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As a medical doctor and healer, I am committed to helping seekers on the path of spiritual awakening learn how to heal their body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
Marvin is a co-founder of the L.A. Milton Erickson Institute and is a former board member of the Southern California Society for Clinical Hypnosis. Marvin became a Reiki/Master Teacher in 1982, the first medical doctor and eleventh Reiki Master/Teacher initiated in the West. In 1999, he spent time in the Amazon Rainforest studying herbs with John Easterling.
Using his expertise, Marvin views his patients from a whole-person perspective, taking the physical, mental, emotional, and spirit-energy connection into consideration. He spends time with each patient, getting to know them, talking about their health concerns and decisions, and setting goals with them to achieve wellness.
As a medical doctor and healer, I am committed to helping seekers on the path of spiritual awakening learn how to heal their body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
One of my earliest memories, when I was about 4 years old, is of putting my hands on someone’s knee and feeling pain in my knee as their pain diminished. This first experience as a healer inspired my fascination with the human body and its energy systems.
My practice is unique in that I do not have a large office staff; I prefer to relate directly to my patients and to spend time doing a thorough evaluation so I can collaborate with them in their medical care.
In India I met my soul mate, Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D. who had been guided to travel to exact same location. Although we knew many of the same people and were involved in healing work, we had never met in California, despite living a mile from each other. Since our meeting on August 14, 1978, we have remained life partners, and married in 1979. Eleanor encouraged me to pursue my medical practice in ways that honor myself, my patients.
To Make an Appointment or find out more CALL or TEXT: (310) 266-3050 or email: mportner@portnermedical.com.
The information provided herein is intended for your general knowledge only and is not intended to be, nor is it, medical advice or a substitute for medical advice. Coaching, spiritual work, and astrology are not psychotherapy or counseling and do not address mental health or DSM diagnoses. If we detect a medical or mental health condition, we will refer you for treatment to an appropriate licensed health professional.
