Ziv Soferman, PhD, MCC
Coaching Training and Credentials
Nancy Lonsdorf, MD
Dr. Lonsdorf is a Johns Hopkins and Stanford-trained physician who is Co-founder of Experience Resolution Methodology Coaching™ (ERM Coaching™) a structured coaching method that promotes breakthrough thinking and creativity, professional development and well-being through extensive, strategic self-inquiry and inner resolution.
She is an ICF-Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Certified Leadership Coach with extensive experience coaching and co-coaching clients in the private sector as well as medical and academic settings. Dr. Lonsdorf is co-author with Ziv Soferman, PhD of the Amazon best-selling book Your Mind-Brain Reboot: How to Dissolve the Limiting Impact of Life’s Greatest Challenges and Prosper in Your Life.
Dr. Lonsdorf has over 35 years of clinical experience in an integrative medical practice that reflects her passion for comprehensively addressing clients’ whole health: mind, body and spirit.
ERM Coaching helps fulfill her heartfelt desire to deliver deep and lasting results for her high-performing clients, relieving deep-seated stress and promoting their full potential for inner calm and extraordinary outer achievements.
Coaching Training and Credentials
International Coach Federation, Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
Certified Leadership Coach; Life Coach Certification Group, Success Conversion Coaching
Certified NLP Practitioner
Coaching Experience
Over 1000 hours individual and group coaching and co-coaching, primarily via video-conference, in the private sector, medical and academic settings, 2009 – present
Coaching for Crisis Management- group coaching, Spring 2020, Duke University, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Executive and Research Group Coaching, Fall 2019- Spring 2020, Duke University, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Coaching services for Department of Defense-funded Clinical Trial at Duke University, 2022-2023: Data-driven Approaches to Healthcare Provider Resilience & Burnout During COVID-19 (sole provider of coaching in this clinical trial)
Current Position
President and Medical Director, Nancy K Lonsdorf, MD PC
President and Director, Soferman and Lonsdorf Coaching, LLC
Private practice, Integrative Medicine, 2005-present
Prior Positions
Medical Director, The Raj Ayurveda Health Spa (2000-2005) Medical Director, Maharishi Ayurveda Medical Center, Washington DC metropolitan area (1987-2000) Treated 25,000+ patients in over 35 years of integrative medicine practice.
Postgraduate Training
1984-1986
Residency, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Medical Education
1978-1983
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Doctor of Medicine, 1983 (early admission program)
Undergraduate Education
1976-1978
Oberlin College: Oberlin, Ohio
1978-1980
Johns Hopkins University, B.A. with Honors, Major in Human Biology
Awards
Books
Scientific Articles
Joshi S, Vaishnavi S, Puro N, Prince J, Lee R, Lee J, Barnard K, Brucker A, Chow S-C, Feyereisen S, Lee P, Lonsdorf N. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Coaching Interventions for Physician Burnout: Building Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2021 (submission in progress.)
Wenuganen S, Walton KG, Katta S, Dalgard CL, Sukumar G, Starr J, Travis FT, Wallace RK, Morehead P, Lonsdorf NK, Srivastava M, Fagan J. Transcriptomics of Long-Term Meditation Practice: Evidence for Prevention or Reversal of Stress Effects Harmful to Health. Medicina (Kaunas). 2021 Mar 1;57(3):218. doi: 10.3390/medicina57030218. PMID: 33804348; PMCID: PMC8001870.
Orme-Johnson, D., Walton, K., Lonsdorf, N., “Meditation in the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Insomnia,” pp. 27-32, in NIH echnology Assessment Conference; Integration of Behavioral and Relaxation Approaches Into the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Insomnia, Program and Abstracts, October 16-18, 1995.
Training of Health Professionals
Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, San Diego CA 2018, health professional Integrative Medicine Fellowship
Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, San Diego California; 2009-2015, Clinical Training Program for Health Professionals in Ayurvedic medicine.
University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 2012-present Clinical Training Program for Health Professionals in Ayurvedic medicine.
Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Health, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, IA, Current, Clinical Training Program for Health Professionals in Integrative Medicine.