Practitioners

Sara Griscom - Proprietor

Intuitive Healing & Counseling
Reiki Master Teacher

From her extensive research and experiences with healers around the globe, Sara Griscom, Gypsy Hands proprietor, has created a center where one can receive holistic healing for the body, heart, and spirit. Born in Malaga, Spain, she spent her childhood in Mexico. A gifted intuitive since her youth, Sara received her call to healing in Guatamala from a Mayan shaman in the mid 1990's, while conducting research in Mayan healing and midwivery. She received her B.A. in Anthropology, Spanish, and Psychology from the University of Tennessee (Graduated Summa Cum Laude) and continued her academic education at Tulane University, studying ethnography and linguistics. Research led her first to Mexico, where she studied herbal medicine in the mountains. During the next four years she made a series of trips to Guatamala, where in the process of working with Mayan healers and midwives, she discovered more of her own path as a healer. She continued her midwivery studies at “The Farm” in Summertown, Tennessee, receiving certification as a Midwife Assistant. Sara also studied Reiki (universal light energy healing) prior to attending The Center for Natural Health and Massage in Asheville, N.C. Soon after she journeyed to India, where she conceived her vision for Gypsy Hands Healing Arts Center. The following year, Sara moved to Knoxville, TN and opened Gypsy Hands, where she heals through intensive bodywork (including shiatsu and deep-tissue modalities), intuitive counseling, Reiki Training, and teaching tribal fusion bellydance classes. Many who have been blessed to receive her bodywork find that she heals on all levels of consciousness: emotional, physical, spritual, and energetic. In addition to being called to the healing traditions of Latin America and Mexico, Sara has studied and continues to work with the indigenous Maori healers of New Zealand. Gypsy Hands is graced annually with a visit from the Maori, which includes a weekend's worth of powerful healing sessions and intensive workshops.

Sara Griscom's healing practice expanded to teaching when she received her Reiki Teacher Training certification. After studying under four Reiki Masters, she has developed an incomparable Reiki training program that is individually based and guided to one's own pace. Ultimately, she is preserving the integrity of this sacred tradition by passing it down only to those willing to commit to this practice.

Sara's extraordinary intuition has prompted calls from New York, the West Coast, Switzerland, and even Cambodia, seeking telephone sessions for intuitive counseling. She provides clarity for people in all walks of life -- whether one be in a crisis situation, a transition, or simply searching for a deeper purpose. Sara helps a client return to his or her heart, and in the process rediscover the soul's true path.

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Nickie Bold, LMT

Nurturing Therapeutic Massage
Moderate to Deep Pressure Massage

Nickie Bold studied massage therapy at the C.O.R.E. institute of Knoxville TN and graduated in December of 2006. Her studies spanned a wide range of modalities including Relaxation, Deep Tissue, and Sports Massage. After graduating Nickie went on to study Reiki under Sara Griscom and is certified in Reiki II. Nickie listens to the body of the client and uses her unique blend of modalities to address structural and emotional blocks in the body. Her nurturing and knowledgeable touch is deeply relaxing and helps the body return itself to balance and peace.

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Elodie Lafont, LMT

Deep Tissue Massage
Neck and Shoulder Pain Relief

Elodie is a french native who first came to Knoxville as a french assistant at U.T. Realizing that her true path was devoted to helping and healing others, she went back to school and studied massage therapy. Elodie uses deep tissue massage as a means to release energy and emotional blocks as well as chronic stress. Listening to her intuition and her clients' needs, she may use floor matts, hot stones, reiki, fluid strokes, assisted stretching and shiatsu techniques. She also specializes in neck and shoulder problems, and uses her elbows and forearms as tools to release trigger points.

