Whole Health Chicago

Meet Our Practitioners

Katie Oberlin :: Certified Healing Touch Practitioner

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Katie Huff Oberlin, MAT, CHTP is a graduate of Smith College (Northampton, MA) and Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). She taught high school and college biology for several years before taking time off to raise four children. She has been working in Healing Touch since 2003. In addition to completing the Healing Touch certification process, she has pursued training in Advanced Practice Techniques, Energetic Anatomy and Physiology, and Shamanism. Katie incorporates meditation, qigong, and yoga into her daily practice. She enjoys swimming, skiing, tennis, reading, gardening, nature, and lifelong learning.

SHOULD I SEE HER? YES!

If you are seeking support in any of the following areas:

• Disease prevention, relaxation, and general well-being
• Stress reduction
• Pain management
• Treatment to facilitate healing of wounds, burns, and fractures
• Surgical preparation and recovery
• Pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum care of mother and infant
• Treatment for fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, headaches, autoimmune disorders, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, endocrine depletion or imbalance, cancer, infections, addictions, physical and emotional trauma, anxiety, and depression, to name a few
• Reduction of medication, chemotherapy or radiation side-effects
• Nearing death awareness and grief management
• Spiritual enhancement

WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT FROM THERAPY?

Intake: Katie will gather information about your lifestyle, medical history, and any current physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual concerns. Long-term and short-term goals for treatment are identified and discussed.

Assessment and Treatment: You will lie, clothed comfortably, on a massage table. After assessing your energy field, Katie will use a variety of techniques with the hands above or lightly in contact with your body to clear blocked energy associated with discomfort and dis-ease, energize the field, and enhance the flow of energy throughout the body. Re-assessment confirms that the clearing and balancing is complete.

AVAILABILITY

By appointment: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

FROM KATIE…

“Healing Touch is an energy-based approach to health and healing that restores and maintains harmony and balance in the energy system, promoting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. It offers a heart-centered, caring approach in which the client and practitioner work as partners in the healing process. Healing Touch complements conventional medical and psychological care and is used in collaboration with all approaches to health and healing. ”

“This energetic approach has transformed the way I view anatomy and physiology, health and healing. I believe in an integrative holistic approach to health care for all ages, with Healing Touch providing an important bridge between conventional and complementary/alternative care. ”