Vickii Engel, MS, LMT

Specialties:

• Massage Therapy

• Integrative Bodywork

• Conscious Living Coaching

• Holistic Counseling for Self Care and Spiritual Growth ***

• Meditation Practice, Instruction, & Coaching ***

• Personalized Guided Imagery ***

• Colorpuncture

• EFT Meridian Tapping ***

• Integrative Reflexology

• Reiki & Chakra Energy Healing

• Nonverbal Communication / Body Language

• Presentations and Workshops for Groups

  ( *** A variety of CDs also available to rent on these topics.)

Contact:  (410) 848-9257          vickii@centerfor-healingarts.com

Author of “Creating Calm – 3 Powerful Models for Navigating the Rough Seas of Midlife“, 2016

“relaxed body…peaceful mind…”

Vickii Engel, MS, LMT, has been a practicing massage therapist since 1987, specializing in the relationship between mind and body. She holds an undergraduate degree in  education from Bloomsburg University and a master’s degree in counseling from McDaniel College.  Her certification in massage therapy was earned at the Potomac Massage Training Institute in Washington, DC.

Vickii has completed hundreds of hours of continuing education over the last 37 years.  Her work with clients is strongly influenced by two advanced trainings which focused on the integration of thoughts, beliefs, and emotions with the physical body.  In 1998 she became certified in the Somatic Integrity Method of Healing created and taught by Dr. Suzanne Torrenzano.  In 2005 Vickii completed a two-year apprentship program in Conscious Living with Judith and Roger Roark.  These, along with many years of spiritual practice, make her work rich, clear, and inspiring for many.   In January 2015, she completed a 160 hour certification  in Peter Mandel’s Colorpuncture, the use of colored light to treat acupuncture points and zones on the skin.In the fall of 2016, Vickii published her first book, “Creating Calm – 3 Powerful Models for Navigating the Rough Seas of Midlife”, which explores the essence of the midlife journey.  The three models – The Mobius Shift of Midlife, The Boat and the Breeze, and The Drama Triangle – are both conceptual and practical, offering readers a chance to step back and look at the big picture of midlife from a holistic perspective.  Vickii’s clients and students alike have found the book immensely helpful in understanding and creating a clear path forward in their own journey.  Copies can be purchased on Amazon in paperback or kindle formats.  Autographed copies are available for purchase at The Center.

Vickii facilitates meditation circles and occasional classes and offers presentations and wellnesss workshops on the art of selfcare, conscious living, meditation, breathwork, and body language for business and community groups.  Her current passion is EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, a tapping protocol

She is a co-founder and the owner of the Center.

Massage Therapy

Massage Therapy is now known to many for its stress-relieving qualities.  Vickii’s approach creates a safe and calming experience so that you can settle, sink in, let go, and return to a more ease-filled partnership with your body.

Integrative Bodywork

Integrative Bodywork blends the process of counseling with the experience of bodywork, balancing your thoughts and emotions with care for your physical body and spiritual life.  It is a holistic approach based on the belief that what you think, feel and believe produce an absolute and immediate effect within your physical body.  Conversely, becoming aware of and working with the body can facilitate change in your thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Each session integrates body-centered dialogue, movement, imagery, massage therapy, energy work, and breath work to help you reach your desired goal.

Integrative Bodywork is effective if you are dealing with stress, struggling in relationship, feeling stuck, experiencing difficult emotions, wanting to take better care of yourself, or searching for clarity and direction in life.

Vickii’s Integrative Bodywork creatively and respectively supports clients in learning through their body to be more conscious, healthy and alive.
Click here to read “The Essence of Bodywork”.

Counseling for Self Care and Spiritual Growth

Vickii’s approach to counseling is that of a fellow traveler on the road of life.  Inspired by many counseling theories, holistic models, and hundreds of hours of counseling herself, she offers her perspective  to help you to explore the beliefs that run your life and balance your patterns of thought and emotion with the stabilizing dimensions of body and spirit.  A patient of acupuncture for more than 30 years, she often incorporates a fresh perspective from Eastern traditions.  Vickii believes that we are all here to learn from each other and grow in our understanding of what it means to be human and fully alive.  Helping you to create a lifestyle of positive self care and healthy boundaries is the corner stone and bedrock of her work.

