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About Karen Hasselo, A Certified Spiritual Life Coach
My passion for creating empowerment tools for mothers of special needs children was fueled by my own personal odyssey. In 1994, my beloved and longed for adopted son Mark was diagnosed with autism. He was a 21-month old toddler at the time. Thus began my descent into the “dark night of the soul.” By the time Mark was seven years old, he went on to be diagnosed with childhood bipolar disorder and multiple other health impairments, in addition to autism. I have experienced the loss of lifelong friends, my sixteen-year career and my 21-year marriage. I have also lived through the stress of managing a six-year, full-time home therapy program, “fighting the systems”, the crushing weight of judgment, financial insecurity, and severe debilitating chronic illness. I “lost my way” for at least a decade, while stuck in longstanding grief and bitterness.
I created the Empowerment Ladder to assist you in finding your own path to grace and ease. I have dedicated myself to offering a streamlined method that takes you from disempowerment to empowerment, without having to go through unnecessary trial and error.
Having been a lifelong seeker, I spent 16 years in the field of clinical social work, working with special needs children. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I concentrated with children and adolescents who had labels such as conduct disorders, executive function disorders, learning disabilities, as well as mood disorders. I worked very closely with families, educators, and other concerned professionals in a myriad of settings. During that time, never for a moment did I envision that I would find myself on “the other side of the table” as a mother to a child with special needs.
In 2007, I began to actively focus on Spiritual methods for healing. Although traditional therapy practices are extremely beneficial, I found that they were also potentially limiting because they did not necessarily help clients awaken to their inner knowing and relationship with Source. Thus, I was propelled to become a Certified Spiritual Life Coach. I am a graduate of the Holistic Learning Centers, Inc. (HLC) of New Jersey. In addition to my two years of study there, I also completed an additional 19 months of training as a resident at HLC because I wholeheartedly endorse the healing methods that were developed by dozens of nationally known self-help leaders, such as Louse Hay, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra and Gary Zukav. I wanted to delve deeper into my own healing as well as advanced coaching practices in order to offer my clients the best version of myself.
As a Certified Spiritual Master Teacher and Life Coach, I am my own first client. As an HLC Coach, I have experienced the power of these healing exercises to help me transcend my own pain, before facilitating these life-changing psycho-spiritual exercises with clients. I have been guided to offer core tools that are highly impactful, in order to bring about permanent results in the shortest amount of time possible. I have taken the foundation that I learned while attending the “Ivy League” of Spiritual Life Coaching Schools and have tailored these tools specifically for you. I developed a method that takes you beyond intellectual enlightenment into palpable results for yourself and your children that can easily be appreciated.
I feel blessed and privileged to serve as a conduit of Universal Love, on behalf of our Sisterhood. All of my life experiences, including a lengthy career devoted to working with special needs children; parenting my own child with special needs; and working as a Certified Spiritual Life Coach, have dovetailed together to bring me to a place where I am in a unique position to offer my talents to benefit our Sisterhood.
I created the Empowerment Ladder to assist you in finding your own path to grace and ease. I have dedicated myself to offering a streamlined method that takes you from disempowerment to empowerment, without having to go through unnecessary trial and error.
Having been a lifelong seeker, I spent 16 years in the field of clinical social work, working with special needs children. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I concentrated with children and adolescents who had labels such as conduct disorders, executive function disorders, learning disabilities, as well as mood disorders. I worked very closely with families, educators, and other concerned professionals in a myriad of settings. During that time, never for a moment did I envision that I would find myself on “the other side of the table” as a mother to a child with special needs.
In 2007, I began to actively focus on Spiritual methods for healing. Although traditional therapy practices are extremely beneficial, I found that they were also potentially limiting because they did not necessarily help clients awaken to their inner knowing and relationship with Source. Thus, I was propelled to become a Certified Spiritual Life Coach. I am a graduate of the Holistic Learning Centers, Inc. (HLC) of New Jersey. In addition to my two years of study there, I also completed an additional 19 months of training as a resident at HLC because I wholeheartedly endorse the healing methods that were developed by dozens of nationally known self-help leaders, such as Louse Hay, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra and Gary Zukav. I wanted to delve deeper into my own healing as well as advanced coaching practices in order to offer my clients the best version of myself.
As a Certified Spiritual Master Teacher and Life Coach, I am my own first client. As an HLC Coach, I have experienced the power of these healing exercises to help me transcend my own pain, before facilitating these life-changing psycho-spiritual exercises with clients. I have been guided to offer core tools that are highly impactful, in order to bring about permanent results in the shortest amount of time possible. I have taken the foundation that I learned while attending the “Ivy League” of Spiritual Life Coaching Schools and have tailored these tools specifically for you. I developed a method that takes you beyond intellectual enlightenment into palpable results for yourself and your children that can easily be appreciated.
I feel blessed and privileged to serve as a conduit of Universal Love, on behalf of our Sisterhood. All of my life experiences, including a lengthy career devoted to working with special needs children; parenting my own child with special needs; and working as a Certified Spiritual Life Coach, have dovetailed together to bring me to a place where I am in a unique position to offer my talents to benefit our Sisterhood.
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