Healing Touch
Healing Touch is a relaxing, nurturing, heart-centered energy therapy that uses gentle, intentional touch that assists in balancing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. Recognized by the National Institutes of Health as a biofield therapy.
Healing Touch is a collection of standardized, noninvasive techniques that clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields. Healing Touch supports one’s inherent ability to heal. It is safe for all ages and works in harmony with standard medical care.
Healing Touch is provided in a wide variety of settings including hospitals, long-term care facilities, private practices, hospices, spas, universities, and medical and nursing schools around the world.
Research suggests Healing Touch is beneficial in…
- reducing stress
- calming anxiety and reducing symptoms of depression
- decreasing pain
- strengthening the immune system
- enhancing recovery from surgery
- complementing care for neck and spine problems
- deepening spiritual connection
- supporting cancer care
- creating a sense of well-being
- easing acute and chronic conditions
What you’ll experience in a session…
- Genuine, deep heartfelt conversation and connection.
- Questions about your physical, mental, and emotional situation and answers to questions you may have about Healing Touch.
- Guidance, from a trauma-informed space, to assist you in embracing your inner wisdom/intuition and listening to the messages offered by your body.
- Space holding and support of your nervous system’s innate intelligence, to assist you in feeling inner peace and calm.
- Light, gentle touch on or above the body while fully clothed on a message table or in a comfortable chair.
- Supportive tools and techniques to use between sessions or to continue on your self-healing journey.
Individual experiences may vary.
Need a little more proof?
Healing Touch at Wake Forest Baptist Health in the news here!
“I took my nine year old daughter to see Amy after a concussion that left symptoms that were not going away after six months. It was a particularly dark period of time for my daughter and extremely frustrating for the family. Amy worked with both myself and my daughter and demonstrated great intuitive knowledge.
Although I previously considered energy medicine and Healing Touch ‘woo-woo’ at the time I could feel the energy during the session. Afterwards, my thoughts were so much calmer as opposed to an endless loop. My daughter made me a beautiful sign after two sessions with Amy that said ‘Where there is darkness all around and there’s no hope to be seen, you are the light in the dar, you guide my way to safety’. Finally , I was on the right path for my daughter’s (and my own) journey….I’m a different person after meeting Amy than I was prior. Before I believed in natural medicine…for mental and physical health, but had not branched out into these other areas that have now transformed our day to day practices.”
Rebecca (AKA School Psychologist, Licensed Psychological Associate, Warrior Mom)
“After having a bicycle accident in May of 2018 and falling on my left side, something was just not right. After experiencing a great deal of pain on that side and in my lower back for nearly a year, which was getting progressively worse, especially when I rode my bike, an activity that previously had brought me great joy, but now brought me pain, I went to my physician subsequently received care for months for the wrong issue. I did not feel I was being listened to and as my pain continued to worsen, I sought out the healing hands and heart of Amy Canter.
The following week, I saw a new PT [physical therapist], who informed me I had problems with my left hip, sacrum, and that my tailbone was far too forward flex –all areas Amy had identified in our single session, yet had gone unrecognized by others for months.
Amy is a gifted healer who has the ability to hear what the body is saying, often when others, sometimes including ourselves, can not. Thank you Amy!”
Anna
“She [Amy]has helped me so much to get in touch with my true self. All of my sessions were great and the feelings and encouragement I received would last until the next session. I am now going without monthly visits to “as needed”. This has been tremendous for me.
When I first started seeing Amy, it was for pain, anxiety, and to find my joy again. This past year I lost my husband to cancer and after sessions with Amy, was able to start the healing, grieving process. After spending a session with her, I always came away with such hope, peace, and relaxation.
She is truly professional and you can always count on her not to share any info. She is a true gift for healing and helping others…”
EJ
“Amy immediately puts you at ease when you walk into the office. She is intuitive, kind, and patient. Amy helped relieve hamstring pain for me while also helping me to connect to my more intuitive side as well. [I realized] I don’t have to have it all together. I don’t have to be perfect. Oh and ‘should’ didn’t need to [be] such a large part of my vocabulary…I felt safe to explore my intuitive side and to discuss the things I feel, see, hear, etc. that I don’t always feel safe discussing. [Amy] helped me to realize that I can ask things to stop, ask for clarification, etc. It used to be something that just ‘happened to me’. I would highly recommend visiting her.”
