Healing Touch is a new and exciting addition to the Specialty Clinic. Healing Touch is a hands-on energy therapy that uses touch to promote health and healing. It is non-invasive, gentle,
and effective. Healing Touch compliments traditional health care, and is useful in combination with traditional medicine as part of an effective health care program.

Healing Touch helps the healing process. The Healing Touch Practitioner realigns the energy flow to eliminate blockages. This helps clear, energize, and balance a person’s energy field, helping to restore the body’s balance and speed the healing process.

Healing Touch can aid in stress management by relaxing the body and mind. It provides improved healing and pain relief. It can help with headaches, migraines, and head injuries. Cancer patients find it helps with the rigors of chemotherapy and radiation. Healing Touch is used for back and neck pain, bone fractures, grief, arthritis, depression, PMS, viral infections, high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, and many other situations.

Everyone can benefit from this therapy. Healing Touch influences the whole person on all levels - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

When having a Healing Touch session, please dress comfortably. After the practitioner talks with the patient for a few minutes, the practitioner will ask them to lie down fully clothed on the table. The practitioner moves her hands in a gentle motion around the body and uses light touch. Healing Touch provides benefits with no adverse side effects. Everyone has a different experience. Reactions can range from a sense of calm and relaxation to feeling energized. Many people describe an increased sense of well-being after treatment.

About the Practitioner
Betty Meighan, RN, BSN, has more then 22 years of nursing experience. She has been a home health nurse for the past 8 years. Meighan’s previous nursing experience encompassed cardiac rehabilitation, medical-surgical, critical care, and staff education.

Meighan became interested in Healing Touch several years ago, hearing about it for the first time at a continuing education program on cancer pain management. She started taking classes and became even more interested in the therapy after seeing some amazing results in her clients. To become a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner, Meighan completed 120 hours of course work and an additional 100 hours of hands-on training.

To make an appointment for Healing Touch therapy, please call the Mercy Medical Center - New Hampton Specialty Clinic at (641) 394-1687. A one-hour session costs $35 and a doctor referral is not required. Please note that similar to massage and chiropractic services, Healing Touch may not covered by insurance.