Karendyth - About Us

Energy Healing - Psychotherapy - Body Work - Other Healing Modalities

ENERGY HEALING
Reiki, Hypnotherapy, IET®

Edith Griffin, Certified Reiki Master
Owner and co-founder, Karendyth Holistic Center

Edith Griffin, Certified Reiki Master, received her Usui Reiki training at the Dovestar Institute in Hooksett, New Hampshire. She had first become aware of her strong ability to channel healing energy in 1996, when she unexpectedly and spontaneously began to experience waves of energy passing through her hands during a women's healing circle. In her professional work, she assists clients in releasing stuck energy, helps them connect to their own innate ability to heal themselves, and supports them in opening to the powerful healing energy that flows to us from the source of eternal light. In the last few years, Edith's energy channeling has expanded to include a kind of mystical "log rolling." She lies face down in water (in a swimming pool or pond, for example) holding her breath but very relaxed, and her body begins to turn gently in the water, first rocking back and forth and then actually spinning slowly round and round, engendering feelings of cosmic joy.

Edith is a graduate of Swarthmore College and has been a free-lance editor for over 25 years. She is a graduate of the Women's Spirituality Program formerly offered at Interface in Cambridge, MA, and is on the administrative council of the Women's Well, a nonprofit organization offering courses for women, in Concord, MA. She can be reached at edithreikimaster@aol.com. She is deeply grateful for her profound experiences of the sacred and for the opportunity to bring healing energy to others through her Reiki practice.

Gillian Draleau, CI, Consulting Hypnotist, Certified Hypnosis Instructor, and Reiki Master/Teacher
"Guided to Healing"

Gillian Draleau draws on her Irish and Celtic background to use her abilities to help others. She was born in Ireland and lived there until moving to Massachusetts in 1985 when she married her husband Steve. Growing up in Ireland, rich with Celtic spirit and lore, she was deeply interested in mind over body healing and read extensively about the many Faith Healers that were so prolific in Ireland. As the name "Guided to Healing" reflects, she feels that throughout her life something has always been guiding her to holistic healing. Gillian truly believes in the ability of each of us to be able to help heal our selves. Her role, she believes, is to guide people towards their goal with the skills and knowledge that she has acquired over the past 25 years. She is a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and is very active in her club. She has traveled extensively. These travels and her experiences have helped enlighten her to many different beliefs and healing, both traditional and holistic, available to us.

Gillian is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists and the International Reiki Association. She is certified as a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), also known as "waking hypnosis." With this additional training she is able to use both hypnosis and NLP to help you make the permanent changes you want. Her practice covers many areas such as Smoking Cessation, Weight loss, Stress Reduction, eliminating unhealthy habits (such as nail biting), overcoming fears, and much more. Visit GuidedtoHealing.com for more information.

Laura Feldman
Teacher, counselor, healer

Laura Feldman is a powerful, playful, vibrant, and engaging teacher, counselor, and healer. With a B.A. in Elementary Education and over ten years of experience teaching, counseling, and healing, she has helped people of all ages and issues in a variety of settings, including public elementary and secondary schools, residential treatment centers, a community mental health clinic, and her current private healing practice. Depending upon her clients' intentions, issues, and the flow of energy during a session, various healing techniques may be used. Available techniques include: Integrated Energy Therapy® (IET); Reiki, Magnified Healing®; Shamanic journeying, extraction, healing, and soul retrieval; channeling; and intuitive messaging. Laura uses whatever tools are necessary to assist clients to move forward to heal.

Laura's approach allows clients the space to delve within as deeply as possible in order to heal what is out of balance. She creates a sacred space to allow for and call forth the healing energies that are the most appropriate, safe, compassionate, are transformative, and are filled with acceptance and love. This allows her to connect to her clients and to listen deeply to their intentions and needs, including both spoken and unspoken needs. From that connection and clarity, she draws upon her past professional counseling experience and combines it with alternative healing modalities to create Evolutionary Healing sessions filled with empowerment and transformation. Laura can be reached at myevolvinglight@gmail.com or by phone at 603-438-5924.

