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Healing Touch

Welcome to the Haelen Center for Healing Touch Program™. 

Healing Touch is a nurturing, compassionate energy therapy. Providers consciously work in a heart-centered and intentional way with a gentle, light or above body touch to enhance, support, and facilitate physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and support the individual’s natural, self-healing ability.

The Haelen Center ( “Haelen” means to make whole, hale, hearty (Old English) is presented by the Care Ministry of Hillcrest Congregational Church, UCC, 404 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523. No fee is charged. Donations are welcomed.  

The Haelen Center is also the site for classes in the Healing Touch Program™ and is part of the Healing Touch Network of the East Bay/San Francisco: bringing the Healing Touch to your neighborhood.

Benefits of Healing Touch

Ongoing, wide-ranging research suggest the benefits of receiving Healing Touch include:

  • Reducing pain, anxiety, effects of a trauma
  • Providing support during chemotherapy
  • Enhancing recovery from surgery
  • Relieving stress and depression
  • Strengthening the immune system
  • Deepening spiritual connection

Healing Touch Appointments

Healing Touch sessions are set in a quiet, peaceful environment to create a safe and sacred place for the HT treatments. Appointments typically lasting between 45 and 75 minutes. The recipient lies fully clothed on a massage table or is seated in a chair. Appointments are available to those in our community

Appointment Availability

  • 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m. or 10:45 a.m. and
  • 1st and 3rd Saturdays at 9:00 a.m.

Contact haelen6@gmail.com for more information or to make an appointment.

For information on The Healing Touch Program™ visit their website.

Background of Healing Touch Program™

The Healing Touch Program consists of a group of volunteers dedicated to helping our community by providing an energy modality called Healing Touch (HT).

We have been trained by THE HEALING PROGRAM™, WORLDWIDE LEADERS IN ENERGY MEDICINE, Creating Healing Relationships; and adhere to its Code of Ethics, and Scope of Practice.

Healing Touch™ was founded by Janet Mentgen, BSN, RN in 1989 as a continuing education program for nurses and other health care professionals. It is now used as a complementary or integrative modality in hospitals, hospices, and is used by health care professionals and trained non-medical people in a variety of settings.

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