Susan is a RN and Certified Healing Touch Practitioner/Instructor. She teaches Healing Touch at Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, MN and in several states.

She has a Healing Touch and Spiritual Direction practice specializing in self-care, mental, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being, pre/post op surgery, acute and chronic disease including pain management.

She is a mentor for Healing Touch students and co-leads a Healing Touch team for a local congregation. Her 35 year nursing career includes medical-surgical patient care and education, clinic triage, and case management.

“May we set the intention to be our best, most authentic selves for the highest good of all.”

Graduate of Grace-New Haven School of Nursing, Yale Medical Center, New Haven, CT.  Professional career has included acute care, long term care, administration, licensed Vermont teacher in Health Careers and Human Services, and as the nursing profession advanced a search for what was missing.  Completed 2 levels of reflexology before finding Healing Touch.  Certified Healing Touch Practitioner 2008 and Certified Healing Touch Instructor Levels 1 & 2 starting in 2012.  Guides a practice group in Lamoille County and serves as a mentor to Healing Touch Apprentices preparing for the practitioner level and certification.

Sam became a Healing Touch Practitioner in 2021. She attended Tennessee State University for her Masters of Science in Nursing and received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Harding University. She has worked in multiple health care settings as both a nurse and a nurse practitioner since 2011. Sam currently works as a Nurse Practitioner at IVX Health and is the owner of Strange Morel.  

Sam first learned about Healing Touch during graduate school in 2016 and has been exploring energy medicine ever since. She is passionate about wholistic health promotion. Her experience with Healing Touch has provided her with the opportunity to develop greater self-awareness and find healing in her own life. Sam is excited to share Healing Touch with others as they discover what healing means for their unique journey. 

Marci Carisch has been a certified Healing Touch Practitioner since 2004. She has provided Healing Touch at Abbot Northwestern Hospital (the back unit and cancer unit), Children’s Hospital Hospice program and Pathways (a center for chronic and terminally ill persons and their caregivers).  She currently provides Healing Touch in her private practice in Hopkins, Minnesota.

 She first got involved in Healing touch in 1997 when her daughter at 14 months old was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  A HT practitioner did healing touch for her daughter that significantly reduced her daughter’s side effects and pain due to chemotherapy, radiation and brain surgery. During this time Marci also received HT to reduce anxiety. She became a firm believer in the healing benefits of energy work when through receiving HT she experienced a profound spiritual awakening to her truth, purpose and joy.  Her passion is to bring the healing benefits of Healing Touch to other families suffering with a chronically ill or terminally ill child and anyone hoping to reach their optimum level of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

Compassionate care to support self healing and wellbeing.

Jeanne Glass, Healing Touch; Long Beach CA. 90815; established 2022

Certified Healing Touch Practioner, Healing Beyond Borders, 2021

Eden Method, The 5 Elements, 2021

Oncology Reiki Practitioner Training, Huntington Beach Reiki, 2017

Bristol Hospice Volunteer, 2016 to present

Reiki for Animals, Huntington Beach Reiki, 2016

Usui Reiki Master, Huntington Beach Reiki, 2015

Kundalini Reiki, Huntington Beach Reiki, 2015

I originally found this modality of HEALING TOUCH as a patient at Scripps Green in La Jolla, CA in 2001. Where my nurse on duty asked if I would like to try a relaxation technique. My pain levels were extreme. She performed HT prior to surgery as well as post-op. I was able to receive this phenomenal treatment, changing my life for my highest good.

I sought out the treatment and found a local church support group in my area; run by Val Jean Zieber, CHTP/Spiritual Ministry. I continued to receive monthly treatments. As I progressed in healing; I started learning more. Finding education from Scripps through our Healing Touch International/Healing Beyond Borders Organization. Which has taught me self-care techniques that I continue to share.

My journey with Healing Touch continued; in 2012 as a regular recipient of this modality of healing. I started my first course work in the summer of 2012. I was excited to learn more of this incredible therapy and what it had to offer. I became a member of Healing Touch International/Healing Beyond Borders in 2014. By 2016, I was certified as a Healing Touch Practitioner - CHTP.

My role as a prior student and Certified Healing Touch Practitioner continues to include being a coordinator/helper for Foundations of Healing Touch (Course 1) and Energetic Patterning and Clinical Application (Course 2) in the San Diego California area. 

I have also become an EarSeed Certified Practitioner. Working with the Ears in Auricular Therapy. 

In addition, I continue to be of service as a volunteer; through Sharp Hospital Chula Vista and Sharp Grossmont Hospice. I also see patients and family on an individual basis.

I continue to enjoy serving as a co-Mentor for the continuance of our future mentees working toward certification. 

Valorie Knowlton RN, BA, CHTP/I received her nursing degree from Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts, and has a BA in Human Development from Eckerd College in Sarasota, Florida. With over 40 years nursing experience her professional career has incorporated Cardiac Intensive Care, including Open Heart and Cardiovascular Lab, Home Health, and Hospice. Since 2009 she’s worked at Sarasota Interventional Radiology and is dedicated to holistic/integrative ways of practicing and is recognized for her compassionate heart and Healing Touch practice. Valorie has a special affection for the elderly, helping patients cope with cancer, pain, trauma, and the importance self-care.

In the early 1990’s as her life and career developed she began to search for deeper meaning and purpose in life because she felt like “something was missing.” After experiencing Reiki I/II and other integrative approaches to health she was introduced to Healing Touch in 2002. In her first class she felt like she had finally “come home” and knew one day she would teach this work. In 2007 she received her Certification as a Healing Touch Practitioner, and had a private practice in the Village of the Arts in Bradenton, Florida where she and her husband owned The Village Bookshop and The Healing Cottage, 2005-2010. In 2012 she received her Certification as a Healing Touch Instructor for Course 1. She currently teaches classes in Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale, and James Haley VA hospital in Tampa, and has a Healing Touch practice in her home.

Valorie is passionate about HT and teaches with wisdom, compassion and an open heart. She believes that we all have a divine light that is within us and Healing Touch is one way that allows the individual the ability to ignite that light to its fullest potential so we may have greater meaning and purpose in life. As a Healing Touch instructor it is her desire that each student grow to their fullest potential and “BE the light they are meant to be in the world.”   

My nursing career of 39 years has spanned all of life's spectrum from labor and delivery to hospice.  Healing Touch has been a gift to me personally and professionally.  I belive in empowering my clients with wellness tools and healing techniques that are holistic.  Unless we address mind, body and spirit we cannot achieve wholeness.  I have a special interest in women with unexplained pelvic pain and irritable bowel syndrome as well as sports injuries.  Healing Touch is an important component to any wellness plan.  Learning to listen to our bodies and respond appropriately is crutial to maintaining a balanced life and healthy body.

Metaphysical Student for 27 years

Healing Touch / Healing Beyond Borders CHTP Certification in 2015

I have extensive experience in working with Parkinson's Patients and other Neurological Challenged individuals.