Jeannette Baummer
Certified Reiki Practitioner
Instructor for Peggy Huddleston’s "Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster"™ Workshop

Jeannette Baummer is a Certified Usui Reiki Practitioner and a member of the International Association of Reiki Practitioners (IARP). She was first introduced to Reiki at a holistic center in Chelmsford, where she was a Pilates teacher at the time. Later she personally experienced Reiki's profound healing effects following major surgery, and this led her to feel a strong calling to train in Reiki. She received her training with Libby Barnett through Emerson Hospital and at the Reiki Healing Connection in Wilton, NH. She is a volunteer Reiki practitioner at Emerson Hospital and with the Visiting Nurses Association of Greater Lowell Hospice Program.

Jeannette is also an instructor for Peggy Huddleston's Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster™ Workshop. The mind-body techniques in this workshop will help you feel calmer before surgery, have less pain after surgery, use less pain medication, recover faster, strengthen your immune system, and save money on medical bills. To see more on the workshop visit HealFaster.com. Jeannette offers this workshop both on an individual basis, in person or by phone, and in a small group setting.

Jeannette holds a B.S. in Early Childhood Education with a Specialization in Special Education from Towson University and has had a lifelong interest in the well-being of others. She feels it is a privilege to help bring her clients a sense of well-being, relaxation, relief from pain, and stress reduction through Reiki's healing touch and through teaching Peggy Huddleston's "Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster"™ workshop. She can be reached at mj.reiki@comcast.net or 978-771-3201.

Cerridwen, MA, EEMCP, HBLU Level II, NLP
Cerridwen brings to her work at Karendyth the results of a lifelong quest to gather and integrate the best methods for guidance, empowerment and healing. Thirty-plus years of seeking, healing, and teaching have resulted in a substantial repertoire of interventions to heal traumas, reduce pain, fear, and suffering, clear limiting beliefs and habits, resolve inner conflicts, clear ancestral and past life entanglements, and more. Cerridwen's Aligning Energies work is a body-centered approach that emphasizes connecting clients with their own deepest wisdom. Office and phone sessions involve guided and spontaneous imagery, facilitated inner dialogue, and energy clearing, balancing and strengthening.

Cerridwen uses techniques drawn from:
Energy Psychology, including Healing from the Body Level Up (HBLU);
Energy Medicine -- Cerridwen is an Eden Energy Medicine Certified Practitioner (EEMCP);
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP); and
Contemporary shamanism, Hellinger constellation work, and other sources.

To learn more, visit Cerridwen's website www.aligningenergies.com. You will find an abundance of information including upcoming classes, recommended books and links, plus original articles and self-care protocols.

PSYCHOTHERAPY
Counseling, Coaching, EMDR, NLP

Karen P. Short, LICSW
Co-founder, Karendyth Holistic Center

Karen P. Short, LICSW, is a clinical social worker with a B.A. from Bucknell University and an M.S.W. from Boston University School of Social Work. She has been in practice for over 25 years and provides psychotherapy services to a wide range of clients. Karen strongly believes that each person has the innate wisdom with which to heal him/herself. With the use of a variety of tools and techniques, she helps to empower and guide her clients so they can access their own intuition. Karen has received advanced training in EMDR, a technique used to overcome trauma. She is also a meditation facilitator who teaches her clients simple ways to utilize centering and breathing techniques in their daily lives. Clients learn in a relatively short period of time how to trust themselves and create an internal sense of peace.

Molly Salans, LICSW

Molly Salans, LICSW, is a licensed social worker and a licensed marriage and family therapist. She has been practicing in Massachusetts for twenty years. She currently runs her private practice, Healing Connections, in Westford, MA. Molly is a holistic practitioner and her sessions include but are not limited to: Integrated Kabbalistic Healings, Family Constellation Work, poetry/writing therapy, art/play therapy, storytelling therapy, spiritual guidance, and guided meditations. Clients usually walk away from their sessions with Molly feeling more relaxed and have new tools to help them through difficult situations. Molly is an active and compassionate listener and creates a safe environment for all who work with her. She works with couples, families, individuals, adolescents, and children. In addition she enjoys teaching workshops and classes on the Kabbalah, and on helping others find abundance in their lives. She is also a published poet and author of Storytelling with Children in Crisis. Learn more about her at mollysalans.com.

