Healing Touch is an energy therapy where practitioners use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional manner to support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health and healing.
Session takes place on a massage table, or sitting up. Appointments can be given with clients in wheelchairs, or in hospital bed, etc. Session can can take about an hour for full body treatment.
Energy healing has been used throughout history in many cultures. Healing Touch is used in clinical settings, hospitals, long-term facilities, private practices, hospices and spas.
Healing Touch is an energy therapy where practitioners use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional manner to support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health and healing. Healing Touch is a complementary (or integrative) energy therapy that can be used in conjunction with conventional therapies.
Healing Touch utilizes the hands to clear and energize the human energy systems allowing balance and harmony to be restored to the mind, body and spirit. This modality increases wellness by providing the body an opportunity to heal itself.
The first session normally takes 75 minutes, with follow-up appointments lasting about 1 hour. Clients are asked to fill out an initial intake assessment form, which covers some medical and lifestyle questions. The goals are set based on the client’s personal needs.
Generally, the session takes place on a massage table, with the client fully clothed. (Appointments can be given with clients in wheelchairs, etc.) An energetic assessment is taken and some additional questions may be asked of the client at that time. This assessment, together with the information from the intact discussion, dictates which techniques will benefit the client's own healing process for that particular session.
Healing Touch techniques allow healing of the energy systems of the body by clearing and balancing the bio-field. Healing Touch and other energy-based therapies such as acupressure, Reiki, reflexology, and therapeutic touch use the concept of field theory that states that our being does not stop at the skin. Our body is an open system that experiences input, throughput, and output of energy. Different energy centers hold our body’s history.
Suzanne will hand scan above the body to distinguish any imbalances in the energy system and flow. Based on this understanding, the practitioner uses their hands to influence the human energy field and affect the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of the client. Thereby the time and space is provided for self healing. Clients find that they can Relax…Restore…Rejuvenate during the process.
Although each appointment is unique, after a session, clients report feeling deep relaxation or desired emotional shifts and increased clarity.
“Sessions with Suzanne make me feel serene and relaxed. Since beginning Healing Touch, I’ve noticed a progressive reduction in pain and more restful sleep.” Bridget G.
“After my first session, I felt “complete” and restfulness not experienced through massage or facials.” Mimi D.
Suzanne Weeks, CHTP/I, B.A., CP-FS is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Instructor in San Diego California who began her training in La Jolla at Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine. She has a Bachelor’s degree from U.C. San Diego in Microbiology. She worked for fifteen years in scientific pharmaceutical research and five years as a Certified Person in Food Safety. Suzanne completed her Integrative Nutrition Certificate from U.C. San Diego in June 2018. Suzanne is focused on assisting clients with Healing Touch, lifestyle change and integrative nutrition.
Healing Touch as a modality supported my wellness goals. In 2008, I became a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner (CHTP) followed by becoming a Certified Healing Touch Instructor (CHTI) in 2011. In addition to teaching Healing Touch, I have over twenty years’ teaching in the areas of wellness, food safety, integrative nutrition, management, marketing, scientific research and scuba diving. I have been a PADI Instructor (OWSI) for U.C.San Diego Recreation since 1994 certifying over 245 scuba divers.
Teaching allows me to deepen my knowledge and share my passion with others. Offering Healing Touch to clients and students allows me to share my insight and experience helping others find a balanced path to health and healing.