About The Yoga Shrink
Christen Scott, Psy.D., ERYT-500
Dr. Christen Scott, Psy.D., ERYT-500, has been an entrepreneur in the health and wellness industry for over twenty years. In 1999, she received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Hartford. Dr. Scott worked in a variety of settings throughout her career, including inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, community mental health, and residential treatment facilities. She ran a very successful psychotherapy and consulting practice in the Washington, D.C. area for over ten years, and has extensive experience working with clients diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Learning Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders (Depression, Bipolar Disorder), trauma (PTSD), grief & loss, Adjustment Disorders, life transitions, as well as couples’ and family issues.
In 2003, after being exposed to her first power yoga class, Dr. Scott immediately experienced the emotional and mental benefits of the practice, and was drawn to the peace of mind she felt. Furthermore, she started witnessing more transformation through the 8 limbs of yoga than in traditional psychotherapy. Thus, in 2010, after receiving extensive training in yoga and meditation, Dr. Scott closed her private psychotherapy practice and moved to South Florida with her husband, Preston Scott. She and her husband operated and taught at their yoga studio, the Power Yoga Tribe, in North Palm Beach from 2012 through 2019. During this time, Dr. Scott began teaching and training yoga teachers and students at yoga studios throughout the US, bringing her unique coupling of psychology and yoga to create one-of-a-kind classes and trainings. Dr. Scott has also been the yoga teacher for the Sari Asher Center for Integrative Cancer Care in West Palm Beach, Florida for several years, teaching yoga for Cancer Survivors to a variety of students. Overall, Dr. Scott’s yoga teaching has been heavily influenced by her years working with a host of different clinical populations.
Dr. Scott is a 500 Level Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (ERYT-500). She is also a Certified Baptiste Yoga Teacher, Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher, and H’oponopono Practitioner. Dr. Scott is also an Usui Reiki Master and is an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church. She is the creator of the Yoga Shrink, which addresses mental health issues and personal development through yoga philosophy and mindfulness. Aside from her one-on-one work, she leads retreats and trainings on personal transformation and self-healing throughout the US and internationally. Dr. Scott has had the privilege of leading yoga vacations in Cuba and throughout Florida, yoga and community service retreats in Nicaragua, yoga teacher trainings in Mexico, and women’s health and wellness retreats in Montana.
Dr. Scott’s work has been in the personal development realm for as long as she can remember. Most recently, Dr. Scott witnessed her husband transition unexpectedly in November 2021. Since that time, she has been on a healing grief journey that has led to a deep spiritual awakening. Her current work is focused around helping people heal their grief as well as heal their relationship with life and death, incorporating more energetic and indigenous practices into her work.
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