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Physical symptoms, pain, and injuries can keep us from doing the things we love and our basic daily tasks. Things like lifting a cup of coffee, opening a jar/bottle, playing an instrument, lifting a grocery bag. Very often people think pain is just “part of life and they have to live with it.” You may have even tried multiple things like rest, ice, therapy, even surgery only to have some temporary relief. The problem is we have to treat the “whole” person. Very often our physical symptoms are a manifestation of where things are out of alignment in our lives, the stresses we have, energy we have taken on from others, etc. It’s about really getting to the cause of the symptoms in the first place.
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My Story

I have been treating upper extremity injuries for the past 23 years, I am one of 7200 Certified Hand Therapists in the world AND I am an intuitive energy healer! Over the past several years I have worked with energy masters training me in opening up my intuitive healing gifts. My patients get the BEST results when we integrate both the science based therapy AND intuitive energy healing.
I became an Occupational Therapist after my career as a professional flutist came to a screeching halt because of my own injuries. The blow was devastating. I knew as soon as I held the flute in my hands at the age of 10 that that was what I was going to do with my life. There was no other option, I was lost without my music and had no clue what I was going to do.

BUT, my wise grandma one day suggested I become a therapist. Initially I said, “no way.” But the universe intervened and guided me to OT. Everything literally fell in my lap between college, scholarship to go, immediate job after graduating in the UCONN Health Center Hand Therapy Department AND being a founding member of their musicians clinic! Crazy right?!

Background

Without my experience as a musician I would not be able to have the impact that I was meant to! Music was meant to lead me to this path of helping others. Especially, other musicians!

My almost 2 decades at UCONN was great, however, I always felt something was missing. I knew treating symptoms and healing are not the same. Having gone through what I went through personally with my own injuries and loss led me to explore the energetics of healing at a higher level.

That’s when I decided to start my own healing center, Healing Hands Therapy Center. This is where I blend physical and energetic healing which is ultimately what helped me HEAL.

I see, feel and read the energy of the body/person/injury to help bring awareness to why the injury is there in the first place and to fully heal on all levels!

I was still licking my wounds of lost dreams. On the surface everything looked good but emotionally and spiritually I wasn’t. That led me to explore the energetics of healing in injuries.

Very often our physical symptoms are a manifestation of where things are out of alignment in our lives and on a soul level. If you have done all

Career

I started my career out as a professional flutist, nope nothing to do with medical or energy healing! I knew as soon as I held the flute in my hands that that was what I was going to be when I grew up! And, it was, until injuries halted my career! As you can imagine this was beyond devastating and literally took years to heal physically, emotionally and spiritually. Because of those injuries my grandma said to me “why don’t you be a PT?” Well, I said, “yuck, I’m not touching feet!” BUT, the universe will always direct us and I found OT! Everything literally fell in my lap between college, scholarship to go, immediate job after graduating in the UCONN Health Center Hand Therapy Department AND being a founding member of their musicians clinic! Crazy right?!

Experience

Well, after 17 years working there with amazing people there was a call to leave (actually looking back that call came very early on I just didn’t know how to read the energy of it then). Something always felt like it was missing! I was treating symptoms, which is of course important, and I was seeing really complicated upper extremity injuries! I was also wearing roller skates with the fast paced patient after patient, walk in environment that it was. BUT, I never had the time or venue to really dig in to what was at the root! What was the cause? There are so many emotional, mental and spiritual things that come along with physical trauma and I wanted to be able to dig into all of those to help my patients holistically!
This led to the opening of Healing Hands Therapy Center and the eventual blending of physical and energetic healing that I do today. I have been treating upper extremity injuries for the past 23 years, I am one of 7300 Certified Hand Therapists in the world AND I am an intuitive energy healer. Over the last several years I have worked with energy masters training me in opening up my intuitive healing gifts and honestly…… the BEST results over the last 23 years have happened when I work with my patients energetically regarding their physical issues. I see, feel and read the energy of the body/person/injury to help bring awareness to why the injury is there in the first place and to fully heal on all levels! We are not just a physical body. Very often our physical symptoms are a manifestation of where things are out of alignment in our lives and on a soul level. It’s our body’s way of raising the surrender flag by giving us those physical symptoms. Even traumatic injuries often happen because we are not “present” in the moment or it’s the universes’ way of bringing our attention to something deeper and more important. I use these techniques on myself and my family.

Fun facts about me:

  • If I won the lottery I would buy a ton of land and start a dog shelter!
  • I feel most at peace when I’m outside in nature (sans the bugs & reptiles), especially by a lake or river.
  • I have 2 teenage children…..yes god help me
  • I oddly really like to run, though I did have a Forest Gump moment during a ½ marathon a few years back.
  • I love pilates and want to become an instructor one day
  • I love to learn and am constantly getting distracted by all the courses I can take
  • I’m “mostly” vegan (though I have a weakness for REALLY good pizza and mac n cheese
  • I’m the proud momma of 2 kitties and 2 puppies!

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