Liat (Scheffer) Ben Yakov

Liat Ben YakovMBA, CST
Chicago
773-456-9204
liatsby@gmail.com | www.li-at.com
Body-Mind-Energy Balancing, IPEC, Healing, Bach remedies

Services | Benefits | Philosophy | Education | What to expect | Logistics | Closing comments

Services

Describe your services:
I’m an integrative holistic therapist. In the sessions I use my wide knowledge and experience to find and treat the core reasons to your symptoms, inhibitions or dis-eases.

My diagnosis is based on the intake, the client’s life story (narrative) and applied kinesiology (muscle testing) using comprehensive physical and psychological matrixes. I get an accurate inclusive map of the client’s physical condition, allergies, weak systems, emotional inhibitions, traumas, mental issues, energy level and so forth.

My therapeutic tools are wide and varied:
Body-Mind-Energy Balancing - based on the understanding that there is neither separation nor boundaries between body, mind and energy (soul).

Every organ and system has its specific functioning not only physically but emotionally and spiritually as well. As a practitioner my job is to see the entire picture and treat all aspects.
I use therapeutic tools which address all levels – breathing, movement, art therapy, body language, contact techniques, conversation and more. With the help of these tools I help the body, mind and energy level clear trauma memories and get rebalanced.

IPEC - IPEC (Integrated Physical Emotional Clearing) Therapy is a sophisticated integrated treatment method. The method is based on integration of diverse principles from the fields of energy-psychology, oriental medicine, kinesiology, bioenergy, western-medicine and many others.

The assessment and diagnosis relies on Muscle Testing, through which we can connect to the subconscious mind. Along with the comprehensive matrixes we get infinite and valuable information about the client’s condition as well as the factors caused his dis-eases.
A clear assessment leads to intense energetic balancing treatment that is selected from a variety of over twenty therapeutic tools.

IPEC enables the clients to experience, relatively fast, powerful influence over their lives - physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Healing - As a Healer my work is to enhance the client’s vital energy, in order to help the body recover, release emotional inhibitions and heal the soul.
Healing is emanating from the core understanding that physical symptoms or emotional issues are caused by energetic imbalance - lack of energy, blocked energy or low energy.
During the session I’m locating the blocks and inhibitions the client suffers from. Based on the client’s complaints and my assessment, I balance the energy to flow more efficiently and easily. Through healing the client experience health, relaxation and deep serenity.

Bach Flowers Remedies - Bach Flower Remedies’ philosophy stems from the basic assumption that we treat the patient not the disease.

Dr. Bach believed that real medicinal plants balance disharmony conditions within one’s soul and spirit; they transform negative feelings such as fear, depression and hatred and turn them into courage, joy and love.

Remedies based on Bach flowers do not change our inner chemistry, our cells, emotions or mentality. They act as stimulator and catalyst, working side by side with our nature and help create the desirable change whether it is physical or emotional from the inside.

Meditation and Guided Imagery – This is an available therapeutic tool, uses our inner power to heal ourselves, improve our life and achieve our goals. Imagination and meditation permits us profound, genuine connection to the patient inner self - his distress, pains, diseases, as well as his inner sight, wisdom, healing powers and inner resources. Using this tool I help my patients create the reality they whisper – a life filled with love, joy and prosperity.

Cranio-Sacral Therapy - CST is a gentle method of evaluating and enhancing the functioning of a physiological body system called the craniosacral system - comprised of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord.

Using a soft touch I release restrictions in the craniosacral system to improve the functioning of the central nervous system. The method is effective for a wide range of medical problems associated with pain and dysfunction, as well as for preventive health.

ThetaHealing - ThetaHealing is a very powerful healing method. It works on our highest consciousness to heal physical problems, release emotional difficulties and reprogram our belief system to create the reality we wish for.

ThetaHealing is a deep meditative state, where the healer works with the core energy to co-create healing. ThetaHealing is often described as experiencing miracles and in a way it is.
The link connecting all my sessions is getting down to the essence of your problems, solve it and enable you live your life to its full potential – experience happiness, health, balance, prosperity and love.

How does your healing modality work?
Our body and soul, like everything else in nature are built on change and flow. When something blocks the flow or prevents change, the systems start to lose their balance and eventually symptoms and diseases will occur.

The initial, primary reasons causing these reactions can differ; it can be stress, trauma, bad experience and unexpressed feelings. These experiences accumulate over the years, until they start to show up as symptoms and syndromes.

