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Kathie is an intuitive healer, herbalist, and empath who has a broad range of knowledge, expertise, and experience which she brings to her client’s individualized healing journey. Kathie offers in-person and long distance Energy Healing sessions that are informed by Reiki and other intuitive healing techniques.
Kathie feels blessed working with people who are motivated to start healing their lives. She offers clients tools and practices they can integrate into their lives to support the healing process. Her goal is to teach people to heal themselves and become self-sufficient. As an elder having gone through a myriad of challenges herself, Kathie brings an embodied wisdom to her offerings.
Kathie was a public school teacher for 34 years. She has been trained in multiple modalities and has worked as a wellness consultant since 2001 with thousands of hours helping clients improve their lives. She holds a Master’s degree in Holistic Health Studies/Herbology Concentration from Saint Catherine’s University. She is a Healing Touch Practitioner, Reiki Master, and a Certified Hypnotherapist.
Ever-Unfolding Healing Experiences
I have been a client of Kathie’s for over 10 years. I was first introduced to her in a class she taught on Healing Touch. Since then, she has helped me overcome feelings of grief and loss that I was not always consciously aware of, as well as trauma that I had experienced years earlier in my prior work life. I consider her a valued member of my health care team, as she has taught me that the body needs to heal by integrating the body, mind and spirit. Each session has been interesting, as she helps me uncover issues that may or may not be top of mind for me on that particular day. No matter what transpires, I can say unequivocally that I always feel better at the conclusion of each session. She is my friend, my confidant, my healer.
A Healers Healer
Kathie is a true healers healer. She can see and feel what others don't. She is my go to person and who I send my clients to when I am out of town. One time I had an ongoing weakness and pain in my hip which was making it hard to stand, walk, and lay. It felt like my hip joint was deteriorating. I went to Kathy for my standard self care session. After a few minutes she asked what was going on with my hip, she could see a darkness deep within it. She was able to pull that dark energy out. It's been several years and still no pain has returned to that hip.
— Jody T.
Lighter and Brighter
Kathie helps me access my inner energy reserves and other resources in the world beyond that are there to help, when I remember to ask. I arrive feeling stressed, stuck, heavy and tight. I leave feeling lighter, brighter, energized and empowered toward a healthier existence.
— Jan Hayne
Kathie’s Training
Healing Touch
Healing Touch is a form of bioenergy therapy that uses the hands to balance, restore and energize the human energy field. The ultimate goal of Healing Touch is to help the client improve their health and wellness.
Healing Touch may help with most forms of disease and dysfunction. Research, so far, has shown that it may specifically help when a person is dealing with: allergies, anxiety, arthritis, asthma, cancer, cardio-vascular disease, chronic fatigue, depression, detoxification, edema, endocrine and immune function, fever, gastrointestinal upset, headaches, hypertension, infections, insomnia, labor, muscle tension, pain, PMS, with a release of negative emotions, stress, surgery and wound healing.
Healing Touch is extremely beneficial because it is effective, integrative, is never contraindicated, is cost effective, is non invasive and can be done in any setting. Healing Touch should also be regarded as an extraordinary mode of preventative health.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnosis can be used to help you attain results in almost any endeavor. It is used for: addiction, anxiety, concentration, depression, hypertension, negative habits, pain control, phobias, pregnancy and delivery, relaxation, self-improvement, stress, Hypnosis may be used as a stand-alone modality or it may be used in conjunction with other therapies.
According to the University of Minnesota’s Center For Spirituality and Healing there is empirical research that says that the following conditions have been shown to improve with the use of hypnosis. “Anesthesia during surgery, anxiety related to dental and medical procedures, asthma, post-operative pain in pediatric, Obstetrics/Gynecology, post-operative and post-chemotherapy nausea, and vomiting and warts.” MayoClinic.com adds that it can be used to help the following conditions:
Reduce or eliminate fears, stress and anxiety
Treat pain during childbirth and reduce labor time
Control pain during dental and surgical procedures
Relieve symptoms associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Lower blood pressure
Control nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy
Reduce the intensity or frequency of headaches, including migraines
Treat and ease the symptoms of asthma
Hasten the healing of some skin diseases, including warts, psoriasis and atopic dermatitis
Change negative behaviors, such as smoking, bed-wetting and overeating
Hypnosis is 100% natural. So there are very few contraindications for its use.
Herbology
“In view of their (medicinal herbs) preventive benefits and potential lack of toxicity when properly used, I view these botanical as the medicines of the 21st century and predict they will ultimately be used for the prevention and treatment of may modern chronic disease of aging.” David Herber, MD
This is included here as an attempt to provide you with information regarding the use of herbs. It is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease or dysfunction. Before a person starts the use of any herbs they should consult a health care professional.
Medicinal herbs have been used for thousands of years and have stood the test of time. The World Health Organization even states that that herbal therapies do not have to be subjected to rigorous, scientific studies to be deemed as a viable form of medicine. However there have many scientific, double blind studies. The German Commission E is a very good standard to go by. Another excellent source to check on the efficacy of medicinal herbs is the PDR for Herbal Medicines.Part of the problem with the scientific study of herbs is that they take one constituent out of the plant and test that but using the whole plant has a totally different effect.
Kathie, as an Herbologist believes:
How Herbs Work
Herbs work to treat the whole person.
Works to use herbs as a preventative and that diet, exercise and the community have an effect on the person as well as the herbs.
An herbologist does not attempt to treat just the symptoms they are presented with but the root cause of the dysfunction.
Herbs can improve vitality and/or energy.
Most herbologists work to detoxify the body, its organs, even individual cells.
Herbalists work to get the body back into balance.
Herbs are best when used as preventive medicine.
Usually they are safe but can be harmful or even fatal if not used properly in the correct quantities.
Herbs can work well with allopathic medicine.
A person taking herbs should plan for improvement over the long haul.