Body-Centered Mindfulness Meditation Instruction & Coaching

Many people think that meditation means stopping their thoughts and therefore feel that meditation is not something they can do.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Vickii offers an hour presentation to dispel this notion and teaches body-centered approaches that redefine meditation so that everyone has the capacity to meditate.  A handout with practices that can easily be woven into your everyday life is provided.  You are welcome to schedule an individual appointment, gather a few friends or family, or arrange an on-site session for your team at work.  Fees are the same as Vickii’s appointment fees (with an added travel fee if needed).

Appointment Hours

Monday through Friday
1:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Appointment Fees

Massage Therapy, Energy, and Bodywork:

60-minutes of bodywork…..$110
(5% discount for 5 pre-paid sessions….$522)
Appointment in/out time is 90 minutes.

Counseling, Meditation Instruction, and Wellness Coaching:

60-minute session…..$90
(5% discount for 5 pre-paid sessions…..$427)
Appointment in/out time is 60 minutes.
Longer sessions are available.

Presentations, Workshops, and Instructional Programs:
Fees dependent on a number of factors.  Please contact Vickii to discuss the details.

Payment Policies

Cash or checks are accepted, but not credit cards.

No tipping in my healthcare practice.

Fees noted are the full payment expected and accepted.

Services are not covered by health insurance plans, though a receipt is available upon request.

Payment is requested for any appointment missed, rescheduled, or cancelled with less than a 24-hour notice.  The fee charged is 1/2 of the full appointment fee.

Gift Certificates

Gift Certificates are available for purchase.  You may also purchase a certificate for a specific dollar amount which the recipient can apply towards a session of any length.

Health Intake Forms

Click here to download a PDF  of my health intake form.  Please print, complete, and bring to your first session.

Additional Professional Services

Mind/Body courses written and previously taught through McDaniel College’s master’s degree counseling program:

• CED 518: The Body in Therapy
• CED 535: Mind/Body Therapies
• CED 566: Body Language

Workshops and Presentations for Your Group or Organization

Presentations, lecture series, workshops, and retreats on topics of stress & selfcare, conscious living, change & growth can be tailored for your group, staff, or organizaiton. Visit the Workshops & Presentations for Your Organization page for more information.  Please call or email Vickii directly if you have any questions.

Contact information for appointments:

(410) 848-9257         

vickii@centerfor-healingarts.com

Wellness Wednesday interview with Laurel Brennan

Interview focuses on the topic of Positive Self Care and Healthy Boundaries. Recorded July 2021. 44 minutes.  Click here to view.

YouTube Channel – “The Drama Triangle: The Game We Are All Learning Not to Play”

(Covered in the third chapter of my book, “Creating Calm”.)

Americans are spending over $30 billion a year on nontraditional medicine – yoga, meditation, acupuncture – according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During the past three decades, Vickii Engel has had a front row seat to this growing acceptance and use of what would have once been called alternative medicine but is now referred to as integrative, or complementary, medicine.

Vickii is the owner and co-founder of the Center for Healing Arts, which was established in 1987 and is located in Westminster, MD. She is also the author of the book, Creating Calm: 3 Powerful Models for Navigating the Rough Seas of Midlife.

What Clients Say About Working with Vickii

“The training program is challenging in so many ways, but I have the sense that no matter what, this is where I need to be and what I need to be learning.  So thank you, thank you, a million thank you’s for helping me find strength and self-belief and making me get specific about what I wanted out of life.  I know that I am here in no small part because of the work that we did together.”

Becky, 3/2018

“Well…you’ve done it again. I just can’t believe how much better my back and sacrum feel today!  I’m so grateful that you were able to fit me in.  Now, if I take it easy today, I should be able to go back to work tomorrow.  I was worried I may need to postpone our vacation by a day so I could wrap up some work before we leave but I do believe you’ve saved the day yet again.  I’m so appreciative of your gift for healing, Vickii.  We are lucky to have you and the Center for the Healing Arts in our community! “

Patrick, 7/2016 

“This morning I had a thousand other things that I needed to get done but then I realized: I HAVE TO GET BACK ON MY BOAT!  I practiced some yoga. Thank you for reminding me that it’s OK to get back on my boat. I feel like a new woman!”

Jen,  10/2016

Favorite Resources

I love indoor yoga classes and walking outside soaking up the energy of Mother Nature, but sometimes the weather has me wanting to stay at home, inside.  This is my favorite at-home, indoor stretch and strengthen series.  Created by Miranda Esmonde-White, these 25 min. programs cost only $14.95 per month and can be used on any digital device.  Over 300 classes to choose from.  Click here to visit Essentrics.

Inspiring Documentaries and Interviews

Check out the work of French filmmaker Anthony Chene.  Beautifully and calmly explores big questions in life.