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Harmony Healing House
Phone: (707) 263-5335
Email: information@harmonyhealinghouse.com

Our Staff

Harmony Healing House is located in Northern California and has successfully helped improve the health of hospitals, organizations, schools and communities for years. Our team of experts includes physicians, nurses, psychologists, healers and healthcare consultants who create a “Culture of Health” and have a vision of partnering with large community organizations such as hospitals, schools and government to create healthy communities.

Kelly Mather – Founder, Creator & Author

Kelly is on a mission to improve health! In 2006 she founded Harmony Healing House which teaches hospitals, schools, health leaders and organizations how to create a healthy community. During her fifteen years as a Chief Executive Officer of various hospitals, she promoted a vision for the hospitals under her leadership to improve health and promote healing. She helps hospitals expand their focus beyond just “illness and rescue care”. As Kelly began creating and testing many wellness programs and services over the years, she found that there is a simple, low cost, proven way to improve health which gives organizations a return on their investment and community benefit. Using her Master’s Degree in Health Administration and the teachings from health promotion experts all over the world, she has created programs that actually heal. Using the 5 keys to wellness and the 4 levels of healing, customers become aware of their current state of health and begin healing to create a healthier community. Kelly is married and the mother of three children living on a beautiful sacred lake in Northern California. When not passionately following her mission, she can be found doing yoga, hiking and watching her children in all of their activities.

Leslie Lovejoy – Nurse Educator, Shaman & Author

Dr. Leslie Lovejoy combines 30 + years of nursing administration, health education, quality improvement, individual counseling and group facilitation. As a Registered Nurse, Leslie integrates her western medicine training with an understanding of the mind-body-spirit connection to create health. Dr. Lovejoy earned a Masters of Science in Clinical Psychology (1982) and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology (1985) with an emphasis on Health Psychology. Leslie specializes in the four levels of healing and over the years she has trained hospitals, physicians, herbalists and health practitioners on health improvement and awareness.

Leslie lives in an “off the grid” home on a sanctuary of forty acres in Northern California with her partner and furry friends. She is often called the “healthcare shaman” because she artfully weaves in nature, wild life, ancient medicine and ceremony to create health awareness and a healthy planet.

For additional information, visit www.wellness-pathways.com.

Judith Lukomski – Consultant, Culture Change Expert & Author

Judith Lukomski is the Founder of Transitions Today Inc., a consulting company dedicated to leading the change revolution. Ms. Lukomski is a respected leader and change consultant delivering substantial and sustainable results to organizations and individuals around the world. Offering an original perspective with proven methodology and experience she guides motivated clients through transformation to achieve their goals. Her specialties include:

• Strategic Planning and Implementation
• Intuitive Leadership Development
• Organizational Change Management
• Education and Training Programs
• Executive Mentoring

For additional information visit www.transitionstoday.com

Lisa Schneller – Illustrator & Role model

Lisa is the illustrator of Kelly’s children’s books including 5 Keys to Wellness, Ducky Love, Fish Breath and the two upcoming books Froggy Choice and Drumming Bird. Lisa has wanted to illustrate children’s books since she was eleven years old but she was been drawing ever since she could hold a crayon. Her work can be seen in New Moon Magazine, a magazine for young girls, as well as the bimonthly bulletin for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, which is distributed internationally. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

To see more of her work, please visit www.lisaschneller.com.

Susan Reed – Coach, Nurse & Teacher

Susan Reed is a Wellness Coach and Nurse of over 25 years experience. In the hospital environment Susan specialized in ICU, cardiology, cardiac rehab fitness, behavioral health, dialysis, and wound care. After time she saw a true need to treat the “whole person.” Her passion lead her to blend therapies for the best patient care.

She became a Healing Touch Instructor and Practitioner in 1994 and has been teaching Healing Touch in an acute hospitals nationally and internationally since. She has helped establish clinics, Healing Touch teams, research pilots and support groups for community and practitioners. With a gift for communication Susan has private practice where she integrates talk therapy, and Healing Touch of 11 years. She presently is a Wellness Coach and teaches Healing Touch for Sutter Hospitals in northern CA.

Susan’s education includes a degree in Nursing from New York, Certifications in Healing Touch as a Practitioner and Instructor and Wound Care Specialist. Her life experience in healing arts is a natural expression of a deep understanding that modern medicine and Healing Touch together provide helpful treatment of any dis-ease.

Susan is a activist when it come to Healing Touch and Lifestyle Management . She believes healing comes through the body/mind connection. In her own words, “my quest is to bridge the gap between allopathic medicine and complimentary medicine”, she states, “this is the place where true wellness within can be found.”