Sally J. Sacks, M.Ed., LMHC

Sally Sacks, M.Ed., LMHC, is a seasoned psychotherapist with 21 years of experience. She has dedicated her career to exploring techniques that help people be who they want to be. Sally holds a master's degree in Education/Psychology and a Richard Bandler certification in neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a method of communicating with the unconscious mind, the part of us that holds knowledge, answers, and reason for our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. A master NLP practitioner, she offers NLP to individuals seeking to make life changes, or struggling with anxiety and depression, and offers seminars and classes in NLP, as well as certification for those who want to learn and practice it. She also uses hypnosis and thought-field energy therapy to provide simple, effective techniques that help clients take control of their feelings and their life. She is a National Guild certified consulting hypnotist. She is a certified reiki practitioner and recently trained to work with flower essences to complement her other healing skills.

"I believe the unconscious holds the answers to life's challenges. We can develop techniques to tap your best inner resources. I give my clients the tools to change their lives." Sally's goal is to help people in the development of their emotional and psychological awareness so that they can improve relationships, communicate more effectively, and let go of ineffective thought and behavior patterns. She helps people gain the confidence to make better life choices. Her approach is humorous, warm, connecting, and compassionate. Learn more about her at sallysacks.com.

Sally's darling dog Joseph is our unofficial mascot ...

Jane Martinez, LICSW
Counseling, EMDR, Hypnotherapy, Psychic Readings

Jane's cutting-edge services are both exciting and highly effective. They represent a healthy blend of her graduate degree in Clinical Social Work from Boston University, her life-long work as a Psychic/Medium, and Post Graduate studies in Mind/Body Techniques. Her mission is to serve as a clear channel of Spiritual and Practical Wisdom for those interested in consciously living life to the fullest. Readings provide an opportunity to reconnect with departed loved ones and offer inspiration and direction to those seeking personal growth and fulfillment of life purpose. Counseling and Mind/Body services are designed for those desiring a more interactive healing experience.

Jane Martinez is an accomplished psychic/medium and master's level psychotherapist. As a result of a near death experience at age 21, Jane developed her extraordinary intuitive ability. Jane uses her skills to elucidate the specifics of your life purpose, deliver healing messages from departed loved ones, and provide detailed information about pertinent areas of your life. Jane's goal is to help you actualize your highest potential, heal emotional pain and embrace a life of meaning, fulfillment and joy. Jane's information is clear, precise and practical. Working with Jane is truly a life-changing experience! Learn more about her by visiting her web site, janeinsight.com.

BODY WORK
Massage, Muscular Therapy, Reflexology

Kelley Silva
Nationally Certified Licensed Massage Therapist

Kelley Silva, LMT, trained at the Cortiva Institute and received her certification from the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, in 2007. She is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association. In addition to massage, she is certified in adult CPR by the American Red Cross. Her massage practice includes Deep Tissue, Swedish, Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Therapy (also called Myotherapy or Neuromuscular Therapy), and Hot Stone massage. For more information, visit kelleysilva.com. A resident of Westford, MA, Kelley is also trained in pathology, injury-related tension, and sports massage.