When we use drugs and other external treatments to eliminate these symptoms, it is like turning off an alarm instead of dealing with the intruder.

My healing is aimed to find and treat the intruder; I look for the primary reason that started the reaction chain. After detecting the factors, the healing process begins as we start to deal and clear the factors which caused the system to lose its balance.

We clear the body memory for the traumas it’s been through, bad experiences, feelings that never had a chance to be expressed, different materials (such as food, dust, plants, chemicals etc) that weakens the body and so on.

While clearing the cell’s memory, I teach my clients to live a more balanced life, express their feelings, live healthier, enjoy life, fulfill their dreams and achieve their goals.
At the end of each session the body and soul are more balanced, flow and changes are enabled and the clients move toward experience healthier, happier life.

How do you see your services evolving over the next three years?
I believe in constant learning and self improvement. I evolve constantly in my work and in my personal life; therefore I can’t know exactly where I’m going to be in three years.

Never the less I believe I’ll have more unique methods, better tools to awaken the vital healing forces within us. Surely I’ll continue to guide courses for the wide population and for therapists to improve their lives, and I hope to be engaged with alternative medicine research programs; since I believe we must have scientific proof for our work in order to become more acceptable even among those who are still skeptic.
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Benefits

What are the benefits/results people see?
During the treatments people see improvement in almost all areas.

They feel healthier, most of the symptoms they suffer from starting to disappear. They are more content with their personal lives, sometimes they get promotion at work, and their relationships improve. They feel more confident and find more joy in life.

Usually people report the results after only one or a few sessions.

The treatments are aimed to the core issues, so usually symptoms disappear for good.
Over the years I followed up many of my patients, and they continue to feel better without experiencing the same symptoms they originally suffered from.

Why do people come to see you?
People come to see me for many different reasons:

Physical Problems:
Allergies; Respiratory difficulties; Skin problems;
Weak immune system; Fungus; Germs; Viruses; Parasites;
Gynecologist problems; Fertility problems;
Digesting problems; Enteritis;
Chronic Illness; Back problems; Acute and chronic aches; Arthritis;
High Cholesterol; High blood pressure; Migraines;
ADHD; ADD; Growth and development disorders.

Emotional inhibitions:
OCD; Emotional stress; Trauma;
Anxiety; Depression; Phobias.

Personal, professional and relations counseling:
Low self esteem; Relations and intimacy inhibitions; Career counseling.
Personal growth; Increasing consciousness, self value and free choice.

I have high success rate and my clients experience relief in only a few sessions.Therefore most of my clients come from the referrals of current patients.

Who is an ideal client?
I can’t really say there is an “ideal” client.
Anyone who genuinely wants to improve his/her life, whether it is health, relationship, work or happiness, and is truly willing to work in order to achieve that.
I have successfully treated all age groups from infants to adults.

What makes you different/good at what you do?
I love being a holistic therapist, and this is the love I’m giving my clients. If there is a magic power to heal, I believe it is love.

There is nothing more satisfying than helping someone, and fortunately I have this ability and I do that every day.

I became a therapist after I saw how therapy improved my life – I know the misery of being ill and suffering and I know the power of therapy from the client side. Therefore I understand my clients and can be empathic to the process they are going through.

I’m living the life I’m teaching my clients, a life of happiness, love, joy and balance.
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Philosophy/Approach

Describe your healing philosophy:
I believe in the natural healing power of our body.

The complete knowledge of what went wrong and why, how to fix it, how to be balanced and healthy is lying in our body.

When you want to repair an electric apparatus you use the manual guide wrote its creator. The one which create our body is our DNA. It is the one has our manual – it knows everything about our body.
When a person needs to heal, he “only” needs to let the DNA do what it does best – function in a healthy manner.

The problem is that stress, traumas, bad habits, poor nutrition, pollution and others unbalance the entire system, and make the work of the DNA hard and sometimes impossible.
My target is to awake the healing and vital forces in our body, use the DNA WISDOM to help the body and soul be balanced again, meaning be healthy, happy and have satisfying life.

Describe your style or approach:
I never go against the body.
I don’t believe in forcing anything on the body or in using external means that paralyzed the vital force and the natural powers.

I believe in working gently with the body in its own pace. I empower my clients putting back the responsibility for their lives in their own hands. I believe in educating my clients to live healthier more balanced lives.

