Sue Kagel RN, BSN, HNB-BC, CHTP/I has been in nursing for over 35 years.  She has taught Healing Touch nationally and internationally in Ecuador and the Netherlands while maintaining a Healing Touch Practice with a holistic nursing approach at Canyon Ranch Health Resort in Tucson, AZ for over 20 years.

Sue is on faculty with Andrew Weil's Program at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Tucson, AZ teaching Healing Touch and Energy Therapy and is co-author of an NIH Grant, Healing Touch and the Stressed Neonate using Healing Touch in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.  She has been a Certified  Healing Touch Instructor for 15 years.

As a volunteer, Sue has served as a Healing Touch International Board Member and is a Past President and served on several committees. She writes for the HTI Perspectives in Healing Publication and presents Keynotes, lectures and workshops nationally.

She is co-author/editor of Healing Touch Enhancing Life through Energy Therapy with Diane Wardell, and Lisa Anselme. (2014)

My life experience includes baccalaureate degrees in both nursing and communication/family studies, masters degrees in nursing and communication/family counseling and a doctorate in psychology. I was certified as a healing touch practitioner in 2003 and continue to do 'the work' on a volunteer basis. Most of my nursing experience was in hospice and hospice home care, but have done med/surg, medical oncology, surgery, and nursing home supervision. I lived in Asia for 3 years teaching for the US Military through the U of Maryland and studied cultural death practices, as well as alternative forms of healing. I was a research associate professor for 10 years at the U of Arizona College of Medicine with a focus on sleep disorders and sleep health promotion, primarily for underserved Latinos. For the past 11 years, I was nursing faculty at Arizona State University, directing the Center for World Health. I retired in July of 2015 and am a Professor Emerita of Nursing and Southwest Borderlands Nursing scholar. Earlier this year (2016), after spending several years working with the Pan American Health Organization and submitting application, I received word that our college was designated as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre to Advance the Policy on Research for Health. I serve a Deputy Director. I continue to train diabetes health educators in Mexico regarding sleep disorders, chronic disease and sleep health promotion, and lecture on complementary, alternative and holistic approaches to healing with an emphasis on and demonstration of Healing Touch. I publish in professional sleep journals, and co-author the chapter on Evidence-Based Practice for Dossey and Keegan's 'Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice.' In my spare time, I am a rabid junior genealogist (starting in 1976), tracing a line on my dad's side back to Charlemagne. Namaste!

Claudia Halsell, LPN, MAEd, is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner, Certified CranioSacral Therapist, and Reiki Master. Claudia has been in private practice since 2001 at Tucson Touch Therapies. She has also worked at Canyon Ranch Health/Fitness Resort for 14 years and at the University of Arizona Student Veterans Program for 4 1/2 years.  Her interests have always been in wellness and prevention with the goal of helping people to reach their optimum level of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

In 2000, due to a health crisis I began to explore the path to healing.  Certified in Healing Touch, Energetic NLP, a Reiki Master/Teacher, Tai Chi/Qigong Instructor and Meditation Leader.  I learned skills and techniques to enable my own healing as well as how to assist others in their healing.  Through my position at the University of Arizona (1996-2016), I was able to share my love of healing and started a Healing Touch clinic on campus for students and faculty. I also developed and managed a two-year research project on the effects of Healing Touch on Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with post traumatic stress (PTS).   I taught Tai Chi/Qigong for the University of Arizona Employee Wellness Program and at the Tucson Veterans' Center. Currently, I have a private practice and teach healing methods.