Our experienced wellness providers are dedicated to ensuring your time at Rock River Wellness leaves you feeling your very best!
Dr. Jocelyn Barner: Board-certified Physical Therapist and Pilates Instructor
With 12+ years of experience working with patients in multiple settings, Jocelyn specializes in Pilates-based physical therapy, Pelvic Floor Health and Dry Needling. Her treatments and Plan of Care serve to improve body mechanics, mobility, strength, and overall health.
She is passionate about helping her patients gain strength and confidence in their bodies through movement and find longevity in the activities they love.
Services Offered:
- Physical Therapy Evaluation and Treatments: Thorough assessment and consultation to determine the best plan of care customized for you. Includes an initial treatment. Sne also offers additional services such as Dry Needling, Cupping, and Myofascial Release and Pelvic Floor Workshops.
- Reformer/Mat Pilates: Private/Duet Pilates lesson focusing on individualized fitness goals to improve flexibility and increase muscle strength and tone in your core.
Jocelyn will work closely with you to build custom physical rehabilitation and fitness programs.
Emily Jo Wiadro: Integrative Yoga Therapist
Emily is a certified teacher and integrative yoga therapist with over 700 hours of training. She has been teaching yoga for 25 years and her training includes a variety of styles (Iyengar, Ashtanga, and therapeutic), and she enjoys blending them through her lifetime of kinesthetic knowledge as a dancer.
Services Offered:
- Integrative Yoga: A simplified, individualized, integrative yoga practice that offers plenty of detail on poses and appropriate individual modifications. You will receive a personalized wellness prescription to perfectly serve your path to optimal well-being to bring home for easy reference.
- Yoga Nidra: The bulk of the session is a guided meditation designed specifically for your individual intention and includes deeply grounding and healing imagery to focus your attention and breath.
Emily's classes offer mindful movements, with many options to modify for more ease in the body and she always encourages following your own body’s wisdom.
Susan Carter: Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist
Susan is a Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist certified by the State Medical Boards of Vermont, Ohio, and California, and the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She has completed advanced training with Dr. Richard Teh-Fu Tan (Pain Management and Internal Medicine), Jane Lyttleton (Women’s Health and Fertility) and Heiner Fruehauf (Chinese Herbal Medicine).
Specializing in women’s health, immune support, and emotional well-being, Susan’s approach is deeply attuned to the needs and desires of each patient.
Acupuncture can treat a variety of different conditions. The shortlist includes insomnia, depression, anxiety, stress, digestive disorders, immune dysfunction, menstrual irregularity, fertility, thyroid and adrenal disorders, joint pain, respiratory conditions, the common cold, side effects from chemotherapy, addiction, respiratory conditions, headaches, and arthritis.
Alison Trowbridge: Massage Therapist
Alison studied Integrative Bodywork at the Green Mountain Institute in North Bennington, Vermont, and has supported clients since 2005. Her guiding principle is that massage when performed with full attention and focus, can profoundly benefit an individual’s overall health and well-being. It can help people achieve levels of physical, emotional, and spiritual relaxation that otherwise may be missing from their lives.
Integrative Bodywork focuses on physically manipulating muscles and soft tissue while incorporating energy-balancing techniques to help re-establish the connection between body and mind.
Benefits of Bodywork:
- Encourages Deep Relaxation
- Relieves Stress
- Increases Energy
- Promotes a Greater Range of Motion
- Improves Sleep
- Reduces Aches and Pains
- Stimulates Circulation
Each massage session is individually tailored to meet your needs and wishes. Alison works with you as a partner to help you get the most from your massage.
Rev. Derek Ahl: Reiki Practitioner & Spiritual Coach
Derek has been providing Reiki to clients as a practitioner for 20+ years. Trained as Usui Reiki Master, his practice is open and welcoming, tailoring each engagement to one’s individual needs. Derek is also an ordained Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Coach.
Services Offered:
- Reiki: has been shown to reduce stress, improve energy, support chronic pain management, and enhance balance across systems. During a session, you lie fully clothed on a massage table, with blankets and pillows available for comfort. The practitioner places their hands on your head, torso, legs, and feet, with extra attention for specific concerns. There is no manipulation of the body. A typical session is 60 minutes plus discourse.
