Frequently Asked Questions

What forms of Payment do you accept?

We process our credit and debit transactions through Square so you can enjoy your Apple Pay, Google Pay or other contactless forms of payment. We accept all major credit & debit cards, cash, Venmo, and personal local checks.

Do we accept insurance?
Currently, we are not accepting regular medical insurance. We do accept Motor Vehicle Accident Insurance. Feel free to contact us if you or a loved one has been in a car accident.

Do we accept HSA and FSA accounts?

We do. On some occasions, the HSA or FSA bank does not recognize Healing Spirit Touch as a medical facility. On those rare occasions, we can provide detailed proof of payment for your HSA or FSA to reimburse you.

What is Massage and why does it help?
Massage is a manipulation of the soft tissues (Muscles). Massage helps in a lot of different ways, the following are just SOME:
Increase in blood and lymph circulation
Lowers stress
Normalizes blood pressure
Lifts mood and self-worth
Boost immune system
Promotes healthy sleep patterns

What are your hours of Operation?
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 12-6 pm and Saturday 12-4 pm.

How long have you been a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT)?
Barb has been licensed since 2004. Hannah has been licensed since 2012.

What is the difference between an LMT and a Masseuse?
A Licensed Massage Therapist has been through a training program and is licensed in your local city, county or state. A masseuse is an archaic term generally meaning someone who is not licensed.

What's the difference between Therapeutic and Swedish massage?
Swedish massage utilizes a combination of long gliding strokes to help the body relax. It is best used for de-stressing, relaxation and general well being. Therapeutic massage, also known as Deep Tissue Massage, is used for folks with stubborn or chronic tension areas. This type of massage gets into the “hurts so good” level of pain tolerance, but is designed for deeper relief of tight muscles. Therapeutic work can also be used during injury rehabilitation sessions such as after knee surgery.

What Can I do at home?
There are a lot of home remedies you can do! Stretching, using ice & heat, and how much water you drink are probably the easiest and least expensive ways to feel better.

Why is Stretching Important?
Stretching allows space back into the muscle fibers. Reminding the muscles of what the neutral and natural state is. Muscle are not meant to be constantly contracted or flexed. They need time to relax and heal. Stretching is a light and gentle way to remind your muscles they can relax, go back to neutral and just be. Icing, heating, hot tubs or a hot Epsom salt bath can be just what you need.

Why is drinking water so important?
Our bodies are made up of 70% water. When you sweat and do not replenish what you have lost it can lead to detrimental damage. and no, things that are made with water, i.e. Coffee, hot chocolate, etc do not count as water. Tea does, only because of the antioxidants that are abundant in teas such as Green or black tea.

What are the differences between HST and other massage-based businesses?
First at Healing Spirit Touch, we cater each session to the individual person. Not every person lives the same kind of life. Because of that, Barb and Hannah, take the time to understand the needs of each client. We make sure to have enough time for you. In that, we do not cram our appointments together. Second, we take it a step further to help find the source of chronic pain and then educate you on the best ways to relieve that pain outside of the massage space. We can show you self-massage techniques, stretching, icing, heating and suggest a few other changes to your routine to help assist your healing process. Third, we believe that healing takes place at three levels: Body, Mind, and Spirit. We address the body with massage and work with the Spirit through our energy healing modalities such as Aura & Chakra clearing, Reiki, Spirit Rescue, and Galactic Healing. Our Psychic sessions and New Vision Circles help you work through areas of your life where you may feel stuck and unable to move forward on your path.

What is energy work?

Energy work involves manipulating energy for spiritual, emotional, or physical healing. It is a holistic practice where healers channel universal life force into a patient to restore flow, balance, harmony, and vitality within the body. There are various types of energy work, including aura and chakra healing, reiki, and crystal healing.

