The Empowered

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Tommie Dahlmann, ND(US), NMD(EU), LCDC, AAC, CEDS, is a licensed and board-certified addictions counselor and a certified eating disorders specialist with over thirty years of experience and a naturopathic doctor.   She went into private practice in 1984 and soon after, established Dahlmann and Associates, one of the first wellness centers in San Antonio, Texas.  The center treated body, mind and spirit, and was active in research through the Division of Addictive Diseases in the Department of Pharmacology of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio looking at the physical reasons, causes and treatments.   In the fall of 1991 she closed Dahlmann and Associates, Inc. and went into semi-retirement due to her late husband’s ill health.  Since 1960s, Tommie has traveled the world studying alternative methods of treatment, healing through nutrition and other naturopathic modalities and what she refers to as “common sense counseling”.

Tommie Dahlmann was the executive director of San Antonio Turning Point, a drug/alcohol out-patient treatment program for adolescents and their families.  She did interventions and intervention training for La Hacienda, an in-patient treatment program.   She established and directed the San Antonio aftercare office for Schick Shadel Hospitals, a national treatment organization specializing in the diseases of addiction.  She reorganized and developed the treatment programs, and was executive director of The Alpha House, a halfway house for women with alcohol/drug problems.

Tommie Dahlmann has instituted programs and techniques that allow clients to change behavior patterns and quickly reprogram their beliefs without bringing up historical material that may be overwhelming and thus block or impair the healing process. She tells clients, “if your conscious mind is saying one thing and your sub-conscious is saying another, -- Houston, we have a problem here”.   Her common sense methods draw on the often unrecognized resourcefulness and creativity of her clients to enable their personal understanding and change.  She also helps her clients understand what she calls “conscious-evolution”.  “What you think is what you get!”   Conscious-evolution is learning to focus thoughts and emotions on what is desired in life and creating what is wanted instead of focusing on fears and creating what is not wanted.

She is now helping people understand the physical as well as the psychological aspects of their dis-ease. Tommie feels the client must have the nutritional (physiological/metabolic) foundation to be able to make the psychological changes they want.   She leads workshops on many topics for both professional and lay participants and provides consulting for businesses.  Tommie was remarried in 1997 to a medical scientist/ naturopath, “all around wonderful man” that came with three sons whom she calls “three gifts from God”.  She found herself with a stepson just 50 days younger than her oldest grandson and would have given anything to have known “Becoming a  Love and Logic Parent®”.  She feels the tools that this program teaches are needed so badly that she is coming out of retirement to become an independent facilitator and help spread the word and give other parents “a track to run on”.

Recent publications:

“Case Study: Liver Detoxification for Carbohydrate Addiction” Whole Food Nutrition Journal Volume 1 No 1 2001

“How to Identify Bulimics and Start Them Towards Recovery” Whole Food Nutrition Journal Volume 2 No 2 2001

“Anorexia: A Cause or a Result of Malnutrition?”  Whole Food Nutrition Journal Volume 3 No 3 2001

“Obesity: The 99.2 Billion Dollar Question” Whole Food Nutrition Journal Volume 4 No 4 2002

Credentials:

AAC = Advanced Addiction Counselor

CEDS = Certified Eating Disorders Specialist

LCDC = Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor

ND = Naturopathic Doctor

NMD = Natural Medicine Doctor - European Union Accreditation