Dr. Viki Markham

About Dr Viki Markham

Dr Markham teaches people practical skills to deal with these difficult times, such as Compassionate Communication, Emotional Healing, Mindfulness, and Enneagram Personality typing. The result is internal peace of mind, joy in life, and better relationships. In learning to be Present, we give ourselves a new experience of life, fresh and different from our usual habit of mind. We can learn to live according to our internal integrity and what we know to be true. We can find out who we truly are.

Dr Markham began teaching Compassionate Communication techniques in 1982 after finishing her Masters Degree. She went on to get her MFT counseling license in 1986, and her Doctorate in Psychology in 1990. She continued to train in different psychological methods including Transpersonal psychology, Hakomi Therapy ( Body Centered and Mindfulness based), and she is certified as an Enneagram teacher.

She has taught and consulted for many community groups and organizations such as various churches, Santa Clara University, The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, San Jose Sate University, Intuit Corporation and Veterans Centers.

She was raised in the bush of Africa and witnessed the beginning of two wars. She was the only white student in an all black high school in an Apartheid country. She came to the US for college during the tumultuous times of the Viet Nam War. These experiences caused her to seek ways to understand how we can be at peace, both with each other, and within ourselves.

She began her spiritual studies while in high school, looking deeply into her parent’s religion, Christianity. In college she discovered other world religions, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, and Native American spirituality. Later she went back to look at her African spiritual roots. She began a meditation practice, and eventually found a teacher. She has not chosen one religious school, but believes all spiritual paths lead to the same experience of Love for All based on our Oneness with God.

Dr Markham draws her wisdom from her cross-cultural life in Africa, psychotherapy training, her spirituality practice, 30 years of experience working with people, and her varied and diverse life experience. She makes her home near Asheville NC in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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