About Ronen Goddard, PhD, CCEP

I am not here to fix you. I am here to walk with you—through breath, through truth, through the body’s unfolding.

I didn’t arrive at this work by mastery. I arrived by necessity.
Like many of us, I came to healing work not to teach it—but to survive.

What began as a search for relief—from a life that looked good but felt slightly out of rhythm—became a lifelong devotion to listening.

To the body. To spirit. To what’s real.

I have been a professor, a seeker, a partner, a son, a brother, a man in love with life even when it breaks me.

I am a servant of presence.
A companion to becoming.

Lineage of Influence

My work is rooted in lineages that live in my body:

  • The Reichian/Core Energetics tradition, through Lowen, Pierrakos, Wilner, and Gleason—where I learned that the body doesn’t lie, and that healing is movement, breath, and truth made contact.

  • The mystical traditions—Christian, Kabbalistic, Tantric, Buddhist—through the work of Marc Gafni, Rupert Spira, Christopher Wallis, and the great Christian contemplatives.

  • The deep integration of Ken Wilber’s Integral framework, which reminds me to see the whole, hold the paradox, and love from every level.

  • The living poetry of Rumi, David Whyte, and Hafez—my soul’s true tongue.

The Heart of My Work

I do not diagnose. I do not fix.
I hold space for your system to remember its own rhythm.

Sometimes I’m a mirror.
Sometimes a midwife.
Sometimes a fellow pilgrim.

But always, I’m listening—not with analysis, but with my breath, my body, and the truth we’re willing to tell in the room together.

Credentials & Training

  • Ph.D. in Psychology, George Mason University

  • Certified Core Energetics Practitioner (CCEP)

  • Decades of study in somatic, spiritual, and integrative psychology

  • Former retreat leader at Shalom Mountain

The Quiet Yes

If something in you is whispering that it’s time—
not to be perfect, but to be present—
I will meet you there.

If something in you is whispering that it’s time—
not to be perfect,
but to be present—

I will meet you there.