MEET THE VISIONARIES

Christy Abate is co-owner and manager of The Angel Cooperative®.  Christy is a Reiki Master, Level I Integrated Energy Therapy Certified,  and a crystal and shungite expert.  She uses a variety of modalities in her workshops and retreats such as tuning forks, essential oils, crystals, storytelling, Reiki, and angelic energy. 

She holds a Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Christy has been in retail for over 17 years, owning The Little House Shoppe from 2011-17.  She has been featured on HGTV and HGTV.com. She is the Reader's Choice for Best Home Stager 2018 and 2019 (Ridgefield Magazine). She was also honored as "Women of the Year" at the 13th Annual Women's Forum.  She is a former Board member and past Chair of the Board of the Ridgefield Chamber of Commerce. She has been a model for the annual Ann’s Place Fashion Show and a contestant for the RVNA’s Spelling Bee. She enjoys being a member of the Ridgefield Playhouse Gala Committee. She is also President of the Board for her daughter’s charity BearHug. She credits her parents with instilling in her the importance of family, community and country.

Anna is the host of The Angel Cooperative® podcast, "Talking to the Dead in Suburbia." See link below to watch/listen to our podcast on YouTube. (Also available on Soundcloud and Apple Podcast)As a motivational speaker, teacher, intuitive and author, Anna’s mission is to give others the tools they need to live their lives in joy, while following their souls' mission. Anna, through her gift of intuition, provides wisdom and healing from heaven as she provides others with insight, guidance and direction. Among other accreditations, she holds a BA in Clinical Psychology, a M.B.A. and is a Hypnotherapist, Grief Counselor and Spiritual Counselor. Her path has led her to teach, work with clients, facilitate retreats and present at seminars.  Anna was the host of a radio show on Cox Radio called "Messages from Heaven.” Anna has appeared on the “Dr. Oz Show,” as well as the Dr. Oz podcast, and The Drew Barrymore Show. She has been a guest on numerous national radio shows and has been the subject of several articles in many publications.Anna has written "Talking to the Dead in Suburbia - An Ordinary Woman with an Extraordinary Gift" and "One with the Drum - A Journey to the Soul." Her latest book, "Conversations with Mary," (Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster) was published on October 17, 2017.

Maria Amore Davis is a Reiki Master/Teacher, a Karuna Reiki Master/ Teacher, an IET practitioner and a Priest in the order of the Melchizedek. She also gives Tarot and Pendulum readings. The Cards are a tool for unlocking the subconscious mind and bringing thoughts and feelings into conscience awareness by identifying through the cards. Maria loves gardening and cooking. Gardening connects you to the earth, and cooking is a healing art. Maria taught music in the Greenwich Public Schools for 36 years. Teaching is “who I am,” and bringing it to a new dimension is very exciting! Maria teaches the Reiki Certification classes, Tarot Certification, Cellular Memory Workshop, and leads day retreats with Christy and Bre. She is available for private appointments at The Angel Cooperative on Tuesdays and Fridays. See our Services and Workshops page to schedule your Reiki, Tarot and Crystal Singing Bowl with cellular memory and more sessions with Maria. For more information about Maria go to her website www.amoremaria.co

Carol  Essig has been professionally channeling since 2002.  She is known  both nationally and internationally.  She has  been counseling people in spiritual practices since 1985.  Carol is a channel, sound healer, spiritual teacher, spiritual  counselor and vibrational conduit.  She connects to the higher realms  and frequencies.  She is multi-dimensional in her wisdom and has a clear  and direct channel.  Her approach is simple, but profound with a direct  path to the heart.  During her sessions she is able to transfer light  codes and channel the light and love frequencies of the higher  dimensions to entrain others to raise their own vibration. She is a Master of Shamballa  Multidimensional Healing since 2000. She is a certified Sound Healer. www.magentaway.com

Casey Potetz is a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, and a Diplomate of Acupuncture (NCCAOM). She practices acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine along with a variety of clinical healing techniques including cupping, Chinese nutritional counseling, tuning forks, and electro-stimulation.​

Casey was fortunate to receive an authentic Chinese Medicine education under Taoist Master and 64th generation lineage holder Dr. Lillian Chang Y Hsiang of the World Medicine Institute in Honolulu, HI. Dr. Chang is a lineage disciple, a Master Practitioner, and is recognized as a Living Treasure by the state of Hawaii.​

While in Hawaii, Casey worked providing acupuncture treatment to the Navy Seal Special Warfare Group 3 in Ford Island, HI, specializing in the treatment of painful conditions. Her practice moved to New Canaan, CT in 2019, where she founded New Canaan Acupuncture. In addition to her acupuncture practice, Casey offers in-person and remote coaching programs to women with complex inflammatory conditions.​

Casey’s Mission is to help others unlock the innate healing potential of the capable human body. She continues to help others achieve optimal wellness through the practice of Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Health Coaching, and the Taoist Healing Arts.

