Crystal Hawk

Crystal Hawk, A.B., M.Ed., is a Gestalt psychotherapist/educator and Therapeutic Touch practitioner in private practice. She has been teaching Therapeutic Touch since 1980, studying continuously with its developers, Dr. Dolores Krieger and the late Dora Kunz, at their Advanced Invitational Healers workshops. She co-founded "The Therapeutic Touch Network (Ontario)", presently serving on its Practitioner Committee; she is a Recognized Teacher of the Network and a Member of its Teacher’s Collective. Crystal also co-produces the Annual Therapeutic Touch Retreats in Ontario for advanced practitioners. She has appeared in a CBC-TV national science show, hosted by David Suzuki, entitled "The Mystery of Mind" and was interviewed on several national Canadian TV shows: "Doctors on Call" and "Jane Hawtin Live". She was awarded an Honorary Life Membership in The Nurse Healers-Professional Associates International, Inc. (USA) and is a recipient of their Founders Award. She served as their Research Chair for four years and is recognized as a Qualified Teacher of that organization. Crystal has taught various aspects of Therapeutic Touch and Imagery extensively across Canada and at conferences and retreats in Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, New York and Vermont, as well as in London (UK), Moscow (Russia), Tbilisi (Georgia) and Denpasar (Bali). For the past several years she has been incorporating Energy Psychology into her practise and has been teaching EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and TFT (Thought Field Therapy) in many locations and at conferences. In 1980 she developed a Migraine Pain Control Program. In 1986 she collaborated with a Toronto family physician, Dr. Mel Borins, to teach this Program in a Toronto High School. This Feasibility Study, sponsored by the Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of Toronto Medical School, was published in the Canadian Family Physician Her booklet, "Migraine Pain Control", which can be ordered from her website www.therapeutictouch.com, explains the Program and gives step by step directions to put it into practice.