Updated: Dec 7, 2021
Clients who wish to work with me will be asked to complete and submit an intake questionnaire and an online wellness survey just prior to beginning energy work with me, as well as completing follow up surveys at six months and one year post intervention for progress monitoring purposes.
Wellness surveys will be used to monitor clients' progress. In compliance with privacy laws and best practice, clients will not be identified by their surveys or in any other way. All information shared with me will be held in confidence.
At this time, energy healing sessions will be conducted solely at a distance via phone or computer.
About me.
I am a retired, licensed Speech and Language Pathologist, University Clinical Supervisor and Educator, with a background in Science, Foreign Languages, Education, and Communication. As a Speech and Language Pathologist I specialized in the treatment of Schoolage Speech and Language Disorders, Autism Spectrum and other Social Pragmatic Language Disorders, and Stuttering. I bring two decades of experience working with individuals with learning and communication challenges to my practice as an energy healer.
I became certified in and began practicing energy healing after experiencing its effectiveness as a healing modality in my own life. I first encountered energy medicine when I was offered and accepted a faith healing from a friend of a friend. Shortly thereafter, Dr. John Strachs, MD, of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University recommended acupuncture treatment, another form of energy healing, for my chronic illness, explaining to my husband and me that, “while in the Western Medical Tradition we are not able to explain why it works, thousands of years of successful practice has shown that acupuncture is effective as a healing modality."
A month after the faith healing and three weeks of acupuncture treatments I experienced several spiritually transformative events in a row, what I now recognize to be "flow" state, and a major shift in my energy levels and well-being. I decided to learn more about energy healing and how I could continue to support my spiritual development and the healing that was taking place in my body.
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I learned and began to practice a form of Tai Chi (another energy healing modality) developed by Dr. Yang Yang at the University of Illinois in which he conducted research to identify the most impactful movements of traditional Tai Chi on overall health and wellness, and created from those movements a form of Tai Chi called “Evidence Based Tai Chi”. Following this, I began to study energy healing formally.
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Today, I am healthy, happy and symptom free. I no longer suffer from chronic anxiety and depression and have enough energy to do the things in life that I wish to do. Even more important, I have learned to have compassion for myself. I have come to love and value and respect myself unconditionally. I used to believe that I was only worth what I achieved or could do for others. I believed that I had to “earn” love and respect. When I couldn't do much, I wasn't worth much. These days I try to be as gentle with myself as I am with others. I have learned to be okay with not doing as much as I used to do and needing to time to rest. I have chosen to believe that I am okay just as I am. Just as you are okay, just as you are.
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Energy healing helped me permanently change the disempowering beliefs that I held about myself. Besides learning to value myself, I learned strategies to work with unhappy thoughts and emotions to process and release them in healthy ways. I have learned to accept all of my emotions without judgment and instead use them in a more objective way to learn from and inform my decision making. I am also now better able to maintain a positive outlook on life even during difficult moments.
Energy healing practices have helped me become better able to regulate my emotions and be less reactive and defensive. I am better able to respond calmly and thoughtfully in stressful situations and to the people closest to me.
Energy healing has allowed me to move from operating from a place of fear and reactivity, to living consciously and creatively, with more confidence with the people and the world around me.