FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Pricing based is on your ability to pay and the services you choose. In person, skype, telephone and distance sessions are $40 - $110 per session based on income. Shamanic sessions are done in-person. Bartering, or partial bartering, is also a wonderful way to experience reciprocity. I have need for massage, house cleaning, grounds keeping, web site creation and management, organic meats and produce, and gift items. Because of the society we live in, cash money is the most useful to me, but I do not believe anyone should be turned away because of money. Please discuss your concerns with me :-)
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Before I see a client I pray and make sacred space for our session. With Reiki clients you most often lie on a massage table, fully clothed except for shoes. Reiki can also be done in a sitting position or even given at a distance. I generally play gentle soothing music, with my hands I connect with my clients energy and gently touch or hover over the clients body. (Usually 1 hour session) For shamanic healing we most often talk for a while and then the client gets comfortable in a lying position and relaxes into connected breathing, while I call in the Spirits and ask for assistance. I use sacred medicine stones to break up heavy energy. (Usually 2 hour session) For coaching clients I use powerful questions to help the client connect with his or her own heart and wisdom. (Usually 1 hour session)
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
II was originally trained and worked in Western Medicine as a Respiratory Therapist for 20 years. I learned much about the various physical body systems, but intuitively knew there was much more to healing than seeing the body separate from emotional, mental, environmental, and spiritual wholeness. I currently work with a local shamanic healer, William Humphrey, individually and in apprenticeship courses and direct mentoring since 2012 and have done much self study. The most powerful work I have done has been in nature with the Spirits in daily practice continuing my own healing. I am currently facilitating and participating in a year long process inspired by the work of Angeles Arrien, exploring and coming into the power of the archetypes of Warrior, Healer, Visionary, and Teacher. Prior to this I started my Usui Reiki training in 2009, completing the master level in 2011 and am currently working on my master teacher level. This work has created an opening for the use of energetic healing, first for myself and then others. Before pursuing Reiki training, it was my intention to work toward a counseling degree. I have a bachelors degree in psychology, and have done graduate work in community counseling. But the deeper I got into the counseling masters program the more I realized I was being trained to label, diagnose, and support people in pharmaceutical treatment, rather than looking at the causal elements most often focusing on what is wrong with a person, rather than what is going right. I left the graduate program to find a healing modality that focuses on a persons strengths, talents and gifts. I chose to attend The Wisdom of Life Coaching School in 2010. This was a wonderful shift for me in acknowledging my own innate wisdom as a human being to connect with Spirit and consequently my own power and power greater than my own.