Rest & Relaxation Coaching Series

The Rest & Relaxation Coaching series supports you in accessing the transformative power of rest & relaxation, using a combination of integrative health & wellbeing coaching and mind-body-spirit practices that are co-created just for you.

This unique offering is grounded in holistic/integrative nursing principles and practices, providing possibilities to incorporate mindfulness, self-compassion, breathing and body awareness practices, hypnotic techniques, guided meditation and imagery, metaphor and archetypes, biofeedback and heart rate variability training, Reiki, Enneagram, and other mind-body-spirit modalities as appropriate and desired.

The results are powerful, surprising, and delightful.

Reiki/Coaching Mash-up

A Reiki/Coaching Mash-up pairs Reiki practice with an integrative health & wellbeing coaching approach.

Reiki is a Japanese healing practice with a complex history, a mind-body-spirit practice in which universal life force energy is transmitted through the practitioner to the recipient. Integrative Health & Wellbeing Coaching provides a gentle and powerful container for Reiki practice. Coaching is the art and science of behavior change, personal growth, and capacity-building. Combined, their synergy invites opportunities for depth, reflection, and insight. 

Reiki and Integrative Health & Wellbeing Coaching are two paths to the same destination: the still, quiet inner wisdom that resides within all of us.

What clients are saying…

“Betsy is one of the most skilled listeners/guides I've ever had the chance to interact with. It is magical to be that deeply heard and considered. We need this!”

“My times with Betsy have been catalysts for transformational ways of thinking.”

“Betsy was able to tap into my deeper knowing, not just staying at the ‘head’ level. It’s a gift to help people tap into things they didn’t know were in their mind and heart.”

“The best way I can describe the benefit is that it allowed me to remember who I am again, and see myself in a way that I had forgotten about.”

“Betsy is incredible. She has such skill and intuition. I was completely bowled over by the experience of getting to work with her.”

“The most helpful was Betsy's incredible listening and ability to support me with a different paradigm than I'd been using. When she shared her drawing and explanation of the mind-body-spirit relationship I felt like I had a tool made specifically for me--that fit in all the right ways, and was game changing.”

“I think the biggest support by far was feeling seen and feeling heard. That feeling is actually rare for me despite a lot of different therapies. This helped start some of the healing that then encourages the practice of self care and creates enough emotional and even physical space or spaciousness to keep going forward.”

“…the way she was able to help me see a new path for me--and help me see it too-- was so much more helpful than tips and tricks, or a plan, or offers of help. It's like relief was sitting there all along and all i had to do was see it.”

“…every time during our session I feel a sense of grounding and clarity that I’ve never felt before”

“[Betsy] has a very calming presence, she is very patient, and grounded, and has an energy that I believe could make anyone more comfortable in their own skin…guided meditations…vivid visualizations, with imagery and colors and patterns… helped calm my negative emotions, and have given me a deeper connection to myself and the world around me.”

“[Betsy] really helped me to get to a new place energetically”

“[Betsy is] so trustworthy, no-bulls**t, no toxic wellness s**t, just total compassionate bada$$ery that is so needed…magic and grounded in social justice healing, which is important to me.”

Questions about Rest & Relaxation Coaching offerings ?

Book a Free Virtual Q&A: Rest & Relaxation Coaching appointment to speak with Betsy.

Betsy (she/her) is a Reiki Practitioner, integrative health and wellbeing coach, and community holistic nurse. An RN in Minnesota since 2012, Betsy earned an integrative nurse coach certificate in 2014 and became a national board certified health & wellness coach (NBC-HWC)in 2019. At at the University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing, she completed Reiki 1 in 2018, Reiki 2 in 2020, and in 2020 completed an MA in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching. Betsy is currently studying Reiki Mastery at the UMN with Deborah Ringdahl DNP, APRN, CNM.

Betsy practices energy work and coaching with deep humility, respect, and unconditional positive regard for the clients she works with—as a model for flipping the paradigm of care from power-over to power-with. She partners with clients, skillfully cultivating space for people to find their inner wisdom, explore challenges, and expand their own vision of what is possible. Trained in modalities of relaxation, awareness, mindfulness, breathing, guided imagery, hypnosis, biofeedback, Reiki, Enneagram, and other mind-body-spirit practices, Betsy has years of experience supporting many people-–from woo-woo lovers to side-eyeing skeptics—to tap their innate healing skills and creative resources.

Betsy is her own #1 case study in the art and science of integrative health and wellbeing. A raced-white, settler descendant, cisgendered, queer woman with a highly sensitive nervous system, Betsy is on a humble, awkward, and exhilarating lifelong journey to heal and transform patterns of generational, ancestral, and cultural trauma and systems of domination within her own mind-body-spirit. Her greatest hope is that this work might also radiate out: in service of others, her communities, the collective, and the planet.