Healing Oaks offers heart centered healing to restore harmony and balance to the mind, body and soul. Providing healing with Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy®, Meditation, Mediumship, Shamanic practices and Yoga we aim to guide your healing towards your highest health and highest good. In addition to offering private healing sessions, we offer a number of certificate training programs.

Melissa is an Usui Reiki Master Teacher, Integrated Energy Therapy® Master Instructor, Crystal Reiki Master Teacher, 200hr Certified Yoga Teacher, Meditation leader, Psychic Medium, and Registered Nurse. She is the founder of Healing Oaks, offering heart-centered healing through a variety of the above modalities and additional healing techniques. Melissa has been practicing energy healing for over 12 years and can be found teaching and seeing clients around the Northshore of Massachusetts.

Melissa has a deep belief that scientific, energetic, and natural medicines all play a role in working together for optimal healing of the whole person. She understands that healing is most effective when the body, mind, and soul are in harmony. Melissa works with each client, tailoring the healing session to meet their individual needs. Her background in nursing provides a unique insight that blends with intuition for a comprehensive understanding of her clients’ overall wellbeing.

Over the last four years, Melissa has certified dozens of students in both Reiki healing and Integrated Energy Therapy. Melissa truly thrives when she is given an opportunity to share these modalities with others, and watching her students awaken to their own spirituality is a gift that never ceases to amaze. 

When she is not working, you can find Melissa enjoying time with her two precious children and her beloved dog, Archie.

Melissa’s Journey

Having received Reiki healing many times and felt its powerful effects as a young adult, Melissa was overjoyed with the opportunity to begin her own journey from client to practitioner with Judy Copp of ‘A Higher Balance’ in Salem MA in January of 2011. She began to explore the energy with self-healing as well as hands on healing sessions for friends and family until July of 2011 when she continued on to her second level of Reiki training, again with Judy Copp. 

Melissa spent about four years offering healings and developing an understanding of how the energy feels and works and ultimately she felt called to pursue further training with Laura Class of Gloucester, MA. In 2015, Melissa received her Reiki Master / Teacher attunements and training. 

She also began to participate in Mediumship development classes around this time and has studied mediumship with several lovely teachers over the years, including: Katie Vandi, Lauren Rainbow, John Holland and Tony Stockwell.

Melissa has deepened her practice over the years offering private sessions, as well as group healings in the form of Reiki Circles. She has incorporated Reiki energy into her Yoga classes since completing her Yoga Teacher Training in May of 2019. 

In 2019 she was also called by her guides to share this beautiful modality, and thus began offering Reiki Training programs for level 1-3 practitioners as well as Reiki Teacher Trainings. She feels strongly that this healing modality and its beautiful energy be shared while honoring the traditions and ethics of Reiki healing.

Melissa has gone on to study with Julianne Santini and John Mercedes of ‘Profound Life Wellness’ for Integrated Energy Therapy® Intensive training (2019) in Teotihuacan, Mexico. She then again expanded her offerings to include IET sessions for clients as well as using IET techniques in her healing circles.

In 2022, the Angels encouraged Melissa to further her practice with IET. In October 2022, she earned her Integrated Energy Therapy Master/Instructor certificate and began offering training courses in January 2023. 

A lifelong learner, Melissa has also participated in several sacred travel journeys with Profound Life Wellness since 2017. Most recently she has explored shamanic healing practices under John and Julianne’s direction.

Melissa has been published as a featured author in “Love Initiation: Learning the Language of Soul” which is a collaborative project and was released via Amazon in February 2024. Love Initiation quickly became a Best Seller in several categories!

Her next project involves another collaborative book project. Melissa will be a featured author in “Holistic Mental Health, Volume 2: Calm, Clear and in Control for the Rest of Your Life” is due to be released via Amazon mid April 2024, order your pre-sale copy from the online gift shop!