- Spiritual Coaching: is an opportunity to have an open dialogue to explore one’s individual perspective and engagement with regards to spiritual matters.
Julia Hampton, MS: Nutrition Counselor & Intuitive Eating Coach
Julia has a Master's in Nutrition and Dietetics from Bastyr University and is a certified Non-Diet Eating and Body Image Coach as well as a Cognitive Behavioral Coach. She brings over 10 years of experience working with people to reach their wellness goals through behavior change in eating, movement, and overall self-care.
Julia specializes in helping people with:
- Improving energy, focus, and mood
- Emotional eating
- Out-of-control cravings
- Blood sugar regulation
- Digestive issues
- Hormone balance
- Food sensitivities
- Eating disorders
Services Offered:
- A personalized, one-on-one session that will allow you to share your current struggles and have a breakthrough around your relationship with food and nutrition-related wellness goals. As part of this session, Julia will guide you in an Eating Awareness Practice to help you connect with your body and mind to find satisfaction in eating what is right for you.
Joyce St. Jean: ANFT-Certified Forest Therapy Guide
As an advocate for nature-based healing, Joyce is committed to harnessing the restorative power of forests to enhance well-being. Joyce specializes in facilitating immersive experiences that promote mental clarity, emotional resilience, and physical health through deep connections with nature.
Forest Therapy is a research-based practice that supports healing and wellness through immersion in forests and other natural environments. The practice originated in Japan and is known as shinrin-yoku, which translates to “taking in the forest” or “forest bathing”. Studies have demonstrated a wide array of health benefits, especially in the cardiovascular and immune systems, and for stabilizing and improving mood and cognition.
Services Offered:
- A gentle 2-3 hour forest walk, where you’ll have the opportunity to connect with nature through your senses.
- The experience concludes with a tea ceremony, allowing you to reflect on your sensory journey and embrace the restorative power of nature.
Walter Hagedorn: Art Therapist (Creator of Chicken Niblets and The Love Sheep)
For 30+ years Walter has been a creator of things related to the act of play. Specifically, designing and developing adapted toys and learning aids for children with disabilities. As he began to retire from that path, he started exploring the arts using oil paints passed down to him from his dad and grandfather. Having absolute no formal art training has enabled him to approach painting without the influence and boundaries set by others.
The Art Therapy Experience:
Open up and allow the creativity to flow, then experience joy. Bypassing traditional painting techniques, you will focus on using your hands and eyes to move in harmony and sidestep disruptive feelings of uncertainty.
This technique emphasizes a layered approach, allowing everyone at all experience levels to build depth and complexity in their art. This method not only enhances the visual richness of the artwork but also promotes exploration and experimentation, inviting a more personal connection to the creative process.
Kaiilama Morris: Somatic Breath Therapist, Intuitive and Life Coach
Kaiilama completed her certification as a Somatic Breath Facilitator through the Power of Breath Institute. For 25 years, she has been supporting individuals of all ages to connect, remember, and enliven their own true inner wisdom. She has supported people to integrate trauma, live medication-free, open their hearts, emotionally regulate, and mentally balance to live joyful, creative, and heart-centered lives. She has a genuine intuitive gift sprinkled with experience, compassion, gentleness, and deep inner knowing.
How Does it Work?
Somatic Breath Therapy is an intentional, conscious connected breath in which the client lies down, closes the pause between the inhale and the exhale while engaging sound and movement while Kaiilama intuitively and skillfully facilitates the opening of the breath in various areas of the body. The connected breath activates the vagal nerve which assists in balancing the nervous system and enlivens deep healing on all levels.
Laura Ridgeway: Sound Therapist
Laura graduated from The School of Sound Healing three-year certificate course in 2013 and has since developed her private practice in Westminster West, and at a retreat center in VT.
She works in group settings giving sound baths, leading women’s circles, blessing ways, and other special celebrations and ceremonies for people’s rights of passage such as yoni steam initiation ceremonies, blessing ways, and anniversaries. She utilizes voice, drums, rattles, crystal bowls, gong, and many other tools to help move energy in conjunction with the clients' intentions.