Center for Wellbeing
OUR WELLNESS TEAM
Catherine Harner RN, West Shore Reiki Alliance
Reiki Master Teacher | Energy Practitioner
Catherine has been serving the Central PA area in her roles as a Registered Nurse for 35 Years, and a Reiki Master Teacher since 1997. An innovator and pioneer, she piloted the opening of the first birthing room at Polyclinic Hospital. She traveled with the Polyclinc Midwives’ Practice to out-lying rural areas to deliver pre-natal care and childbirth teaching.
While working at the federally funded Hamilton Health Center she developed a comprehensive in-facility pre-natal and post-natal program. This was accomplished through collaborative grant writing efforts in conjunction with the PA State Department of Health and the PA Local Family Planning Council. She also focused on providing care to the geriatric population and mental health services.
Catherine’s Reiki training, practice and teaching has brought her much joy. She studied with premier Reiki teachers: William Lee Rand and Walter Lubeck. She furthered her studies of Reiki and Crystal Healing with Lanelle Shanti Gaia, creator of Peace Place Reiki Center in Sedona, AZ.
As one of the co-creators of West Shore Reiki Alliance (WSRA), Catherine will bring innovative, cutting-edge holistic practices to the community.
Reiki Master Teacher | Energy Practitioner
Catherine has been serving the Central PA area in her roles as a Registered Nurse for 35 Years, and a Reiki Master Teacher since 1997. An innovator and pioneer, she piloted the opening of the first birthing room at Polyclinic Hospital. She traveled with the Polyclinc Midwives’ Practice to out-lying rural areas to deliver pre-natal care and childbirth teaching.
While working at the federally funded Hamilton Health Center she developed a comprehensive in-facility pre-natal and post-natal program. This was accomplished through collaborative grant writing efforts in conjunction with the PA State Department of Health and the PA Local Family Planning Council. She also focused on providing care to the geriatric population and mental health services.
Catherine’s Reiki training, practice and teaching has brought her much joy. She studied with premier Reiki teachers: William Lee Rand and Walter Lubeck. She furthered her studies of Reiki and Crystal Healing with Lanelle Shanti Gaia, creator of Peace Place Reiki Center in Sedona, AZ.
As one of the co-creators of West Shore Reiki Alliance (WSRA), Catherine will bring innovative, cutting-edge holistic practices to the community.
Denise VanBriggle, West Shore Reiki Alliance
Reiki Master Teacher | Energy Practitioner
Denise brings over forty years of experience in government and education to her role as one of the co-creators of the West Shore Reiki Alliance. At the state level, she has served former governors and secretaries of education and taught English Language Arts at several school districts and Penn State Harrisburg, where she also directed The Capital Area Writing Project, a local site of The National Writing Project. Now retired, she spends most days exploring the potential of various healing and expressive arts to act as change agents, perspective shifters, and resilience builders in her own life and the lives of others.
As a Reiki Master Teacher, poet, and author who holds certifications in Shamanic
Energy Medicine, JourneyDance TM, ReikiVoice TM, ReikiSound TM, Transformational Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy (IET), and Crystal Healing, she draws upon many rich traditions to serve the unique needs of her clients. During a session, she may integrate reiki, crystals, drums, rattles, singing bowls, shamanic tools, movement, music, and her own voice as intuitively called. She understands the transformative nature of words that emanate directly from one's soul and often taps into this power source during her shamanic sessions. Shamanism is an ancient form of healing that helps restore harmony within mind, body, and spirit. Denise is a heart-centered bardic shaman, who looks forward to sharing the foundation of the shamanic healing process — Illumination— with her clients. An Illumination clears toxic imprints from the Luminous Energy Field, balances the chakras, and prepares one for more in-depth shamanic work, if so desired.
For more information, please visit www.denisevanbriggle.com
Reiki Master Teacher | Energy Practitioner
Denise brings over forty years of experience in government and education to her role as one of the co-creators of the West Shore Reiki Alliance. At the state level, she has served former governors and secretaries of education and taught English Language Arts at several school districts and Penn State Harrisburg, where she also directed The Capital Area Writing Project, a local site of The National Writing Project. Now retired, she spends most days exploring the potential of various healing and expressive arts to act as change agents, perspective shifters, and resilience builders in her own life and the lives of others.
As a Reiki Master Teacher, poet, and author who holds certifications in Shamanic
Energy Medicine, JourneyDance TM, ReikiVoice TM, ReikiSound TM, Transformational Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy (IET), and Crystal Healing, she draws upon many rich traditions to serve the unique needs of her clients. During a session, she may integrate reiki, crystals, drums, rattles, singing bowls, shamanic tools, movement, music, and her own voice as intuitively called. She understands the transformative nature of words that emanate directly from one's soul and often taps into this power source during her shamanic sessions. Shamanism is an ancient form of healing that helps restore harmony within mind, body, and spirit. Denise is a heart-centered bardic shaman, who looks forward to sharing the foundation of the shamanic healing process — Illumination— with her clients. An Illumination clears toxic imprints from the Luminous Energy Field, balances the chakras, and prepares one for more in-depth shamanic work, if so desired.
