Lectures/Seminars

Since 2000 Karen has been a frequent guest speaker and presenter at local hospitals, healthcare settings, community organizations, support groups, and health fairs on:  

• Reiki
• Hypnotherapy, Guided Imagery and Meditation
• Power of Positive Thinking/Positive Affirmations
• Importance of Self-Love and Self-Care
• Relaxation Techniques
• Stress and Pain Management
• Smoking Cessation and Tobacco Treatment
• Integrating Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Therapies within Mainstream Healthcare

Karen’s lectures are interactive, informative, heart-centered, spiced with humor and anecdotes and always well received and highly evaluated.

Karen is available as a consultant locally and nationally for lectures, seminars and workshops at healthcare institutions, corporate and community venues and support groups. Lectures, Seminars, and Workshop can be tailored to your needs. (*Approved Continuing Education Units (ceu’s) for healthcare professionals available for some lectures and upon request.)

Sample List of Lecture Topics:

• Reiki: Relaxing Your Way to Wellness
  
• Reiki: Starting Point for Integrative Medicine
• Introduction to Reiki: for Healthcare Workers and Patients
• Celebration of Life: Reiki as Adjunctive Cancer Care.
• Integrating Reiki into Mainstream Health Care Settings
• The Implications of Reiki and Hypnotherapy for Cardiac Risk Factor Reduction
• Use of CAM & Integrative Medicine in the Cancer Setting
• Optimizing Your Healthcare with Complementary Therapies:
• Jumpstart Your New Year’s Resolutions with Hypnotherapy
• Self-Care with Hypnotherapy
• Interview with Finesse and Visualize Your Success
• Integrative Medicine Therapies: Self-care Tools for You and Your Patients
• Balance Between Work & Play
• Make Positive Changes Easier with Hypnotherapy
• Alternative Therapies for Pain Management
• Managing Your Heart Disease- Is Alternative Medicine For You?
• Alternative and Complementary Modalities in the Prevention & Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease
• Relax and Win the Battle Against Stress
• Reiki & Hypnotherapy as Adjuncts to Behavior Modification & to Enhance Your Surgical Experience
• Stopping Smoking Made Easier: How to Better Handle Urges, Cravings, Emotions and Stress Once you Have Stopped 
• Managing Stress & Developing Healthy Coping Mechanisms
• Recognizing Depression and Anxiety: New Diagnosis & Treatment Options
• You Can’t Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
• The Power of Positive Thinking
• Loving Others Begins With Loving Yourself; Self-Love Begins With Self-care
• Practice Self-Love through Self-Care and Reduce Stress

List of Lecture Venues and Sponsors:

• 7th Annual New England Reiki Conference, Boxborough MA
• Advance for Nurses, Woburn and Boston MA
• Associates for Health, Gloucester MA.
• Brooksby Village, Peabody MA
• Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, Gloucester MA
• Cape Ann Families, Gloucester MA
• Cape Ann Food Coop Holistic Health Fair, Gloucester MA
• Electric Insurance Company, Beverly MA
• Essex Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Beverly MA
• Healthbridge Management
• Lahey Clinic, Burlington MA
• Memorial Hall Library, Andover, MA
• Mercy Medical Center, Springfield MA
• Northeast Healthcare Systems, Gloucester, Beverly and Danvers MA
• NSMC North Shore Medical Center
• Peabody Glen Healthcare Center, Peabody MA
• Peabody Institute Library, Peabody MA
• Pollard Memorial Library, (Moses Parker Greely Lecture Series), Lowell MA
• Providence Behavioral Health Hospital, Springfield MA     
• Second Congregational Church, Beverly MA
• Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital, Salem MA
• VNA Care Network, Danvers and Gloucester, MA