Healing House
Integrative medicine practitioners offer personal journey programs to community members with a goal towards health and healing. Therapeutic and "spa" massage are available to help in healing areas of physical discomfort and/or to promote relaxation and release stress. Clinical hypnotherapy assists in developing awareness of and releasing unhealthy habits and negative behavior patterns, as well as a way to find relief from pain or emotional trauma.
The Education, Stress Reduction & Relaxation Clinic, as well as support groups are held in the Integrative Healing House.
Visit the Healing House and discover how our facility and practitioners promote individual well-being on many different levels. Services include:
Follow the signs to the Healing House, located to the East of the hospital on the Sutter Lakeside Hospital & Center for Health campus.
For more information, or to make an appointment call (707) 262-5171.
Healing House practitioner bios (PDF)
Acupressure
Jin Shin Do® Acupressure ("The Way of the Compassionate Spirit") is a unique synthesis of traditional Japanese acupressure techniques, classic Chinese acupressure theory, Reichian segmental theory, Taoist philosophy and Qigong exercises. Developed by Iona Marsaa Teeguarden, M.A., L.M.F.C.C., this sensible therapy outlines tension points associated with common physical problems and with distressing feelings like anxiety, depression, guilt and anger. It teaches points and exercises that help release physical and emotional tensions. Best of all, it helps one learn to transform, rather than repress, painful feelings - leading to a more joyful way of life and the realization of one's full potential.
Biofeedback
Biofeedback uses your mind to control your body. Biofeedback is a type of complementary and alternative medicine called mind-body therapy. Using feedback from a variety of monitoring procedures and equipment, a biofeedback specialist will try to teach you to control certain involuntary body responses, such as brain activity, blood pressure, muscle tension, heart rate.
Once you learn to recognize and control these responses, you can use biofeedback to help treat a wide range of mental and physical health problems. Even if you don't have a specific disease or condition, biofeedback may help your overall health and sense of well-being.
Chiropractic care
Chiropractic care is a health care profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system, and the effects of these disorders on general health. Chiropractic care is used most often to treat neuromusculoskeletal complaints, including but not limited to back pain, neck pain, pain in the joints of the arms or legs, and headaches.
Doctors of Chiropractic – often referred to as chiropractors or chiropractic physicians – practice a drug-free, hands-on approach to health care that includes patient examination, diagnosis and treatment. Chiropractors have broad diagnostic skills and are also trained to recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative exercises, as well as to provide nutritional, dietary and lifestyle counseling.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is therapy that is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis. This modality offers assistance with not only weight and smoking, but also with anxiety disorders and panic attacks, phobias and any other disease that have a mental or emotional component. People have used it in preparation for surgery, pain control, to improve recall for test taking, to gain insight into a troublesome behavior.
Reiki
The word “Reiki” is Japanese for “Universal Life Force Energy” and originated in
Japan in the early 1800’s through the work of the founder Mikao Usui, a Japanese Christian minister.
Reiki is a natural touch healing modality that facilitates self-healing through the laying on of hands over the energy centers of the body. It is effective in promoting relaxation, the relief of pain, and providing a generalized sense of well-being.
Massage
Massage therapy is recognized as one of the oldest methods of healing, with references in medical texts nearly 4,000 years old.
Today, massage therapy, often referred to as bodywork or somatic therapy, refers to the application of various techniques to the muscular structure and soft tissues of the body that include applying fixed or movable pressure, holding, vibration, rocking, friction, kneading and compression using primarily the hands, although massage therapists do use other areas of the body, such as the forearms, elbows or feet. All of the techniques are used for the benefit of the musculoskeletal, circulatory-lymphatic, nervous, and other systems of the body. In fact, massage therapy positively influences the overall health and well-being of the client.
Meditation
Meditation is a discipline in which the mind is focused on an object of thought or awareness. It usually involves turning attention to a single point of reference. The practice may engender a higher state of consciousness. Meditation is recognized as a component of almost all religions, and has been practiced for over 5,000 years.
Naturopathy
Naturopathy (or naturopathic medicine) is an approach to medicine that emphasizes the ability of the body to heal itself. Naturopaths contend that such a capacity for self-healing is innate and can be supported with a variety of modalities such as manual therapy, hydrotherapy, herbalism, acupuncture, counseling, environmental medicine, aromatherapy, orthomolecular medicine, nutritional counseling, homeopathy, and chiropractic.