Jillian
“”It was amazing how quickly Reed had settled down and became “comfortable” sitting next to you. Reed is usually someone who constantly is either moving, rocking, or bouncing so to see him sitting so quietly and calmly was completely amazing. He was for sure connecting with you in a way that was not visual to us. When he likes someone, he will rub their arm up and down…he sat there with his hand on you not even moving at times (which is even more amazing). It was as if he was just totally taking you in and absorbing your energy or “peacefulness” perhaps and what was most impressive was that this was happening right in front of us, we were seeing it for ourselves, and this was all done by you just placing your hand on him.
Reed also has a very poor sleeping pattern where he can be up for hours during the night or can wake during the night and be up for the day. Needless to say, that night was a night that we all slept ALL night long.
…You truly have an amazing gift and you are such an amazing person to be using your gift for the greater good. This can AND will help so many people and…”
Melissa
Deep Subtle Body Work
Subtle body work assists with re-wiring the technical side of how your mind-body-soul system actually work together to allow you to be a joyful, confident human being with a sense of inner peace and have a healthy relationship with your body and others.
This is for you if you are…
- Feeling like the same stories and happenings are playing out in your life, “Why does this keep happening to me?”, even after you’ve tried talk therapy, affirmations, yoga, meditation…
- Feeling like you’re running on autopilot or a hamster wheel and don’t know how to jump off or feel like you’re allowed.
- Experiencing low confidence issues or old family patterns.
- Struggling to attain joy in your life.
- Focusing only on your physical well-being without the results you’re looking for.
The good thing is subtle body work has it’s own operating system, just like other systems in the body that can be rewired. The subtle body system isn’t common sense, but with guidance I can show you how old wounding or unconscious blocks can be acknowledged and healed.
What you’ll experience in a session…
- Genuine, deep heartfelt conversation and connection.
- Questions about your physical, mental, and emotional situation and answers to questions you may have about Deep Subtle Body Work.
- Guidance, from a trauma-informed space, to assist you in embracing your inner wisdom/intuition and listening to the messages offered by your body.
- Guided phrases to connect with your body and the issue holding you in a repeating pattern or pain to assist in re-wiring the technical side of your mind-body-soul system.
- Supportive tools and techniques to use between sessions or to continue on your self-healing journey.
- Subtle body may be added to a Healing Touch session or through coaching.
What clients are saying…
“Amy is the expert that will guide you to a place of abundance… more happiness, more peace, more calm, better health, and better balance.
My path crossed with Amy at just the right time. I found myself trapped in a vortex of caring for my family and serving my clients, leaving no time for myself. I felt physically unhealthy, stressed, unbalanced, and like my gas tank was on empty all the time. I was experiencing heartburn and migraines on a very regular basis. I felt conditioned to believe my problems were of my own doing: I wasn’t eating the right things, exercising enough, or sleeping the right amount. I hardly had time for basic self-care and thought play should be reserved for children. I never understood the connection between my mind and body.
It took a beat down state for me to be open to trying something new. I started working with Amy from a place of skepticism and not really sure I needed a coach. I didn’t even really understand what working with a holistic coach and energy practitioner meant, but I committed to one month and gave myself an easy out.
From day one, Amy has met me exactly where I needed to be. We work together with a combination of coaching conversations, weekly check-ins, and healing touch. Amy has helped me learn to connect with my body and manage energetic imbalances that can sometimes manifest in a very physical way. The toolbox of techniques Amy has taught me to use throughout my day have radically changed my life and shifted the way I feel. Amy helps me stay grounded and has opened up a world of creative energy through play and acceptance of imperfection.
In that first “trial” month of working together, Amy guided me to create more change than I had ever experienced in all my previous years of searching. Now more than 3 years into working together, I have found some of my deepest work happens when Amy is using her hands through healing touch as we talk through things that are weighing heavy. Several years ago, I would have considered healing touch “woo-woo,” and wouldn’t have ever considered it. From a skeptic to a believer, I have experienced the healing and restorative powers that energy work has in unlocking a new level of inner peace.
As a coach, Amy has a true gift to understand exactly where I am at on any given day. She listens when I need to be heard, she nurtures when I need to feel loved, she nudges when I need the push, she encourages when I feel unsure, and she helps me energetically shift when I need change.”
Betsy
Amy Canter 