Michael Reddy, Ph.D, CPC, ELI-MP

I am a certified wellness coach and a leader in the US of a new healing process called Family Constellations.  My long and rich professional life began doing medical and cognitive science research at the University of Chicago and Columbia University.  Although I was very successful in academics, the work seemed too abstract.  As part of an ongoing quest for personal and intellectual wholeness, I later moved into business systems analysis and technology management.  These became my "day jobs."  I wrote extensively for technical, trade, and popular publications—and eventually became a Chief Technical Officer.

But, with a disturbed family background, and significant wellness issues of my own, I also undertook in the meantime seven years training in shamanic healing techniques from Native American and mixed blood elders.  Teaching these ways and healing others became for two decades my “night job.”  Systems theory, shamanism, and healing all came together for me in 2008 in a full-time practice of WholeSelf and WholeFamily Wellness Coaching.

Where physical and emotional suffering have gotten stuck in client’s lives, I see severe fragmentation of lives and families, coupled with mechanical, impersonal, over-specialized, drug heavy healthcare—most often at the root of it.  With a combination of genuine empathy (having been there myself) and cutting edge knowledge and coaching tools—I am extremely good at leading clients back towards wholeness and getting that suffering “unstuck.”  Left-over loyalties to unresolved issues in the birth family's past are often the "missing link." 

An impassioned writer and speaker, I work to share my insights with professionals and the public alike.  For more details, see my Career and Publications page.