Rosalie Van Aken
Rosalie Van Aken PhD, RN, CHTP/I
Rosalie is an Australian Registered Nurse who has practiced mainly in the areas of mental health and drug and alcohol. She was also employed by Southern Cross University teaching in the areas of Natural Therapies, Stress Management, Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol. She currently works as a private practitioner, mentor and teacher in the Perth area. Rosalie was awarded a PhD from Southern Cross University in 2004 for a study titled ‘Emerging from Depression: the experiential process of Healing Touch studied through grounded theory and case study’. The area of energy work and emotional health are a major interest.
She became a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Instructor in 1996 and continues to have a bioenergetic healing practice and teach all levels of the HTI Healing Touch Certificate Program in the Asio Pacific Region. She has served on the Board of Directors, Certification Board, and is currently Chair of the Healing Beyond Borders Instructor Training Committee. She developed the Way of the Healer series of workshops during 2005 to assist healers to develop their energy system. Her objective is to share bioenergetic healing with as many people as possible through teaching, giving talks and doing the work.She acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which we work and pays respect to Elders both past and present.