Trish Rux has been a Registered Nurse since 1982. She is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner specializing in end-of-life care in Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. 

I am a Masters in Science prepared nurse practicing as an Integrative therapy practitioner. I am certified in: Healing Touch, Surgical Coaching (Beyond Surgery program),Clinical Aromatherapy, and  M Technique. My services are by appointment. Hours are flexible. I am an experienced consultant for Hospitals, Nursing and Rehabilitation centers, Home Care and Hospice. I am a member of the American Holistic Nurses Association and Healing Beyond Borders. I am recently published March 2015 in the International Journal of Professional Holistic Aromatherapy, article  titled “Introduction of Clinical Aromatherapy into a Community Hospital.”

Joel G. Anderson, PhD, CHTP, FGSA, (he/they) is the Joan L. Creasia Endowed Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK). He holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Nutrition from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro (UNCG), a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, a certificate in Advanced Clinical Dementia Practice from the University of Michigan, and a certificate in Inclusive Teaching from UTK. Joel completed an NIH-funded postdoctoral research fellowship in the conduct of clinical research at the Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies at the University of Virginia (UVA). He is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Centre for Age-Related Medicine in Stavanger, Norway.

Joel’s research program focuses on supporting caregivers of people living with dementia. This focus includes exploration of the psychosocial impacts of caregiving to develop strategies to alleviate caregiver strain and improve quality of life. He currently leads several studies to examine quality of life in dementia caregiving, including the use of digital health resources and the unique needs of LGBTQIA+ caregivers and older adults. Joel has received funding from the National Institute on Aging, the RRF Foundation for Aging, the Pat Summitt Foundation, and the British Academy. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in academic journals, including The Gerontologist, the Journal of Aging and Health, and Brain Research. Joel is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Family Nursing and Research in Gerontological Nursing. He chairs the Gerontology Research and Scholarship Group and is a member of the Scholars Collective on Mortality at the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts at UTK.

Joel is an elected fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. In 2021, he received the Innovative Contribution to Family Nursing Award from the International Family Nursing Association and in 2020 received the UTK College of Nursing Allison and Patrick Harrison Nursing Innovation Award. Most recently, he received the 2025 Sands Family Faculty Endowment from the UTK College of Nursing. Joel is co-convener of the International Dementia Scholars Collaborative and former co-chair of the Communications Committee of the International Family Nursing Association. He has served as a peer reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, the Dementia Australia Research Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland, and the Singapore Ministry of Health. He is past president of Healing Beyond Borders, an international integrative health organization. Joel currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Carolina Aging Alliance and the Advisory Committee for the Aging Rainbow Coalition. 

For over two decades, Joel has been actively involved in efforts to support multicultural diversity, equity, and inclusion. He was a founding member of the Gay-Straight Alliance at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and a member of the Inclusive Community Initiative Task Force of the Faculty Senate at UNCG. While at UVA, Joel was a member of the School of Nursing Diversity Committee and the UVA Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Planning Committee. In 2016, Joel received the UVA Health System Martin Luther King, Jr. Award in recognition of his work related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Joel served as a member of the UTK Faculty Senate from 2018 to 2021, including co-chairing the Faculty Senate Diversity and Inclusion Committee. He previously served on the UTK Scholarship Diversity Analysis Committee, the UTK Taskforce on Naming, the UTK Strategic Visioning Executive Committee, the College of Nursing Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council, and as co-chair of the UTK Chancellor’s Commission for LGBTQ People. In 2023, Joel received the UTK LGBTQ Advocate Award in recognition of his contributions in promoting an inclusive campus environment. Dedicated to inclusive teaching, Joel received the 2022 Open Education Resource Trailblazer Award from the UTK University Libraries and Student Government Association and the Outstanding PhD Faculty Award from the UTK College of Nursing in 2020 and 2023.

Bianca is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner with the ability to create a nurturing, peaceful and relaxing environment for her clients.  With her gentle, heart-centered touch, she assists in balancing the body’s energies at the physical, emotional and mental levels, encouraging and supporting the body’s self-healing wisdom. She is compassionate and sensitive to her clients’ needs, eliciting in them a sense of trust and peace.  She is also an advanced Reiki Practitioner. In order to deepen her understanding of energy-based therapies, she has completed the Qi Gong Healer Certification Program at the Chambers Center for Well Being, Atlantic Health System.  In addition, she has been studying and practicing Qigong and Tai Chi and teaching Qigong for many years. Throughout her life journey, she has also practiced yoga, meditation, dance and shamanic arts.

For several years, Bianca has been part of the Integrative Medicine Program at the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center, Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ, providing Healing Touch and Reiki sessions to cancer patients and their caregivers, along with teaching Qigong for health enhancement and wellness.

Bianca obtained her Healing Touch certification through Healing Beyond Borders and she holds certifications to teach Qigong from Supreme Science Qigong Center, from the Chinese Health Qigong Association and from the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi.  Bianca has a private practice in Morristown, NJ.

