Founder/Master Teacher/Practitioner M'Liss Calzaretta

M'Liss is the co-founder of Evoking Alchemy, LLC™. She is the co-developer and master/teacher of Integrated Reiki™ and Dynamic Equilibrium™. She is also an energy practitioner who has integrated the use of a diverse mix of healing modalities, sound expression and physical movement into one rolling wheel of healing practices. She operates on the belief system that every being has his/her own unique blueprint in the pursuit of energetic health. The goal of her practice is to combine one’s humanness with spirit to bring about balance in one’s earthly walk. 

As co-founder of the New Orleans Mystic Healing Center and Evoking Alchemy LLC, the mission of which is to combine spiritual healing and creative expression, M'Liss brings her background as singer/songwriter and as a healer into her expanded practice. She incorporates Integrated Reiki healing and teaching, Reflexology, Acupressure, sound healing, ceremonial drumming, shamanic journeying, chakra balancing, therapeutic release work and Kundalini crisis recovery. As a practicing Integrated Reiki Master M'Liss facilitates transformational trainings, clinics and retreat weekends for groups and individuals seeking to understand the workings of the energetic body. She also provides holistic hospice services individualized to meet the needs of people at the end of their lives and their families.

M'Liss has over twenty years of experience working with adolescents in the child welfare system, as well as physically disabled children and young adults.  She has presented her work and provided training for The Department of Education, Department of Public Health, and Department of Children and Families. She has designed and implemented programs in areas ranging from behavioral management, sound and music therapy, movement therapy and boxing as a means of empowerment. She has a private healing practice at the Evoking Alchemy Building in  Plainville, Massachusetts,  specializing in the treatment of chronic pain, addictions, trauma, depression, and anxiety. She is on staff at  Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children in the Department of Complimentary Alternative Medicine, and provides services to veterans through the Broctkton VA Hospital both at the hospital and in the Evoking Alchemy Clinics. 

Her credentials include:

• Certified Hypnotherapist, Member of the National Guild of Hypnotists
• Reiki Master  Teacher - Level 3 (Usui and Karuna Traditions)
• Ordained Shamanic Priestess
• Certified Reflexologist
• Huna Practitioner
• USA Certified Boxing Instructor/Trainer
• Nine Gates Mystery School Graduate and Staff
• Graduate of Awakenings Clairvoyant School
• Graduate of Hearts of Shamanism                           
• Initiate of She-matrix, Australia
• Studied Acupressure Shiatsu at Acupressure Therapy Institute, Boston

 

Gail Holmes, Licensed Mental Health Counselor/Intuitive Reader/Teacher

Gail Holmes has over 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist working children, adults and families in community mental health and private practice. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who holds a Bachelors  Degree in Psychology from Wheelock College and a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from Lesley University. She studied with Sharon Turner for 4 years in the Awakenings Clairvoyant Program as well as with Rachel Pollock and Mary Greer at Omega institute in Tarot. She has been reading tarot in the Boston area and in New Orleans for over 15 years. She is an ordained shamanic priestess.

Gail has worked as a director of a community mental health center, a domestic violence program, and as clinical director of an adolescent assessment center. She has collaborated with the Department of Children and Families and the Department of Mental Health. She has taught at the college level at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and at Lesley University. She has extensive clinical experience in the areas Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Attachment, Eating Disorders and Couples and Family Therapy. She provides consultation and supervision for other professionals.

Currently Gail’s private practice is located in the Evoking Alchemy building in Plainville,MA where she provides psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families as well as consultation and supervision to other professionals. She and M’Liss Calzaretta provide treatment for clients collaboratively utilizing a variety of clinical and holistic modalities. She is also a teacher on the Evoking Alchemy team. She is co founder of New Orleans Mystic Healing Center and co owner of Evoking Alchemy.

Co-founder, Evoking Alchemy LLC

Margaret has utilized the principles, teachings and practices of human energetics, the human energy body and developing energetic intelligence for over 13 years in her service work and as a life coach, mentor, teacher, workshop facilitator and rites of passage guide. She is one of the co-founders, with M’Liss Calzaretta, of Evoking Alchemy, LLC. She developed the Integrated Reiki and Dynamic Equilibrium curriculums with M’Liss and continues to facilitate Evoking Alchemy programs periodically as a visiting teacher. 

After a long career in the corporate world of investments and capital markets, Margaret retired in 2004 to pursue her long held passion to support people toward the full expression of their gifts in the world. Since then she has been training, serving, coaching and teaching to that end. Margaret is a graduate of Newfield Network’s Coaching for Personal and Professional Mastery program, Naropa University’s Authentic Leadership program, and Nine Gates Programs, Inc. Mystery School. At Nine Gates she also served for eight years as a staff member, staff and student mentor and board member. She has trained and guided in wilderness rites of passage and other programs with The School of Lost Borders. She has also trained in a variety of healing modalities including Reiki, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Healing Touch, Breema Bodywork, and hypnotherapy. 

In 2016 Margaret turned her focus toward service work at the beginning and end of life. She currently provides support to families with newborn infants and young children and to hospice patients and their families in the form companionship, respite and sitting vigil. She is also a member of a Threshold Choir singing for patients at long term care facilities and memory care units. She continues to facilitate workshops, retreats and trainings to a variety of audiences. These programs focus on awakening energetic intelligence toward personal and professional well-being and mastery.