Internationally acclaimed spiritual medium, healer, author and speaker, Jeanne Street, a Catholic girl in an Angel world, works with the Spiritual realm embodying the Holy Spirit illuminating Divine compassion and love through her work.

Jeanne was born in to this life with the beautiful gift of connection. She has the ability to see, feel, hear and speak to both the departed and celestial beings. 

Through her connection and clear knowing her sessions and readings are precise and detailed. Jeanne has helped thousands of individuals navigate through difficult events in their lives. Jeanne’s deepest desires are in helping people to heal their pain and trauma. 

Jeanne provides connection to Spirit, Angels and departed loved ones through private and small group readings, large group events , her books The Goddess You, The Goddess Journal and Divine lifestyle products, accessories and vast resources that are available on Goddess Youniverstiy.

Jeanne’s loving and accurate connections have transformed the lives of her clients as well as her live audience on her show Angels Don’t Lie featured on FACEBOOK and on her Podcast.

Jeanne resides in Connecticut with her devoted husband of 34 years, her 4 grown children, her daughter and son in laws and 5 grandchildren.

Erika Ward identifies as many things in this life, some of which include: artist, writer, intuitive messenger, teacher and (self-proclaimed) traveling philosopher. She has had a life-long fascination with metaphysics and is an endlessly curious student of Western esotericism. A practitioner of everyday mysticism, her greatest inspiration comes from time spent in nature, as showcased in her upcoming book, Wisdoms Of The Formerly Wilted. Whether working with clients one-on-one, leading group workshops, or engaging in casual discussions, Erika loves nothing more than awakening others to their personal power and reconnecting them to their own higher/inner guidance. She believes we are all capable of magic. 

www.erikadward.com

  Dorina Leslie is a licensed massage therapist and holistic healer. Following a true spiritual calling, Dorina is a 2013 graduate of Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy. She has extensive experience working in a functional medicine office, several spas, as well as in her own private practice. As an empath, Dorina offers profound energy healing with her therapeutic yet spiritual style. She is known for her customized sessions, which include Reiki, Bemer therapy, reflexology, light craniosacral therapy, and wonderful Thai yoga stretching.  Dorina consciously sets the intention to bring more peace into the world with her healing work and is on a mission to help people heal – body, mind and spirit.  Dorina has held sacred space for clients from all walks of life to heal themselves, and she welcomes the opportunity to work with you on Thursdays and Saturdays in The Angel Wing. Dorina offers massage with the Bemer and Bemer only session.

Shannon Marzella is an intuitive, medium and Reiki practitioner. She began using her intuition for personal growth and healing nearly a decade ago. Since that time, she has developed the ability to tune into her clients' chakra system and energy field through her empathic abilities and oracle cards to gather information on their core wounds and steps to heal in order to bring about their best possible future.  As an Intuitive Guide, she is devoted to offering clear, empowering readings on your soul’s path. Using oracle cards, numerology, and channeled guidance, she creates an experience tailored to your soul’s innate wisdom. Shannon works by tuning into your chakra system, where your body holds memories from this life and past lifetimes, glimpses of your soul’s current path, and healing information for your body,  mind, and spirit. Shannon's readings will leave you feeling empowered and clear on your next steps! You can find out more at www.wisewomanliving.net

Alison DeNicola is an author, teacher, energy healer and certified hypnotherapist who has worked with past life healing and the violet flame for transformation.  She is the author of Mudras for Awakening the Energy Body Deck & Book Set, Mudras for Awakening the Five Elements Deck & Book Set, Nature and Soul and Divine Feather Messenger oracle decks..   She has been leading classes and workshops nationally based in yoga, mindfulness, and self-healing for the past 10 years. Common themes in her work include symbols and practices of yoga, goddesses, angels, and shamanic journeying.

DeNicola is certified as a Five Element Yoga Teacher, Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra Teacher, Certified Aromayoga teacher, Cht Hypnotherapist, and Therapeutic Restorative Yoga Teacher. She has also studied chakra therapy, healing, coaching, shamanic healing, reiki healing, and has completed the master instructor level IET training utilizing the powerful energy of the angelic healing ray.

DeNicola is the National Sales and Marketing Manager for US Games Systems, Inc, the publisher of Rider Waite Tarot. She is also a faculty assistant at Kripalu Center in Lenox Ma and currently teaches yoga, meditation and energy healing in Stamford and The Angel Wing in Ridgefield, CT.

