Building sustainable hope for our communities by inviting people everywhere to identify and cultivate their mental, emotional, and relational strength.

Since 2012 a collaboration of counselors, life coaches, educators, and community members have been improving on mental health resources to help individuals and organizations understand the effects of trauma and the means to healing for the mind, body, and soul. Hundreds of hours of interactive presentations, support groups, and individual sessions have proven to us that we can tailor neuroscience and research-based practices to bring healing to the community. In 2020, we launched Clear Thinking Solutions, Inc. as a community benefit organization to further this goal. Our founding board members are Board Chair Bud Searcy, Director of the Academy at the Fresno Rescue Mission, Board Secretary Timesa Johnson, Christian life coach & retired peace officer, and Board Treasurer Steven Sanchez, LMFT. Barbara Fiske, life coach, and Karen D. Wood, LCSW, are volunteering as executive director and program director as we launch Clear Thinking Solutions. We thank the founding Clear Thinking Method Master Coaches; Karen D. Wood, LCSW, Lois Griffith, LMFT, and Robyn Beer, Life Coach, for their careful guidance, coaching, and mentoring of so many. They, in turn, will easily point to others who have taught them. We will continue this culture of learning and collaboration to bring healing to the community.

Developed In the 1990s at the Salvation Army in Fresno, the Aesthetic View Institute (AVI) was established to develop outcome based thinking to address the impact of tension on thinking and how to find peace and clarity instead. Trainings were developed for therapists and coaches to provide critical needs in specific areas: domestic violence offenders, foster care families, and juvenile justice. This addressed the gap of helping clients understand why they thought and behaved the way they do in high stress moments, and how to envision success in critical situations in the future In 2012, AVI closed its doors and the baton was passed on to the next generation. The neurology of impact of tension was further developed. Trainings were increased as the awareness and scientific knowledge grew for the impact of trauma on the brain, body, behavior and belief.