Return to Yourself
return to yourself, your wisdom, and your body.
usui/holy fire iii reiki and grounded, trauma-informed spaces for people and animal companions.
Hi, I'm Ren, a licensed counselor and Reiki Practitioner in Kalamazoo, MI. With 19 years of experience as a professional counselor and therapist, I bring clinical understanding, Reiki energy healing, and intuitive awareness to this work. I don’t position myself as the authority over your life—you are the expert on you. 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 session options and ask for consent during sessions to create transparency and collaboration in our healing spaces.
Many of the people I work with have already done significant inner work. But something can still feel stuck or incomplete. Together, we create something different—gentleness, reconnection, creativity, and the gradual return of balance, joy and aliveness. Reiki meets us wherever we are.
I offer live virtual sessions via Zoom worldwide. Many clients are surprised by how connected and supported they feel online—often sharing that it feels as if I’m right there in the room with them.
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 medical treatment. It is designed for individuals who want to explore emotional, relational, or behavioral patterns in a structured, mind-body-spirit inclusive healing container.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese energy-based relaxation practice that supports stress reduction and promotes healing. It can be offered hands-on or hands-off, and received in person or at a distance.
Many people experience Reiki as calming and grounding, often noticing a sense of relaxation, ease, or emotional settling during and after a session. It can support the body and mind in shifting out of stress states and into a more regulated, restful experience.
As Reiki is not a religion, I honor all spiritual beliefs, traditions, and personal philosophies within my sessions.
No prior belief or experience is required for Reiki to be supportive. Most people simply come as they are and allow the experience to unfold in a way that feels natural for them.
Reiki is a gentle, non-invasive practice that works alongside the body’s natural processes and unfolds at an individual pace.
Learn more about Animal Reiki.
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, (Reiki.org) informs my approach to Reiki as a structured, respectful, and integrative healing practice that supports emotional, energetic, and somatic well-being.
Empowerment Reiki & Coaching for Therapists and Helping Professionals
This offering is designed for therapists, counselors, healers, and helping professionals who are seeking deeper alignment in their personal and professional lives. It provides a grounded space to reconnect with your own intuition, release patterns of self-doubt, and move beyond overextension, people-pleasing, and internalized pressure to “hold it all together.”
This work supports you in returning to your own inner authority — both as a person and as a practitioner — so you can show up in your work with more clarity, confidence, and ease.
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.
Integrative Reiki healing containers
This is a structured and individualized support experience that blend Reiki, intuitive guidance, and therapeutic-informed practices to support emotional, energetic, and somatic balance.
Each container is customized to your needs and offers a steady space to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with your inner awareness and sense of direction. We focus on one core issue, pattern, or area of support at a time, creating a clear beginning, middle, and closing phase for our work together.
ANIMAL REIKI
Consent-based Usui/Holy Fire III Animal Reiki support for animal companions. Sessions are available in person, 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.
Rooted Virtual Reiki Share
Monthly virtual connection with other aligned practitioners who have completed a certified Reiki II course. Love donations of $15 are greatly appreciated.
Book a Discovery 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.
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 Readiness & Safety
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
75-min Holistic Intake Session – $144
60-minute 1-1 sessions – $125
90-minute 1-1 sessions – $185
Live Zoom Animal Reiki: $80
Live Zoom Reiki Only: $80
Hi I'm Ren
About Me
I’m licensed counselor in the state of Michigan and a Reiki Practitioner, blending counseling and parts work with intuition, nervous system awareness, and Reiki-based energy healing. I love working with both people and animals, and for the past 19 years I’ve walked alongside others through healing and life transitions.
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 supported by ongoing study and membership within the Reiki Membership Association. This lineage informs my approach to Reiki as a structured, 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."
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 sessions blend Reiki, hypnotherapy, body wisdom, and intuitive practices. Each session is designed to honor your safety, autonomy, and spirit. Reiki 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’ve been studying and practicing Reiki for over three years, finishing Usui Ryoho Reiki III, or the Master level. I am recently certified in Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki and Animal Reiki through the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT). I continue to deepen both my education and practice.
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 alignment-based and designed with intention. Entering a healing container is a meaningful decision, and I prioritize beginning on the same page through free discovery calls and initial intake sessions.
Most of my containers are intentionally short-term. 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
Nearly every person I’ve worked with carries some version of the same core wound:
“It’s not safe to be fully myself.”
Along the way, we may start to believe:
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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:
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: structured, supportive 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 Discovery Call where we will explore what it might be like to work together.