Annalisa is a Channeler, Reiki Master/Teacher Ordained Minister with the Order of Melchizedek, and a Certified Crystal Healer.  Annalisa is a channeling medium who works mostly with angels, saints, and ascended masters to receive messages that are of the highest and greatest good for her clients. She is also able to connect with and channel loved ones who are both living and departed, as well as animals who are both living and departed.  Her divine purpose is to assist in facilitating whatever healing is needed to help someone on their journey. She is available for private readings and workshops such as the monthly Angel Circle.

Sandy is an intuitive and empath. She reads both classic Tarot and Angel Oracle cards. As a fine artist and designer, Sandra has been drawing and painting since she was a child  with her artist mother.  Her spiritual journey started young, then she delved deeper after  the sudden death of her father in 2007.  If desired, Sandy will create soul portraits or self portraits for her clients as part of their reading. The process of creating a tarot inspired “soul portrait” starts with a few moments of silence and prayer with the cards. “I ask for guidance for myself and the client I’m with. I then create a portrait that reflects on the inner self, inner beauty, and natural gifts. Images blend  from meditation and the card reading, and the result is a portrait of your highest self."Sandra is constantly studying the spiritual realms, different religions and the beyond. She’s also a member of the CT paranormal research group C.O.R.P.S.E. 

  Denise Lamoureux was the Founder of Finding Feathers Wellness center in Fairfield C. 

Denise combined her education and knowledge in both western and eastern medicine to create The Colette Technique for Core Trauma Healing. The Colette Technique helps people find freedom from long term ailments including anxiety, addiction, suicidal thoughts, cutting, weight gain or loss, auto immune system illness, physical problems and low self esteem. Having found extraordinary results in her practice as a healer she is also now an inspirational speaker and teacher. 

. Website: DeniseColette.com

Karen is a gifted Energy Worker, Teacher and Guide.  She has made 3 pilgrimages to the high mountains of Peru where she has received sacred rites as a guardian and keeper of the earth (pampomesayok) and medicine woman (altomesayok) through a lineage of light carriers and Q’ero shamans  - don Sebastian Flores Puccar (whom was written about in The Andean Codex), don Francisco Chura Flores, don Mariano Quispe Flores and his son Santiago Quispe K'apa, don Basilio Samata Apaza, and Jesus Rodriguez Acurio.  They showed her how to move energy, use plant medicine, and perform healing despacho ceremonies.

Karen also explored shamanic journeying for guidance and healing with spiritual light with Sandra Ingerman.  She trained with The Jaguar Path studying soul retrievals,  removing heavy energy through cord cutting, extractions, divination, along with spirit guide and power animal ally work.  Twin Shamans dona Ysabel and dona Olinda showed her how to heal ancestral karma and remove ancestral spirits.  Karen also received training in crystal healing. 

Pritam Bani is a gifted gong player, Reiki Master and Yoga Teacher.  By combining all of her talents she is able to deliver meditations that are unique, transformational, relaxing and deeply healing.  Pritam Bani loves to explore how the use of sound can ease pain, reduce stress, bring joy and move energy from the physical body to the ethereal body.Pritam leads out monthly New New Moon Gong Events.

Mikki Baloy has been practicing shamanic healing for over a decade. She has studied with shamans, ritual-keepers, and mystics from around the world. A student of many traditions,  her intention and commitment is to remind clients and communities of their birthright: an inherent connection to land and to Love. She does this through private healing sessions, group events, rites of passage, and ceremonies, as well as in her writings.

Mikki's holistic approach to healing is both intuitive and grounded, fusing indigenous traditions with yoga, Buddhism, and more than three decades of creative training as a performer, writer, and musician.  She was the Director of a 9/11 foundation in New York City, helping to create and maintain programs to assist many thousands of people—while undertaking her own healing journey.  She is the author of Hallowed Underground: Sacred Hope and Healing in Dark Times, which describes her recovery from PTSD, depression, divorce, and sexual assault, and she has been featured in two books about post-disaster resiliency. Mikki is also a yoga teacher and minister of animism, and speaks and writes from her own direct experience.  mikkibaloy.com

Kailey is a Connecticut based intuitive creator; offering  channeled art, tarot readings, spiritual goods, and portrait sessions. Kailey graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2018 with a BFA in photography. After completing her thesis documenting psychics, Kailey embarked on a journey of self healing and transformation.

Kailey is a valued member of our Retail Angel Team and offers Digital Tarot Readings as well as POP-UP in-person readings once a month..

As an empath and multidimensional being, Allie channels the energy of the Goddess, Archangels, and the Ascended Masters. Allie has completed advanced graduate level work in psychology and criminal justice, and has a Master's degree in neuroscience from Columbia University. She embodies a heart-centered, synergistic approach to healing as a Reiki Master, Integrated Energy Therapy® Practitioner and Angel Healer. Allie utilizes a combination of these modalities along with sound healing to support clients in awakening their sovereign divinity, bridging heaven and earth.

