academy programs and also has a private practice offering in-person and long-distance sessions for people of all ages.

CONTACT INFO
Voice: (415) 485-1639
Web: marinhealthempowerment.com

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Cassie Stirman BS, MIM

Teen Program Instructor | Teaching Assistant

Cassie is an Academy teacher and has worked with children and teens throughout her life. She has served as a leader on the Richardson Bay Girl Scout Service Unit Team for over 10 years, organizing and running a leadership program for teens. She is certified in Mindfulness and Meditation for Adolescents and Children.

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Cassie is a mother of three, all of whom have attended classes at the Academy. Her oldest son graduated from MIM 36 Class of 2022.and is currently training to be a Teaching Assistant.

CONTACT INFO
Email: cassiestirman@gmail.com

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Dominic Vucci  MIM

Adjunct Faculty | Intuitive Consultant | Practicum Host

As a long-standing practitioner, meditation class teacher and faculty member at the Academy, Dominic brings a calm and relatable approach to his teaching and mentoring. Graduating his first MIM program in 1990, Dominic continued as a student by repeating the entire program and assisting senior teachers as a Teaching Assistant (TA) before taking over teaching duties for the Professional Tools course, which in part, helps to train future TAs in their role as mentors for newer students.

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Dominic has a passion for engaging others in the process of self-discovery, healing and change. Using metaphor, stories, insights and practical tips he is often able to help bring new perspectives and understandings, in-turn helping others to deepen their own practices.

Always enjoying the sense of community shared at the Academy, Dominic hosts the Wednesday night Practicums and now teaches Saturday Alumni Seminars, which will carry forward a rich tradition at the Academy of extending advanced support for alumni to continue their learning, growth and professional practice.

CONTACT INFO
Email: dominic.vucci@gmail.com
Voice: (415) 990-5234

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Samira Willson RDHAP, RDH, MIM

Faculty Teacher | Dental Medical Intuitive

Samira specializes in treating highly sensitive individuals with dental trauma and phobias. Her mission is to transform dentistry such that it includes the energetic components of each tooth and the mouth and is currently editing her book, “Tooth Fitness: Clearing Stored Trauma in the Mouth”. Her training includes Oral Myo-functional Therapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Life Coaching.

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CONTACT INFO
Voice: (415) 250-6336
Web: thepolishedsmile.com
Languages: Spanish, Arabic and English

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Additional Faculty

Marlon Bradley  MIM

Intuitive Consultant | Adjunct Faculty

As an Adjunct faculty member, Masters in Intuition Medicine program teaching assistant, and tutor, Marlon helps students understand and gain access to personal and universal healing energies. He has been actively involved in consultations with students and AIM alumni since receiving his MIM diploma in 1996.

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Marlon is experienced in the energetic cleansing of objects and physical spaces. In his intuitive consultations he offers present-time perspectives on past-life energies, and is particularly adept at facilitating the use of healing energies for the relief of both physical and psychological pain.

CONTACT INFO
Voice: (206) 463-0753
Email: marlonbradley@netscape.net

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Pamela Bradley  PhD, MIM

CPI Instructor | Faculty
Advisory Board Member

Dr. Bradley is a consulting psychologist and researcher who has been a scholar of various disciplines in humanistic psychology for over 20 years.

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She began her journey in psychology as a student of Jungian theory and has focused her interests on personality and the process of individuation. She received training directly from Dr. Carl Rogers in his "client-centered approach" to psychotherapy and has studied and worked with other leaders in the field of clinical and personality psychology.

Through her research Dr. Bradley develops psychological assessment methods and applies these to the study of adult development, wisdom and the creative personality. Her research is published in numerous scientific journals and she is co-author of the professional manual for the California Psychological Inventory (CPI).

She is currently a research psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley and does private consulting.

CONTACT INFO
Voice: (206) 463-0753
Email: pamela@energymedicineuniversity.org

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Scott Carpenter  MIM

Energy Medicine Practitioner | Adjunct Faculty

A 2015 graduate of the Master Certificate in Intuition Medicine® program, Scott has since served as a teaching assistant, practicum mentor, and tutor to Academy students. He enjoys holding space for students and clients in a way that lets them discover energy medicine in a practical way, and how to bring its benefits into their lives at each moment.

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Scott has many years of experience in Information Technology consulting, sales, and education in the US, UK, and Canada. He currently serves as CIO for a San Rafael, CA based company.

CONTACT INFO
Email: scott.carpenter22@outlook.com 

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Jennifer Constantin  RN, BSN, MIM

Nurse | Adjunct Faculty

Jennifer co-founded an aesthetic medicine practice in 2005 where she is an aesthetic nurse specialist and COO. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of San Francisco, and is a 2011 graduate of the Master Certificate in Intuition Medicine® program.

