I know what some of you are thinking. Reiki? From a therapist with a Masters degree and over two decades of clinical experience? Bear with me.
Reiki is one of those practices that tends to get lumped in with crystals and incense and dismissed before it gets a fair hearing. And I understand the skepticism. We live in an evidence-based world, and anything that can't be measured in a clinical trial makes people nervous — including, sometimes, me.
But here is what I've observed in over twenty years of practice: the nervous system doesn't always respond to words. Trauma, grief, chronic stress, and anxiety live in the body as much as they live in the mind. We know this. Somatic therapy has built an entire evidence base around it. And what Reiki offers, at its most fundamental, is a structured invitation for the body to shift out of a state of activation and into one of rest.
Whether you believe in the energy framework that underlies Reiki or not, what happens physiologically during a session is difficult to dismiss. Breathing slows. Muscles soften. The relentless noise of an overworked nervous system gets a little quieter.
For clients who have spent years talking about their experience without feeling it change, that quieting can be genuinely profound. Sometimes the most therapeutic thing we can do is stop talking altogether.
I don't offer Reiki as a replacement for clinical work. I offer it as a complement — one more way of meeting you where you are, in the body you actually live in.
You don't have to believe in it. You just have to be curious.
