Modalities

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a 3,500 year-old healing art from China. It is a virtually painless procedure that uses ultra-fine, sterile, disposable, stainless steel needles to unblock areas where Qi (energy) has become blocked. It boosts the body’s Qi and bodily fluids when they have become depleted, and re-establishes their smooth and healthy flow. The needles stimulate specific acupuncture points located just below the skin’s surface on energy channels that flow through the body. Many people feel extremely relaxed and refreshed after an acupuncture treatment.

Practitioners: Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac.;
Julia Rose, L. Ac.

Aromatherapy/Essential Oils

Aromatherapy is the art and science of the use of essential oils extracted from aromatic plants for healing purposes. An essential oil is a volatile aromatic liquid that is distilled from the stems, leaves, flowers, roots, bark, or seeds of the plant. This “life force” of the plant contains hormones, vitamins, antibiotics, and antiseptics. Essential oils are highly condensed. For example, one drop of peppermint essential oil is equal in value to 28 cups of peppermint tea. Essential oils are used to treat physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual imbalance. Essential oils can be inhaled for releasing stress or applied topically to alleviate complaints, often with massage. References to the use of essential oils date back to the pre-Egyptian days.

Practitioner: Joan Apter, LMT

Chiropractic

Chiropractic is a health care discipline that emphasizes the instinctive power of the body to heal itself without the use of drugs or surgery. Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, and the effects of these disorders on the functions of the nervous system and general health are primary goals. There is an emphasis on manual treatments including spinal adjustment and other joint and soft-tissue manipulation.

Practitioners: Howard C. Farewell, D.C.;
Bruce Schneider, D.C.

Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral Therapy gently works with the spine, the skull, and its cranial sutures, diaphragms, and fascia to ease restrictions of nerve passages and to harmonize and balance the movement of cerebrospinal fluid through the spinal cord. It can also help to realign misaligned musculoskeletal structures. Craniosacral therapy is said to ease mental stress, neck and back pain, and is helpful in alleviating the symptoms of headaches, TMJ, fibromyalgia, and many other conditions.

Practitioners: Lisa DiCarlo, BSN, RN-BC; Patrice Haber, RSMT Elizabeth Murichi, LMSW, MAOM; Diane Johnson, LMT; Lori Johnson

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

EFT, commonly known as “tapping,” is a powerful way to release the impact of stress and trauma. EFT founder Gary Craig defines negative emotional reactions as a block in a person’s energy system. EFT uses elements of Cognitive Therapy and Exposure Therapy and combines them with acupressure, in the form of fingertip tapping on 12 acupuncture points, to effect change.

Over 100 papers published in peer-reviewed medical and psychology journals, including dozens of clinical trials, have demonstrated that EFT is effective for phobias, anxiety, depression, PTSD, pain, and other problems.

Practitioner: Karen Charman

Emotion Code/Body Code

The Emotion Code identifies and clears negative emotional energies that become trapped in a person’s energy field. Trapped emotions can profoundly affect our emotional and physical health as well as our ability to meet our life goals.

The Body Code identifies and corrects a wide range of energetic imbalances that contribute to many kinds of physical and emotional problems. By releasing deeply embedded emotional energies, correcting blocked meridians, chakras, and other energetic imbalances, The Body Code restores the health of the energy body, which supports the physical body. The Body Code also identifies and clears energies associated with physical problems like infections, toxins, nutritional deficiencies, and structural weakness.

Practitioner: Karen Charman

Micro Point Stimulation Therapy (MPS)

Micro Point Stimulation (MPS) is an FDA approved therapy that combines the principles of acupuncture & neurology with microcurrent stimulation. The handheld MSP unit applies concentrated DC micro-stimulation through its stylus-shaped tip to produce an “acupuncture-like” response that “releases” muscle tissue that may either be impinging on nerves or otherwise causing pain locally or at joint articulations. This action permits increased reinnervation of affected neural pathways, allowing patient pain levels to be substantially decreased, often in the time frame of the session itself. This multi-pronged approach to the body’s nervous and musculoskeletal system is the reason why MSP works so well on pain. Clinically, the intention of MPS is to isolate the root causes of a patient’s pain by applying micro-stimulation to acupuncture points that relate to different muscles, tissues, and systems (neurological, segmental, limbic, myofascial etc).

Practitioners: Lorry Salluzzi