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Sarah Bernauer

I am an Energy Healing Practitioner, certified in 3 comprehensive levels of training at the Energy Healing Institute. My practice, Radiance Revealed, has been located at Heartwood Center for the past 4 years. I love calling Heartwood my practice home.

I work with clients who are deeply committed to their inner work, facilitating clearing sessions and sharing tools and practices for their ongoing healing. I regularly contribute articles to the Heartwood newsletter, and speak and offer workshops in the Evanston and surrounding areas. Partnering with clients is a privilege, and I love sharing the efficacy and practicality of Energy Healing with interested learners.

Come see me at Heartwood!

Sign up for my newsletter to receive updates about my upcoming workshops and other events, energy tools and tips, and a brief, guided meditation to ground and support your energy.

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Rev. Courtney Bossarte

Resonance-Based Healing™ • Trauma-Informed Practitioner • Astrologer

Courtney Bossarte is the founder of Integrated Soul and creator of Resonance-Based Healing™ – a trauma-informed, multidimensional method that helps people release deep-seated emotional, physical, and energetic pain. Rather than managing symptoms, her work clears what no longer belongs.

She blends over ten integrative modalities in a customized, intuitive way, including:

  • Energy healing as soul clearing
  • Somatic therapy as soul embodiment
  • Astrology as a soul blueprint

Each session is guided by both your body’s wisdom and your intentions. Whether you’re carrying grief, looping thoughts, anxiety, or ancestral imprints, this work makes space for a lasting internal shift. Clients often describe it as “clearing out a lifetime of stuckness” – a true return to steadiness, vitality, and clarity. Courtney meets each client with compassion, presence, and deep respect for their unique healing process.

Credentials:
  • Certified in Reiki (Master level)
  • ThetaHealing®
  • NLP
  • Medical Intuitive
  • and much more
773-318-8963
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Bill Epperly, PhD

At the core of every healing journey is a longing for wholeness—a remembering of who we are beneath stress, conditioning, or disconnection. VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing works at this deep level, supporting transformation of body, emotions, mind, and spirit. It helps clear the energetic roots of physical symptoms, emotional pain, and unconscious patterns, making space for greater freedom, vitality, and peace.

Your first session begins with a conversation about what’s arising in your life and what you feel ready to explore. About 45 minutes are then dedicated to channeling VortexHealing energies while you sit comfortably in a chair. During the session, people often experience warmth, subtle shifts, or a sense of peace. Some feel physical sensations or emotional release; others simply feel held in a deep field of stillness. We close with time to integrate and discuss next steps.

I’ve trained in energy healing for many years and have been a certified VortexHealing practitioner for five years. To each session I bring a grounded, intuitive presence, and deep respect for your unique path.

Sessions are available in person at the Heartwood Center in Evanston or online. Both are equally effective. Wherever you are, this work can meet you—and help you come home to yourself.

Credentials:
  • VortexHealing Divine Energy Healing Practitioner
  • Certificate in Spiritual Direction
  • Adjunct Faculty, DePaul University
773-610-0083
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Jeanne Phenany

Over 25 years ago, my first shiatsu session began a life long journey of self-discovery and delving into the holistic wisdom of Asian medicine modalities.  I love that this form of bodywork takes into account the entire person; body, mind and spirit.  As a Zen Shiatsu Practitioner, I have witnessed the healing power of shiatsu in assisting my clients to navigate the seasons and transitions of life with more strength and resilience.  Whether the focus of our sessions is of a physical or emotional nature, shiatsu supports the body’s wise and innate healing capacity, clearing the path for optimal well-being and engaging in life more fully.

Shiatsu is a form of Asian bodywork that supports health and well-being by balancing the energy of the body with gentle pressure and stretching.  The client wears comfortable clothing that allows for stretching and ease of movement.  Each session is tailored to the client’s individual needs. I incorporate shiatsu, massage, energy work, meditation, qigong, taichi and 5 element theory.

Specialties: Women’s health (fertility, pregnancy, postnatal, menopause), Stress Relief, Chronic Pain, Autoimmune and Chronic Conditions, Phobias, Trauma/PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief

Credentials:
  • CP AOBTA, LMT
  • Post Graduate Studies at Zen Shiatsu Chicago (2015)
  • Graduate of Ohashi institute (2000)
773.837.3218
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Monica Radu

My 1st massage was deeply transformative and it inspired me to change my career.  I became aware of the healing power of touch. Not long after that unforgettable experience, in 2003, I graduated from The Chicago School of Massage Therapy. I also studied energy medicine modalities over a period of 16 years. Currently I am a student of The German New Medicine.

My sessions weave a unique blend of Intuitive Massage and Vibrational Therapy. They empower the client’s inherent abilities for healing and revelation. In presence, restrictive patterns within body and mind are honored and unblocked, facilitating deep relaxation, energetic clearing and alignment, and a state of calm.

When not in session, I connect with family, the elements in nature, I meditate, practice QiGong and Yoga, dance, write, paint, take photographs, prepare healthy meals, and volunteer to help the ones in need.

Credentials:

Licensed Bodywork, Energy Medicine, and Ashiatsu Practitioner

224.650.0058
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Stephanie Sattler

When talk therapy becomes stagnant, a subconscious release is needed. Reiki allows for this release and unlocks multi-level healing – physically, emotionally + spiritually. 

As a wellness practitioner, my mission is to bring healing and wholeness as a compassionate guide. My creative, integrative approach blends holistic therapies such as:

  • Reiki
  • Breathwork
  • Guided meditation
  • Crystal therapy
  • Somatic movement
  • Hypnotherapy

Through tapping into inner resources and empowering self-healing, sessions with me bring relief and release in body, mind + spirit. 

I deeply care for the people I support – particularly those who have experienced harm or have been marginalized. I am trauma-aware, culturally-sensitive, and an LGBTQIA+ ally. I have counseled, trained and mentored others for 15 years, and love building community through wellbeing workshops/retreats. I specialize in women’s health – perimenopause + prenatal/postpartum care.

I’m equal parts hippy + scientist, a mom-preneur, a world-traveler, and tree-hugging nature-lover. I also have a superpower – creating visualizations that empower clients to imagine a brighter future.

773-998-2665
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Nathan Torrence

What I love most about practicing Shiatsu is the way it makes me develop myself as human being. Whether from a minor ankle injury or from years of emotional trauma, working to help people heal has brought out the depths of my own sensitivity, strength, and capacity to do good.

My second favorite thing about Shiatsu is that I get to work with the physical body! This means feeling the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual as one thing – a life. It is a joy to help people to feel that great goodness of life in themselves!

I graduated from Vassar College with a concentration in Studio Art and a secondary focus in Biology. My Shiatsu certification was earned at Zen Shiatsu Chicago in Evanston; shortly thereafter, I completed their Post-Graduate program in Clinical Shiatsu studies. I currently study Shiatsu with my main influence and dear mentor, Grandmother WinterJade Forest.

Credentials:

CP (AOBTA), LMT

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