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Marcy Axness
Adoption, Prenatal Parenting, Birth, Attachment and Brain Development, Conscious Conception

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Marcy Axness, Ph.D., is a leading expert on adoption and the neurobiology of attachment and human development.  She is on the faculty of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, has a private counseling practice and is a popular writer and speaker internationally.  Using as a narrative foundation her experience as an adoptee and a mother, Marcy's unique perspective integrates prenatal psychology, attachment theory, brain development, consciousness studies and the new biology.  Her passion is to recognize the implications of conventional parenting and educational practices for healthy human unfoldment, and then synthesize and share her findings in straightforward, practical terms with parents, teachers, therapists, social workers and other helping professionals.

Dr. Axness is featured along with such renowned early development experts as Bruce Perry and Daniel Siegel in a recent documentary about the nature and importance of the attachment relationship between parents and their infant before and after birth, Trauma, Brain and Relationship: Helping Children Heal. (View clip.) And she is regular columist for Los Angeles' longest-running parenting publication, the Wet Set Gazete, offering progressive insights on topics ranging from Baby Einstein to baby blues, from breastfeeding ambivalence to attention deficit.  These and other articles can be found in her Quantum Parenting collection. Dr. Axness' Adoption Insight series of booklets and audio recordings are also available on her website.

Her private counseling practice specializes in adoption, pregnancy psychology, mind-body fertility, and very early parenting.  (She is an accredited practioner of Niravi Payne's Whole Person Fertility Program.)  Weaving together scientific findings and spiritual principles into her Quantum Parenting approach, she assists clients in nurturing their children's healthiest development beginning pre-conception / pre-adoption, and in tending to their own inner development as parents.  Reach her via her website at www.QuantumParenting.com.

  Other accomplishments aside, Marcy views as her most impressive credential that she is the mother of two thriving, Waldorf-educated teenagers, 16 and 19, and they are all on excellent speaking terms and actually enjoy each other's company!