Trusted Practitioners & Colleagues
Inner Arts Institute is part of a wider constellation field. The practitioners listed here are individuals whose work and integrity Samvedam respects. Some have completed training through Inner Arts Institute. Others are long-standing colleagues in the systemic community.
All operate independently and are not employees, agents, or representatives of Inner Arts Institute.
Active with Inner Arts
Maya Kennedy
Annie Skillings
Lizzie Feigenbaum
Drawing on over three decades of experience in non-profit and for-profit settings, Lizzie helps individuals, couples, families, teams, and organizations find and dissolve limiting patterns, and create positive flow.
Trained in organizational development, maternal child health nursing, infant mental health, trauma, and culturally informed care, Lizzie combines collaborative communication, an analytical mind, and a sensitive attunement to the non-verbal realm.
Julie Fender-Zobel
Julie Fender-Zobel is a painter with a Fine Arts degree from Massachusetts College of Art. She is also a gardener and a licensed massage therapist who has practiced in a variety of settings for nearly 20 years. Before attending massage school at the Muscular Therapy Institute, Julie worked in the field of Domestic Violence, assisting battered women and their children.
In 2000, Julie studied Transformational Breathwork with Samvedam and became a Certified Breathwork Facilitator. She has studied and practiced many forms of Mindfulness Meditation and Creative Visualization. She worked with Dr. Mary Bove N.D. for five years in the fields of Herbal Medicine and Energy Medicine and she is currently studying the Family Constellations method with Samvedam. Julie has a private practice in Brattleboro, VT. Website.
Email: juliefender@comcast.net
Barbara Fearing
With more than 40 years of experience, Barbara brings depth and compassion to her work as a therapist, energy practitioner, and soul-centered guide. She is the founder of Relational Supports and Diverse Energy Works and has spent decades supporting individuals and families through processes of healing and transformation.
Her work weaves together clinical insight, ancestral awareness, and energetic healing practices, creating space for deeper understanding and meaningful change. Barbara’s approach honors both lived experience and the larger forces that shape our lives, helping people reconnect with their inner wisdom and capacity for growth.
Throughout her career, she has supported clients and groups navigating grief, trauma, life transitions, and spiritual unfolding. Her work reflects deep respect for the soul’s unfolding path.
Natalie Engler
Systemic Family Constellations sits at the heart of Natalie’s work. She is drawn to this practice for its ability to reveal hidden family and systemic dynamics so inherited burdens can be seen, honored, and gently released.
Natalie is a licensed clinical social worker who integrates EMDR, parts work, and somatic approaches into her therapeutic practice. Her background as a yoga teacher informs the attentive, embodied presence she brings to both individual sessions and group work.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and an MSW from the Simmons College School of Social Work.
Mairead O'Neill
Growing up on a farm in Ireland’s Ancient East, Mairead O’Neill developed an early connection to the rhythms of the natural world—something that continues to shape her work today.
Based in the Boston area, she is a Family Constellation Facilitator and herbalist whose work bridges systemic healing and plant-based traditions.
Trained in Family Constellations through the Inner Arts Institute, Mairead offers individual sessions and workshops that help illuminate and gently shift patterns carried through family systems.
She is a practicing herbalist with advanced training in clinical herbalism, aromatherapy, and Lyme disease protocols and teaches at the Boston School of Herbal Studies. Mairead also cultivates many of the plants used in her own line of artisanal herbal and flower essence formulas, bringing together the wisdom of the land with systemic approaches to healing.
Cheryl Sarno
Cheryl’s path weaves together constellation work, community healing, and a deep relationship with the living world. Her work is rooted in Systemic Family Constellations and informed by practices that support both personal and collective transformation.
She has engaged in Global Social Witnessing and trauma training through the Pocket Project and is currently a trainee in Somatic Archaeology. Creative practices, including healing through art, also shape the way she approaches this work.
