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Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that promotes deep healing.  Reiki (pronounced Ray-Kee) means Energy Healing.  It is administered by the Laying on of Hands and is based on the principle that Energy, or Ki, flows through us and is what gives us life.  If one's energy is stagnant, blocked, or depleted, illness, stress, mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual illness can ensue.  All of our experiences, thoughts, fears, beliefs, traumas, and stresses can strengthen or weaken our energy centers and affect our energy flow.  
Reiki is the process of replenishing and rebalancing Energy in order to restore health and harmony and promote healing of the body, mind, and spirit.  

Healing Touch techniques are specific, standardized Energy Healing protocols for RNs.  Education is provided by Healing Beyond Borders.

Energy Healing Techniques are complimentary modalities that:

Relax the body by releasing stress and tension
Improve sleep
Relieve or reduce pain from acute or chronic conditions
Remove emotional or physical energetic blockages
Assist in self healing
Assist in faster recovery after surgery and chemotherapy
Support the immune system
Detoxify the body
Alleviate the physical discomforts of pregnancy 
Assist with postpartum recovery 
Modulate energy for sensory sensitive individuals

Energy Healing work does not replace the care of a physician or alternative medicine practitioner, it is a complement to other modalities.  Deep healing takes place when we work on the energetic body, and can enhance, reinforce, and augment other types of treatment. 

Katie's mission is to use Energy Healing to help you to Connect with your inner wisdom to heal your body, mind, and spirit.

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Katie has practiced cardiac, medical/surgical, oncology, and vascular surgery nursing in a hospital setting with adults, as a Staff Nurse, Charge Nurse, Advanced Clinical Nurse, and Clinical Manager.  She has extensive scientific knowledge of body systems and disease processes.  Her focus is assisting clients in understanding diagnoses, medical procedures, courses of treatment, self-care, nutritional support, and integrating medical and alternative care with Energy Healing.
She has also practiced in the hospital and community-based setting with new mothers and babies as a Lactation Nurse, Postpartum Doula, and Breastfeeding Counselor.  Her focus is prevention of common issues with healthy birth and breastfeeding education and supporting new mothers through their transition.
She practiced seven years in each field, and shifted from adult nursing to mother-baby when her first child was born.  Throughout her nursing career she has used both Hands-On care and Intuitive Counseling skills to help patients and clients.  She is the only RN in the Orlando area who offers Energy Healing techniques in her practice.
Katie developed a passion for working with sensory sensitive children when her son started exhibiting symptoms at 18 months of age.  He is now a healthy, functioning child.  She has counseled and assisted parents with sensory education, food allergy education, energy healing techniques, and the importance of self-care.  
She has the gifts of claircognizance and clairsentience, and her Master attunement to Reiki enhanced these gifts.  Claircognizance is intuitive knowledge, or receiving information that assists clients with their healing process.  Clairsentience is intuitive feeling, which guides her in Energy Healing sessions.  She is also an Empath, which means that she can feel strongly what clients are feeling physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Energy Healing is a complementary modality, and is sometimes referred to as Energy Medicine.  Katie can help you to understand medical procedures and courses of treatment, however she does not practice medicine nor should her advice be taken as diagnosis or treatment in the medical field.  Always consult with your physician or primary care provider before changing any course of treatment.  


A wellness plan integrates Energy Healing with other modalities and services.  Healing journeys encompass all of the providers a client is seeing, so that complete healing of body, mind, and spirit can take place.
Katie focuses on assisting adult clients in understanding diagnoses, medical or alternative procedures such as surgery and chemotherapy, and courses of treatment.  Self-care, exercise, nutritional support, and spiritual practice are all essential to healing.
For sensory children, the focus is integrating energy healing with other therapies, nutritional support, exercise, and self-care for caregivers.
For pregnant and postpartum clients, her focus is prevention of common issues, understanding healthy birth and breastfeeding, and supporting mothers who have been through a birth that was not what they expected.
Integrating Energy Healing with other modalities enhances, reinforces, and augments other types of treatment so that healing can take place.


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Intuitive Counseling consists of discussing the core issues that prevent complete healing of body, mind, and spirit.  These core issues come to the surface after 30-45 minutes of consultation.  Katie traces overall patterns that link pieces of clients' healing journey together, and will walk you through the big picture of healing steps to take, then create a Connected Wellness Plan for you.  
There are four energy layers around the body, the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual or astral layer.  Traumas, pain, emotional issues, and other core physical, emotional, and spiritual issues cause blocked or stagnant energy to form and get stuck in the energy field.
Katie follows the wisdom of her hands in Energy Healing.  She works above the body in the field unless there is a physical issue, which calls for working directly on the affected body part, using light touch.  Clients lie comfortably on a massage table, fully clothed during treatments.
Energy Clearing moves blocked or stagnant energy though the layers of the energy field.  Chakras (energy centers) and meridians (energy lines) are cleared using chelation, pain drains, and other releasing techniques for energies that are no longer needed in the field.  Chakras and meridians are connected and balanced after clearing.
Back techniques are employed for the spine, and minor chakras around the spine and joints can also be cleared.  If there is a physical issue that requires working directly on the body, Energy Healing is focused on the problem area.
This process takes 30-45 minutes to complete. 
Energy Clearing effects can take up to 48 hours, and clients are encouraged to drink water while energies continue to release out of the body.
Typical sensations felt by clients are vibrations, coolness, magnetic pull, warmth, and release.  It is not unusual for the person receiving the energy to fall asleep during the session. Most clients report a feeling of relaxation and peace after sessions.
A possible side effect of Energy Healing would be similar to detoxification.  Some clients feel as though they are coming down with a cold or feel the need to rest more.  These symptoms are usually mild and last for a short period of time.  

