Kathie Lipinski

Kathie is a Holistic Nurse, Reiki Master Teacher and Certified Hypnotist.

As a nurse of more than 30 years, my journey began as an Intensive Care Nurse, moved quickly through Critical Care Coordinator and Nursing Administration into Diabetes Nurse Educator. I left hospital nursing in 1984 to complete my graduate studies.

I began my journey as a Holistic Nurse in 1988 when I incorporated stress management and guided imagery into my private practice as a Diabetes Nurse Educator.

I continued on my path by studying Healing Touch and loved the experience of working with energy. I then found Reiki (or should I say it found me!) in May of 1992.

Not sure of what to do with this new healing energy, I was guided to enroll in massage school to help me continue to develop my healing skills.

When I started my private practice, "Healing from the Heart©," I found that combining Reiki with massage therapy was a way to give skeptics a comfortable way to experience energy healing. I also noticed that as my practice grew, my ability to sense or feel people's emotional pain as well as their physical problems, began to develop.

I continued to study Reiki and became a Reiki Master Teacher in 1994 and then a Licensed Teacher with the International Center for Reiki Training in 1996.

During this time, I also wrote many articles for local metaphysical newspapers, Reiki News, and lectured to various groups on the healing powers of Reiki and as well as other complementary therapies.

Since then, I have taught Reiki to approximately 2000 people. This includes children, young adults, seniors, doctors and nurses, dentists, massage therapists, and athletic trainers. One of my personal goals is to help health care practitioners incorporate Reiki into their professional practices and to help them learn to nourish and replenish themselves through the use of Reiki's restorative energies.

One of my passions is to "Make Reiki Real." I believe that we are all born with the ability to bring in healing energy and anyone can do Reiki! I love teaching Reiki to everyday people with the hope that they can share it with everyone they come in contact with. Reiki is the way of the compassionate heart, and in these stressful days, we all need it!

I completed my Hypnosis training in 2003 through the National Guild of Hypnotists (www.ngh.net) and am an active member of the Long Island Chapter. I have also studied Past Life Regression with Brian Weiss, author of "Many Lives, Many Masters."

I have been an annual presenter at the Reiki Retreat; an annual event hosted by the International Center for Reiki Training (www.reiki.org), and am a contributing author for Reiki News Magazine. I also wrote the chapter on Reiki in "Conversations in Complementary and Alte ative Medicine: Insights and Perspectives from Leading Practitioners," Norma Cuellar, Jones and Bartlett publishers, March 2006.

My private practice is an integration of all my studies and skills. I offer my clients and students a wholistic view of healing. My goal is to empower my clients and my students to become all that they can be and to heal and balance their lives.