Why do you do what you do?
As a young child my dream was to become a doctor and help people. But then, when I was 10 years old, something changed my mind. I was hospitalized for an operation and one day I accidentally heard two doctors talking. Quickly I understood what they were talking about. One of the doctors had given a lethal overdose of medication to a baby. The doctor was crying and the other one told her to get used to it, and that those things happen. I was shocked; at that moment I decided I don’t want to be a doctor. I wanted to help people not to harm them.

Since that traumatic experience, my life took a different direction. I successfully completed a BA in Economics continued by a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a responsible job as high ranking officer in the military. The path to upper management was clear.

During my military service I was involved in a car accident. A truck hit me from behind, and caused two years of suffering. My back was hurt with two disc hernias and, for a while, I had to use crutches to help me walk. From a healthy, happy person, I became disabled, miserable and constantly in pain.

I tried almost everything western medicine had to offer – physiotherapy, chiropractic, epidural injections, pills, electric treatments and many more. I was a step away from a very complicated surgery, to insert metal plates to hold my vertebras.

Totally by chance (or perhaps not) I got the number of an IPEC therapist. I had no idea what that was, and had no belief in alternative medicine, but I had nothing to lose.
After a few weeks I started to feel a little better, and several months later I was as good as new.

Everything in my life has changed. I decided to revive my childhood dream of helping people. I wanted to spread the word that pain and unhappiness need not be a given fact of life and that invasive tools are certainly not the only answer. I felt that everything that had happened to me happened for a reason – becoming a holistic therapist who assists people in leading healthier, better lives. I feel it is my mission. I understand my patients; I can feel their suffering and, therefore, I can help them find the powers to heal themselves.

There is nothing more satisfying than helping people, nothing more rewarding than hearing my patients say how good they feel and how their life improved, and that is the reason I do what I do.
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Education/Background

Education/Training:
MBA (Masters in business administration) – concentrations: Marketing Management and Management of Technology and Information Systems.
BA in Economics both from Tel-Aviv University in Israel .

Body-Mind-Energy Balancing – a 4 year full time training program from Reidman International College in affiliation with IPSB U.S.A. Reidman college is the largest and oldest school for alternative medicine in Israel .

Certified Healer – a 3 year full time training program from Reidman Int. College .

IPEC Senior Therapist (highest level).

Cranio-Sacral Therapist from the Upledger Institute.

ThetaHealing, DNA I & II - Vianna Nature’s Path.
Certified therapist in many other areas:
Meditation and Guided Imagery Group Instructor
Bach Flowers Remedies
Healing through Past Lives Regression
Reiki
Deep Tissue Bodywork

Years Professionally Practicing:
I have been professionally practicing over 4 years

Contributions/Publications:
I initiated, developed and presented unique courses for continuing education programs.
I have developed and conducted complementary alternative medicine seminars and workshops for the private sector – working with teenagers, women, teachers and the general population.
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What to expect

Describe a typical session:
After the initial assessment in the first session, every session begins with a brief update of the client’s condition. Usually I use psychological and comprehensive matrixes to get an accurate definition of the core problem. We spend the rest of the therapy using varied tools to heal the core issue and balance the body-mind-energy system.

I believe my clients should be an integrative part of the therapy; therefore all the process from assessment to healing is explained to the client.

How long is a typical session?
50-70 minutes based upon the type of treatment.

Describe your office or treatment room:
My treatment room has a pleasant, warm, welcoming atmosphere. It contains all the tools I use in my sessions from psychological matrix to paints, crystals and computerized biofeedback system. All organized in order to let you lead the therapy and decide how the room would look like and which tools we are going to use this session.

How should someone prepare for a session?
No special preparation should be made for my sessions. Just come open-minded with a true will to learn, evolve and improve your life.
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Logistics

Office hours/days of the week:
I work Monday-Friday morning through evening, by appointment only.

Fee Range
$75 for a 50 minute session.
$100 for a 70 minute session.

Take Insurance?
No. If you need to submit a receipt, I can supply you that.

Cancellation Policy?
Yes. You have to inform at least 24 hours in advance.
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Closing Comments

What else might someone want to know about you?
I believe everyone should set an example to people around him, especially practitioners. Therefore I try to live a balanced, healthy life. I love my work, I never stop learning, I spend quality time with my husband and family, I enjoy being with my friends, I participate in different sport activities, eat healthy, volunteer, laugh a lot and find time to rest and meditate.
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