Who We Are
Mary Rieger
Ruth Anne Keister
Josh Greene, MSW, LICSW
Amy Hunter, MSW, LICSW
Serena Cekan, PhD
Janet Brown
Sarah Wilson
Mary Rieger
Mary Rieger, holds a Master of Acupuncture degree from the Tai Sophia Institute (formerly the Traditional Acupuncture Institute), in Maryland. She is certified and licensed to practice acupuncture in the District of Columbia and Maryland. Mary was a faculty member and a clinical supervisor at Tai Sophia for 9 years, where she oversaw and guided students with their own clients in their senior clinical phase.
Mary also uses in her practice studies in Toyahari, a Japanese style of acupuncture as well as a background in mind/body skills such as breathing, relaxation, and visualization. She brings great compassion, listening, and humor to her work with clients. She believes that we must caretake our whole being – the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual parts of us. She is dedicated to meeting people where they are in life, with non-judgment and with a sense of possibility for what life does and can hold for all of us. Mary works with adults, as well as children and teens.
Ruth Anne Keister
Ruth Anne Keister, LMT, NCTMB, nationally certified massage therapist, graduated from the Potomac Massage Training Institute in 1999. She uses Swedish, Deep Tissue, Connective Tissue, Esalen massage, Craniosacral Therapy, aromatherapy, and Reiki to promote relaxation and stress relief and to treat both chronic and acute injuries. She believes that healing comes from within, and that outside assistance — like massage — can greatly facilitate this process. Ruth Anne brings to her work a lifelong interest in health, fitness, and finding balance in life, as well as a background in environmental work. She is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association and is licensed in the District of Columbia and Maryland. Ruth Anne is currently a second year student at the Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies Teacher Training program in Greensboro, NC and hopes to complete her certification in the Alexander Technique by 2009.
Josh Greene is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) certified to practice independently in the District of Columbia. He received his MSW from Syracuse University in 1994, and he has been working with adults, couples, and adolescents challenged by symptoms of Depression, Bi-Polar Disorder, anxiety/panic attacks, substance abuse, and other diagnosable mental illnesses for the past 13 years. He provides clinical supervision to other professionals in addition to providing therapy, and he has helped guide the system of service delivery to people living in the District of Columbia as the current Clinical Director of a Core Service Agency of the Department of Mental Health. Josh uses a straight forward eclectic approach, rooted in Solution-Focused Therapy, to assist people in achieving their full potential.
Amy Hunter is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who earned her Masters of Social Work degree at Boston University in 1995. Amy currently works at ZERO TO THREE, a national organization that supports the well-being of infants, toddlers and their families. Amy has served as a National Head Start Fellow at the Office of Head Start for two years and was the mental health manager to a large Head Start program for eight years. Amy has experience providing reflective supervision, consultation, and therapy to children, families, and adults who have experienced trauma, depression, relationship difficulties, parenting struggles, grief, stress and anxiety. Amy has strong listening skills and uses a strength-based supportive approach to assist individuals to gain increased understanding of their experience and make meaningful change in their lives.
Serena has been doing Past-life Spiritual Regressions for the past 20 years, after a training from 1985-86 with Master spiritual regression teacher Rhea Powers in New York City. She has helped over 60 people return to past lives and meet their spiritual guides and/or totems. The regression process is client-led, with Serena leading them back to the relevant past life, reliving or viewing key experiences, and together extracting lessons for this life-time. She ensures the safety of the process as well as confidentially recording it for clients.
Serena is a Level II Reiki Usui Shinki Ryoho practitioner, having taken the attunements in the Czech Republic in 2002-03. Level II can alleviate physical ailments but can also focus energy on the client's emotional, mental and karmic needs. The healer is a catalyst for clearing physical energetic blocks, old emotions, negative mental patterns, and past life patterns to be released to the light, thereby increasing the client's health and joy. She holds a PhD in international relations and has lived on Capitol Hill for 12 years. Serena offers Spiritual Regression and Reiki to you to maximize your healing, ease and joy.
Visit Serena's website Coming Full Circle.
Janet Brown is a licensed massage therapist practicing in the District of Columbia. She attended the 1000-hour massage therapy program at the Onondaga School of Therapeutic Massage in Syracuse, NY. She graduated valedictorian of her class in June 2004. She is certified in Aromatherapy for Massage and Fertility Massage. She is also a Certified Prenatal Yoga instructor.
Integrating different modalities and healing arts into massage is an important part of her work. Since all people are not the same, their path to healing should be just as unique. Janet incorporates Swedish, deep tissue, aromatherapy, hydrotherapy and Eastern techniques into her practice. In addition to her massage practice she also offers private workshops in fertility, infant massage and learning to eat healthier. She enjoys working with people in their quest for balance and health.
Visit Janet's website.
Sarah is a graduate of Potomac Massage Training Institute, nationally certified and licensed to practice massage in the District of Columbia. After practicing in the clinic at PMTI and as a solo practitioner in her own studio, in May 2009 she joined the practitioners at Healing Arts of Capitol Hill. She is trained in Swedish and deep tissue massage, and also uses energy techniques adapted from studies in Reiki, visionary cranial sacral massage, and other modalities. Client and therapist decide together on the focus of an individual session. Sarah's focus in her practice is perhaps best expressed by T.S. Eliot's poetry: "at the still point of the turning world, there the dance is." The quiet and serenity experienced in a massage allow one to begin to experience a relaxed and energetic relationship with one's mind, body and spirit. As one moves toward the still point one begins to feel the energy of the dance.
You can also visit her website: www.stillpointmassagedc.com