For more information, please visit www.denisevanbriggle.com
Candi (Arena) Della Ragione, West Shore Reiki Alliance
Holistic Practitioner | Fitness Coach | Licensed Massage Therapist
Candi (Arena) Della Ragione is a Holistic Practitioner and a Fitness Coach with 15 years of experience. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist and has extensive training in Ayurvedic Massage, as a Bowen Therapist as a VOILA' Method practitioner, as a Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and Karuna Reiki.
She is an Access Bars practitioner and is expanding her studies in Access Bars Consciousness holding certifications in Correcting Vision and MTVSS. She has been initiated into the 9 rites of Munay-Ki. She has also completed her 200-hour certification through Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts and is currently working on her 500-hour Yoga teacher training.
Through her years of training and life experiences , she has learned that the health of one’s physical body is deeply connected and rooted within one’s emotional state and vibration. To assist her clients in achieving optimal health, Candi will tailor a treatment that will address the body, mind, and soul’s unique needs creating a safe space for healing to unfold.
Holistic Practitioner | Fitness Coach | Licensed Massage Therapist
Candi (Arena) Della Ragione is a Holistic Practitioner and a Fitness Coach with 15 years of experience. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist and has extensive training in Ayurvedic Massage, as a Bowen Therapist as a VOILA' Method practitioner, as a Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and Karuna Reiki.
She is an Access Bars practitioner and is expanding her studies in Access Bars Consciousness holding certifications in Correcting Vision and MTVSS. She has been initiated into the 9 rites of Munay-Ki. She has also completed her 200-hour certification through Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts and is currently working on her 500-hour Yoga teacher training.
Through her years of training and life experiences , she has learned that the health of one’s physical body is deeply connected and rooted within one’s emotional state and vibration. To assist her clients in achieving optimal health, Candi will tailor a treatment that will address the body, mind, and soul’s unique needs creating a safe space for healing to unfold.
Dr. Christian Kcomt MD
Christian Kcomt MD is a Board Certified General Psychiatrist with a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine with Dr. Andrew Weil, Certification in Primordial Sound Meditation and Certification in Ayurvedic Medicine with Dr. Deepak Chopra of the Chopra Center.
Dr. Kcomt believes in balancing every aspect of his patients life-biological, mental,emotional and spiritual; to achieve true health.
Christian Kcomt MD is a Board Certified General Psychiatrist with a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine with Dr. Andrew Weil, Certification in Primordial Sound Meditation and Certification in Ayurvedic Medicine with Dr. Deepak Chopra of the Chopra Center.
Dr. Kcomt believes in balancing every aspect of his patients life-biological, mental,emotional and spiritual; to achieve true health.
FELLOWSHIPS
Integrative Medicine Fellowship Program through University of Arizona with Dr Andrew Weil
February 2014-February 2016
RESIDENCY IN PSYCHIATRY
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA
July 2002-June 2006
Member of American Psychiatry Association active
PA Medical License active
DEA License active
Board Certified in General Psychiatry July 2009
MEDICAL EDUCATION
Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
Physician and Surgeon Diploma
Lima PERU, 05/91-03/98
Arzobispo Loayza Hospital
Medical Intern
Lima PERU, 04/98-05/99
Multiple clinical rotations at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX and New York Presbyterian Hospital in NYC
PAST EMPLOYMENT
Sharon Community Health Center
Outpatient psychiatry
Sharon, PA 07/06-06/09
Mental Health Management-Corrections
Psychiatry
Camp Hill, PA 07/09-08/12
Lancaster General Hospital
Outpatient Services/Consultation/Inpatient Services
September 2012-December 2014
Drexel Medical School through Lancaster General Hospital
Associate Faculty
September 2012-December 2014
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Mount Sinai School of Medicine (Elmhurst Hospital)
Research Assistant
NYC 07/01-12/01
MEDICAL SCHOOL HONORS
Honors in Introduction to Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Medicine I, Medicine II
Integrative Medicine Fellowship Program through University of Arizona with Dr Andrew Weil
February 2014-February 2016
RESIDENCY IN PSYCHIATRY
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA
July 2002-June 2006
Member of American Psychiatry Association active
PA Medical License active
DEA License active
Board Certified in General Psychiatry July 2009
MEDICAL EDUCATION
Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
Physician and Surgeon Diploma
Lima PERU, 05/91-03/98
Arzobispo Loayza Hospital
Medical Intern
Lima PERU, 04/98-05/99
Multiple clinical rotations at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX and New York Presbyterian Hospital in NYC
PAST EMPLOYMENT
Sharon Community Health Center
Outpatient psychiatry
Sharon, PA 07/06-06/09
Mental Health Management-Corrections
Psychiatry
Camp Hill, PA 07/09-08/12
Lancaster General Hospital
Outpatient Services/Consultation/Inpatient Services
September 2012-December 2014
Drexel Medical School through Lancaster General Hospital
Associate Faculty
September 2012-December 2014
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Mount Sinai School of Medicine (Elmhurst Hospital)
Research Assistant
NYC 07/01-12/01
MEDICAL SCHOOL HONORS
Honors in Introduction to Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Medicine I, Medicine II
