Muffy Williams
I speak the following languages:
- English
Modalities Offered (Click to view description)
- Essential Oils
Essential oils are utilized in many complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine (CAIM)practices including aromatherapy and massage. Essential oils are plant oils with specific aromas to support and balance the mind, body, and spirit in the promotion of relaxation and healing.
The plant oils are distilled in a natural process without synthetics into essential oils, which are highly concentrated and typically blended with an inert base oil. Inhaling essential oils, such as from candle-burning or use of an air diffuser, may have immediate calming effects. Application in appropriate strengths through the skin may promote additional benefits, such as healing of minor injuries or other pain relief. Aromatherapy can be used for relaxtion, and also to help prevent or improve various conditions, injuries, disorders, and diseases. - Healing and Therapeutic Touch
An energy-based therapeutic approach to healing. Using hands-on and energy-based techniques to balance and align the human energy field. Hands do not touch body, but perform smoothing and soothing movements above the body 'massaging' the human energy field surrounding body; involving mind, body, emotion and spirit.
- Mind-Body Medicine
Mind-body medicine is a philosophy and a system of health practices that is based on the concept that the mind and the body work together for healing.
It focuses on the interactions among the brain, mind, body, and behavior and on the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and behavioral factors can directly affect health. It regards as fundamental an approach that respects and enhances each person's capacity for self-knowledge and self-care and it emphasizes techniques that are grounded in this approach.
There are a wide range of practices that include meditation, energy medicine, yoga, Tai Chi, and more. The practices focus on the interactions among the brain, mind, body, and behavior, with the intent to use the mind to affect physical functioning and promote health. Mind-body interventions constitute a major portion of the overall use of complementary and alternative medicine by the public. - Reiki
Reiki is a healing practice that originated in Japan. These practitioners place their hands lightly on or just above the person receiving this modality, affecting natural healing energy flow with the goal of facilitating the person's own healing response.
Reiki promotes a rapid relaxation response which is easily learned. It can be used for self-care or on others. It has been used to promote overall health and well-being, provide relief from disease-related symptoms, provide relief from side-effects of conventional medical treatments, add relaxation and lower stress and pain from post-operative procedures.
A 2002 national survey by the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) on adult Americans' use of CAM found that, adjusted to nationally representative numbers, more than 2.2 million adults in the United States had used Reiki for health purposes at the time of the survey.
Conditions Addressed (Click to view description)
- Allergies
An allergy is a reaction of your immune system to something that does not bother most other people. People who have allergies are usually sensitive to multiple things. Scientists think both genes and the environment play a role in who has an allergy and who does not. Symptoms of allergies can vary but often include runny nose, sneezing, itching, rashes, swelling or asthma. Although allergies can make you feel miserable, they usually are not life threatening. However, some people are severely allergic to some substances and experience a reaction called anaphylaxis. This reaction is life-threatening and 911 should be called immediately.
Millions of people suffer from allergies caused by every day exposures to agents such as dust mites, cat dander, and pollens. Agents encountered by workers can also cause allergic problems such as asthma, nasal and sinus allergies, hives, and even severe anaphylactic reactions. Examples of these work-related agents include animal proteins, enzymes, flour, natural rubber latex, and certain reactive chemicals.
If you suspect that you have an allergy you should see your healthcare provider for an exam and to discuss options for decreasing your symptoms.
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Contact Information
Name: Muffy Williams
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Phone: 518-399-6293
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Qualifications
Degree: RN, BS, RMT, HTACP, HTCP
Schools Graduated:
- Columbia Presbyterian School of Nursing 1968
Certification Programs:
- Healing Touch for Animals 2008
- Healing Touch 2003
- Usui Reiki Master/Teacher 2002
- Registered Nurse 1968
Professional Association Memberships:
- Saratoga Integrative Practitioners Network
- American Holistic Nurses Ass'n--Albany chapter
- International Ass'n of Reiki Practitioners
- Healing Touch Professional Association
Years in Practice: 6 - 10
Financial Information
Credit Cards Accepted? no
Insurance Accepted? no
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