We came together in 2013 to continue learning and sharing more about how to work with symptoms in a holistic way and unraveling their meaning in a person’s life. Read more about each one of us below.

Team Members

Pierre Morin, MD, PhD.
Dr. Morin works as the Clinical Director for Lutheran Community Services Northwest’s (LCSNW) Multicultural Community mental health program and as a teacher at the Process Work Institute. LCSNW resettles many refugees and immigrants that have experienced trauma. Pierre is trained as a medical doctor and brings over 25 years of clinical experience in medicine, mental health, and addiction services. He has led community health projects in the US, Africa and Switzerland. He is the program manager for the African Partnership for Health, a community participatory research project aimed at sharing through a dialogue process, common issues and strategies among providers and refugees. His doctorate in Health Psychology focused on subjective perceptions of social rank as an aspect of social determinants of health. While working as a clinician, for all his professional life he has been involved in community and minority health and loves integrating psychology and medicine or mind and body in his practice. He is specifically interested in health disparities and the negative health effects of trauma. He has also some training as a group facilitator and has experience working with culturally mixed groups. Pierre is a co-president of the International Association of Process-oriented Psychology (IAPOP).

E-mail: pierre@creativehealing.org

Jai Tomlin, D.C.
Dr. Jai Tomlin is a chiropractic and integrated medicine physician, facilitator, coach and consultant, assisting individuals, teams and organizations to develop leadership, embrace change, and transform conflict. Jai is a diplomate of the Process Work Institute of Portland and a member of IAPOP, the International Association of Process Orientated Psychology. Her method and training is deeply rooted in Process Work, or process-oriented psychology, a framework and method for using awareness to facilitate change, develop consciousness, and find creative solutions to psychological and sociological challenges.

Jai also is a certified animal chiropractor and physical therapist. She and her therapy dog are members of Pet Partners and OCTA Oregon Coast Therapy Animals. They work together with the special needs children and teens in their community.

Email: processfacilitation@yahoo.com

Emetchi, MPW. has a private practice in Portland and teaches internationally with her partner. Her interests include wildlife photography, writing fiction, playing the piano and guitar, gardening and hiking. Her research is around body symptoms and the connects between addictions, relationship difficulties and body symptoms also working with abuse and trauma in way that change the past in the present.

Email: emetchi@mindspring.com