Our materials cover a wide range of topics including holistic healing, spirituality, metaphysics, personal growth and development, storytelling and depth psychology. Heart Symbols LLC was founded by Linda Bennett and Kathy Shimpock to provide print, digital and web-based educational seminars for both practitioners and individuals seeking transformative change. Linda Bennett, Phd, CCHt., CAS, LC, is a Life Coach, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and a Board Certified Hypnotherapy Instructor. She has taught in both California and Arizona. Linda has over twenty years and thousands of hours of clinical experience along with over thirty years in the field of training and development. Through her work and teaching, she utilizes proven techniques, including therapeutic imagery, inner child work, regression therapy, Hypno-Kinesiology, various forms of energy work, including Reiki, flower essences, numerology and 12-step work. Linda has been a member of the International Association for Regression Research & Therapies. She is actively involved in Past-Life Regression and Spirit Releasement Therapy. Linda has the passion to assist each client in reaching their full potential and believes strongly in treating the whole person, balancing mind, body and spirit. She has also been Certified as a Substance Abuse Specialist, and is an Ordained Minister. Linda is available for individual sessions as well as group settings. She regularly offers seminars and presentations to groups and organizations throughout the U.S. Along with her private practice, Linda is on staff at the award winning Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. More information may be found at a Heart Centered Coach. Kathy Shimpock, JD, MBA, MLL, CCHt, RMT, is a storyteller and transpersonal practitioner. Her company, Symbols of Soul, helps clients discover and explore their own inner wisdom. They learn to interpret and understand the language of spirit, that is, those messages which show up in daily life as metaphors, symbols, images and synchronicities. Kathy believes that all the answers that you seek are within you. With these answers, you will find your own life’s purpose and begin to live more authentically. The tools she uses for transformation include: transpersonal hypnotherapy & guided imagery; Reiki and other energy work; spiritual guidance mentoring; depth coaching; storytelling; art; ceremony and ritual. Kathy is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, and a certified medical hypnosis practitioner. She is a 6th generatin Usui Reiki Master Teacher, a storyteller, an ordained interfaith minister, and a certified spiritual guidance mentor. But primarily, Kathy is an artist. Beginning with making creations as a small child, she received a BA in studio art and psychology. Along with her lifelong pursuit of art, she has a deep interest in transpersonal studies including self-actualization, mythology, storytelling and Jungian psychology. She shares this love of creativity through expressive arts workshops. Kathy is an approved facilitator for SoulCollage® a creative process for personal and spiritual growth and development, based on the work of Seena Frost. Kathy is currently an instructor at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts and Adjunct Faculty at South Mountain Community College Storytelling Institute.
