Our practitioners are at Advanced or Master Level with additional expertise in a variety of modalities |
Our Practitioners
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Practitioners at The Reiki Center are at Advanced or Master Level, with additional expertise in a wide variety of integrative wellness modalities.
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Administration
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Linda Haley, R.M.T., founder and Executive Director of the Center, serves as the primary teacher for all levels of Reiki classes (Beginner, Advanced, Internship, Apprenticeship and Master Level.) Linda also offers Guided Release, which accesses deep memories and answers through Reiki-enhanced visualization, and CranioSacral Therapy, a technique which assists the body to physically release tension and restrictions.
Linda is a member of the International Association of Reiki Professionals. She is founder and President Emeritus of the Center’s nonprofit, Stone Soup Project. email: linda@thereikicenter.net |
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Every organization has one person who handles the details, makes sure that things are fixed, and generally helps to navigate the challenges of a 7-day-a-week operation.
Don Haley, Operations Coordinator, greets visitors, supervises facility maintenance and housekeeping, and coordinates many of the Center’s special projects. Don also serves as Agency Liaison for the Center’s nonprofit, Stone Soup Project, managing the details of the frequent SSP wellness fairs in partnership with area social service agencies. email: don@thereikicenter.net |
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Kelley Mitchell, our Marketing Director, is passionate about living a life of joy, inspired by the practice of Reiki and sharing her gifts with others so that they find the goodness within, celebrate that and live in the expression of joy. Kelley empowers her clients through Reiki, Angel card readings, Light Language and Channeling. She is a Reiki Master practitioner and consistently learning more techniques and strengthening her talents to serve her clients needs.
When Kelley is not at The Reiki Center, she is spending time with her husband and four daughters. Kelley also loves spending time in nature and most days of the week is taking in the outdoors with their dog Hunter. email: KelleyM@thereikicenter.net |
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Samantha Petroff, our Office Manager, is a customer service professional offering twenty years of experience in marketing and business development. She is certified in Level 2 Reiki through The Reiki Center and has experience with Sound Healing, CST, and Polarity Therapy.
"I'm honored to be a part of The Reiki Center. The need for the therapies offered here by these amazing practitioners is greater now more than ever. I feel blessed to be assisting with the Center's continued evolution." email: office@thereikicenter.net |
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Kaye Smith has completed Reiki Master and Animal Reiki training at The Reiki Center and serves as Director of the Animal Wellness Program. She has 20+ years of pet rescue and dog training experience along with many human and animal volunteers hours through Stone Soup Project, the Center's nonprofit. She has valuable experience using Reiki to find good homes for homeless animals while assisting their people who love them to keep them happily together for life. She shares her life with her husband, their four dogs, and a cat, while fostering dogs until they find their forever home.
email: kaye@thereikicenter.net |
Our Practitioners
José Alvarez is a Reiki Master in the traditional Usui Shiki Ryoho system. Jose decided to start studying Reiki in 1989 because of his interest in Eastern philosophy and alternative ways of restoring energy balance in a non-invasive way. After progressing through the three levels of Reiki, in 2016 he obtained his Master's degree. Jose seeks to restore the client's energies to a state of balance on the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels, thereby enhancing his/her own natural ability to heal. Jose truly believes that the Hispanic / Latino community can benefit from this natural technique and he is ready to welcome all members of this community to the practice of Reiki.
José Alvarez es Maestro de Reiki en el sistema tradicional Usui Shiki Ryoho. José decidió empezar en 1989 a estudiar Reiki debido a su interés en la filosofía oriental y las formas alternativas de restaurar el equilibrio energético de una manera no invasiva. Tras ir avanzando en los tres niveles de Reiki, en 2016 obtuvo su Maestría. José busca restaurar las energías del cliente a un estado de equilibrio en los niveles físico, emocional y espiritual, mejorando así su propia capacidad natural de curarse. José realmente cree que la comunidad Hispana / Latina puede beneficiarse de esta técnica natural y espera dar pronto la bienvenida a todos los miembros de esta comunidad a la práctica del Reiki. email: jose@thereikicenter.net |
Jevona Bailey is a 2009 alum of American Institute of Alternative Medicine. In 2012 Jevona moved to the island of Oahu, Hawaii where she immersed herself in the spirit of Ohana (Or Family) learning the bodywork of traditional Lomi Lomi massage.
