Featured Practitioners
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Members and Their Services
Jen Rizza
Founder of Newtown Wellness Collective
Reiki Master, RYT-200,
IAHC Certified Integrative Health & Wellness Coach
Jen views her clients on the whole, working with them to find optimal physical, emotional and spiritual wellness, balanced across all avenues of their lives. She practices a whole foods-based diet, a yoga philosophy lifestyle, intuitive living and holds deep gratitude for the many gifts in her life. With clients, Jen has helped them to restore greater energetic balance, implement healthy eating and lifestyle habits and challenge limiting beliefs for greater overall joy and presence in their lives. Jen uses a multi-discipline approach, weaving together somatic processing through yoga, energetic healing through Reiki and supportive guidance to look more deeply into one's possibilities. It is her belief that wellness and the capacity for wellbeing across mind, body and spirit already lie within, waiting to be nurtured and restored.
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Victoria Pekhnik
MA in Marriage & Family Therapy,
Reiki Master, Intuitive Guide
Victoria believes that by opening the traditional space of therapy to all of the healing modalities known through the ages, we allow for the possibility of a tremendously powerful healing. She blends traditional and alternative health-restoring philosophies, with the latest evidence-based therapy models and the wisdom of ancient healing arts. In sessions with Victoria, clients explore early childhood experiences as well as intuitive counseling which may include Reiki, Oracle/Tarot guidance, crystals, mediation, sound therapy, art therapy, gentle yoga, breath work, and/or creative pursuits.
Dorina Leslie
LMT, The Alexander Method of Vibrational Sound Therapy, Aromatouch Technique,
Laura Norman Method of Reflexology
Dorina has been in the holistic healing space since 2013. As a licensed massage therapist, much of her work has been in a clinical setting, and she has had her own private practice since 2018. As life has shifted, so has Dorina. Known for her therapeutic bodywork and energy healing, Dorina is passionate about helping folks move into the best version of themselves. She will be offering non-invasive healing modalities and workshops, here at Newtown Wellness Collective, including sound therapy using tuning forks attuned to the Solfeggio Frequencies, reflexology for the feet, hands and face, and aromatherapy to calm the nervous system and to promote healing within the body. Dorina works with several self-care tools and modalities, to help folks improve their posture, from top to bottom, to release fascial restrictions, decrease pain, increase mobility and promote overall health and vitality.
Tracy Mignone
Reiki Master Teacher, Rising Star Practitioner,
Mahatma Infusion Therapist,
Inter-Faith Minister of the Order of Melchezidek
Kindred Spirits was established in June of 2007. It is our intention and the intention of our Practitioners to provide a unique and special place to find inner peace, joy and truth. Tracy is a Reiki Master Teacher and has trained with Robin Tomlinson founder of Endless Journey for Reiki I and II. Her Reiki Mastership-Teacher Training was by world renowned Roland M Comtois. The Rising Star helps promote unity consciousness as it is a Source to Source healing. The Higher Beings who assist during the session know exactly what the client needs on all levels, even more than the client might know of themselves.
Sheryl Fatse
Master Practitioner in Somatics, Reiki, Yoga Nidra,
Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher,
Integrative Animal Assistance Therapy
Sheryl is a Somatic “Mind-Body” mentor/coach, who teaches clients the methodology of Somatic Parts-Work, sometimes known as inner child healing or Internal Family Systems (IFS). This incredibly powerful somatic parts-work allows us to heal our past in the present and find more ease in our lives for mind, body and spirit. This newfound freedom is the key to living a more resilient wholehearted life. Sheryl believes in the power of a deeply trusting relationship with her clients and guides and teaches resourced from her own healing-to-thriving evolution, revealing to her that everything necessary to flourish is already and timelessly within us. Sheryl lives in Sandy Hook, CT.