Dawn McLaughlin, founder of Intuitive Hearts wellness center, cares deeply about her clients and offers a broad spectrum of energetic healing approaches to bring peace into their lives and ease into their days. Her work is based on her own healing journey, which began with reiki. “I was suffering from belly drama,” she says, referring to celiac disease. “Reiki made me feel better in the moment and led to discovering other modalities as I uncovered layers within myself.”

Reiki is an energetic healing modality that promotes relaxation and stress relief, as well as physical, emotional, mental, energetic, and spiritual healing through the connection to Universal Healing Energy. The healer works intuitively to release stagnant or blocked life force energy, restore balance, and support the body’s natural healing processes. After having positive experiences with reiki therapy, McLaughlin became a Reiki Master-Teacher, as well as a vibrational sound healer, certified hypnotherapist, astrological consultant, tarot card reader, yoga and meditation teacher (500 RYT), and life coach.

These are techniques that helped her, and now she leads many workshops and trainings in these practices. Her students include doctors and other healthcare professionals, to whom she teaches what she has learned through her own personal journey of self-healing and self-discovery. She has personally experienced the exploratory process herself, which she draws upon to guide both students and clients.

McLaughlin also offers individualized sessions that combine multiple modalities in order to address a client’s specific needs. For example, an Energetic Release and Renewal Session helps those that feel energetically depleted or emotionally entangled. This integrative session combines energy healing, sound, and guided release techniques to help let go of what no longer belongs in one’s life and replace it with clarity, grounding and a felt sense of ease in one’s own energy.

Symptoms may manifest in physical ways—discomfort, pain, fatigue, restlessness—while the underlying causes are less obvious—energetic blockages or imbalances, unprocessed grief or emotional suppression, not enough self-care, too much self-judgment, too many worries or simply a lacking sense of purpose.

Many people have difficulty sleeping, and proper rest is essential to energy restoration and healing. McLaughlin relates one client’s story: “A woman came to me with sleep deprivation. She slept no more than two hours per night for six years, and now she is sleeping through the night.”

“If you are stuck,” states McLaughlin, “you do not have to stay in the same place. There are healthy options for you to explore on your own healing journey.” She teaches clients how to trust their own intuition and practice discernment in identifying their own personal power. McLaughlin feels this can be a vital facility to cultivate in a world being taken over increasingly with AI.

Intuitive Hearts was founded to help souls discover their own healing journeys and rebalance their life energy, beginning with a Chakra Harmony Session, The Soul Path Insight Session, The Seep Reset Clarity Session or another selection from McLaughlin’s well-curated menu.

Location: 14 Cedar Swamp Rd., Smithfield, RI. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 401-500-4697, email [email protected] or visit Intuitive-Hearts.com. 

Wendy Nadherny Fachon is a regular contributor to Natural Awakenings magazine.