About Our Founder

Ace Lindquist is a clinical trauma recovery therapist in the field of forensic psychology specializing in the treatment of complex trauma and complicated grief, historically working with incarcerated women.

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Ace Lindquist

Ace’s primary area of expertise is on the evaluation and treatment of the intergenerational transmission of trauma through understanding how it can manifest mentally, emotionally, and physiologically in our bodies, ancestry, and the collective. Her calling is to transform consciousness through walking the threshold and building bridges between many different worlds.

After coming to the UK from the USA, Ace was deemed an Innovator by the Home Office and given the opportunity to start her own business in the UK, Integrative Healthcare Solutions (IHS). She is passionate about teaching multi-disciplinary, holistic approaches to health & wellness and self-development practices to individuals, organisations, systems, and communities. Through IHS, Ace offers operational improvements to institutions through the creation and implementation of bespoke programming that trains and supports their service providers, and she consults on best practices for trauma-responsive, gender-informed, culturally sensitive community engagement.

Ace has become a visionary and creator in the health tech field. She provides virtual peer mentorship and support for other health and wellness practitioners through her online proprietary provider network, UNION, where she delivers one-on-one treatments tailored to the needs of the client, as well as facilitates development circles that foster individual skillsets and group cohesion amongst both budding and well-established professionals. Ace has also created EPOCH Data Management Systems, a software designed to be a tool to securely manage internal training and external client communications through separate channels. She is currently patenting a technology that detects and mitigates bias (human or AI-based) in data sets for use within the criminal justice, education, and healthcare systems.

Credentials & Work History

  • Degrees:

    • Post-Graduate Fellowship (Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis)

    • Masters in Counseling specializing in Forensic Psychology (Adler University, Chicago campus)

    • Bachelor of Fine Arts (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

    Licensure:

    • Licensed Professional Counselor, Illinois USA (LPC), 2016-present

  • Professional Associations:

    • British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy Member (MBACP)

    • Complementary Medical Association Practitioner Member (MCMA)

    Professional Memberships:

    • Royal Society for Arts Fellow (FRSA)

    • Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)

    • International Corrections & Prison Assoc. (ICPA)

    • International Assoc. for Correctional & Forensic Psychology (IAFCP)

    • Scientific & Medical Network (SMN)

    • Served on Cook County Human Trafficking Task Force (CCHTTF) subcommittees to strategize with law enforcement and service providers about labor and sex trafficking education, intervention, and prevention in Chicago USA from 2017-2020

  • Certifications:

    • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP-I; CCTP-II in process)

    • Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for PTSD and Complex Trauma Certification

    • Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional (CIMHP) - in process

    • Integrative Quantum Medicine Level III Practitioner

    Other Training & Education:

  • -Founding of IHS UK (2020)

    -On-Call Crisis Counselor assessing patients in hospital Emergency department, Chicago USA (2019-2020)

    -Clinical Case Manager & Therapist / Research Assistant & Field Worker at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago USA (2017-2018)

    • Provided mobile counseling, social support, and re-entry resources to previously incarcerated individuals and advised on policy change for federal funders to better serve marginalised communities

    • Funded by the US National Institute of Minority Health as part of Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative to reduce barriers to re-entry for the recently released

    -Mental Health Clinician in the Cook County Sheriff’s Women’s Justice Program, Dept of Corrections, Chicago USA (2015-2017)

    • Provided trauma-informed, gender-responsive care to incarcerated women, including group counseling, individual therapy, crisis intervention, and intake assessments

    • Developed & implemented specialty treatment curricula in addition to utilizing evidence-based programming focused on the treatment of complex trauma/PTSD and addiction recovery

    -Administrative Assistant in New Trier Township Government Social Services Office, Illinois USA (2015)

  • • Outstanding Community Service Award offered by IL State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford, 8th District, House of Representatives, State of Illinois (2017)

    • American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Conference poster presentation in San Francisco CA (2018) and second author on qualitative study with Dr. Rabiatu Barrie called "Lessons from My Father: A Qualitative Exploration of Gendered Racial Socialization of Black Teen Boys" (2016-18)

    • “Complex Trauma and LGBTQ+ Survivors of Human Trafficking” PowerPoint presentation and sensitivity training for law enforcement and social service providers in partnership with Howard Brown for the Cook County Human Trafficking Task Force, Chicago USA (2019)