Jevona’s specialties include Lomi Lomi Fusion, Therapeutic and Swedish Massage techniques, CBD Integration and Bowen Technique. Jevona has continued her experience for the past 12 years expanding her knowledge of modalities, fusing each to create the perfect experience each time. email: Jevona@thereikicenter.net |
Dr. Vandana Baranwal B.Sc., BAMS, MD (Ayurveda) is an Ayurvedic physician and educator. Growing up in the holy city of Banaras, India she has been very fortunate to learn from some of the world's renowned teachers. Before moving to the USA, she was Professor of Ayurvedic Obstetrics and Gynecology in Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, India.
She specializes in Ayurvedic mother and child health and has co-authored “Stree Roga Vimarsha”, a book of Ayurvedic gynecology and “Prasuti Tantra Sandarshini” a book of Ayurvedic Obstetrics. She has been recognized by her peers for her excellence in teaching and was felicitated with “Charaka Award” in 2017. She is associated with many Ayurveda organizations’ and schools in India as well as the USA. She has been teaching, practicing and promoting Ayurveda for more than 25 years. She aims to help people heal themselves by empowering them with the knowledge of simple and powerful tools of food, food habits, daily routine, seasonal routine and lifestyle from the ancient science of Ayurveda. email: vandana.baranwal@gmail.com |
C. Bean, Usui Reiki Master, Integrative Cranial Sacral Therapy (iCST) practitioner, Intuitive Empath, Claircognizant, Clairsentient, and Spirit-guided Intuitive Artist. With a BFA from CCAD in Columbus, and Master of Expressive Therapies at Lesley University,
Massachusetts, she is currently studying towards her Doctorate Degree at The University of Sedona & Metaphysics. After a career with the Ohio Departments of Mental Health, Youth Services and Adult Corrections, she turned her gifts to energy medicine. While she recently moved to New Mexico, she remains committed to walking with you as you align to a stillness, truth and peace that lies within you. email: c@thereikicenter.net |
Kelly Bisson became a Reiki Center staff practitioner in 2008, and earned her Reiki Master level in 2011. She has been a practitioner of Vibrational Therapy with tuning forks since 2009, and has taken the Animal Reiki training. In 2015 she was certified as an Advanced Medical Intuitive after completing training under Tina M. Zion. A fourth generation empath, she utilizes her intuitive abilities to assist in her sessions. She has found an affinity to different spiritual ideas, especially Buddhism, Druidism and Native American wisdom. Her interests include writing, music, astrology, watching baseball, walking in the woods, and cuddling with her tiger-calico cat, Tabitha.
email: kelly@thereikicenter.net |
Mary Jo Burkhard is an Usui Reiki Master through The Reiki Center. She regularly volunteers with the Free Reiki Clinic and is a practitioner of integrated craniosacral therapy (iCST) with training through Touch Education. Mary Jo is also a Master Practitioner Candidate with the Centre for Holding Space and an intuitive empath who stays grounded through tai chi, qigong, micropoetry, art, and connections to nature.
email: maryjoburkhard@gmail.com 
Exiting the Labyrinth is a collection of micropoetry by Mary Jo Burkhard about the journey in the labyrinth of life. It is a gateway to liminal space and a way to examine the stories we tell ourselves.
Exiting the Labyrinth is available in The Reiki Center gift shop or through Blurb bookstore. You can follow Mary Jo at her website or on Facebook |
Katharine Daniels enjoys working with clients from all paths of life. She has a gift of being able to meet people wherever they are on their path and nurture their ability to heal and create balance. She is a Certified Access Consciousness Bars Practitioner and Facilitator, Access Consciousness Facelift Practitioner, Access Consciousness Body Process Practitioner, Reiki Master, Oneness Deeksha Giver, and Golden Orb Meditator. Katharine is experienced in working with clients facing addictions, PTSD, money and wealth blockages, and those seeking spiritual growth.
She enjoys traveling, hiking and camping with her husband and children. She can often be found in the company of the greatest Zen Masters on earth, her cats. email: brightlifellp@gmail.com |
Andrew Davis, Certified Hypnotherapist, believes in You and your right to be Your Youest You. Throughout life, many of us find ourselves with behaviors that became habits, that became lifestyles, that now no longer fit.