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Jennifer worked in the critical care training program at USCF Medical Center where she worked in the Adult Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit for five years, receiving the National Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses in 2003. After caring for several burn patients Jennifer was inspired to explore non-invasive procedures for skin rejuvenation with the desire to not only to restore her patient’s skin but also their spirit.

As an intuitive working in the medical profession she was led to the Academy of Intuition Medicine® in 2008, where she is currently a senior teaching assistant in the MIM program. Her passion is to understand a client’s core desire while providing a truly supportive environment for inner and outer transformation. Jennifer uses Intuition Medicine® tools to see people as multi-dimensional, and has a deep reverence for holding space to honor their individuality and journey to a deeper sense of self.

CONTACT INFO
Web: www.InnerImage.com

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Maile Hatfield BA, MIM

Intuitive Consultant | Adjunct Faculty

Maile is an Academy Senior Teaching Assistant. As an Intuition Medicine® practitioner she works with clients facing chronic illness or life/death transitions, facilitating energy healings, clearing physical spaces, and providing spiritual counseling.

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A former US lobbyist, public relations director, and entertainment business manager, Maile is now an executive producer of large scale corporate marketing events. Her experience in working with diverse energies, crowded spaces, and facilitating clear communications in business inspires her to bring harmony and balance in the lives of her clients and students.

CONTACT INFO
Voice: (415) 302-1391
Email: cmaile@mac.com

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Kirk Hurford MIM

Energy Medicine Practitioner | Adjunct Faculty

Since completing the MIM program in 2003, Kirk has enjoyed helping Academy Students as a Senior Teaching Assistant, tutor, and mentor. “The Academy is a new path for many of its students. I enjoy being available as a guide during this extraordinary journey.”

Kirk is a software developer, writer, and member of the executive staff for several technology-based companies.

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CONTACT INFO
Email: kirk@heartcompass.com
Voice: (415) 595-2004 

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Chuck Laurenson  MS, BA, MIM

Intuitive Consultant | Faculty

Professor Laurenson has over 38 years of healthcare and industry experience as a senior clinical data scientist, senior statistician, division quality manager, CEO, and consultant both conducting and directing a wide variety of statistical analyses and research projects. His healthcare experience includes various clinical data analyses, research design, visualization development, risk modeling, and process improvement.

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He worked for many years with high-tech manufacturing companies where his expertise in statistical thinking and analysis, process improvement and control, problem-solving, lean and systems thinking, quality engineering, customer research, and leadership have been successfully applied. He has developed over 20 courses taught to over 3,000 students on various topics in applied statistics, statistical quality control, sampling, quality management, and leadership. Through his teaching and consulting, he has helped people overcome their misunderstanding of (and often disdain for) statistics by showing how it can be interesting, practical, and very useful in their work and life. He recognizes several parallels between statistics (a physical world science) and intuition medicine (an energy and spiritual world science).

Chuck has authored two internal textbooks for Hewlett-Packard on basis statistics and statistical quality control and served as a referee for Technometrics journal and for IEEE Transactions on Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology Society. Most of Professor Laurenson’s academic training and professional life has been devoted to analytical and systemic thinking. In 1996, he began devoting more time to developing his intuitive abilities by attending two Caroline Myss courses. He began his Intuition Medicine® training at the Academy of Intuition Medicine® in 1997. Chuck received his MIM in 1999 and remains active with the Academy as a MIM tutor. He also maintains an active Energy Medicine Practice. He is available for consultations, specializing in the Spiritual Incarnation™ and Physio-Psychic™ systems. Twice he has been an invited public speaker on Energy Medicine and has been featured on the Laura Lee Talk Show.

CONTACT INFO
Voice: (541) 488-4018
Email: chuckL@mind.net

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Ian Magnus  MIM

Energy Medicine Practitioner | Adjunct Faculty

Ian first attended the Academy in 1988, graduating with MIM 3 Class of 1990. Twenty years later, Ian woke up and rejoined the Academy. He graduated once again in MIM 24 Class of 2010. Determined to stay awake, Ian repeated MIM classes, trained as a teaching assistant, and was invited to join the Academy faculty. His wisdom gift to the Academy was founding the Practicum program.

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After a pictorial career as a graphic designer, he returned to his roots in horticulture, managing a commercial nursery and later, a landscape company. In 2013, he found himself called to Australia where he now manages a 28-acre biodynamic farm in southeastern Victoria. He continues to serve the Academy community as a tutor and member of the Ethics Counsel.

CONTACT INFO
Email: ianmagnus24@gmail.com

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Christopher Miles  MIM

Intuitive Consultant | Adjunct Faculty

A professional intuitive counselor since 1997, Christopher’s work combines a number of different modalities. In addition to Intuition Medicine, he has studied under Kurt Schnaubelt , PhD at the Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy and is a certified aromatherapist.