I am Connie M. Kaiser and I began my career in the healing arts back in 1998 when I chose to leave the corporater world and enrolled in the Therapeutic Massage Training Institue of Charlotte, NC. I graduated on 11-18-99 at which time went onto board certification and became Nationally Certefied in Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork. I then recieved my North Carolina state license #2260 as a Licensed Massage & Bodywork Therapist (LMBT #2260) on 5-1-01.

My first introducation to "energy" was back in school. where I learned Dr. Stone's version of polarity. After that very enlightening class, I studied Reiki and within 3 years learned level 1 & 2 and afer leve 3 becames a Reiki Master. Over the next several years, I continued my education in the Healing Touch Program, and after taking all 5 levels went on for a 1 year mentorship with Deborah Larrimore of Winston Salem. NC ( who is the present director of Healing Touch Education & Reasearch at Wake Forest/Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem and is on the Healing Touch International Educational Committee) and became boeard certified as Certified Healing Touch Practitioner # 2766 since 1-4-08 (CHTP #2766). I would also like to add that for a 15-year period, Deborah Lattimore studied and worked direction with Janet Mentegen- the original founder of Healing Touch. I am presently interestd in becoming an instruction in Healing Touch and begun preparing for this venture with some new education in learning to become a teacher, etc. and plan to contiue with  Healing Touch
's protocol and educational requirements.

I also studies many workshops on Chakras. along with Quantum- Touch Healing Level 1 and Level 2 and I am now in the process of becoming a Certified Practioner in Quantum Touch by meeting all of their requirements. At this time I am also preparing to become an instructor in Quantum Touch Healing and in becoming an approved continuing ed provider within the North Carolina of Massage & Bodywork.

Continuing my education with energy, I studied 6 level in Healing with Crystals ( also known as Gem Therapy) where crystals & stones are placed directly on chakras along with grids and matrixes on and around the body. I then studied vibration and sound healing and learned  62 hours in Acutonics Tuning Forks, including Tibetan bowls, Tinchas, drums & rattles.

My new passion and way of balancing chakras is using hand held Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl which is toned to the third eye chakra. Quartz is the most powerful healing and energy amplifier on the planet and can take the energy to the most perfect state possible-going back to before the disease set in. Spirtually it wil raise your energy to the highest possible level, enhancing psychic abilities and attunes you to your spiritual purposes.

Another passtion of mine is to combine all these modalities into Long Distance Healing. Using all the basics from Quantum-Touch Healing Level 1 and 2, aloing with elements from Reiki Level 2, Healing Touch, Aromatherapy, crystal healing layouts and sound healing: ( excluding tuning forks directly applied to source points on the body), but including etheric tuning forks, tibetan bowls, tinchas, drums & rattles and hand held quartz singing bowl, are all used helping to facilitate self-healing to all people and animals (pets) and things that choose to be healed.

Private Practice is at 6100 Zion Church Rd. Concord, NC 28025 Office: (704) 788-4677 Cell: (704) 425-2496

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Website: sites.google.com/alternativeenergyhealing

Checkout site under " Contact Connie" using paypal through yahoo email and only for Long Distance Healing. All other modalities/services are by appointment only and are in person and in office; their cost are based upon length of session.

I started Level 1 training 5 years ago in 2012. I was diagnosed with lupus in 2011 and was looking for something I could do because I was in so much pain all the time that I couldn't continue doing physical jobs like I've always done. I didn't know what to expect but a friend highly recommended I try Healing Touch. I fell in love right away! The weekend of training felt more like going to a spa and I never wanted to leave! I felt so amazing! I knew that if I felt this good, others will too. So I continued on until certification in 2016 and I currently work out of my home in Freeport, MN. I have returning clients every month and I'm looking to add another location in St. Cloud to be more convenient for other clients as well.

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.

I have been a Certified HealingTouch Practitioner since 1995.  My Master's Degree is in Human Development and Family Wellness.  I then finished massage therapy training so I could practice Healing Touch.  I have studied Pranic Healing, Crainio-sacral, Ortho-bionomy, Intuitive healing and am a Reiki Master.  The Healing Touch work is amazing and I love doing it and feel better myself.  I also work with people on stress education and lifestyle issues. 

I am married, have 2 children and 5 grandchildren.  I love learning and reading and being at our summer cabin in MN.

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. 

Michele Bernhardt is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Reiki Master/Instructor in Asheville, NC who specializes in treating clients who are experiencing stress or anxiety, undergoing treatment for cancer, or in hospice. Michele also teaches energy balancing self care workshops to groups and individuals.  Her clinical experience includes Stanford Healthcare's Healing Partners program and the San Francisco VA Hospital. She is currently a Healing Touch volunteer with Solace Hospice.  Michele is past president of Healing Touch California, a state-wide 501(c) non-profit and previously chaired HBB's communications committee. She is a seasoned public speaker on topics related to energy healing.