All people can be hypnotized. Hypnotherapy makes possible gentle changes in specific portions of the unconscious mind. Changes that create congruity between the deep and surface levels of the mind. Only when we align the wants of the conscious mind with the needs of the subconscious mind do we discover the path unhindered. Andrew graduated from the renowned Hypnosis Motivation Institute with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and advanced studies in behavior modification, neuro-linguistic programming and communications. He is certified to provide hypnotherapy services to all people. email: andrewhdavishypnotherapy@gmail.com |
Judy Fasone is a Registered Nurse with 30 years of experience. She currently teaches nursing in Columbus at the American Institute of Alternative Medicine. Judy has a passion for healing the Self, the Earth and the Peoples of the Earth. Judy uses her heart (intuition and counseling support) and hands (the Trager Approach, Reiki and Therapeutic Touch) and Mind (Nurse Coach, Nurse Expert) to facilitate change. As an Advanced Holistic Nurse and Health and Wellness Coach she helps her clients focus on improving their health in a sustainable way. She has been in private practice since 1997.
Judy is an outdoor enthusiast...hiking, backpacking, swimming, rowing, bicycling, walking, entertaining friends with good food, has raised 3 daughters and many gardens and is a musician. Judy’s health has improved tremendously, and she continues to feel younger and stronger every year. You, too, can feel this way. email: judyfasone@gmail.com |
Joseph Floyd received his Reiki Master degree through The Reiki Center. He serves as the Center's "crystal guy" and offers frequent classes on the properties of stones and crystals. He has taken crystal class courses on healing and sacred geometry from the late Metaphysician Ken Harsh as well as studied with other crystal healers. Joseph is a Certified Cedar Medicine Carrier, and enjoyed learning about shamanism and nature based healing. He makes wire wrapped jewelry healing tools for the healing of humanity.
email: joseph@thereikicenter.net |
April Henricks is a Reiki Master and passionate about lifting others' spirits and vibrations through Reiki. She is a mother of four young adults that live with her and her husband of thirty years. She loves to laugh, spend time in nature, practice Tai Chi, animals of any kind, and art in all it's various and wonderfully different forms and mediums.
email: April@thereikicenter.net |
Shina Hereford is a surgical and Certified Instrument Tech for over 19 yrs. She is also an Usui Reiki Master through The Reiki Center. She loves to volunteer at the Center's non-profit organization, Stone Soup Project, the Free Reiki Clinic and other volunteering programs throughout Central Ohio.
In her down time she enjoys spending time with family outdoors, watching movies and cooking. email: Shina@thereikicenter.net |
Richard Horton is a certified spiritual director (Haden Institute) in the Jungian Christian Mystical Tradition. He is grounded in creation, Celtic and Franciscan spirituality and believes that our life is a journey and, whether we are religious or not, it is a spiritual journey. Within each of us there is a desire to find meaning beyond the moment and we wish to discover the heart of our true selves and to grow closer to the Spirit and to one another. Spiritual direction is a process of satisfying this longing.
email: rahconsult@gmail.com |
Melody Lynn Jenkins, Reiki Master, is a licensed and ordained Minister with over 34 years experience studying world religions, metaphysical science, and the field of complementary medicine. As a Claircognizant, she is a gifted intuitive seer and healer, and is proficient in reading runes and runic tarot. Melody received her BA in Sociology from The Ohio State University and her MA in Metaphysical Sciences from the University of Sedona & Metaphysics where she is currently studying for a Doctorate Degree. Melody is an Intuitive Counselor, the developer of the IlluminAura Restorative Experience and also offers past life regression. Her interests also include ley lines, energy vortexes, the paranormal, crop circles and astrology.
email: melody@thereikicenter.net |
Janie MacMillan has been working in the Akashic Records for over 10 years. She is an Akashic Alliance TM certified Module A facilitator and trainer, and offers Akashic Records Integration Process Module A – Learn to Access and Explore Your Akashic Records, both in-person in and via Zoom.
