Return to yourself
Energy Therapy to help you return to your body, your wisdom and your inner knowing.
Hi, I'm Ren, a licensed counselor and Energy Therapist in Kalamazoo, MI. With 19 years of experience as a professional counselor working in Higher Education, and as a private practice therapist, I bring clinical understanding, energy and heart healing, and an intuitive awareness to this work. My role is to create a grounded, respectful space where we can slow down, listen deeply, and move forward together.
I create environments where people and animals can feel safe to relax, listen to themselves, and reconnect with their natural capacity to heal—integrating mind, body, and spirit. I offer customized session options and ask for consent during sessions to create transparency and collaboration in our healing spaces. In sessions we will work on one intention at a time, for example, many clients come to me feeling grief. We will then determine together if we want to use counseling-informed techniques, holistic tools, hypnotherapy journeys, practice intuitive work, and/or utilize Reiki energy.
Many of the people I work with have already done significant inner work. But something can still feel overwhelming, stuck or incomplete. Together, we create something different—gentleness, reconnection, creativity, and the gradual return of balance, joy and aliveness. Energy meets us wherever we are.
I offer virtual and distance sessions while you rest worldwide. Many clients are surprised by how connected and supported they feel —often sharing that they feel lighter, refreshed and rejuvenated.
To support meaningful progress without creating dependency, I offer mentoring, teaching and healing containers with a clear beginning, middle and end, so your nervous system can relax. Sessions are available in 60 or 90-minute formats.
This work is a complementary, integrative approach and is not a replacement for psychotherapy, psychiatric care, or Western/Eastern medical treatments. It is designed for individuals who want to explore emotional, relational, or behavioral patterns in a mind-body-spirit inclusive healing container.
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You Might Be Here Because
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your mind rarely slows down, even when you try to rest
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you’ve done deep personal or therapeutic work, but something still feels stuck
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you’re highly sensitive to others’ emotions or energy—and it can feel overwhelming
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you’ve lost touch with your intuition or find it hard to trust yourself
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you’re moving through a transition or spiritual awakening and need steadier ground
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you’re a helper, healer, or therapist who is tired of holding everything together
If this feels familiar, you’re not alone.
And it doesn’t have to stay this way. Healing can be gentle and still move you forward.
Ways We Can Work Together
In Person or Distance usui/Holy fire iii Reiki Sessions
Relax in your home and receive reiki live via zoom or in person in Kalamazoo, MI. We start with a free 15 min consultation for transparency, safety and expectations. My training is rooted in the Usui Reiki tradition and supported by ongoing study and practice. My lineage, through the International Center for Reiki Training, (ICRT,) informs my approach to Reiki as a structured, respectful, and integrative healing practice that supports balance and overall well-being. If you are tired of going to more appointments, book a distance session that works when you are sleeping. Wake up feeling refreshed and renewed.
Integrative healing containers
These offering are designed for sensitive people who have already done personal work and feel stuck or overwhelmed. I provide a grounded space to reconnect you with your intuition, release patterns of self-doubt, and move beyond overextension, people-pleasing, and internalized pressure to hold it all together. Healing containers are typically 90 min so both energy and counseling-informed practices have space to settle.
Empowerment Mentoring containers
This offering includes career counseling work for those who find themselves bored, disinterested or unmotivated in their careers. We use a combination of assessments and tools to find and illuminate patterns that will help you with your next step. This is also mentoring for people who want to practice their intuitive skills and are awakening to the idea that there is more to life than this one place and our human selves. If you know there is more to life and want to explore without judgment, this is for you.
Usui Reiki I and II Private 1-1 Apprenticeship
This apprenticeship offers a slower, more intentional approach to learning Reiki through guided mentorship, practice, and integration. Over eight weeks, you will receive Reiki I and Reiki II training and attunements while developing confidence in both the practical and intuitive aspects of Reiki practice.
Unlike weekend-style trainings, this format allows space for deeper learning, hands-on experience, reflection, and personalized support as you integrate Reiki into your daily life and personal healing process. We will use William Lee Rand's, Reiki: The Healing Touch as our foundational text.
ANIMAL REIKI
Consent-based Usui/Holy Fire III Animal Reiki support for animal companions. Sessions are available live over Zoom or at a distance. New! Live Virtual Calm Together Workshop: This gentle, beginner-friendly workshop offers a calm, experiential introduction to Reiki-inspired presence with animals. Calm your own nervous system and explore how your presence may support a sense of safety and connection for your animal companion.
Virtual Rooted in Reiki Sharing circle
Monthly virtual connection with other aligned practitioners who have completed a certified Reiki II course in any lineage. Together, we check in, ask questions, teach and learn from one another. At the end of the session, we offer and receive Reiki as a group or in breakout rooms.
Corporate Wellness and business owner collabs
I love to collaborate with other helpers, healers and businesses. We can collaborate on an introductory workshop, a group Reiki experience, individual sessions for your employees, card readings, or something creative and different. If you are interested in putting our minds and hearts to work together, let's have tea/coffee and chat about it.
Book a free consultation call for any of the above offerings.