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He has practiced as a professional astrologer for the past 20 years with a focus on helping clients integrate past life information, soul urges, and lessons into this lifetime. He specializes in Transits, Progressions, and Synastry (relationship) charts as well. Combining techniques taught by Sheldon Norberg with his own experience working with spirits during his three-year sojourn with a shamanic circle, Christopher has performed Home and Office Purifications professionally over the past 15 years.

Because most disease or dis-ease happens when parts of the whole function out of harmony with each other, Christopher considers “Wholeness” to be the defining principle of his work. His energy medicine highlights the Emotional/Astral Body systems and the Male/Female Energy System.

CONTACT INFO
Flower Deva Healing Arts
Voice: (510) 268-8082
Email: christopher@flowerdeva.com
Website: www.flowerdeva.com/

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Andrea Natta  DAOM, Lac, MIM

Intuitive Counselor | Adjunct Faculty

Dr. Andrea Natta received both her master’s (2001) and doctoral (2012) degrees from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. She offers insight through her MIM training (2014) and her 25 years of experience working with the tarot.

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CONTACT INFO
Voice: (415) 940-8742
Email: dredre75@hotmail.com

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Gregor Nelson  MIM

Intuitive Counselor | Adjunct Faculty

Gregor first came to the Academy in 1990, graduating with the 4th MIM class, deja-vuing MIM 5, and returned for MIM’s 19 and 20. He has been a MIM tutor for many years. He has been in the graphic communications industry as a lettering artist, designer, illustrator, writer and editor for over 30 years. He has a private energetic healing practice, offering in-person and long-distance intuitive consultations, and is a yoga instructor.

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Since 2005 Gregor has been a volunteer field rescuer and raptor handler at the Bird Rescue Center in Santa Rosa, CA. He lives in Healdsburg with his wife (and MIM graduate) Christina.

CONTACT INFO
Voice: (707) 433-3999 (Sonoma County, CA)
Email: gregor@genergetic.com
Web: genergetic.com

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Barbara Reed  MIM

Intuitive Consultant | Animal Communicator | Adjunct Faculty

Barbara Reed has been working intuitively with animals for over 20 years. Upon graduating from the Academy of Intuition Medicine in 2002 she expanded her practice to working with people, specializing in emotional and spiritual issues.

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Barbara brings to her business a complex and dynamic background that combines thirty years in the business world, as a senior manager. She has observed much of human nature working with her staff from an open, intuitive place. In addition, life experiences have provided a deep understanding of people and the trials and tribulations of life. These combined experiences helped her to understand and translate to clients how their energy manifests in the everyday world, and how this manifestation directly affects them and those around them, including animals. With this deep understanding Barbara then helps her clients in facilitating their own healing in relationship to themselves and their animals.

CONTACT INFO
Voice: (415) 821-9349
Email: Barbara@intuitionforanimals.com
Website: www.intuitionforanimals.com

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Barbara Andino-Stevenson MFA, MIM

Children’s Class Teacher | Adjunct Faculty

Barbara’s success as an artist is coupled with a deep passion for teaching and mentoring children, youth, and adults. She has over five decades of continuous teaching experience for ages 4 to adult. As a teacher, her focus is to empower and encourage her students to uncover their dynamic creativity and self-expression. Her process is intuitive, not linear or planned, so new ideas and possibilities can occur. Imagination rules. Out of this foundation comes all of the mystery and joy of the creative process.

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Barbara received her Master in Intuition Medicine® certificate in 2010. And continued as a class Teaching Assistant and Tutor to Academy students. Barbara is trained in Tai Chi, has a Masters degree in Fine Arts with Ceramics major. Her ceramic art is shown in galleries around the country, including New York, Seattle, and the San Francisco de Young Museum; and private collections throughout the United States, Israel, and Canada.

CONTACT INFO
Email: barbara@sweetspiritceramics.com

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In Memoriam

Michael McCartney  MBA, MIM

Co-Founder | Graduate Seminar Instructor Emeritus
In Memoriam

“Michael was a bright light and gifted intuitive, bringing healing, guidance and love to so many lives. The effects from his life and work will continue to spread healing and love throughout the world.”

Upcoming Academy Orientation (In-Person or via Zoom)

In-Person or via Zoom

Monday, July 15 2024
7:00 to 8:30 pm PST
RSVP required.

ATTEND

Meet faculty and students, experience a guided meditation, and learn detailed information about the Academy curriculum and courses. The Orientation is where all your questions are answered.

The next course, Intuition Medicine: Healing 1, begins Tuesday, Sept 10 2024 and attendance at one of these Orientation dates is mandatory for new students. Join us for the Academy Orientation, and bring your friends! While attending live is best so that your questions can be answered in real-time — if that’s not possible, it’s essential that you watch this video of a recent Orientation.

  2021 Academy Catalog

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*These take place twice a year: usually July and November.