Featured Practitioners
We are a collective group of holistic wellness practitioners, seeing clients independently, by appointment only.
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Below, learn more about our remarkable collective
members, their services and how to book a session.
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
Holistic Healer, Compassion Coach, Mindful & Spiritual Guide, Reiki Master,
MA in Marriage & Family Therapy
Victoria Pekhnik transmutes traditional mental health therapy offerings by infusing her work with ancient healing modalities to support deeper emotional healing and spiritual evolution. Her therapeutic approach integrates Reiki healing, somatic mindfulness, Kundalini breath work and meditation, as well as Oracle intuitive discovery and current astrological updates, creating a transformative experience for those who seek more profound answers to their life's experiences. Through conscious conversation and spiritually-empowered practices, Victoria guides individuals toward inner serenity in the midst of these challenging and confusing times. She helps individuals cultivate self-compassion, self-acceptance, and a deeper connection to their soul tribe. As humanity steps into an era of heightened spiritual independence and personal power Victoria inspires others to trust their unique spiritual journey, embracing their inner strength and divine purpose.
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.
Elaine Gallas
Licensed Professional Counselor
Somatic Regulation
Elaine Gallas, LPC, has been a mental health therapist for over 10 years. She emphasizes work on nervous system regulation to alleviate symptoms and achieve optimal brain functioning. Her goal is to help individuals expand their window of capacity and step into their power by connecting to one's inner wisdom through somatic embodiment, paving the way for inner spaciousness, peace, and harmony. Elaine blends top-down (cognitive processing and making meaning of personal experiences) and bottom-up processing (nervous system regulation/body work) to help with achieving overall wellbeing. The stressors of life rest in the body and by involving somatic work in the healing process, the door for true transformation opens.
Learn more about Elaine in Psychology Today. As a licensed LPC, Elaine can prepare a Super Bill to submit to your insurance provider.
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.
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.