Healing Touch in Iowa City!
Welcome to the Healing Touch clinic, located in the offices of Acupuncture of Iowa. One-hour, fully clothed sessions supporting your body's natural ability to recover from stress, pain and fatigue.
In-person sessions are scheduled through Acupuncture of Iowa's booking system.
Yes, you’re seeing correctly! Shadow and Buddy (a Brindle off-screen), rescue Greyhounds add their own therapeutic presence to our relaxed, calm offices.
Restoring Balance and Vitality, In Person
I am an Iowa City native and a former teacher in the Iowa City Community School District. My roots here go deep and I am glad to be offering in-person Healing Touch again.
I see clients at Acupuncture of Iowa on Eastbury Drive. Sessions are professional, non-invasive and fully clothed, designed to support your body's own ability to recover from stress, ease pain and settle back into calm.
What Is Healing Touch?
Healing Touch is a gentle, heart-centered therapy that uses light touch, or near-body touch, to support your physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. You remain fully clothed throughout.
It is practiced in more than 100 hospitals across the country as a biofield therapy that works alongside conventional medicine. My goal is to help you release the physical tension of daily life, renew your internal energy stores and radiate your own essence.
The Difference Biofield Work Makes
Light touch and above-body methods give your system something to respond to.
Something changes when the work is done in the room rather than at a distance. You are resting on a treatment table, fully clothed, with nowhere to be and nothing to manage. For many people that alone is the first real rest they have had in weeks.
Working directly with your biofield gives the nervous system a clear, steady signal. Tension held for months often begins to release before we are far into the session. If you tend to live in your head, or you have found it hard to settle in other settings, the hands-on format can help the work land more quickly.
What the Work Includes
Inside an Energy Session
Assessment of Your Energy Field I assess where your energy is congesting, depleted or moving freely, a picture of where you are on this particular day.
Hands-On Healing Touch The core of the session, using gentle light touch and above-body methods to work directly with your biofield.
Release and Rebalancing We work with what is ready to move, easing the physical holding patterns that stress, illness or long effort leave behind.
Grounding Practices You leave with simple ways to stay grounded between sessions, through stillness, breath and attention to your body.
Your Goals, Session by Session Each session is organized around what matters to you right now. Your intention guides where we go.
A Session, From Start to Finish
Before — We settle and set your intention.
You arrive at Acupuncture of Iowa and we spend a few minutes talking. There is nothing to prepare and nothing you need to know beforehand. Wear whatever is comfortable. You stay fully clothed for the entire session.
During — We move through the work.
You rest on a comfortable massage table while I work with light or near-body touch. Some people feel warmth, or tingling, or a sense of heaviness lifting. Some feel a deep quiet. Many drift toward sleep. All of that is welcome, and none of it is required.
After — We debrief and integrate.
We come back slowly. I share what I noticed, you share what you experienced, and I may offer a simple practice to support the work over the following days. Give yourself a little time before rushing to whatever is next.
SESSION LENGTH: 60 MINUTES • LOCATION: ACUPUNCTURE OF IOWA, IOWA CITY
Why People Come
Stress Management Easing the fight, flight and freeze response and encouraging deep relaxation.
Physical Recovery Supporting the body's healing process after injury or illness.
Emotional Resilience A peaceful space to process what life has handed you.
Wellness Stewardship Maintaining your energy so you can keep caring for yourself, your family, your work and your community.
Surgical and Procedure Support Supporting the body's healing process before and after surgery.
Challenging Health Journey Support Assisting the body's healing process during and after interventions.
What Others Say
Sandy has been a wonderful and empowering teacher and guide for me in my journey for whole wellness. She listens with an openness that is welcoming and encouraging. Her work to release energetic patterns can release physical holding patterns as well. I recommend her to my massage and bodywork clients for help with clearing and grounding.
Megan Valencia, Massage Therapist
Sessions Available
Rates are the same whether we meet in person in Iowa City or virtually.
Healing Touch 60 Minute Session — $100
An hour to assess, release and restore. Space to go at your own pace, on the table, with nothing else asked of you.
Healing Touch 6 Session Package — $500
Six 60-minute sessions · Save $100
Sessions build cumulatively over six to twelve weeks, each informed by what came before. For those ready to make a lasting shift.
How the package works
Book your first session below, exactly as you would book a single session. There is nothing to pay online. Mention the package when you book or when you arrive, and we will set it up together at that first appointment. I take check or card. That first session counts as one of the six, and the remaining five are yours to schedule through the clinic's booking system whenever they suit you.
Where to Find Me
Acupuncture of Iowa Laura Christensen, LAc 610 Eastbury Dr, Unit 5 Iowa City, IA 52245
At the southeast corner of Scott Boulevard and Rochester Avenue, behind the University of Iowa Family Care building.
In-person sessions are available from 10 AM to 6 PM Wednesdays and Friday mornings from 8 AM to noon.
Sessions here are booked through the clinic's scheduling system. If you have booked a virtual session with me before, this will look different from that.
Ready to Begin?
“You do not have to be in crisis to come in. Most people arrive simply worn down, and one quiet, structured hour is often enough to begin turning that around.”
Choose a session below, or start with a free fifteen minute call if you would like to talk it through first. Either way, you are one step closer to feeling like yourself again.
How the package works
Book your first session below, exactly as you would book a single session. There is nothing to pay online. Mention the package when you book or when you arrive, and we will set it up together at that first appointment. I take check or card. That first session counts as one of the six, and the remaining five are yours to schedule through the clinic's booking system whenever they suit you.