Cheryl is deeply engaged in community life. She supports permaculture initiatives with her local school and facilitates Sisters Supporting Sisters circles that create space for women to gather in connection and mutual support.
At heart, she is devoted to taking care of life wherever she is—whether supporting community healing, tending land, herding goats, or raising her children.
Trusted Associate Network
Kimberly Clementi-Eadon, LMHC
is an Expressive Arts/ Body Oriented Psychotherapist and Sex Therapist who works in private practice in New Hampshire, USA. 
Kimberly trained in Family Constellations with Samvedam through the Inner Arts Institute, graduating to working as a staff member. She has explored different constellation work with various other facilitators and has presented at the 2017 and 2016 NASC Conferences.
She offers individual Systemic Constellation work for adults; either in-person or online. She has used constellations almost daily in her therapeutic work for the last 17+ years and loves to experiment with new ways of utilizing constellation work and finding ways to make it accessible to all.
Beate Gottschlich, Certified Rolfer® and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner SEP
Beate Gottschlich offers highly attuned Bodywork with the focus on the transformation of trauma. She has been immersed in Bodywork since 1999 beginning with Rolfing Structural Integration and Craniosacral Therapy, and adding Somatic Experiencing in 2008. These are powerful tools to move towards greater alignment and resiliency, leaving clients more embodied, alive, and present.
Beate is passionate about facilitating transformation by bringing subtle patterns into consciousness and thus allowing shifts to take place. Originally a trained violin restorer, she now uses her skilled hands for the restoration of people, helping us to become more fully human in our bodies.
Email beatedelfin@gmail.com.
Santjes Oomen
Holistic Healing & Bodywork
Santjes Oomen has over two decades of experience as a compassionate, inspiring spiritual teacher. She strives to help those dealing with physical, emotional and/or psychological challenges to move toward healing, wholeness and strength. She trained across Europe and the U.S., completing her Holistic Health Practitioner certification in 1992.
She practices Swedish and circulatory massage, deep tissue massage, lymph drainage, passive joint movement (Trager), structural integration (Rolfing), cranial-sacral therapy, polarity therapy (Randolf Stone), Tui Na and Seitia Shiatsu. As a teacher of yoga, Spirit In Practice, and Healing with Sound, Santjes taps into the sacred power of the group field. For Santjes, Family Constellation work builds on this practice and takes it to the next level of healing.
Phone: 508.229.9939. Email santjesoomen@hotmail.com.
Susan Rotman,
Intuitive Coach and Facilitator
Susan Rotman is an intuitive spiritual teacher who helps people to transform their lives in deep and positive ways. Susan works with individuals, groups and businesses in accessing and developing intuitive knowing and integrating it with logical thought for informed, balanced and purposeful decision-making. She blends practical information and personal or business advice together with spiritual insight into the individual and his or her soul and life purpose.
Originally an attorney and mediator, Susan practiced law for many years and has extensive experience representing both individual and corporate clients. She also has a broad background in cosmological, esoteric and metaphysical studies, mysticism, spirituality, and personal and family development practices. Website.
Comma Williams,
Coach, Facilitator, Shaman
Comma Williams is an initiated shaman in the Q’ero tradition of Peru. A shaman is someone who acts as a bridge between this ordinary reality (our reality) and the non-ordinary reality that we cannot see. A shaman is someone who sees differently.
Comma is also a Training & Organization Development Facilitator (M.Ed.) and Personal Success Coach (S.U.N.). In all of these roles, Comma acts as a bridge, providing and facilitating experiences that move individuals and groups toward transformation.
Phone: 781.899.0882. Email Comma@CommaWilliams.com.
Astrid Rothmund Lewis, PT
Astrid is a licensed physical therapist in private practice in Medford, MA. She uses a holistic approach to assess and treat each client’s unique circumstances.