Elodie offers packages:

Package of 5 sessions: $360 ( was $400, you save $40 at 10% off ) - your sessions went from $80 to $72 each

Package of 10 sessions: $680 ( was $800, you save $120 at 15% off ) - your sessions went from $80 to $68 each

Payment plans for a package purchase available upon request

STUDENTS GET 10% OFF

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Natalie Kurylo, DC

Holistic Chiropractic and CranioSacral Therapy

Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, Dr. Natalie Kurylo moved to Boone, North Carolina to attend college. After graduating from Appalachian State University with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Dr. Natalie moved around (like a Gypsy) before landing in Indianapolis, Indiana where she began her path to healing. Between working in a natural foods store, where she learned about complementary and alternative health, and experiencing her first chiropractic adjustment, Indianapolis proved to be just the beginning of the journey. Dr. Natalie eventually moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina to attend chiropractic school and was introduced to a chiropractic method of analysis called Bio Geometric Integration (BGI). She practiced chiropractic, utilizing BGI, in Spartanburg for two years after graduating from Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic (Magna Cum Laude). Dr. Natalie and her husband, Dr. Timo O'Donnell, whom she met in chiropractic school, moved to Knoxville in 2007. As she expands her understanding of the body and how perfectly it works when there is no interference in it, Dr. Natalie has studied CranioSacral Therapy (CST) with the Upledger Institute and now offers CST sessions by themselves or as a complement to chiropractic care.

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Steph Gunnoe, RN, MSN, APRN-BC, Reiki Master

Wellness support, Counseling, Reiki

Born and raised in West Virginia, Steph headed off to college in Olympia, Washington to study creative writing. Drawn to a less solitary art, though, she found herself caring for many elderly and disabled individuals in their homes during her ten-year stay in the Pacific Northwest. These experiences helped her discover her love of and natural aptitude in working with people. Homesickness for her own people led her back to Appalachia where she completed both her RN and MSN degrees at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She has worked as a Family Nurse Practitioner for the past six years, solidifying her reputation and skill as a medical professional and gifted counselor. Having also completed her Master's training in Reiki with mentor Sara Griscom, Steph is fluent in both medical and alternative styles of healing. She offers the best of herself in a holistic, collaborative approach to health which includes counseling, Reiki and wellness support. She can also be found singing her mountain-loving heart out with her husband in their band, The Lonetones, and learning new things from her kids everyday.

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Cheryl Cross, DVM, DACVP

Veterinary acupuncture, herbal, and food therapy

Dr. Cheryl Cross was born and raised in Bristol, Tennessee. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1993 and the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine in 2000. Her veterinary career began with working at the provincial veterinary teaching hospital on Prince Edward Island, Canada and culminated with 4 years working for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI) on issues of marine mammal strandings and disease. After experiencing the remarkable benefits of acupuncture on her own health, she began formal studies under the auspices of the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS) to offer the same care to her veterinary patients. She subsequently continued on for further training in the field of veterinary herbal medicine and food therapy.

Dr. Cheryl is licensed to practice both acupuncture and conventional veterinary medicine in Tennessee and Virginia. She is perpetually amazed with the way that veterinary acupuncture, herbal, and food therapy work very well both as a complement to conventional veterinary treatment as well as stand-alone healing modalities to maintain and restore health, balance, and quality of life in our beloved animal companions. She offers treatment at Gypsy Hands as well as on a housecall or farm call basis and will happily work with your regular veterinarian to offer well-rounded veterinary care.

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Ana Gonçalves, DVM, MS, Reiki Master

Relaxation, Stress Relief, Distance and Interdimensional Healing
Healing on all levels

Ana received her veterinary degree in her native country of Brazil in 1998. She then moved to Colorado where she spent 3 years pursuing her Masters degree which focused on veterinary echocardiography (heart sonogram) at Colorado State University. After finishing her M.S. in 2000, she began doing research in tissue engineering until she met her husband and followed him to Knoxville in 2004. For the past 5 years she has been raising their two boys, giving workshops on echocardiography around the country, and becoming a Reiki practitioner.

Ana offers one-on-one healing sessions; however, if you are not in the Knoxville area, you may schedule a distance healing session. She also offers interdimensional healing for those loved ones who have passed away.

Her passion for both the medical field and Reiki only increased her ability to nurture others. She also loves seeing her kids playing with their two dogs and spending time with her dear husband, Joe.