Meet the Fort Collins Holistic Team

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Meet the Fort Collins Holistic Team

Our team

Meet our team

Holly

Founder & Acupuncturist

My own health is what brought me to acupuncture, but it has been seeing the complete transformations in my clients that has kept me intimately interested and connected to this ancient tradition. I know without a doubt this medicine is a wonderful drug-free solution for many.

The education required to become an acupuncturist is extensive. An undergraduate degree is mandatory to begin the study. I obtained my Bachelor’s of Arts in Psychology at the University of Maine at Farmington in 2003, and a Master’s degree in education at the University of New England in 2007. In addition, my acupuncture and herbal program took another four years to complete. Within that time, we learn with clinic supervision, cadaver labs, Eastern and Western medical pathology and nutrition, and I was honored to have some of the greatest teachers in the country by my side through it all.

In addition to the formal schooling, I’ve extensively studied esoteric acupuncture, reiki, I’ve done 500+ hours of yoga trainings, and my next areas I’m working on currently are in somatics, medical astrology, and furthering my knowledge of reading labs and blood chemistry.

Ally

Massage Therapist

I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and received my Bachelor’s degree from Eastern Washington University. As a multi-sport athlete (including: soccer, track, XC, swim team, lacrosse and softball) I realized the importance of body recovery through massage. I attended Cortiva Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona where I specialized my study in sports massage therapy. While living in Arizona, I had the rare opportunity to work on world class athletes, ranging from NFL players to Olympic runners. With this experience I was able to work with all types of injuries and body types and trained under world-renowned coaches and physicians. I also have experience working under chiropractors where I incorporated corrective massage therapy.

I look forward to bringing my skills and knowledge to the Fort Collins community. I am determined to help people fulfill their passions and improve their quality of life through the process of massage therapy.

Jordan

Reiki Healer

Jordan is a reiki master with 10+ years of experience as a healer. She uses her reiki foundation along with her strong intuition to guide her in every healing session. Jordan leverages different modalities such a crystal therapy, reiki drumming, breath work and intuitive messaging to address her clients holistically. She started her healing journey after moving to Colorado in 2009 to find a deeper connection with her own spirit. Jordan quickly fell in love with reiki and saw firsthand how much our energy impacts our mental and physical health. Since completing her Reiki classes, Jordan has dedicated herself to helping others find a more balanced, healthier version of themselves. She fully believes we have a healing body and when we connect with our energy in a meaningful way we can shift unbalanced energy, remove blockages, address emotional experiences such as trauma and heal physical ailments. Jordan also is a firm believer that our home environment impacts our energy, so she offers house clearings to release stuck, congested energy that may be negatively impacting you.

When Jordan isn’t practicing energy work, she is focused on her family and staying active. She enjoys yoga, hiking, mountain biking, running, gardening and spending time traveling to learn about different cultures.

Vanessa

Intuitive Tarot and Tea Leaf Reader

Magick in every form has always been a part of my life even as a young child. I grew up drinking tea and deciphering the messages and connections, astral projecting, lighting candles, using words as spells, even in cooking foods. Everything Ive learned began in nature. I spend my time and energy camping deep in the woods, taking emotional intelligence body workshops, working with light workers and QIC practitioners, practicing yoga and meditation, along with my own personal work and growth. My connection to the spirit realm has always been present and I love receiving the messages that so often present themselves. Magick surrounds our life and is waiting for us to dive deeper within. I look forward to exploring this with you.

What does it mean to be truly holistic?

What does it really mean to take a “holistic” approach to your healing? Holistic is all the rage right now, and for good reason, but allow us to expand on our philosophy of what holistic healing really means to us, and what you can expect if you choose to work deeper with us at Holistically Inspired. Primarily, we believe healing needs to happen not only in different areas of your life, but also along different planes of energy. Not only do we need to work on our eating and sleeping habits, but we also need to pay attention to quieting our mind and soothing our spirit.The benefits you will experience from working on all four of these levels are immense, indescribable really. It is not for the faint of heart, this style of treatment is created for those who are truly ready to shift, heal, grow, and evolve. You will dive head first into your healing and can essentially throw out all of the old metaphorical band aids that you have been using to cover stuff up. Your time for healing is here, there’s no time like the present.

Physical

The “physical” is one of the most common reasons people seek treatment with acupuncture. There is a wide held belief that acupuncture is primarily for the treatment of pain, and while acupuncture is wonderful for pain, it’s reach is much broader than that. The physical body is where we see the symptoms surface that are indicative of what is going on inside--chronic pain lingers or stubborn issues surface again and again. In reality, and in most cases, these imbalances run much deeper than surface level but oftentimes it is seeing them manifest in our physical body that drives us in for treatment or that pushes us to the edge and motivates us to try a different modality.

Mental

From my experience in the clinic I’ve observed that mental support is the second most common category of ailments people tend to seek treatment with acupuncture for. The “mental” category holds a special place in my heart because psychology was and always will remain, my first passion. Collectively, we are beginning to realize more and more how much our mental health actually does affect us. Stress, anxiety, repressed grief and depression are some of the main causes of disease in Eastern medicine and until past traumas–both micro and macro are worked with and processed then healing will stagnate.

Emotional

One of the primary causes of disease in TCM is emotion. Western medicine does not typically give much weight to the link between emotions and disease etiology, but when you look back far enough, there is often a clear connection. Long, repressed, and intense emotions get stored in the body and working with them can be a painful process. Many of us push them down and numb via addictive tendencies. If a disease is stubborn or long-standing, and not healing with conventional methods, this is one of the most important places to examine more deeply.

Energetic

This category has morphed and changed over the years and now, the main area I think of in regards to your energetic body is the etherical chakra system that resides on the astral plane. The Chakras are a tremendous healing tool and they contribute more to our everyday life than one could even imagine. Once I began working with the chakras in conjunction with acupuncture, people made dramatic improvements in their mental, emotional, and physical health and cleared blocks that they didn’t even realize were holding them back.

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2629 Redwing Road
Suite 110
Fort Collins, CO 80526
holly@holisticallyinspired.org
(207) 370-1810

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