Nancy R. Sokol, Ms
I offer energy work grounded in a wholistic approach which combines Reiki, Healing Touch and Healing the Light Body Shamanic methods. Having been a Registered Nurse for over 30 years I take a wholistic approach to stress and pain relief, so needed in today's society. I have been practicing Reiki since 1998. Working with the natural flow of energy fields provides clearing to move one to greater wellness. It allows relief from pain and stress. Much like taking a mini vacation, a break whenever you need it! I offer Reiki sessions and Shamanic energy sessions to clear and balance the energy field. Reiki Training and Munay Ki training to enhance your luminous field potential.
Space Clearing also available upon request
I speak the following languages:
- English
Modalities Offered (Click to view description)
- Energy Medicine
Energy Field Medicine, Energy Medicine, Energy Work
Energy therapies work from a common understanding that a smooth and balanced flow of vital energy is fundamental to physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. They start from the premise that our mind-body systems have an innate intelligence and are constantly striving for balance, but that our energy flow may be disrupted by stress, injuries, toxins, poor diet, and other impediments.
Energy therapies offer a variety of ways to enhance, direct, and otherwise balance the flow, as healing at the level of the energetic field supports healing on many levels. Some forms have been in use for thousands of years, others are based on discoveries of the past two centuries. As technologies for measuring energy and its effects become more sensitive, many of these practices have been receiving more serious attention from Western science.
These therapies vary in how they engage with the physical body, and work with energy on different levels, but all share an awareness of the vibrational character of all life, and thus of health. Typically, the client rests on a massage table or comfortable chair, and the energy practitioner works with the client's energetic field. Sometimes, no touch is involved, which is especially useful for individuals who could use the healthful benefits of massage but have delicate skin that experiences discomfort with touch. Often, energy therapies are utilized in concert with other modalities. Hospitals often welcome the use of energy modalities during surgery and in post-op, finding them beneficial to a patient's speed of recovery.
Energy therapies encompass many different modalities, such as Shiatsu and other forms of massage; acupuncture and acupressure; chiropractic; Reiki; Therapeutic and Healing Touch; Matrix, homeopathy; Hatha yoga; flower remedies and aromatherapy; Qi Gong; energy medicine, energy psychology and thought field therapy; as well as a variety of specialized branches developed by individual healers. (Definition contributed by Ruth Ann Smalley, Ph.D., Certified Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner, Authorized Instructor, Eden Energy Medicine for Women.) - Aromatherapy
Originating in France, where it is a part of mainstream medicine, aromatherapy is a modality that uses 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, can have immediate effects such as calming. Application in appropriate strengths through the skin can promote additional benefits, such as healing of minor injuries or other pain relief. Aromatherapy can be used for relaxation, and also in an effort to prevent or relieve various conditions, injuries, disorders, and diseases. - Chakra Balancing
The word Chakra in Sanscrit translates to wheel or disc. Chakras are energy centers along the spine located at major branchings of the human nervous system, beginning at the base of the spinal column and moving upward to the top of the skull. Chakras are considered to be focal points for the reception and transmission of life force energy or Qi. They are responsible for the person's physical, mental, and spiritual functions.
According to the traditional writings there are 88,000 chakras in the human body covering basically every area in the body. The majority of them are small and insignificant. Forty of them have significant function and they are in the hands, feet, fingertips, and shoulders. The most significant ones are the Seven Main Chakras located along the central line of the body, from the base of the spine to the top of the head. They are located in the ethereal body and they express the embodiment of spiritual energy on the physical plane.
Chakra balancing can occur through a variety of holistic practices, and typically include some form of guided meditation or energy work. Clients generally leave the session feeling refreshed and simultaneously rested and energized. - Counseling
Counselors assist people with personal, family, educational, mental health, and career problems. Their duties vary greatly depending on their occupational specialty, which is determined by the setting in which they work and the population they serve.
