What are the benefits of Reiki healing for cancer patients?

Reiki energy healing has many benefits as a complementary practice for cancer patients. It calms the body's parasympathetic nervous system, fosters deep relaxation, relieves stress and anxiety, and promotes a profound sense of emotional peace and wellbeing.

What should I expect during a Reiki healing session?

During a Reiki session you'll lay fully clothed on a treatment table. Catherine gently places her hands on or just above you to channel free-flowing life force energy to your body, clearing energy imbalances or blockages. As your body enters a deep state of relaxation, your parasympathetic nervous system is activated, allowing your body's natural healing processes to function at their best, producing both physical and emotional benefits.

Do you offer in-person Reiki and health and wellness coaching in Sausalito?

Yes. In-person Reiki energy healing and integrative coaching sessions are available at the Sausalito office, located at 3030 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA 94965. This central location easily serves clients driving from nearby Marin County cities, including Mill Valley, Tiburon, Corte Madera, and San Rafael.

How can Reiki benefit athletic performance?

Many athletes practice Reiki to enhance athletic performance by reducing pre-competition anxiety, fostering inner peace and calm throughout the body, relieving stress and muscle tension, and promoting clear mental focus. Reiki also supports the body's natural healing process, bringing faster recovery between workouts and calming the nervous system following intense training.

How does Reiki help with chemotherapy and cancer support?

Reiki is a safe, non-invasive complementary therapy that helps cancer patients manage anxiety, fatigue, and pain. It promotes deep relaxation, helping the body manage the physical and emotional stress of chemotherapy treatments.

What should I expect during a Reiki session in Sausalito?

During a session at our Sausalito studio, you remain fully clothed while relaxing on a comfortable massage table. The Usui Reiki Master uses gentle, non-invasive hand placements on or just above the body to facilitate deep relaxation, stress relief, and natural healing.

Who provides the Reiki services at Catherine Goodman Wellness For Life?

All sessions are conducted by Catherine Goodman, a certified Health & Wellness Coach and Usui Reiki Master practitioner who completed her lineage training in 2024, specializing in behavioral change and oncology support.

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Meet Catherine Goodman

Welcome! Thank you for visiting my webpage dedicated to my Reiki practice. I am a Reiki Master practitioner serving Marin County, and the owner and founder of Catherine Goodman Wellness For Life in beautiful Sausalito, CA.

Whether you’re looking to experience deep relaxation and stress relief from a long work week, relieve muscle aches from intense physical training, enhance focus for athletic performance, or wanting to add a new practice into your wellness regimen, I’d love the opportunnity to explore with you the ways in which the complementary practice of Reiki can enrich your life and wellbeing.

Reiki Master Catherine Goodman at her Reiki studio in Sausalito, CA.

What is Reiki Energy Healing?

Originating in Japan in the early 1900s, Reiki energy healing has become popular for its gentle and noninvasive properties. The word Reiki means universal life force energy, the free flowing energy that loosens stagnation and encourages the body's own natural ability to dissolve and clear energy imbalances and blockages. This supports a multitude of benefits, helping to promote deep relaxation and overall emotional and physical wellbeing.

A client receiving the restorative benefits of Reiki energy healing at Catherine Goodman Wellness For Life in Sausalito, CA.

“I’ll be honest, I went in not really knowing what to expect from Reiki. The session itself was deeply relaxing in a way I wasn’t prepared for. But what really caught my attention was that night: I slept more deeply than I have in a long time. Not a subtle difference. Noticeably, remarkably better. As the parent of a toddler, it was a breath of fresh air.
Catherine is a warm and professional, and the experience felt genuinely restorative.
If you’re curious but skeptical, I’d say just go. The results spoke for themselves.”

—Ian Carr

‍ ‍The Benefits of Reiki For Cancer Patients

Clinical studies show that Reiki is highly effective at triggering the body's parasympathetic nervous system (the "rest and digest" mode). This significantly supports cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy by reducing acute anxiety, worry, stress, and fatigue. It encourages inner peace, calm, and better sleep quality, while fostering renewed focus and rejuvenated energy to help comfort and support the body's natural resilience during treatment.

Reiki is considered one of the top three therapies offered in approximately 1,000 hospitals across the United States, notably Cleveland Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, George Washington University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, to name a few.

Learn more about my cancer support services

This is a video testimonial from a client diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer several years ago. With weekly sessions, Reiki supported her wellbeing throughout treatment. Now in remission, she attends Reiki every other week as part of her proactive regimen to advance recovery and to maintain strength, vitality, longevity, and long-term survivorship.

Catherine Goodman is a certified Reiki Master practitioner, having completed the highest level of training in the Usui Reiki Master lineage, and received certification in 2024.