“Healing doesn’t require forcing ourselves to change, and it doesn’t happen because someone else tells us what to do. It begins when we feel safe enough to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with ourselves.
Utilizing years of experience helping people to uncover what is right with them by using their strengths to circumvent obstacles, I guide people back to their center so they can hear, trust, and respond to their own inner wisdom again.
If you feel called to explore that process, I would be honored to walk alongside you.”
— Ren
honoring safety and readiness
Because our work engages the subconscious and nervous system, sessions are best suited for individuals who are:
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Emotionally resourced
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Substance-free and well-rested
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Not in acute crisis, active addiction, or experiencing psychosis
If you are in a tender or urgent season, I encourage working with the licensed medical or mental health providers who can offer the care you deserve.
Location and Availability
Live Virtual Zoom sessions and Distance Reiki from anywhere
In person sessions in Kalamazoo, MI
Rates and Booking
Initial Consultation 75 min - $111
Reiki Healing Attunement with guidance 75 min – $111
Reiki Healing Container 60 min – $100
Reiki Healing Container 90 min – $150
1-1 Mentoring Container 60 min– $111
1-1 Mentoring Container 85 min– $166
Live Zoom or distance Animal Reiki: $80 for 50-55 min; $55 for 30 min option (return clients only)
Private Usui Ryoho Reiki I and II Apprenticeship with certification and 2 attunements: $120 per session intro pricing (90 min a session over 8 weeks)
Hi I'm Ren
About me
I’m licensed Counselor in the state of Michigan and an Energy Therapist, blending counseling and parts work with intuition, nervous system awareness, somatic wisdom, and quantum-based energy healing. I love working with people who are sensitive, intuitive and open, and for the past 19 years I’ve walked alongside others through challenges, life transitions, and healing.
My work is centered on helping you slow down, reconnect, and listen inward. From there, you can begin to integrate your healing and trust yourself more fully as you move through life.
My 1:1 mentoring and healing containers blend energy work with hypnotherapy, body wisdom, and intuitive practices. I also do a lot of career, meaning and purpose exploration as I have 11 years working with students and employers in Higher Education. Each session is designed to honor your safety, autonomy, and spirit. Energy work and hypnotherapy can support deep relaxation, emotional clarity, nervous system calm, and a deeper connection to your inner knowing. My approach is steady, present, and attuned to you.
I am certified in William Lee Rand’s Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki for both people and animals through the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT).
My training is rooted in the Usui Reiki tradition and I spent 2 years mentoring under a Shamanic Healer and Reiki Master. My training since then is supported by ongoing study, Usui Holy Fire III Reiki, and affiliate membership within the Reiki Membership Association. This lineage informs my approach to quantum and energy healing as a respectful and integrative healing practice that supports emotional, energetic, and grounded well-being. As one of my teachers says, "we practice to stay kind and stable."
I’m also honored to share that my article, The Ways Reiki Enhanced My Therapy Practice, was published in Reiki News Magazine (Spring 2026).
My Philosophy
My mentoring and apprenticeship offerings are designed with intention, including a beginning, middle and end. Entering a healing container is a meaningful decision, and I prioritize beginning on the same page through free consultation calls and initial intake consultation sessions. As our process evolves, we leave space to discuss options and progress your needs regularly.
My role is not to create dependency, but to support you in strengthening trust in your own inner guidance so you can move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and self-trust.
I believe that healing is most sustainable when it reconnects us to our natural capacity for insight, choice, and change. In many cases, this process also creates space for greater ease, clarity, and joy.
In all sessions, your intuition—and your pacing—lead the process. This applies whether I am working with groups, individuals or supporting animal companions. I believe this approach creates a grounded, empowering, and sustainable experience of growth and healing.
Why I Do This Work
As I worked through my own healing, I noticed that I kept perpetuating the core belief:
“It’s not safe to be fully myself.”
Along the way, other beliefs stemmed from that one:
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I can’t trust myself.
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Others know better than me.
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My intuition isn’t real.
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My feelings are a problem.
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My voice will cause conflict.
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If I am my whole self, I won’t belong.
These beliefs don’t just live in the mind —
they live in the body and the nervous system, and often in our
emotional and energetic patterns as well.
In energy traditions, they often show up as patterns across different areas of experience, including the 7 major Chakras, or wheels of energy, that align the spine:
Root — fear, instability, survival stress
Sacral — guilt, suppression of emotion, desire, or pleasure
Solar Plexus — shame, self doubt, loss of personal power
Heart — grief, disconnection, self-abandonment
Throat — silence, people-pleasing, difficulty expressing truth
Third Eye — confusion, self-doubt, lack of inner trust
Crown — disconnection from meaning, guidance, or spiritual trust
By combining Reiki energy with grounding techniques, intentional conversations and intuitive tools, we work gently with these patterns—without forcing insight or re-living trauma. Instead, we create space to slow down, regulate your system, and reconnect with your natural clarity, strength, and inner guidance.
This is the heart of my work: ethical, grounded sessions that prioritize consent, pacing, and emotional and energetic awareness, so you can come home to yourself and to balance in your life.
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Ready to Start?
Contact me to book a free consultation Call to explore working together