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Charles Gaby
Larry Grubb
Emily Haeussler
Sandra Lydick
Charles Gaby, MA, LPC
cgaby@myfumc.org
817-339-5071
http://www.charlesgaby.com/
Charles Gaby is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Director of the Center for Creative Transformation at First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth. He has led seminars on spirituality and relationships for the past 20 years and is the author of “The Power of Ritual,” a manual for those who want to discover and change the ritualized patterns that rob life of passion and love. Charles is also a musician and songwriter. He has worked in churches in Houston, Minneapolis and Fort Worth for the past 15 years, where he has run support groups and led seminars on spirituality and relationships while keeping a private counseling practice. Charles is certified in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and has extensive training in utilizing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator with couples, individuals and organizations. For the past seven years he has been developing community rituals, primarily in the United Methodist Church. He now leads eleven:eleven, a weekly celebration at First United Methodist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. Charles has presented hundreds of seminars for diverse groups including churches, organizations, corporations, schools and retreat centers.
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Rev. Larry Grubb, AAPC
lgrubb@myfumc.org
817-336-7277
Rev. Larry Grubb is a retired member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and has 30 years of experience in pastoral counseling. He has developed support groups for a variety of life stages and challenges, and his model for supporting survivors of suicide is emulated by many communities across the country.
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Emily Haeussler
www.foodbody.com
817-377-3880
Emily Haeussler, R.D., L.D., is a registered, licensed dietitian specializing in weight concerns. She is a devoted practitioner of centering prayer, Christian contemplative meditation, and integrates this in helping individuals heal their relationship with food and their bodies. Emily is concerned about nutrition but also feels eating is a pleasure to be enjoyed. She uses contemplative, mindful practices to help find the balance between nutrition and pleasure. Emily has a private practice in west Fort Worth and over 20 years of experience in weight issues, eating disorders and sports nutrition. She has extensive experience in medical nutrition therapy in diabetes, heart disease and kidney disease. Emily authored the “Nutrition with Emily Haeussler” chapter in The Kimbell Cookbook, by Shelby Schafer and hosted Season the Taste, a cooking show on the Fort Worth Cable Network. She coordinated the “Eat Hearty” Community Cholesterol Education Program at Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas and was Volunteer of the Year in 1992 for the Fort Worth Chapter of the American Heart Association. She has a BA in Food, Nutrition and Dietetics from California State University, Fresno and completed an Internship in Clinical Nutrition at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. She attended the Eating Disorders Institute at Rollins College in Florida and Advanced Counseling Skills for Eating Disorder Professionals in Santa Barbara, California. She is a Certified Personal Trainer through the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas
Rev. Sandra Lydick, M.Div., LMSW
sandralydick@hotmail.com
817/675-6367
Rev. Sandra Lydick, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, has served as an Associate and Senior Pastor in churches in the Central Texas Conference. Sandra is endorsed by the United Methodist Endorsing Agency as a pastoral counselor and crime victims chaplain. She is also a Licensed Master Social Worker and served as a social worker and chaplain for Early Childhood Intervention in Arlington. Currently she is serving as Executive Director and Chaplain for Crime Victims Council, a non-profit agency and outreach ministry of First United Methodist Church, providing services to crime victims of all faiths in Central Texas. Crime Victims Council provides counseling, community education and crime prevention. The Council engages in raising community consciousness and acts as an advocate for crime victims’ rights. Sandra is an advocate for women and women in leadership; she served as Co-Convener of the Women’s Caucus of the United Methodist Church, and editor of The Yellow Ribbon, national newsletter for the Women’s Caucus. She was a founding member and Co-Convener of The Women’s Leadership Team of the South Central Jurisdiction that supports women and minorities for the episcopacy. Sandra studies and practices Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Self-Relations Psychotherapy. She has taught and practiced yoga for over 35 years. Sandra is a published author with a chapter, “Applications of Self Relations in Religious Settings, Healing Communities, and Faith Development,” in Walking in Two Worlds: the Relational Self in Theory, Practice, and Community, Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D. and Dvorah Simon, Ph.D., editors. She is currently serving as a volunteer Red Cross Disaster Mental Health professional and has served as a volunteer facilitator at The Warm Place for children ages 3 – 5 who are grieving the loss of a parent, sibling, or grandparent.