Bill and Robin Shearer are Southern California therapists who treat psychological problems characterized by a lack of balance and resilience. They are the authors of Mindful Choices for Well-Being.
Bill Shearer is a psychologist and organizational consultant. Robin Shearer is a Marriage and Family Therapist and trainer. Together, the Shearers have run a psychological center and organizational consulting center in Redlands, California for more than 30 years.
In their organizational work they are consultants and executive coaches working with universities, city governments and corporations. They have conducted numerous business and organizational workshops, along with team building, strategic planning, leadership development, and executive coaching. Their primary organizational focus is well-being in the workplace.
In their clinical work the Shearers deal with a variety of mental and emotional health issues such as troubled relationships. They have also worked for over 30 years in the treatment of addictions, and eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa, and Bulimia. Additionally, they specialize in treating stress and anxiety disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder. The Shearers have dedicated their lives to helping their clients overcome difficulties and move beyond stress, anxiety and depression to lives of resilience and well-being
The Shearers see people individually and in group therapy and together they have developed a holistic treatment known as Mindful Choices Therapy.
Mindful Choices Therapy has evolved through many years of clinical practice. Years ago the Shearers realized that traditional treatment modalities aimed at reducing distress didn’t go far enough in creating lasting emotional balance and well-being. Their clients wanted more. They wanted to thrive.
Thus Mindful Choices Therapy was created out of the Shearers’ recognition that well-being and thriving are multifaceted and rooted in choice and habit. When mindful awareness is coupled with making great choices, and systematically practicing those choices to the point of powerful and enduring lifelong habits, well-being and thriving result. It’s transformative and Mindful Choices Therapy is designed for that transformation.
The heart of Mindful Choices Therapy is incremental, step-by-step mastery of 10 Mindful Choice areas, all interconnected and all having great impact on well-being. The focus is on assessment based awareness, and systematic and focused practice using knowledge derived from neuroscience as well as a variety of powerful tools for change.
Four pillars or theoretical orientations support Mindful Choices Therapy, and these are seamlessly integrated within the program. These are:
- Mindfulness, contemplative traditions, Buddhist psychology, and Stoicism.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, and other mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapies.
- Positive Psychology and Well-Being Theory.
4 Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience.
For the past 10 years, the Shearers have used Mindful Choices Therapy on hundreds of clients. The results far exceed anything they and their clients experienced when the focus was on merely reducing stress, anxiety and depression, utilizing traditional modalities.
Bill is a former high school history teacher, and is a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force. Robin is a former school nurse and health educator.
Bill has a doctorate from the University of Tennessee, an MBA from Pepperdine University, and an MPH (Masters in Public Health) from Loma Linda University. He also has graduate degrees in education, and health services administration, five graduate degrees altogether. Robin began her career as an RN and school nurse, and has Masters degrees in public health and marriage and family therapy.
Bill has been continuously involved in teaching since 1964, when he became a twelfth grade US history teacher. He has taught University courses for several universities and is currently a professor in both an MBA program and a psychology graduate program
The Shearers’ lifelong mission is facilitating growth and change in others. Mindful Choices Therapy has proven to be an ideal vehicle for personal transformation to well-being.