School counselors assist students of all levels to evaluate their abilities, interests, talents, and personalities to develop realistic academic and career goals. They use interviews, counseling sessions, assessment tests, and other methods to evaluate and advise students. Often, counselors work with students who have academic and social development problems or other special needs.
A vocational counselor's chief focus is helping individuals with career decisions. They evaluate the client's education, training, work history, interests, skills, and personality traits, arrange for aptitude and achievement tests, work with individuals to develop their job-search skills and assist clients in locating and applying for jobs. In addition, these counselors provide support to people experiencing job loss, job stress, or other career transition issues.
Mental health counselors work with individuals, families, and groups to address mental and emotional disorders such as; depression, addiction and substance abuse, suicidal impulses, stress, problems with self-esteem, and grief. They also help with job and career concerns, educational decisions, and family, parenting, marital, or other relationship problems. Mental health counselors often work closely with other mental health specialists, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, and school counselors.
Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors help people who have problems with alcohol, drugs, gambling, and eating disorders. Counseling can be done on an individual or group basis. These counselors will often also work with family members who are affected by the addictions of their loved ones.
Marriage and family therapists apply family systems theory, principals and techniques to individuals, families, and couples to resolve emotional conflicts. In doing so, they modify people's perceptions and behaviors, enhance communication and understanding among family members, and help to prevent family and individual crises. - 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.
- Holistic Health Practitioner
Holistic health practitioners offer an increasingly respected and centuries-old alternative type of healthcare that emphasizes total wellness of mind, body, emotions and spirit. They treat people not as collections of parts and diseases, but as whole individuals. Most holistic health practitioners have knowledge in some or all of the following areas: anatomy and physiology; human energy healing systems; nutrition and body chemistry; stress management and relaxation techniques; therapeutic touch and bodywork; spirituality in healing; natural remedies such as herbs, essential oils and homeopathic preparations.
- Nursing, Holistic
Holistic nursing is defined as "all nursing practice that has healing the whole person as its goal" (American Holistic Nurses' Association, 1998, Description of Holistic Nursing).
Holistic nursing is a specialty practice that draws on nursing knowledge, theories, expertise and intuition to guide nurses in becoming therapeutic partners with people in their care. This practice recognizes the totality of the human being - the interconnectedness of body, mind, emotion, spirit, social/cultural, relationship, context, and environment.
The holistic nurse is an instrument of healing and a facilitator in the healing process. Holistic nurses honor each individual's subjective experience about health, health beliefs, and values. They may integrate complementary/alternative modalities (CAM) into clinical practice to treat people's physiological, psychological, and spiritual needs. Doing so does not negate the validity of conventional medical therapies, but serves to complement, broaden, and enrich the scope of nursing practice and to help individuals access their greatest healing potential.
The practice of holistic nursing requires nurses to integrate self-care, self-responsibility, spirituality, and reflection in their lives. This may lead the nurse to greater awareness of the interconnectedness with self, others, nature, and spirit. This awareness may further enhance the nurses understanding of all individuals and their relationships to the human and global community, and permits nurses to use this awareness to facilitate the healing process. - 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. - Shamanism
Shamanism is a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world.
A practitioner of shamanism is known as a shaman. There are many variations of shamanism throughout the world and several common beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Shamans are intermediaries between the human and spirit worlds.
According to believers, they can treat illness and are capable of entering supernatural realms to provide answers for human beings. The functions of a shaman may include either guiding to their proper abode the souls of the dead (which may be guided either one-at-a-time or in a cumulative group, depending on culture), and/or curing (healing) of ailments.
Usually in most languages a different term other than the one translated 'shaman' is applied to a religious official leading sacrificial rites ('priest'), or to a raconteur ('sage') of traditional lore. There may be more of an overlap in functions (with that of a shaman), however, in the case of an interpreter of omens or of dreams.
