A native of Israel, Dr. Pratibha Eastwood traveled extensively through India, Nepal, Australia, Switzerland, and England before moving to Hawaii in 1983. Dr. Eastwood is a writer and a therapist and has taught workshops on meditation and sandplay therapy. She has practiced Somatic Trauma Healing since 2008 and is certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). Dr. Eastwood has published the book Nine Windows to Wholeness; the play Aging is Not for Sissies, and her memoir, From Mud to Lotus: I Meant to Behave, but There Were Too Many Other Options.
Dr. Pratibha Eastwood Ph.D.is a U. C. Berkley graduate and taught at the California State University Counseling Department, excelled as a meditation teacher, and provided holistic health and meditation workshops to the community. She is a licensed psychologist, certified Sandplay therapist, a marriage and family counselor, and has developed a software program on numbers. Dr. Eastwood studied sandplay therapy and taught at the Jung Institute in Switzerland. Dr. Eastwood has a reputation for being on the leading edge of her profession.