Tracey Cleantis is a leading expert on living your life to the fullest. Tracey’s deep understanding of the field of human potential is derived from her clinical experience as a therapist, writer and human potential activist. Passionate about helping others reach their fullest potential, Tracey helps people examine the ways they are holding themselves back and inspires people to take actions that are unique to their own goals, dreams and talents. Using personal story, clinical insights and understandable actions steps, Tracey can help anyone understand how to up their game, nurture themselves, and define the right dream to pursue in order to find their path to success, abundance and well-being.
Tracey asks you to question yourself, examine the way you live your life, and stretch to a new level of personal care while creating a truly unique life map that will guide you to where you always wished you’d be. If you haven’t felt like your life is all it can be, Tracey helps you examine what you can do, why you haven’t done it and how you can make things happen. Tracey truly believes that ultimately everyone can have a happy and fulfilling life.
She has a warm, funny and personal touch that gently guides you to where you need to go. Tracey, through her unique inviting style, makes deep therapeutic work approachable and real change possible. Using her considerable clinical skills, in a down to earth way, she helps her readers, clients, and audiences take simple action steps towards their real self and abundance, with dramatic results. Reading Tracey’s book is like taking a journey with a wise and comforting friend. She will help you determine what is stopping you, how to fuel the next phase of success and action in your life.
Tracey Cleantis is a licensed marriage and family therapist with practices in Pasadena, California. She has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and she has trained extensively in depth/psychodynamic and analytic psychology. She is a contributor to the Huffington Post, has written for Psychology Today and on her own blog at www.traceycleantis.com. Tracey authored The Next Happy: Let Go of the Life You Planned and Find a New Way Forward (Hazelden, 2015), which received a Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review, was a finalist for The Books For a Better Life Awards, as one of the best psychology books of 2015, and made it to the Amazon Best Seller list.
Her innovative and novel ideas on self-care and happiness have experts talking: Lee Woodruff, Cal Newport, Laura Munson, Jamie Cat Callan, and Melanie Notkin and others are all excitedly talking about what a unique and important distinction Tracey is making in the field of happiness. She has been featured in, among others, Redbook, Aeon, Macleans, Sojourner, Mode Magazine, Yahoo News, Salon.com, Psychologies Magazine, The Daily Mail, The Daily News, YourTango.com, NPR Wisconsin and on Fox News Boston.
Tracey’s new book, An Invitation to Self-Care: Why Learning to Nurture Yourself Is the Key to the Life You’ve Always Wanted, 7 Principles for Abundant Living (Hazelden/Simon & Schuster) is going to create a Self-Care Revolution! This innovative book invites readers to explore how an authentic self-care practice is the secret to the life you’ve always wanted.