Conditions Addressed (Click to view description)
- Stress
Stress is a condition that develops when the demands on an individual begin to outweigh the capabilities and resources available to that individual. In other words; what is expected of you is putting too much pressure on you because you don't feel you have the "tools" to perform the task. A few examples of these "tools" are emotions, energy, physical strength, and mental ability. Stress can be related to things both inside and outside the body. Some examples of things outside the body that cause stress can be related to a job, home life, and interactions with others. Things inside the body that affect a person's stress level can include the availability of proper nutrients, the proper functioning of the parts of the body, the emotional state of being, and the abundance or lack of sleep per night.
The most common view of stress is a negative one; however, there are positive biological reasons for a "stress state" that help us handle stressful situations. A problem arises when there are too many of these situations occurring and the mind becomes emotionally over whelmed, the body becomes biologically overly stimulated and the person is in a general state of over reacting.
If a person remains in this over reactive state medical conditions can develop. Every person is different from another and displays stress differently; however, there are some common symptoms of negative stress such as sleep disturbances, muscle tension, headache, gastrointestinal disturbances, and fatigue. Emotional and behavioral symptoms that can accompany excess stress include nervousness, anxiety, changes in eating habits including overeating, loss of enthusiasm or energy, and mood changes.
If a person in an over reactive, negative stress state does not get help when these symptoms appear, more severe problems and disease states can occur. These can be psychological disorders (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder), maladaptive behaviors (aggression, substance abuse), cognitive impairment, and physical disorders (cardiovascular, thyroid disease).
Anyone in any age group can experience negative stress. Some common groups of people that experience increased negative stress due to life transitions are children, teens, working parents, and seniors. If you feel that you or someone you know is in an over reactive, negative stress state, please seek care. There are many different healthcare workers that are available to help you. - Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease that affects the joints, often those in a person's wrists, fingers, and feet. The common symptoms of RA are pain, stiffness, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and fever. There are treatments for RA in conventional medicine, and also treatments in complementary, alternative and integrative medicine (CAIM). Arthritis is the most common cause of disability in the United States, limiting the activities of nearly 19 million adults.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is what is called an autoimmune disease. In this type of disease, a person's immune system (the system in the body responsible for fighting disease) mistakenly attacks the person's own body. In RA, the parts attacked are the linings of the joints (places in the body where two bones connect). The reasons that this happens are complex and not fully understood. RA causes pain, swelling, and stiffness in a person's joints and problems with functioning. However, RA affects different people in different ways, in terms of the symptoms they have, how serious the symptoms are, and how long the symptoms last. RA is different from other types of arthritis (such as osteoarthritis).
There are many proven treatments for RA that are used to relieve pain, reduce swelling, slow down or stop the damage to joints, help the person function better, and improve the person's sense of well-being. These treatments range from complementary and alternative options to pharmaceuticals to combinations of both.
It is important for people with RA to have their condition followed by a health care professional. This helps prevent or minimize damage to the joints and disability, which can occur if RA is left untreated over time. - Depression
Depression is a medical condition that affects many millions of American adults each year. Mood, thoughts, physical health, and behavior all may be affected.
The most common symptoms of depression include; persistent sad, anxious, or 'empty' feelings, feelings of hopelessness and/or pessimism, feelings of guilt, worthlessness, and/or helplessness, restlessness or irritability, loss of interest or pleasure in activities that the person once enjoyed, fatigue and decreased energy, difficulty concentrating, remembering details, and/or making decisions, insomnia, early morning wakefulness, or excessive sleeping, overeating, or appetite loss, thoughts of suicide, suicide attempts, persistent aches or pains, headaches, cramps, or digestive problems that do not ease with treatment.
There are many forms of Depression and the exact symptoms and degree of severity depends on the individual person. In major depression (also called major depressive disorder), people experience symptoms that interfere with their ability to work, study, sleep, eat, and take pleasure in activities they once enjoyed. Symptoms last for at least 2 weeks but frequently last for several months or longer. In dysthymia (also called dysthymic disorder), a less severe, but more chronic form of depression, people experience symptoms that are not as disabling but keep them from functioning well or feeling good. Symptoms last at least 2 years. Many people with dysthymia also have episodes of major depression.