She is a Divine I AM Practitioner through the London College of Spirituality. Divine I AM Transmissions allow her to transmit energies for Healing, Transformation, Awakening, Activation, and can also initiate incredible multi-layered transformation. Jane has received attunement by Vaz Sriharan of the London College of Spirituality to utilize the Soul Star Chakra and the Earth Star Chakra to help others accelerate their awakening process. Janie's Reiki II certification enhances her ability to facilitate transformation and energetic shifts with her clients. Janie is also a certified Infinite Possibilities trainer. She will be offering Infinite Possibilities training in-person and via Zoom in the coming months. email: Jane.macmillan19@gmail.com |
Julie Marcum is a Licensed Massage Therapist and received her Reiki Master certification through the Reiki Center. She was a fashion designer for ten years, working in the hustle and bustle of NYC, and fast paced corporate clothing design. It was this journey which led her to energy work to heal her own body. After exploring several different healing modalities, she started by learning Jin Shin Jyutsu, an energy based healing modality in 2013.
In 2017, she left the fashion industry and started her Reiki training. In 2019 she continued to expand her healing knowledge by getting LMT certified, specializing in therapeutic and neuromuscular massage. She practices daily yoga and meditation. She started to make her healing dreams a reality and now creates a specialized massage experience for each client by using her intuition and incorporating many aspects of her training into each session. email: Julie@thereikicenter.net |
Scott Mathis, originally from Indianapolis, began his Reiki journey in 1997 and became a non-traditional Reiki Master in 1998. In 2012, he embarked on a path to recertify with The Reiki Center to experience the traditional Usui training and eventually become a Reiki Master in 2016. Scott is very grateful to volunteer with the monthly Free Reiki Clinics as it allows him to give back in service to his community.
Scott has spent most of his life exploring different Western spiritual philosophies and earth-based traditions. He is an adept in the Lineage of King Salomon where he is studying Hermetics and several healing modalities. As a certified Life Activation Practitioner through the Modern Mystery School, Scott is providing this expansive activation process to clients. email: Scott@thereikicenter.net |
Angel Moon is an LMT/NMT who has shaped her practice to promote the mental/emotional healing available through massage. Her focus is using neuroscience and anatomy to help clients achieve relaxation in order to assist with such issues as Anxiety and Fibromyalgia.
email: moon4massage@gmail.com |
Cassy Richards, CCMT, ESMT, is a Canine/Equine Massage Therapist at the Animal Wellness Center. She is an active volunteer with a local animal rescue group who decided a few years ago that she wanted to help more. In 2016 and 2017, Cassy took Reiki 1, 2, and Animal Reiki at The Reiki Center. Also in 2017, she went to Virginia to study and become certified in equine and canine massage at Equissage International. Since then, Cassy has made it her goal to inform pet owners of the benefits of massage therapy for their family members, whether horse partner or canine companion.
email: salempoe@yahoo.com |
Jillian Robinson is a certified Quantum Human Design™ Specialist and coach, helping to guide clients through the process of self-discovery and personal transformation. Jill has provided Human Design and coaching services since January 2021 and is a student of Karen Curry Parker, a leading expert in Human Design. Prior to becoming a certified specialist in Human Design, Jill built a career as a practicing attorney and project manager in the legal technology industry. As her passion lies in being in service to others, she has volunteered for a number of important causes throughout her career.
Jill holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Rights from the University of Dayton and a law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Jill was born and raised in Columbus and currently resides in Gahanna. email: Jill@thereikicenter.net |
Anastasia Shevchenko was born and raised in Siberia (Russia), where she spent long winter nights studying astrology, numerology, human relations and natural living. After moving to America at age 25, she continued her studies and became Certified Aromatherapist, Reiki Master and Master Numerologist along with getting her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Master's degree in Organizational Management. Anastasia never stops learning and is very passionate sharing her knowledge and deep insights with other people. Her natural compassion, understanding and wisdom makes her especially valuable for these seeking a greater harmony in their relations, a greater balance in their physical body and a greater clarity and understanding of their spiritual path.
email: Anastasia@thereikicenter.net |
Melinda VanKirk is a Health and Wellness Coach, Yoga Teacher, Reiki Practitioner, and Artist. Her approach to wellness is to integrate the whole - mind, body, soul, and spirit - through a more creative, spiritual, and introspective approach to health. As an artist and former art teacher and designer, she understands the power of creativity to heal and transform. Melinda has been an avid yogi for many years, and In 2018 she completed her yoga teacher training (RYT 200), with a focus on Vinyasa and Hatha yoga. Her yogic studies led her to explore a more spiritual path. She is now an advanced Reiki practitioner through the Reiki Center, and has continued on to complete her Reiki internship.
email: Melinda@thereikicenter.net |
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