Practitioners at Caritas Center for Healing

The Imago model honors the relationship between two people as a vehicle for change and deep healing. In her sessions with couples, Karen seeks to empower the “team” of the couple. Using practical techniques to help couples improve their communication and facilitate deeper understanding and compassion, Karen guides couples towards conscious love and growth, healing old wounds in the process.

In her work with individuals, Karen uses an eclectic approach, with a strong focus on the teachings of Carl Rogers and client-centered therapy. If appropriate, she utilizes EMDR therapy, a powerful and efficacious form of treatment that helps heal issues at the root source. She is trained as a level-2 EMDR therapist and is certified in this modality.

Karen’s life-long interest in natural healing was fueled by her upbringing (her mother served on the board of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, OR in the ’80s) and by her own health challenges. (She was hit by a truck in 1979 and sought alternative treatment to help her heal.) Perhaps following in her mother’s footsteps, Karen served on the board of Arizona Integrative Wellness Coalition (AIWC) now Arizona Wellness Alliance from 2009-2016.  She is a co-founding member of this organization dedicated to supporting and educating holistic health practitioners and those that share their philosophy.

Karen’s intention is to provide a safe, supportive environment so that clients can tap into their own inner wisdom and create the change they want in their lives. She supports people in nurturing all aspects of their health–psychological, emotional, spiritual, and physical–and understands that these are delicately interwoven. Part of that support includes operating Caritas and striving to offer a broad variety of complementary or adjunctive therapies, workshops, and experiences at the center.

 A licensed acupuncturist and certified in Swedish massage, Reiki, CranioSacral and Shiatsu, Nanie graduated from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. She is a Diplomat in Oriental Medicine certified by the NCCAOM, a member of AAAOM and the AZSOMA.

Marymar chose to study massage therapy at the Arizona School of Integrative Studies (ASIS), where she enrolled in a full-time 800 hour massage therapy certification program. Her teachers Lauren Arnold and Ruth Red Eagle were very supportive during her journey in school and acknowledged her skill in connecting with each individual and their body in a grounding and supportive way.

Marymar has an integrative approach to massage, uniquely blending modalities in each treatment to accommodate each client’s needs, whether providing a deep, area-specific, therapeutic treatment or a relaxing massage. Each session flows from her hands as natural intuition and a strong knowledge of anatomy and physiology guide her.