I empower individuals to use their in-born skills to overcome blocks to their spiritual, mental and physical growth. Together we identify the blocks to growth, and I will teach you how to change and move beyond through these challenges.

These challenges might include smoking and sugar addictions, pain, feeling stressed by life events, failing to live up to one's potential, loss of a spiritual compass, bereavement, getting older, or creative blocks. One can also improve golf scores, perform better on exams, and feel more self-confident.

In my years as a Family Nurse Practitioner, I noticed a link between a patient's physical symptoms and her/his emotional state. I also noticed a disconnect of the physical from the spiritual life that could be so helpful in assisting one to cope with current health/life challenges. I hope to help you feel better, to attain the goals that you are striving toward.

Healing does not imply an absence of disease, but is a journey towards wholeness, to being able to live well with your current challenges.

The work is not a substitute for your regular medical or mental health care, but is complementary to it. With your permission, I will work with your current providers to ensure that the care you receive is the best care that you deserve. Your privacy will be respected according to current HIPPA regulations.

Healing Touch (HT) is an umbrella term for several bioenergy healing techniques taught as part of a nurses’ certification program though Healing Touch International. It is an international program and HT is performed by nurses and lay people in clinics and in many hospitals. The purpose of Healing Touch is to restore balance and harmony to a person’s body, mind and spirit. The healer assists the client in self-healing. Healing Touch is done on or off the body with the client remaining fully clothed. Healing Touch has been used in pain management, stress reduction, relaxation promotion, wound healing, headaches, and many other problems. Healing Touch is very effective in animal healing, and can be done as distance healing using a surrogate or not.

Healing Touch is not a substitute for regular medical or mental health care, but is complementary to them.

Hypnosis is a state of intensified attention and receptiveness to an idea or to a set of ideas. Hypnosis is a process that produces relaxation, distraction of the conscious mind, heightened suggestibility and increased awareness, allowing access to the subconscious mind through the imagination. It also produces the ability to experience thoughts and images as real. The conscious mind is distracted so that the subconscious mind can be accessed. For example, you arrive at a destination by driving a car, and do not recall how you got there.

In a trance state, the client cannot be made to do anything that he or she would not do while fully alert. The client is in charge of the session, and can end the trance state simply by opening his or her eyes and becoming alert. Hypnosis is used in pain management, addictions (nicotine or food), childbirth, past life regression, anxiety reduction, promoting relaxation, increasing self-esteem and others.

Hypnosis is not a substitute for regular medical or mental health care, but is complimentary to them.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)is part of a new healing modality known as Energy Psychology that uses meridian tapping and certain affirmations to reduce or eliminate the ‘charge’ around issues that are upsetting to a client. Meridians are energy channels that have been identified in the ancient Chinese healing traditions of acupuncture and acupressure. Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Method (EDxTM) is a similar meridian therapy but uses muscle testing to go deeper into a client’s problem in order to promote healing. EFT can be taught to the client, and may be given as homework to the client. Animals, dogs specifically, have benefited from EFT where it can be done using a surrogate or on the animal itself, if receptive.

EFT is useful in pain management, phobias, PTSD, smoking cessation, weight management, stress management, trauma issues, peak performance issues and more. EFT may be done at a distance over the phone or with a surrogate for the client.

EFT is not a substitute for regular medical or mental health care, but is complimentary to them.

Holistic Health Consulting is a Holistic Nursing Health Assessment Program. The purpose of the program is to assist the client in attaining and maintaining an optimal health status through the balance and harmony of body, mind and spirit. The client will identify achievable goals for health, and Paula will assist the committed client in achieving those health goals.

Examples of health problems that might be addressed are diabetes management, high blood pressure control, weight issues, smoking, reducing physical complaints caused by emotional upsets, spiritual deprivation, medication review, back pain and others. Paula will contact your current medical and/or mental health provider, with your consent, in order to work with them to help you heal.

Possible interventions include nutritional counseling, stress management, exercises such as a daily walking program, education about the medical problems presented, homework, and one or more bioenergy healing models. Examples of these are hypnosis, Healing Touch, and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) a meridian tapping therapy.

There will be no changes to your current treatment and medications as prescribed for you by your health care provider. This program is useful for individuals and corporate health programs. Paula is an Advanced Practice Nurse with a Masters of Science in Nursing and a post-Masters in Advanced Practice Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing. She will listen to your story, and help you find your inner resources to heal.

Healing is not necessarily the absence of disease but a way of being that will help you to live optimally with your current health challenges