Sue Broudy is a Singer Songwriter, Reiki Master, Sound Practitioner, and Certified End-of-Life Doula. Sue has self-published a children’s book and song that stemmed from her doula work entitled Rosie, Leafers & PawPaw to help open the conversation with children about transitioning being just another part of life (the book can be found in the CoOp store).  Sue served on the board of WestonArts.org and was the founder of AcousticWeston.  Sue received her doula training with the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA) and received training at the Regional Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Danbury, CT.  Sue also trained with the Buddhist Clear Light Society, and the Bhakti Center in NY with their chaplain.  She was recently showcased on WOSRadio.com as a female songwriter of substance.  Sue also leads sound workshops and impromptu musical gatherings at her home for healing.  She is working on two more children’s book, How to Be a BEE, and Otto’s Owl, and lives in Weston, Connecticut. http://suebroudy.com/  

Eve is renowned throughout the country and the world as White Buffalo Woman. Although she remains humble and approachable, Eve carries the same Divine Feminine imprint as Mother Mary, Isis, Eve, and Quan Yin. She is an accomplished Shamanic Healer and Channel, bringing her clients profound messages of inspiration and guidance, working with each individual's spiritual, mental, emotional and physical bodies.

In 1991, Eve experienced a series of personal challenges, which prompted her inward search. During a period of deep meditation and intense drumming, the divine being White Buffalo Woman made her presence known, and has since guided and orchestrated her inspirational work for the benefit of humanity. In addition, Eve's spiritual gifts enable her to connect to the energies of the Archangels, exalted masters and guides, and at times to the Higher Self or Inner Child of the client.
Check out her book The Awakening: The Life and Work of Eve Kerwin, White Buffalo Woman 

available for sale at the shop.

Jonathan William has a B.A. in History from Plattsburgh State, where he developed his passion for writing, researching, and public speaking. Living in New York, Jonathan draws inspiration from nature and is an avid hiker, cyclist and kayaker. A Reiki Master and Founder of the F.A.S.T. System of Healing, Jonathan is a dedicated mentor who provides support to assist people in cultivating a relationship with their multidimensional self, aka the "I AM Presence". 

:The Pyramid of Presence forms the foundation in which an alchemical practice can be initiated, re-igniting your “Relationship with Creatorship” and assisting the transformation of your Life through the polishing of self-conception. The Pyramid of Presence  is packed with insights, meditations, affirmations, practices and Divine inspired poetic musings.

Gabriella Song walks the path of service as a seeker of Truth and Light. At the turn of the millennium, Archangel Michael-Archea Faith, the energy of the Goddess, and Ascended Masters would make themselves known to her. Gabriella is now being guided to share her gifts with those who are ready to step into their own conscious path and purpose. Lady Song serves Gaia as a bridge for Mother Earth and Humanity. She is a golden key, assisting Gaia to bring forth and anchor her higher frequencies, awakening our collective codes of Light thus opening consciousness to higher dimensional realities. For 20 years, Gabriella's adventuresome spirit has taken her across the globe. Her beautiful, fun-loving rainbow spirit is deeply connected to being community, while spreading joyful exuberance with those around her. “I am not here to wake up sheep, I’m here to awaken sleeping Lions”  www.songshiva.com

 Dr. Anna Yusim is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist with a Private Practice in New York City.  She is a Lecturer at Yale Medical School, where she is creating a Mental Health and Spirituality Program.  Dr. Yusim completed her undergraduate education at Stanford University, where she studied Biology & Philosophy. She attended Yale Medical School & the NYU Residency Training Program in Psychiatry. She has traveled, lived and worked in over 50 countries and presented at numerous national and international medical conferences. Dr. Yusim has published over 70 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts and book reviews on various topics in psychiatry. Dr. Yusim has received numerous awards and distinctions.

 Dr. Sheila Salama is a board-certified Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist. She received her Medical Degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School in New York City, and then completed her internship in Medicine, residency in Adult Psychiatry as well as fellowship in Child Psychiatry at Kings County Hospital. 

Since the early 1990s, Dr. Salama has acquired several certifications in non-pharmacological modalities. These methods facilitate the healing from acute and chronic traumatic events, as well as many other disorders. She has worked extensively with veterans coping with war trauma and moral injury. She also specializes in the treatment of early childhood trauma and abuse.

Dr. Salama was born in Cairo, Egypt. Shortly after the Suez Canal War of 1956, her family and the entire Egyptian Jewish community became political refugees. After waiting for a visa in Paris, France for two years, she and her family migrated to the United States.

She has a love for languages and a passion for travel. 

 www.salamapsychiatry.com