What is the difference between massage and energy work such as Reiki?
A typical massage utilizes the physical manipulation of the body's muscles and other tissues to elicit change. Energy work requires the healer to read the subtle energies in the body and to channel Universal Life Force energy into areas that have been depleted by the stresses of life. This kind of healing often affects the Spiritual, Emotional, and Mental traumas/blockages a client may have a challenge with. Energy work can be done in tandem with massage work. However, some clients prefer to do Energy work and massage separately.

What is Divine Navigation?

This is an energy healing education session devoted to the individual with a focus on the fundamentals of grounding techniques, energy clearing techniques, as well as Chakra and Aura balancing techniques. Students of these private sessions will learn, strengthen and practice self-improvement energy techniques that they can incorporate into their daily life routine.

What is Galactic Healing?
Due to the nature of life throughout time and space, many clients carry with them, in this life, the wounds of previous lives. Spirit fragments are just as easily left behind in other dimensions as they are in this life. Barb is able to transcend all directions of space and time to locate the onset of those wounds, redirect the energy to a higher vibration, and bring the client into complete energetic wholeness. This combination allows for the maximum amount of energetic healing through infusing the body with healing Reiki energy while simultaneously cleansing the Auras, Chakras, and repairing any spirit fragments

What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese technique used to reduce stress, increase relaxation and promote healing. The Reiki Practitioner administers a Reiki session by "laying on hands" to areas of the body. Reiki healing is based on the idea that the unseen "life force energy" flows through the practitioner, into the client and allows the body to heal naturally.

What is Spirit Rescue?

When a person suffers severe mental, emotional or physical trauma they often lose a piece of their spirit/soul in the tragedy. Something as small as an argument or as devastating as a natural disaster can cause a soul to leave behind a piece in order to survive the circumstances. When a person’s spirit is fractured in such a way, it may be hard for them to move passed issues in their life that relate to the tragedy that caused the soul to fracture. During a Spirit Rescue, the fractured piece is located in the client’s timeline. Then Barbara communicates with the split piece to encourage and reassure that the rest of the client is ready to bring home and incorporate the missing piece back into their soul. Many times, the intuitive will find more than a few pieces have been split from the client’s soul. In this case, it may take more than one session to locate and help integrate the pieces with the client. Spirit Rescue can be performed remotely or in person. This may be a very quiet session with the hands above or lightly holding the energy centers of the body.

What is Spiritual Healing & Balancing?

There are two parts to Spiritual Healing & Balancing. The first is the Chakras; the second is the Aura. Many times, our energetic centers (Chakras) become marred down with the daily routine of our lives. What tends to happen even more often is the muck from those that we love bog us down even further. When these Chakras become too clogged, we begin to see physical manifestations of ailments. Our Aura surrounds our body as a multilayered bubble. It extends out about a foot from the tips of our fingers when the arms are spread wide as well as a foot above our head and below our feet. These layers link to and correspond with our Chakras. This allows for dialogue between the outside world and the physical/energetic body beneath our skin. Because the Auras link to the Chakras, they can often become clouded with negative energy or porous from energetic drainage. By routinely clearing and balancing the Auras in combination with our Chakras our own body energy flows more easily thereby making our body less prone to common ailments.

What are Psychic Readings?

Psychic Readings, also known as Clairvoyant Readings, offer the opportunity for a client to receive clarity on life situations that may be challenging. Imagine the need to walk down a dark pathway; wouldn’t the beam of a flashlight or even the faint glow of a match make you feel a bit better? Barbara acts as the light, using a combination of communication with Spirit Guides, Guardian Angels, and the Akashic records to provide insights on the client’s path. This guidance is not set in stone. The client’s free will to choose a path once more information has come to light is the key.

What is a Private Medium Reading?

Mediums bridge the gap between the spirit world and the physical world. We are the voices for those in spirit, the “go between,” the communicator or translator. We assist those in spirit to provide proof of existence of the eternal – we don’t just die, there is a spiritual existence beyond our physical bodies, and our loved ones are in a better place and still connected to us. Every session is different, unique and beautiful. Through a combination of clairvoyance (seeing), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (feeling) and intuition (knowing), Barb can help you communicate with your loved ones in the spirit world / heaven.