Healing Therapies
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Chaplaincy
If you have ever wondered how to start a prayer life or learn to meditate? Do you need to hear words of forgivenes
s and reconciliation? Do you need a friend to walk with you through troubled times?
Chaplain Sonja is a board certified chaplain and past chaplain with Prairie St. John's and Hospice of the Red River
Valley, and is currently serving as visitation pastor at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Fargo. She will be able to walk, teach, or pray with you.
Mayo clinic has used
meditation to treat anxiety and high blood pressure and to help people quit smoking without medication.....An analysis of 20 studies found that meditation helped patients cope with epilepsy, premenstrual syndrom, menopausal symptoms, autoimmune disease and anxiety during cancer treatments.
Counseling
General mental health concerns will be addressed. Counseling may include dealing with depression, anxiety, life transitions, dementia, grief and loss, and other personal or emotional concerns.
Doreen is a licensed counselor in the state of ND with a special emphasis in aging.
Cranial Sacral
A gentle hands-on therapy that realigns tissues.
Healing Touch
Healing Touch is an energy-based healing technique used to balance and align the human energy field coming out of the field of holistic nursing. Body, soul, and spirit are touched through this therapeutic process and each individual is empowered to participate fully in his or her healing journey. This particular healing modality is used by more than 30,000 nurses in hospitals across the country.
Healing touch can help with pain, back and neck problems, anxiety, skin problems, wound and fracture healing, premenstrual syndrom, multiple sclerosis, AIDS, hypertension, heart and lung disease, pre/post surgical procedures, headaches/migraines, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome and disease prevention.
"In a 2003 study, healing touch lowered pain, blood pressure, fatigue, and emotional problems in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy." US News and Word Report, 1/21/08
Gwen is a registered and lisenced nurse in the state of ND and is a certified healing touch practitioner, which is the highest level in healing touch.
Infant Massage
Infant touch and massage is a mutual giving and receiving between parents and their children. This loving and respectful interaction provides physiological, emotional, and developmental benefits for the infant, as well as , allowing parents a relaxing time to communicate love and better understand their baby's needs during the first year.
The initial infant touch and massage class will include written and visual information related to the benefits of infant massage followed by individualized instruction. The individualized instruction in infant touch and massage will address each infant's unique sensory system and development along with the needs of the parents and family. Natural grapeseed oil will be provided during massage instruction.
Donna is a master's level occupational therapist, lisenced massage therapist in the state of ND and is a certified infant touch and massage instructor.
Integrated Imagery
Imagery is simply harnessing the power of your imagination. Imagery is a natural process that uses the senses to help bridge the subconscious and conscious mind. If you worry or daydream, you re involved in imagery. Worrying is a negative way to image and can be very destructive in an individual's life. If you daydream, you may have experienced the relaxation and goal setting that can occur.
Benefits of imagery include: relaxation; decreased pain and symptom relief; increased reduction in blood pressure; assist in healing, provide inspiration, insight, and motivation; pain management; preparation for surgery and post-surgical procedures; stress reduction; and empowering individuals in difficult situations.
Gwen is a registered and lisenced nurse in the state of ND and has had 110 hours in advanced training in imagery and is certified from the Holistic Nurses Association in Integrated Imagery.
Therapeutic Massage
Massage therapy is an ancient healing art dating back to 2700 B.C. Through manipulation of the body’s soft tissues by pressure, tension, motion or vibration, massage alleviates muscle spasms and stress. Massage is also a well-known aid in healing injury and managing pain. By improving the function of the circulatory, lymphatic, muscular, skeletal and nervous systems, massage therapy has proven beneficial to lower back pain, arthritis, bursitis, high blood pressure, diabetes, immunity suppression, infertility, smoking cessation, depression, anxiety and more.
Hot Stone massage adds the benefit of stones with their added heaviness and warmth that creates a sense of overall well-being. Stone massage is not for people with open wounds, fungal infections, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis or are pregnant.
Sonja, who is certified and licensed massage therapist in the state of ND provides a relaxing experience while rejuvenating your body and mind. Sessions incorporate trigger point and myofascial release appropriate for anyone.
Personal Coaching
Life coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
Personal coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in all aspects of their lives. Coaches help people open themselves to possibilities and empower them to identify, celebrate and own their individual greatness. Coaching helps people move from where they are to where they want to be, holding them bigger than they see themselves at the moment and keeping them accountable along the way.
Coaches are trained to listen, observe and customize their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach's job is to provide the structure and support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has while also offering new tools and strategies that clients can adopt to further enchance personal growth.
Jenny is a certified personal coach and life skills advisor.
Reflexology
Reflexology is the ancient art of applying pressure to the hands, ears, and feet. Ears alone is called auricular therapy. Pressure points are stimulated which results in the physiological changes within the body and the facilitation of relaxation.
Benefits include relaxation, improved circulation, improved nerve supply to the body, balance, and the normalization of the body and its functions.
"I've never felt this way before. It was amazing. I appreciated having the same person who can track changes in my body." Jill
Sonja is a licensed and registered reflexologists in the state of ND.
Spiritual Direction
Pr. Helen Beth Kuhens, Certified Spiritual Director: In the play "Our Town" by Thomas Wilder, Emily Gibbs asks this question of the Stage Manager: "Does anyone realize life while they live it?" The role of spiritual director is to listen to another's life - to "realize" with another the holy in the every day as well as the depths of pain and joy that each life holds. (Specializing in faith crisis and mid-life spirituality.)
Stress Management
The stress management interventions can be done with adults or youth to develop greater emotional self-regulation. The program is taught to achieve sustainable, perceptual, attitudinal and behavioral changes. The program runs a minimum of four weeks with additional weeks depending on sessions needed for optimum change.
"In the 40 years I have worked in the field, I have found HeartMath interventions to be the most effective methods for transforming stress and emotional turmoil into well-being."
--Tom McDermott, N.C.C., L.M.H.C.
Director of Counseling Servicees, Niagra University, NY
Jan is a licensed and registered occupational therapist and is a licensed qualified resilient educator instructor through the Institute of HeartMath.