Chris Chaney – Consultant & Amazing Musician

With over 30 years experience as a licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner, Chris has observed firsthand the vital role that the breath and breathing plays in health, healing and recovery. Beginning his career in 1978 as a Respiratory Therapist involved in direct patient care, Chris recognized early that the majority of chronic respiratory diseases are preventable. Desiring to play a more active role in maximizing his patients potential for health, Chris became involved with a Pulmonary Rehabilitation program in 1985 and eventually specialized in pulmonary testing and diagnosis, adding the credential of Registered Pulmonary Function Technologist in 1990. Chris has also been the director of several Cardiopulmonary Departments at Northern California hospitals, developed and managed a private pulmonary diagnostic lab for a physician group and served as an Assistant Administrator for a rural California hospital. Working at several healthcare organizations with Kelly Mather since 1994, Chris shares her passion for promoting health and healing through prevention, stress reduction, lifestyle choices and positive thinking.

A self proclaimed Neil Young wannabe with questionable roots going back to garage bands of the 1960’s, Chris has tamed his musical tastes and channeled his energy into composing, performing and recording the Guided Imagery CD’s utilized by Harmony Healing House. When not sequestered in his home studio working on his latest project, Chris exchanges his headphones and guitar for a helmet and bicycle or lifejacket and kayak and explores the beauty of northern California.

Chris is available for custom CD projects and can be reached at chaneych@yahoo.com

Dr. Matthew McQuaid

Dr. Matthew McQuaid is a board certified foot surgeon. Originally from San Francisco, he graduated cum laude from California State University Chico with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. After completing undergraduate studies he returned to San Francisco to complete medical school at the California College of Podiatric Medicine.

Dr. McQuaid completed his surgical residency at Detroit Medical Center where he specialized in traumatology and diabetic foot disorders. He completed a traumatology fellowship at St. Vincenz Hospital in Mainz, Germany. After his fellowship training he settled in Lakeport, California where he now is in private practice.

During a 5 year struggle with infertility he began to study the detrimental impact of stress and its relationship to disease. He found that stress was the cause of the infertility he and his wife so desperately wanted to overcome.

Using Mind/Body medical techniques such as meditation, yoga, visualization and emotional restructuring, he and his wife, Michelle, were rewarded with the miracle birth of their son, Luke.

After this experience, he has dedicated his life to helping people discover the healing potential Mind/Body medicine has in the prevention and treatment of disease. He has eleven years of experience in meditation and yoga practice.

He is the award winning author of, A Spiritual Path to Overcoming Infertility, and is an instructor of Mind/Body medicine at The Wellness Center at Sutter Lakeside Hospital in Lakeport, California.

Anna Knudson – School Health Educator

Anna Knudson has been teaching health and wellness to children for over ten years.  She was instrumental in developing and implementing the Healthy Kids are Contagious school site program that has successfully improved the health of an entire county.   

Anna is currently developing a turn-key model based on the successful school site health program to allow schools to implement the program throughout the nation. Prior to teaching the 5 Keys to Wellness at elementary schools, Anna was a pre-school teacher. Anna is married with three children ages 11 to 15. Children and children’s health activities has always been her passion. She is an active community and school volunteer and has been a cheerleading coach for over 8 years. She is currently working on a facilitators guide for schools which is due out in May, 2010. 

Kathy Wolden – Artist & Graphic Designer

For the past twelve years, Kathy has been immersed in graphic design and marketing. Her life's passion for the arts and her studies in metaphysics bring an alchemist's blend with conscious intention to her art.

Her studies include a multitude of art, design & program certificates, Bachelors in Metaphysics, Apprentice in Vibrational Medicine and a Reiki Master.

Currently, Kathy lives in beautiful Lake County, California with her partner and their little four-legged beasts, surrounded by the awe of nature.

design@vzpeace.com

Jason Johnson – IT & Communications

Jason Johnson has been in the IT industry for nearly 10 years. He is a self-professed nerd and at age 19, he is a Microsoft Certified technician and an award-winning web designer that maintains a website design and IT support business with nearly 200 clients.

Jason’s passion for technology as well as his creative mind lends a helping hand when we need it most. His mother a Registered Nurse, Jason has been around the medical industry and exposed to its needs for most of his life.

For more information, visit his firm’s website at www.johnsonwd.com.

Corinne McKinney – Administrative Assistant

corinne@harmonyhealinghouse.com

Amanda McKinney – Administrative Assistant

amanda@harmonyhealinghouse.com