Kate Reppucci, LMT, NCTMB

After her first massage therapy session, Kate realized that chronic tension and physical pain did not have to be a part of everyday life. She sought out massage therapy to treat tension headaches and stiffness from years of hunching over a computer working on spreadsheets, and the wear and tear of an active outdoor lifestyle. Massage also helped Kate cope with the stress of raising a young family. Regular stretching and massage have allowed her to live each day with ease, and as a massage therapist Kate assists clients with discovering this as well. Find out more about her at katereppucci.com.
•2006 Graduate Muscular Therapy Institute, Watertown, MA
•National Certification in Massage and Bodywork NCTMB
•American Massage Therapy Institute
•Trained in Pregnancy Massage

Anne Beecher, MSW, LMT, CPT

Anne Beecher has been a bodyworker for ten years. Her blend of relaxation and therapeutic techniques provides a unique healing experience, and her background as a psychotherapist enables a warm, trusting and empathic relationship that gently moves you toward health. Anne's offerings include deep tissue neuromuscular massage, orthopedic assessment skills, strain counterstrain techniques, pregnancy massage, and stretching instruction. These methods have been successful with clients suffering from injuries, chronic pain, headaches, asthma, and anxiety, just to name a few.

Anne enjoys working with clients of all ages, from infants to elders, and she understands that each age group has its own special considerations. Anne finds the rhythm that is most comfortable and healing for each person and each muscle, with their varying needs of depth and tension. Her close work and consultation with doctors, chiropractors and physical therapists allows a team approach for your highest level of well-being.

Anne holds a Bachelor's in Communication Disorders and a Master's in Clinical Social Work, and she is a Licensed Massage Therapist and Certified Personal Trainer. She is dedicated and passionate about helping people find optimal body comfort for a happier and healthier life experience. Read more on her web site, TheStretchingResource.com.

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OTHER HEALING MODALITIES
Nutrition, Acupuncture, Tai Chi, and More

Christine W. Chan, B.Sc., DD, Alternative Medical Practitioner
Holistic Nutrition Consulting, on sabattical until September 10, and
available FOR PHONE CONSULTS ONLY thereafter: 925-838-0188

Dr. Christine Chan was drawn to the practice of holistic health over fifteen years ago, after natural medicine brought about the complete healing of a debilitating, severe chronic inflammatory joint condition she had suffered from for three years. Since then it has been her heart's desire to help others recover and rebuild their health. She is vividly aware of how we can transform a state of dis-ease into a state of balance and wellness by making the right choices to nourish our body, mind, and spirit. She believes that "mind over body" and "body over mind" both have relevance when it comes to healing and wellness: When you address issues in one area, the other simultaneously begins to improve, because we are not compartmentalized beings but are complex, interconnected, whole beings.

Christine adheres to the precept, "First Do No Harm," and is careful, thorough, attentive, scientific, and knowledgeable. Yet she is also warm-hearted and intuitive in administering health care. She is here to guide, encourage, and support her clients in making good nutritional and lifestyle choices.

Christine has a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and is currently in the Ph.D. program of Holistic Nutrition at Clayton College of Natural Health. She completed her Doctor of Divinity program in 2000 with an emphasis on Holistic Nutrition Counseling. She is board certified as an Alternative Medical Practitioner, a Fellow and Master Teacher for the Institute of Human Individuality, and a First Line Therapist. She regularly attends conferences on holistic nutrition and Integrated Functional Health (www.meta-ehealth.com/patient?cmd=functional). Her background in chemistry and math enables her to understand, evaluate, and then utilize cutting-edge research in the complex and ever-expanding field of human nutrition and biochemistry. Read more about her at www.drcchan.meta-ehealth.com.

Elena Samadar Volkova, Holistic Health Counselor and Coach

Food changes everything! Elena Volkova is the founder and director of Vibrant Nutrition. She began her holistic health studies in Russia, her home country. After leaving Russia, Elena traveled through Asia and Europe studying various healing arts including Ayurveda, Divine Healing, Intuitive Counseling, Tantra and Color Therapy Aura Soma. She subsequently worked as an Aura Soma Consultant in Sedona, AZ. After settling in the US in 2000, Elena completed her studies in the field of nutrition at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York City. She is nationally certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.

