
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.