Mission Statement for Hudson Center for Healing Touch

• Provide compassionate care to those in need of healing in body, mind, emotion, and spirit

• Foster the practice of self-care

• Teach Healing Touch workshops

• Educate others, especially health care professionals, about the benefits of Healing Touch

• Encourage the use of Healing Touch in every home, hospital, hospice,  nursing home, school, and physician’s office to facilitate healing and promote prevention and wellness.

About the Practitioner

With over 30 years experience in nursing, healthcare management, and clinical research, Nancy Strick, RN, BA, HTCP, HTCI combines practical medical knowledge with an appreciation of the body’s own self-healing powers.

In the 1990s, following clinical-trials work at University Hospitals of Cleveland with individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Nancy began taking Healing Touch classes. Certified as a practitioner in 2000, she became a Healing Touch Certified Instructor in 2005 and has emerged as an influential speaker and advocate for this innovative, holistic treatment. Her practice includes over 100 patients with issues ranging from stress, injuries, asthma, depression, cancer and post-surgical recovery to chronic illness and pregnancy.

Nancy, a graduate of St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in Reading, PA, received a BA degree in Health Services Management (summa cum laude) from Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio. She is a member of professional organizations including Healing Touch Professional Association, American Holistic Nurses Association, American Holistic Medical Association, and Hudson Chamber of Commerce – where she serves on the Health and Wellness Committee.  Also, she is the Assistant Editor of Energy Magazine, Healing Touch Program’s monthly online magazine.

In addition to being a Healing Touch Level 1 and Level 2 instructor, Nancy is available to present Introduction to Healing Touch and Wellness/Self-Care workshops to hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, schools, professional organizations and businesses. She also facilitates monthly practice/support groups in Akron and Hudson for Healing Touch practitioners and students.

Although her nursing philosophy has always incorporated a holistic approach to care, she credits her current status to her sister-in-law, Amy, whose diagnosis of liver cancer in 1995 precipitated Nancy’s journey to research integrative therapies. Her quest led her to begin taking Healing Touch classes. She especially learned how important it is to practice self-care in order to be an effective caregiver.

If we value ourselves – we will practice self-care as a means to achieve wholeness and holiness in body, mind, emotion, and spirit. In so doing we become empowered and enhance our ability to achieve and maintain wellness.

The Hudson Center for Healing Touch Welcomes You

Hello – I am Nancy Strick. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Hudson Center for Healing Touch website. I am a registered nurse and have been a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner since 2000 and a Healing Touch Certified Instructor since 2005. I have a private practice and also teach Healing Touch Level 1and Level 2 classes.

In addition, I have a great interest in promoting wellness and the practice of self-care. I am available to speak to community and business organizations about these topics as well as to present an Introduction to Healing Touch inservice to health care professionals and church and community organizations.

As you browse my website you will learn more about Healing Touch and how you and others may benefit from it. To experience Healing Touch I invite you to schedule an appointment by calling either 330-656-3425 (Cleveland line) or 330-554-2466 (Akron line) or by sending me a message through the contact page on this site. For those unable to travel, I offer treatments in homes, hospitals, nursing homes and hospices.

When scheduling your appointment mention viewing this website and receive a $10 discount! To find out more visit the page on Hudson Center for Healing Touch Fees.

If you are interested in learning Healing Touch so that you can help others to heal or to be relieved of pain, click on Classes & Practice Groups to see when the next Level 1 class is scheduled in Northeast Ohio.

I invite you to return on a regular basis – as the site will be continually updated.

Blessings to you,

Nancy

Hudson Center for Healing Touch Fees

Internet Special

What can Healing Touch do for you? Is it time to find out? For a limited time you can receive a $10 discount on your initial appointment. The initial appointment begins with a 30-minute question and answer interview to best understand your needs during the Healing Touch treatments. After the interview you will receive a 1 hour Healing Touch treatment. Normally $85, through this internet special you will receive this intial appointment for only $75. Simply go to the contact page to request your intial appointment or call Nancy directly at 330-656-3425 (Cleveland line) or 330-554-2466 (Akron line) and mention the Internet Special.