As a health counselor, Elena is trained in a range of different dietary theories, eastern and western nutrition, modern health issues, and personal growth and development. In addition to offering individual health and nutrition coaching, she also leads educational workshops to inspire and assist people in making healthful food and lifestyle changes. She works with individuals to help them discover the food and lifestyle choices that best support them. By making gradual, step-by-step changes, her clients can reach both current and future lifelong health goals. Elena is fluent in Russian, French, and English. She provides counseling in person or by telephone, and internationally on Skype.

Judy Kloc, Licensed Acupuncturist

Judy Kloc received her Master Degree in Acupuncture from the New England School of Acupuncture. She is licensed by the Massachusetts Board of Medicine and is certified through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She currently has her private practice, Acupuncture Alternatives, in Chelmsford and Westford where she practices many styles of acupuncture, including Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Auricular, Scalp, Wrist/Ankle and Dr. Tan's Balance Method.

Judy has treated individuals of all ages, from children to the elderly, and a variety of conditions including pain (arthritis, sprains, sports injuries, migraines, etc.), women's health issues, stress and anxiety, digestive issues, respiratory issues, chronic illness and more. Her goal is to gradually reduce the level of pain or discomfort over a series of treatments and improve the person's quality of life. Judy has a Bachelors Degree in Business and spent her "pre-acupuncture" career in Human Resources Management for the High Technology Industry. She enjoys family and community activities, gardening, yoga, and meditation.

For more information or to make an appointment,
call Judy Kloc, Lic.Ac., at 978-204-5794 or email her at judykloc@verizon.net.

Julie Brill, Certified Childbirth Educator

Julie Brill has been teaching childbirth classes for seventeen years. She graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Sociology and Women's Studies, and has completed the Massachusetts Midwifery Alliance Apprenticeship Course. A certified childbirth educator with the Childbirth and Postpartum Professionals Association (CAPPA) and the Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators (ALACE), Julie has also attended births as a midwifery apprentice and labor doula. Her perinatal articles have appeared in Midwifery Today, hip Mama, ePregnancy, Spirit of Change, the Boston Parents' Paper B.A.B.Y. edition, Parenting from the Heart, Special Delivery Magazine, and the CAPPA Quarterly.

Julie loves working with birthing families. In her classes, she strives to provide accurate information and tools so that each birthing woman can choose the birth that is best for her. Julie believes birth is a normal, natural event with the potential to be extremely empowering. CAPPA offers the highest level of evidence based training available and is the fastest growing childbirth education and doula organization in the world. Julie is thrilled to be the CAPPA teacher trainer for Massachusetts and to have the opportunity to mentor new childbirth educators. Learn more at wellpregnancy.com.

Sifu Andrea Sheffield
Certified Wah Lum Kung Fu instructor

Sifu Andrea Sheffield became a certified instructor through Wah Lum Kung Fu of USA (www.wahlum.com) in the spring of 2005. Certified Wah Lum instructors must complete a minimum of 10 years' training in the traditional Professional Instructors Program and are required to pass recertification tests every three years. Over the past 13 years of her martial arts training, Sifu Andrea has received intensive training in traditional Kung Fu, Tai Chi Chu'an, and Chi Kung. Graduating from UMass/Amherst with a degree in Sport Management in 1987, Andrea worked for years in the health and fitness industry before becoming a wife, mother, and martial artist.

Sifu Andrea is currently launching a new martial arts school in Acton and has had to suspend her classes at Karendyth for the time being. We hope to have her back soon! Visit Wah Lum Kung Fu of Concord for more information.

Laney Goodman and Kay Stoner
Co-facilitators of Women's Drum Circles

Drum circles at Karendyth are co-created by visionary drummer, singer, and ceremonialist Laney Goodman and Kay Stoner, writer, artist, and keeper of the Mother Drum and the Heartbeat. Laney is of the Eastern Cherokee from the Great Smoky Mountains, mixed with German, Scots/Irish, and English ancestry. She has studied with the late Grandmother Twyla Nitsch of the Seneca Wolf Clan, and with African-American Drum Masters Edwina Lee Tyler, Ubaka Hill, and the late Baba Olatunji. Laney has performed at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference in England. More information at womenonair.com.