Return to yourself
Energy Therapy to help you return to your body, your wisdom and your inner knowing.
Reconnect with Your True Essence
Hi, I’m Ren, Licensed Counselor & Energy Therapist in Kalamazoo, MI (and Worldwide virtually).
With 19 years of experience 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/or animal companions 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.
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 return of balance, joy and aliveness. You don't have to perform, over-analyze or struggle here. Energy meets us wherever we are.
Is This You?
Many of the people I work with have already done significant inner work, yet something still feels overwhelming, stuck, or incomplete.
This space is designed for you if you are ready to:
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Move past over-analyzing, struggling, or performing.
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Talk openly about spirituality, meaning, purpose, life after death, intuition, and the quantum field.
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Focus intentionally on shifting one specific pattern or energetic block at a time.
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Stand firmly in your own power without creating a long-term dependency on any external source.
Please note: Our 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 feel mentally resourced and want to explore emotional, relational, or behavioral patterns in a mind-body-spirit inclusive healing container.
How We Work Together
Energy meets us exactly where we are. To support meaningful progress with a clear beginning, middle, and end, we choose from a tailored menu of holistic options based on your intention:
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Grounded Clarity: Counseling-informed techniques combined with parts work, holistic and somatic tools to calm your nervous system.
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Subconscious Exploration: Hypnotherapy journeys and guided meditations.
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Spiritual Expansion: Intuitive development and exploring your unique spiritual gifts, meaning, and purpose.
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Energetic Rest and Reset: Reiki energy work (a Japanese relaxation technique that promotes deep healing and balance).
Container Options
To ensure complete transparency and collaboration, I always ask for consent throughout our time together. Sessions are fully customized and available worldwide via virtual and distance healing while you rest.
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60-Minute Sessions
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90-Minute Sessions
Many clients are surprised by how connected and supported they feel during distance work—often sharing that they leave sessions feeling lighter, refreshed, and completely rejuvenated.
Why You Might Be Here
If any of this feels familiar, you are not alone. And it doesn’t have to stay this way. Healing can be gentle and still move you forward.
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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.
Ways we can work together
Available In-Person in Kalamazoo, MI, or via Distance/Zoom Worldwide.
Usui/Holy Fire® III Reiki Sessions
Relax in your home live via Zoom, or join me in person. My training is rooted in the Usui Reiki tradition through the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT), offering a structured, respectful, and integrative healing practice.
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Tired of appointments? Book a distance session that works while you are sleeping so you can wake up feeling refreshed and renewed.
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Note: All new clients start with a free 15-minute consultation for transparency and safety.
Integrative Healing Containers (90 Mins)
Designed specifically for sensitive people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or trapped in patterns of people-pleasing and internalized pressure. We use a spacious 90-minute format so both energy work and counseling-informed practices have room to settle, allowing you to release self-doubt and reconnect with your intuition.
Empowerment Mentoring Containers
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Career Alignment: For those feeling bored or unmotivated in their careers. We use targeted assessments and tools to illuminate the patterns that will help you take your next authentic step.
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Spiritual Mentoring: For individuals awakening to the quantum field who want a judgment-free space to practice their intuitive skills and explore their spiritual gifts.
Private 1-1 Reiki Apprenticeship (8 Weeks)
This 8-week guided mentorship offers a slower, more intentional path to learning Usui Reiki I and II. You will receive personalized support, practical experience, and attunements as you integrate Reiki into your daily life using William Lee Rand's Reiki: The Healing Touch as our foundational text.
Animal Reiki Support
Consent-based Usui/Holy Fire® III Reiki support for your animal companions, available live over Zoom or at a distance.
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New! Live Virtual 'Calm Together' Workshop: A gentle, beginner-friendly, experiential introduction to Reiki-inspired presence with animals. Calm your own nervous system and learn how your presence can support safety for your animal companion.
Virtual Rooted in Reiki Sharing Circle
A monthly virtual connection for aligned practitioners who have completed a certified Reiki II course in any lineage. Together, we check in, ask questions, learn from one another, and exchange group Reiki.
Corporate Wellness & Business Collaborations
I love partnering with fellow helpers, healers, and businesses that are committed to employee and client wellness. Let’s connect over tea or coffee to co-create introductory workshops, group Reiki experiences, card readings, or employee wellness sessions.
Book a Free Consultation Call for Any Offering
A Note from Ren:
"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 uncover what is right with them, 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, MA, LPC, Energy Therapist
Honoring Safety & Readiness
Because our work deeply engages the subconscious and the nervous system, these sessions are structured as a complementary, integrative approach. They 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 currently navigating a tender or urgent season, I highly encourage you to work with the licensed medical or mental health providers who can offer the acute care you deserve.
Rates & Booking
Individual & Mentoring Sessions
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Initial Consultation (75–80 min): $122
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Reiki Healing Attunement with Guidance (75–80 min): $122
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Reiki Healing Container (60 min): $100
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Reiki Healing Container (90 min): $150
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1-1 Mentoring Container (60 min): $111
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1-1 Mentoring Container (90 min): $166
Animal & Apprenticeship Sessions
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Live Zoom or Distance Animal Reiki (50–55 min): $80
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Animal Reiki Short Session (30 min - Return Clients Only): $55
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Private Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki I & II Apprenticeship (90 min per session over 8 weeks): $120 per session (Introductory pricing—includes certification and 2 attunements)
ABOUT ME
Meet Ren
I blend counseling and parts work with intuition, nervous system awareness, somatic wisdom, and quantum-based energy healing.
For the past 19 years, I’ve walked alongside others through challenges, deep life transitions, and spiritual awakenings. My approach is steady, present, and deeply attuned to you.
My lineage is rooted in the Usui Reiki tradition through the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT), and I spent two years mentoring under a Shamanic Healer and Reiki Master. As one of my teachers beautifully says, "We practice to stay kind and stable."
I am also honored to share that my article, The Ways Reiki Enhanced My Therapy Practice, was published in Reiki News Magazine (Spring 2026).
My Philosophy: Your Pacing Leads the Way
Healing is most sustainable when it reconnects you to your own natural capacity for insight, choice, and change.
In this container, your intuition and your pacing lead the process. My role is never to create dependency, but to support you in strengthening your own inner guidance so you can move forward with absolute clarity and confidence.
If you feel called to explore that process, I would be honored to walk alongside you.
Why I Do This Work
As I worked through my own healing, I noticed that a core belief kept me small:
“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, the nervous system, and our energetic patterns. In energy traditions, these blocks often show up as chronic tension, self-doubt, or overextension across our energetic centers (Chakras):
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