Standard Rates

Initial Appointment – 90 minute appointment (includes an intake interview and a full Healing Touch treatment) – $85

Subsequent Appointments – $60 per hour

Full-time Students, Seniors and Children – Initial 90 minute appointment $75, subsequent appointments $50 per hour

Home or hospital visits – $100 for initial appointment; $70 per hour for subsequent appointments (within 30-minute commute of my office; additional fee for longer commute)

**Fee is requested at time of service. You will be given a receipt to submit to your insurance company for reimbursement.

Referrals

Referrals are the best compliment that I can receive and much of my Healing Touch practice is due to the referrals of my clients. A referral is always appreciated and a discount is given to clients who make referrals.

The Healing Touch Experience

Prior to the first Healing Touch appointment, clients are asked to complete a brief questionnaire. The first appointment begins with a conversation, during which the responses to the questionnaire are reviewed and questions are asked that range from how the individual is feeling that day to what his or her goals are for the treatment/s. Since the client’s well-being is of utmost importance, the relationship that is established between practitioner and client is a partnership.

After a caring, compassionate discussion, the individual may either lie on a massage table or sit on a chair while an energy assessment is done to determine what Healing Touch technique would be most beneficial at that time. Throughout the treatment, the client remains fully clothed but may be asked to remove his/her shoes, particularly if he/she is lying down.

During the session the practitioner either makes sweeping movements over the body or using light touch, gently places her hands on areas of the body to facilitate clearing the congested energy. A feeling of deep relaxation and sense of well-being are the usual responses experienced by clients. One of the most frequent responses is, “I feel peaceful.”

Following the treatment, recommendations for self-care are made. If needed, a follow-up appointment is scheduled and goals are set for ways to enhance well-being and accelerate the body’s natural healing ability. In addition, there are times when referrals may be made to other health-care practitioners.

Benefits of Healing Touch

• Reduces pain
• Hastens recovery from injury
• Decreases anxiety, depression, tension and stress
• Enhances preparation for and recovery from medical and surgical procedures
• Accelerates recovery after surgery
• Improves mobility after surgery
• Reduces symptoms associated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy
• Reduces effects of trauma, chronic pain, and post traumatic stress
• Strengthens and supports the immune system
• Leads to shortened hospital stays
• Offers support for the dying process
• Enhances quality of life

What is Healing Touch?

Healing Touch™ is an energy therapy that focuses on helping to restore the natural flow and balance of the body’s energy system. When we are ill, have had surgery, have been injured or are stressed, the flow of energy between the energy centers of the body (the chakras) and the area around the body (the energy field or aura) becomes congested – causing an imbalance or disruption in the energy system.

We can feel these negative changes and know when our bodies are not functioning optimally. How many times have you said, “I have no energy today” or “I feel great and really feel energized?” We are integrated beings – body, mind, emotion and spirit. When we have a physical problem, it not only causes discomfort but affects us emotionally. Likewise if we’re feeling emotional about something, or are anxious or stressed, our physical body is affected.

Healing Touch techniques – which vary from sweeping movements with the hands over the body to light, gentle touch – help to promote relaxation in the body. When muscles are relaxed, circulation is improved, oxygen levels are increased throughout the body, toxins are released, and healthy cells begin to regenerate, which helps to regulate the immune system. The resulting stability within the immune system affects the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of the body’s energy system which then supports self-healing.

Healing Touch has been actively researched since its inception and has been granted research funding from hospitals, private foundations, universities and other supporters of Integrative Medicine, including the National Institutes of Health Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Documented research indicates that the benefits of Healing Touch go beyond merely treating symptoms and addresses underlying causes of illness.

Healing Touch in a holistic therapy that is used in conjunction with — not in place of — conventional medical care. The goal of Healing Touch is to restore balance and harmony in the energy system which places the recipient in the best position for self-healing. It may also prevent future issues by restoring balance to energy – field disturbances, which could later result in illness if left unbalanced.