Energy Healing work does not replace the care of a physician or alternative medicine practitioner, it is a complement to other modalities.  Deep healing takes place when we work on the energetic body, and can enhance, reinforce, and augment other types of treatment.  
Energy Clearing and Strengthening

Many children with Sensory Processing Disorder are either sensory seeking or sensory avoidant, meaning they either seek out experiences that involve taste, touch, smell, sight, or sound, or they avoid those experiences.  There are also proprioceptive and vestibular inputs into the sensory system, which affect a child's balance and position, through input from the joints, muscles, eyes, and head.  Proprioceptive and vestibular dysfunction can affect whether a child is sensory seeking or sensory avoidant.
Sensory seeking children are lacking energetic boundaries, which leads them to crave input because their energies leak into the environment.  Sensory avoidant children have boundaries that are too rigid, which makes them avoid input, because their energies are overly full.   Sensory kids are very sensitive to energies around them, and learn to fill themselves energetically and keep good boundaries, or discharge some of their energy so that they can tolerate contact through the senses.  
There are also combination sensory seeking and sensory avoidant children, who require a variety of techniques to modulate energy.
Teaching a sensory sensitive child to modulate energy includes three sessions, one to introduce the concept of energy balancing and strenthening and to facilitate learning energy techniques, the second to reinforce the teaching, and the third as follow up.  Energy techniques can be used at home and school, and can have a profound impact on how the child relates to peers, family, and teachers.  The key is using these techniques daily to maintain balance.

A quote from one of my sensory seeking kids: "I use Energy for (school) work.  I like it becuz I get Energy.  I like to do it becuz I need it sometimes.  I like it becuz it's fun".  -C. age 8

Pregnancy and Postpartum


Energy Healing is a modality that can support a pregnant or postpartum mother through the physical, emotional, and spiritual changes that bringing a new life into the world requires.  Like prenatal yoga, chiropractic, and prenatal massage, Energy techniques have several benefits for mom and her developing baby:

Reduce stress and fatigue
Can reduce nausea, indigestion, and heartburn caused by a rise in HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) hormone and progesterone
Relieve the physical discomforts of pregnancy, such as round ligament pain and pain from loosening of the joints due to an increase in relaxin hormone 
Assist women in reorienting their emotional energy and remaining grounded

Visualization of the birth process through education about prodromal, transition, and pushing stages, as well as visualization of optimal positioning of the baby, helps a mother prepare for healthy birth.  Hypnobirthing and Spinning Babies are both valuable resources.

Postpartum women can also benefit from Energy Healing treatment as their bodies regain the pre-pregnant state.  Energy Healing supports the physical healing process as the body's organs and physiology returns to normal.  Benefits are:

Pain relief
Relaxation and stress relief
Can provide relief from incisional or episiotomy pain
Emotional balancing and support as hormones return to pre-pregnancy levels

See my Energy Reconnection page for Moms and Babies for more infomation on birth trauma and healing.

Energy Reconnection with Baby

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Many mothers have been through either a traumatic birth experience, postpartum depression, or a birth experience that wasn't expected and are having trouble moving on.  Any time a mother has experiences that are different from what she wanted, or expected, there are emotional and physical components that need healing.
Energy Reconnection is one of the most powerful techniques that can connect a mother with her baby after a birth that wasn't what she expected.  I have used it myself after the birth of my son, who had several complications and was hospitalized in the NICU, with amazing results.  
Emotional clearing for mom and connection with her baby, who is energetically aware at birth, is a beautiful process and one that can be explored for any mother who is struggling with the realities of birth and a new baby, expanding her family, or healing herself.
A combination of chakra clearing, energy field clearing, emotional clearing, and grid and energetic connection is used to re-establish the connection between mom and baby.  This technique can also be used for mothers who are months or years past a birth that was not what she expected.

Testimonials


Energy Connection has brought me clarity and focus and an ability to center and stay calm in the most difficult circumstances of my life.  Katie's skill at checking in and giving feedback and insight have helped me greatly to better understand trauma, move through it, and clear it from our lives.  Thank you, Katie for the reminders of our universal, energetic connection and the power that we all have.  -Alissa T-S.

I absolutely adore Katie's ability to tune into a situation and give absolute clarity and insightful advice.  Through the years, it has been a blessing to watch her come into her purpose which is offering spiritual wisdom and healing to others.  Her experience and abilities as a natural healer make her one of the best.  Thank you, Katie, for our connection.  -Heidi G.

I a 53 and received my first Reiki healing from a friend a few months ago in my heart area.  For my second treatment Katie did an over-all distance healing.  I felt 95% better and still do.  I am fascinated with how it works.  I'm so blessed that I experienced it first hand.  Health is very important.  It allows me to go to work feeling like I can be free of pain.  -Patti G-J.

I have had Reiki in person with another practitioner frequently in the past.  I had never had a distance treatment, so wasn't sure what to expect.  However, Katie explained everything ahead of time, and I knew what to expect.  I had been experiencing stress and pain in my left shoulder, and  was having difficulty with my left side overall.  After the session and hearing Katie's insights, I not only felt better physically, I was more sensitive and intuitive about what was going on.  A simple change to a different chair for writing made a world of difference, and I do feel that the realization came primarliy throught the treatment.  The assurance and a sense of peace were beautiful.  Katie was attentive and sensitive, and I look forward to an in-person treatment soon!  -Tawdra K.

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