In bipolar disorder (also called manic-depressive illness), people have periods of depressive symptoms that alternate or may co-exist with periods of mania. Symptoms of mania include abnormally high levels of excitement and energy, racing thoughts, and impulsive and inappropriate behavior. Other forms of depression exist that fall into the category of minor depression. With this type of depression, people experience the same symptoms as major depression, but they are fewer in number and are less disabling. Symptoms last at least 6 months but less than 2 years continuously. Mental health is how we think, feel and act as we cope with life. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices.
Like physical health, mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Everyone feels worried, anxious, sad or stressed sometimes. But with a mental illness, these feelings do not go away and are severe enough to interfere with your daily life. It can make it hard to meet and keep friends, hold a job or enjoy your life. Mental illnesses are common, they affect about one in five families in the U.S. It is not your fault if you have one. Disorders such as depression, phobias, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and many others are real diseases that you cannot will or wish away. Fortunately, they are often treatable. Complementary, alternative, integrative and mainstream practitioners offer therapeutic options that may help improve the life of most people with mental illnesses.
- Headache, Tension, Migraine, Cluster, Sinus
Headache, Tension, Migraine, Cluster, Sinus
Simply put, a headache is pain in your head. However, a headache can be a sign of a more serious condition and should not be ignored if it is extremely intense, lasts for many days or begins after a hit to the head.
Many people suffer from what is referred to as a tension headache. This type of headache can occur due to tightness in muscles of your neck or shoulders and also those that move your jaw or your scalp. You may experience this if you are under stress, or feeling depressed or anxious. Lifestyle changes that can usually help tension headaches.
Migraine headaches are very severe headaches that may be debilitating and keep people bedridden for days at a time. Most people with a migraine are very sensitive to light and need to be in a dark room. Some people experience what is called a "prodrome" with their migraines. A prodrome is something that happens consistently just prior to the onset of the headache. It could be a certain smell, a flashing of light, a particular feeling, or any other sensation by that particular person. These types of headaches are more common in women than men.
Another type of headache is called a Cluster Headache. These headaches are very excruciating and begin quite suddenly usually in the front/side of the head, or near the eye. These headaches are more common in men than women. A person experiencing this type of headache is in severe pain and may thrash about not knowing what to do because the pain is so bad and nothing seems to help take it away.
Sinus headaches are very common among both men and women and can occur more frequently with the change of seasons, with allergies, or colds. These headaches may feel like someone is squeezing your head tightly and there is a lot of pressure. Touching the face on either side of the nose can be painful because these are the most common sinuses to be involved.
Complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine (CAIM) practitioners can offer multiple options for treating the many different kinds of headaches. - Hypertension, High Blood Pressure
Hypertension, High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is a measured blood pressure above 140/90. It is sometimes called the 'silent killer' because it usually has no noticeable warning signs or symptoms until other serious problems arise; therefore, many people do not know that they have it. All persons, including children, can develop high blood pressure. However, high blood pressure is easily detectable and usually can be controlled. Some pharmacies offer free blood pressure screenings and/or your health care practitioner can measure it for you. Maintaining a healthy blood pressure is an important public health strategy. Therefore, it is important for you to know your blood pressure level and to check it regularly.
It is estimated that 1 of 3 American adults has high blood pressure or hypertension. Having high blood pressure increases one's chance for developing heart disease, a stroke, and other serious conditions.
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Contact Information
Name: Nancy Sokol
Heartscape Wellness
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Phone: 581-383-8113
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Qualifications
Degree: BSN
Schools Graduated:
- Junior College of Albany 1975
- Russell Sage College 1992
Certification Programs:
- Reiki Master 1998
- Healing the Light Body certification in energy medicine 2009
- Healing Touch training completed through Level III
Professional Association Memberships:
- Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse 12yr
Years in Practice: 11 - 15
Financial Information
Average Cost per Initial Visit: $51 - $100
Average Cost per Session: $51 - $75
Credit Cards Accepted? no
Insurance Accepted? no
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