Besides the many physical therapy techniques, she is trained in transformational breathwork, Buteyko breathing, sensory motor psychotherapy (formerly known as Hakomi Integrative Somatics) and Family Constellation work. In addition, she regularly teaches the Empowered Relief® workshop to address the brain patterns of persistent pain.
Kimberly Clementi-Eadon, LMHC
is an Expressive Arts/ Body Oriented Psychotherapist and Sex Therapist who works in private practice in New Hampshire, USA. Kimberly trained in Family Constellations with Samvedam through the Inner Arts Institute, graduating to working as a staff member. She has explored different constellation work with various other facilitators and has presented at the 2017 and 2016 NASC Conferences.
She offers individual Systemic Constellation work for adults; either in-person or online. She has used constellations almost daily in her therapeutic work for the last 17+ years and loves to experiment with new ways of utilizing constellation work and finding ways to make it accessible to all.
Beate Gottschlich, Certified Rolfer® and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner SEP
Beate Gottschlich offers highly attuned Bodywork with the focus on the transformation of trauma. She has been immersed in Bodywork since 1999 beginning with Rolfing Structural Integration and Craniosacral Therapy, and adding Somatic Experiencing in 2008. These are powerful tools to move towards greater alignment and resiliency, leaving clients more embodied, alive, and present.
Beate is passionate about facilitating transformation by bringing subtle patterns into consciousness and thus allowing shifts to take place. Originally a trained violin restorer, she now uses her skilled hands for the restoration of people, helping us to become more fully human in our bodies.
Email beatedelfin@gmail.com.
Santjes Oomen
Holistic Healing & Bodywork
Santjes Oomen has over two decades of experience as a compassionate, inspiring spiritual teacher. She strives to help those dealing with physical, emotional and/or psychological challenges to move toward healing, wholeness and strength. She trained across Europe and the U.S., completing her Holistic Health Practitioner certification in 1992.
She practices Swedish and circulatory massage, deep tissue massage, lymph drainage, passive joint movement (Trager), structural integration (Rolfing), cranial-sacral therapy, polarity therapy (Randolf Stone), Tui Na and Seitia Shiatsu. As a teacher of yoga, Spirit In Practice, and Healing with Sound, Santjes taps into the sacred power of the group field. For Santjes, Family Constellation work builds on this practice and takes it to the next level of healing.
Phone: 508.229.9939
Email santjesoomen@hotmail.com
Susan Rotman, Intuitive Coach and Facilitator
Susan Rotman is an intuitive spiritual teacher who helps people to transform their lives in deep and positive ways. Susan works with individuals, groups and businesses in accessing and developing intuitive knowing and integrating it with logical thought for informed, balanced and purposeful decision-making. She blends practical information and personal or business advice together with spiritual insight into the individual and his or her soul and life purpose.
Originally an attorney and mediator, Susan practiced law for many years and has extensive experience representing both individual and corporate clients. She also has a broad background in cosmological, esoteric and metaphysical studies, mysticism, spirituality, and personal and family development practices.
Comma Williams, Coach, Facilitator, Shaman
Comma Williams is an initiated shaman in the Q’ero tradition of Peru. A shaman is someone who acts as a bridge between this ordinary reality (our reality) and the non-ordinary reality that we cannot see. A shaman is someone who sees differently. Comma is also a Training & Organization Development Facilitator (M.Ed.) and Personal Success Coach (S.U.N.). In all of these roles, Comma acts as a bridge, providing and facilitating experiences that move individuals and groups toward transformation. Phone: 781.899.0882. Email Comma@CommaWilliams.com.Astrid Rothmund Lewis, PT
Astrid is a licensed physical therapist in private practice in Medford, MA. She uses a holistic approach to assess and treat each client’s unique circumstances.
Besides the many physical therapy techniques, she is trained in transformational breathwork, Buteyko breathing, sensory motor psychotherapy (formerly known as Hakomi Integrative Somatics) and Family Constellation work. In addition, she regularly teaches the Empowered Relief® workshop to address the brain patterns of persistent pain.