Therapists

Colon Therapists

Patricia Stranahan, N.D. is the Director of the Natural Healing Center and has worked in traditional and alternative medicine for over 30 years.  She is a Certified Colon Therapist, Iridologist, Hypnotherapist and a licensed Ordained Minister.  She is a member of the American Naturopathic Medical Association, International Association for Colon Therapy, International Association for Regression Research and Therapies, and National Spiritualist Association of Churches.  She is on the National Board of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship International, and the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research.  She holds Undergraduate degrees in Business and Art and is a teacher and lecturer on Health and Spirituality.

Denise Kelley, N.D. is a registered nurse with an extensive background in critical care and is a certified colon therapist.  She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Holistic Nutrition from the American Holistic College of Nutrition, her Doctorate of Naturopathy from Clayton College, and trained with Hanna Kroeger.  She is also an ordained minister.

Acupuncturist

Ling Liu, L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is licensed in Acupuncture in Maryland and Virginia and is certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.  She is a graduate of Beijing Medical University and received her training in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine at the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Chiropractic

John McConnell, D.C., Dr. McConnell earned his doctorate of Chiropractic from the National College of Chiropractic, now The National University of Health Sciences. His training was extensive and similar to a medical doctor for the first two years of the five years of study.  He has been licensed in the state of Virginia since 1982 as a Chiropractic Physician and he is in his 24th year of practice.  He was instrumental in organizing the first Acupuncture program offered in the state of Virginia for chiropractors, medical doctors and osteopathic doctors.  He is a past member of the Board of Managed Chiropractic Network as well as a past board member of the Northern Virginia Chiropractic Society. He has been a member of the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, the National Health Federation, The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, The Weston A. Price Foundation, as well as professional Chiropractic associations at the local, state and national level. He takes a holistic approach and uses a variety of procedures and techniques to treat patients. Dr. McConnell combines the latest in high tech with a soft touch. 

Reflexologist

Brigitte Wiss is a fully qualified Reflexologist. Reflexology is art of pressing the acupressure points under the feet to detoxify the body, boost the Immune system and rebalance the organs and glands. Like chiropractic, reflexology balances the inner system. She studied reflexology at “The Institute for Integrated Therapies” in Vienna, VA with the known late teacher Margaret d’Urso, a student herself of the famous American physiotherapist Eunice Ingram.

Brigitte has been involved in the holistic approaches since 1990. To provide more opportunity to help a wider range of conditions, although specializing in Reflexology, Brigitte has also been using Young Living Aromatherapy.  She has also shared with the client different breathing techniques, guided them with positive thinking and integrated few minutes of healing and energy balancing at the end of the session when the client is opened to it.

Brigitte’s techniques are more detailed and health oriented. You leave the session with a peaceful sense of well-being, rejuvenation and inner balance with your body starting to do some inner healing. Brigitte has been working with clients who are healthy but also runners, and clients who have arthritis, lyme disease, MS, fibromyalgia, tension headaches, digestive disorders, hormonal imbalances (good for after pregnancy too), PMS, back/neck pain, plantar fasciitis and more.

Reflexology is also used for post-operative or palliative care. A study in the American Cancer Society journal found that one-third of cancer patients used reflexology as a complementary therapy. Brigitte has helped pregnant women to encourage labor when overdue. Reflexology is recommended as a complementary therapy and should not replace medical treatment.

Massage Therapist

Pat Dunham is a nationally certified massage therapist who graduated with honors from AKS Massage School in Herndon, Virginia. She is also a Registered Nurse with an extensive career in nursing which includes nursing in hospitals on medical and surgical units, Intensive and critical care, home health care, oncology, and more recently in disease management.

Pat was attracted to the profession of massage after experiencing relief from an ongoing pain condition for which no prior medical treatment had relieved.  In addition, she found she missed the hands-on care provided when she first became a nurse, so decided to make a career change.

Her focus is on deep relaxation and relief of stress and pain by integrating techniques such as Swedish, deep tissue, myofascial release, trigger point, or Reiki. A specific area of interest is in senior massage, and she is currently working to start a program in a local assisted living facility.

Pat enjoys learning new bodywork techniques and continues to study to improve her massage skills. Her goal is to help each client improve the quality of their life by assisting them in pain relief or reduction of stress.

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