Meet Your Mentors

LindaJoy Rose, PhD is a therapist, author, professional speaker, international trainer, and Academy founder with over 30 years of experience. The author of eight books, she contributes regularly to The Huffington Post and has frequently starred as a Healthy Living Expert on eHow.com and Tampa NBC affiliate Daytime TV and Bloom TV. As a former director for the American Board of Hypnotherapy, she is a pioneer in subconscious dynamics and clinical hypnotherapy, training thousands of therapists worldwide. She also spearheaded a healthy lifestyle retraining program with an Astra-Zeneca Foundation grant at one of the nation’s largest clinics.

Dr. Rose developed her practical and delicious eating philosophy to overcome a debilitating auto-immune disorder, which she combined with her background in psychology to launch the Academy’s coaching program. “From training therapists internationally in the fields of psychology and hypnotherapy to being an online mentor for two West Coast Universities, to founding the Natural Wellness Academy, teaching has always been my passion. I enjoy nothing more than informing and inspiring prospective coaches and therapists.”

​Cortney Cameron is a nature therapy practitioner and geoscientist specializing in hydrogeology, environmental flows, and data analysis. She holds a bachelor’s degree in from Duke University and a master’s degree from North Carolina Central University, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in Geoscience. She also earned an MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology and an associates (focused on health studies) from Wilkes Community College.

An advocate for nature therapy, she is the co-author of the best-selling nature therapy deck Nature Therapy Walks: 22 Sensory Activities to Enjoy in Nature for Wellbeing. She developed and heads the Academy’s Nature Therapy Center and nature therapy guide certification program, which helps students develop practical skills for cultivating bidirectional healing experiences between nature and diverse audiences.

In addition, Cortney is a writer for the Catians comic book, the nature-themed illustrated children’s book Atlas and the Lucky Flower, and various other technical and creative works.

Cortney brings a passion for science, nature, and spirituality to the Academy. She also brings an extensive background in website development and serves as the main point of contact for website maintenance, upgrades, and technical issues.

An Academy graduate, Jamie Hernandez holds a bachelor’s degree from Penn State University in Human Development and Family Studies and two master’s degrees from New York University in Psychology and Counseling. She is the author of Eat the Berries: Weight Loss for Busy Moms – a #1 ranking Kindle best-seller in the Vitamins, Motherhood, and Health, Fitness & Dieting categories – and The Divorced Mom Makeover. In her career, Jamie has worked with children with developmental delays, provided college counseling for high school students, and provided drug and alcohol counseling for people in recovery.

A wife and mother of four and one rescue dog, Jamie’s passion for health and wellness started in 2008 with the birth of her first child. To keep her daughter healthy, she started researching nutrition and discovered the field of holistic health coaching. Feeling strongly that this was part of her calling, Jamie jumped on the opportunity to merge her passion for helping others and wellness into a career. Her specialty is in helping parents and families prepare delicious and healthy meals for themselves and their children.

Lindsey is an entheogenic medicine practitioner who serves as a guide for others on their healing journeys. She believes in the power Earth Medicines hold for the healing of humanity. Through right relationship with the plant spirit world and one on one mentorship, her method of teaching allows the heart of Sacred Journey Facilitation to reach people through time and space, giving them the tools necessary to harness the energy of the psychedelic revolution with integrity and confidence.

As a modern medicine woman, her life is a beautiful mix of raising conscious children in a time of chaos, remaking southern favorites over into clean, veganish meals, playing in the garden or the at the beach, working with medicines from seed to Sacred Journey and loving on her “clients” who are really family now. Her current areas of focus are trauma informed care, microdosing, women’s issues, addiction recovery and chronic illness recovery. She is a kambo (frog medicine) practitioner, space holder for self-journeys, and small ceremony holder.

Lizy Maratea is an Academy graduate and the creator of Full Spectrum Compassionate Coaching, which offers cannabis education and protocol development, as well as guidance on mindfulness, medicated movement, and mindset management for fostering sustainable growth toward autonomy and homeostasis.

At the age of three, she was diagnosed with a degenerative connective tissue disorder (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome). Having managed her chronic pain with the aid of cannabis for over 20 years, Lizy has spent the last 10+ years actively educating others on the science and benefits of cannabis and holistic healing. As a former medical cannabis dispensary employee, she helped hundreds of patients acquire their medicine for a wide variety of afflictions. She also years of experience developing and teaching various forms of medicated yoga to anyone with a lick of interest in learning.

As a trauma-survivor, Lizy gains the most energetic exchange from helping others who also suffer from PTSD to regain/achieve a safe and secure sense of Self through the mind-body connection. Lizy is also a writer, artist, nature-based educator, and children’s yoga instructor. She enjoys reading, music, cooking, and adventuring outdoors with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Nancie M. Barwick is a Clinical Hypnotherapist with over a quarter-century of experience. Her practice is physically located in Northern Virginia, USA. However, she sees individual clients and groups from all over the world via the internet. Her specialties center around wellness issues including disability, pain, anxiety. She also works with members of the transgender and gender non-conforming community on these issues and issues around gender identity, coming out, and much more. Nancie has a particular interest in Past Life Regression.

Nancie is the author of two books on wellness: Beyond Disability: Toward Self-Acceptance and Peace, written while she was dealing with muscular dystrophy and Unstuff Yourself: Finding Joy on the Road to Wellness,
written after her recovery. She has also written numerous articles. In addition to writing, Nancie has been a popular speaker at many hypnotherapy conferences in the United States for many years.

A two-time DARE Essay Award Winner back in fifth grade, I would’ve easily been voted least likely to leave my corporate training career to talk cannabis. Until my own chronic pain was unresponsive to treatments. My story is not unlike many others you will hear as you build your own coaching practice: I suffer from major depression, anxiety, PTSD, fibromyalgia, problematic sleep, migraines, and a chronic knee syndrome that used to render me way too often unable to even get out of bed, let alone complete daily activities, work, and social requirements. Cannabis has significantly improved my own well-being in nearly every aspect of my life, so much so that I’ve devoted my work to it. I am a Certified Cannabis Coach through the Academy, founder of Highly Well Cannabis Coaching, an educator and advocate, and a content enthusiast.

It is my goal to combine my professional background in communication and corporate management and training along with my coaching and cannabis education and experience to provide you with the tools you need to succeed as you incorporate cannabis into your personal wellness and/or the wellness of others. When working with me, you can expect privacy, honesty, empathy, knowledge, and a good sense of humor.

I live in Cleveland, Ohio with my soon-to-be husband, our three dogs, and a ton of plants. When I’m not hustling, I enjoy hiking (we have a beautiful National Park a half hour away, I swear!), reading, rooting for our often-disappointing Cleveland sports teams, and watching all the true crime documentaries.