Bio, Resume & Testimonials

Barbara Clearbridge uses uses laying-on-of-hands for a broad range of needs, including physical and emotional healing, serious disease, trauma recovery, and mysterious or stubborn problems. She works with children, adults, and animals. Paranormal “medical intuitive” skills guide her treatments.

Barbara has worked with healing energies for over 25 years. She began while a professional musician, using the power of musical energy to heal. In 1986 she went hands-off the keyboard and hands-on the client, doing energy work directly through touch. In 1991, Barbara began her study of breath energies, and in 1993 she began teaching energy work classes.

Barbara has received Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch training through the Holistic Nurses’ Association. She is a Reiki Master in the Usui Healing Tradition, and has studied other techniques with private teachers.  Barbara is the author of three books: Heal With Your Hands (Beginning Energy Work Techniques for Helping Yourself & Others, including a complete guide to Reiki),  Recovery: Women's Words About Healing After Trauma, and Finding God, Prayers & Practices from Many Traditions.  She has also written a variety of articles on diverse health care topics, including non-toxic cancer treatments.

Barbara is ordained as a minister in the International Assembly of Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards Congregations. Her religious affiliation now is Quaker.

Barbara offers energy work, spiritual healing, lectures, workshops, classes, and apprenticeships on a love offering basis around the United States and overseas.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Workshops & Classes Taught Include:

Natural First Aid & Health Maintenance
Intro. to Hands-on Healing

Intro. to Alternative & Complementary Healing
Therapeutic Touch
Heal With Your Hands, levels 1, 2, 3
Reiki, all levels
Energy Work for Daily Living
Come To Your Senses!
Guides & Inner Wisdom
Relieving Stress & Insomnia

Clients served include:

Swedish Hospital
Jefferson County Hospital
Peninsula College
Angeles Physical Therapy Services
Arthritis Foundation Support Group
American Association of University Women
Brentwood Nursing Home
Gay City Health Project
North Shore Senior Center


Work Experience


Full-time medical intuitive, energy work and spiritual healing practice including treatments (for people and animals), classes and apprenticeships, 1993 - present

Reiki Practitioner, The Reiki Centre, 100 Mile House, B.C., Canada, 1993

Work with music as a healing modality, Chicago and Seattle, 1978 - 1993

Musician, music teacher, composer, choral conductor, Chicago and Seattle, 1968 - 1986

Publications

Finding God / By Learning How To Pray,
self-published book, 2002

Recovery / Women’s Words About Healing After Trauma,
self-published book, 1996

Heal With Your Hands,
Self-published book, 1995

"Effective Non-Toxic Treatments For Cancer Are Available - If You Leave North America,"
self-published report, 2001

"Checklist for Choosing A Holistic Practitioner"
The Wellness Directory, premier issue, 1998

"Energy Work - The Basics"
"Summaries of Research Results for Therapeutic Touch, Laying-on-of-Hands Healing and Reiki"
Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, April, 1998

"Qigong / China’s Healing Miracle"
Common Ground, October, 1996

"Energy Work: Gateway to Change"
"Energy Work for Sexual Abuse Recovery"
"Attention Deficit Disorder? Energy Work Can Help"
Holistic Health News, September, October, and November issues, 1994

"Answers to Common Questions About Energy Work"
"Shamanism - Alive and Well in Urban America"
"Do Other People Refuse to Cooperate When You Try to ‘Create Your Own Reality?’"
Self-published articles, 1994 -1997

Education & Study

Areas of special expertise:   

Trauma and abuse recovery including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, autism in children, environmental allergies, chronic fatigue, cancer

Study of a variety of energy work, breathwork and spiritual healing techniques including Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, Healing Hands, and others, various teachers, 1986 - present

Healing Science Seminar, Barbara Brennan School of Healing, 1995

B.A., Almeda University, Boise, Idaho

Certifications

Therapeutic Touch, Holistic Nurses’ Association, 1994

Healing Hands, Level 1, Holistic Nurses’ Association, 1994 

Reiki Master, Usui Tradition, 1994

Reiki Master, non-Usui form, 1994

Ordained Minister, International Assemblies of Spiritual Healers & Earth Stewards Congregations, 1994

First and Second Degree Reiki, Usui Tradition, 1993

Professional Affiliations

American Holistic Health Association

Peoples Medical Society

The Interfaith Alliance


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