New in May! Crossings Healingworks honors Nurses Week 2006 (click here for more info)
Crossings Healingworks offers patient-centered, complementary medical care that tends the body, mind and spirit of people whose lives are marginalized by poverty, violence, war or lack of opportunity. We assert that both individuals and systems can change.
Our work is rooted in the latest research and experience with centuries-old approaches that help people find internal peace, access creative expression, create heart-to-heart connections, give and receive nurturance, and find value in themselves and for others in the human family.
We have a particular interest in assisting combat veterans, families of deployed military personnel and those who care for the military family.
Crossings Healing-works is associated with Crossings – A Center for the Healing Traditions, which has been serving the complementary health care needs of the community since 1992.
We have two projects currently, Restore and Renew and Caring for the Caregivers.
Restore and Renew at Crossings Healingworks
Are you part of the military family? Have you seen combat? Are you a combat veteran’s family member? You will each be veterans of this chapter in your family and our country’s life. We can help you cope. We can help you Restore and Renew.
The impact of deployment during a time of war on soldiers, their families and those who serve them is far reaching. Restore and Renew at Crossings Healingworks offers complementary medical services to help those most personally affected by war find peace. Acupuncture and healing hands can address pain and stress-related symptoms such as sleep disturbance and digestive upset, as well as soothe the worry, anxiety, fear, frustration or grief experienced by military families and their caregivers before, during and after deployment. When words alone are not enough to reach a traumatized heart and mind, ancient healing techniques can help veterans and those closest to them transform war experiences. We can help you cope.
Strongly felt emotions impact our energy, our health and our well-being. They leave us more vulnerable to chronic illness, headaches, allergies, insomnia, PMS or catching a cold or the flu. Acupuncturists and therapeutic body-workers know that combat deployment takes a toll on the whole family and that tending any one family member helps the whole family. We can help you move through this chapter of your family’s life with more balance and ease. We can help you cope.
Caring for the Caregivers at Crossings Healingworks
New! See what Crossings Healingworks is doing for Nurses Week 2006 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center:
- Nurses Week 2006 Flyer
- Program Description
- A Report on a Stress-Reduction Program for the Nursing Staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Caring for the Caregivers at Crossings Healingworks offers its services in gratitude for the hearts and hands of clinicians and healers who give to the needy, the battered, the suffering and wounded in our community. Caring for the Caregivers offers patient-centered, complementary medical care that tends the body, mind and spirit of those who work with people whose lives are affected by poverty, violence, war or lack of opportunity.
Our program is based on the latest research and experience with centuries-old approaches that help people recover from illness, pain or trauma. We are a non-profit organization, affiliated with Crossings: A Center for the Healing Traditions, which has tended the community with complementary medical services since 1992.
The impact of trauma is far reaching. Caregivers absorb its effects in seen and unseen ways. If you work with those who have been traumatized by war, violence, abuse, or neglect we want to help you.
Strongly felt emotions impact our energy, our health and our well-being. They leave us more vulnerable to chronic illness, headaches, allergies, insomnia, PMS or catching a cold or the flu. Acupuncturists and Therapeutic Bodyworkers in the Caring for the Caregivers program have a profound appreciation and respect for the effect of secondary stress experienced by caregivers in their work with our community’s neediest members.
Our Services
Acupuncture, Massage, and Zero Balancing® are natural, energy-based modalities that are rooted in traditions that have been used all over the world for hundreds of years to help people maintain their health under stressful conditions. When our energy is abundant and flowing smoothly, life’s possibilities are maximized. They will help you to:
Recover the rhythms of your body;
Restore the balance of your mind and emotions;
Engage your vital spirit.
These techniques are safe, effective and powerful:
Massage – Informed, sensitive touch supports our natural healing processes and promotes feelings of well-being and contentment. The art and science of touch has been used as a healing tool for thousands of years in many cultures. Massage supports your body/mind to live with more ease, less pain, and a greater sense of well-being. (Read more about Massage and Crossings massage therapists Gail Messier and David Grace.)
Acupuncture helps to restore and balance energy by tending particular points on the body with hair-thin sterile, disposable needles and a warming herb called moxa. When our energy is abundant and flowing smoothly our possibilities for healing are maximized – we sleep well, awaken restored and move through our day without chronic pain or discomfort; we enjoy richer, more harmonious relationships. (Read more about full body acupuncture, ear acupuncture, and Crossings acupuncturists Gillian Powers, Kate Walsh, and Alaine Duncan.)
Zero Balancing® – By tending the energy that flows through our bones, muscles and soft tissue, Zero Balancing® offers increased vitality, greater peace of mind, and a reduction in pain. Performed fully clothed, gentle finger pressure evaluates and balances tension held in bones and joints, relieves congestion and allows clients to function with more ease in their body, their mind and their spirit. (Read more about Zero Balancing® and Crossings Zero Balancing® practitioner David Grace)
Crossings Healingworks Clinical Director is Alaine D. Duncan, M.Ac., L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. Learning, practicing and loving Chinese medicine since 1988, she is a Crossings Co-Founder and Director. Crossings has grown from two acupuncturists in 1992 to over 30 providers of acupuncture, physical therapy, psychotherapy, and a variety of types of therapeutic bodywork as well as classes for the lay and professional community in yoga, meditation, qi gong, trauma recovery and Chinese medical philosophy. Ms. Duncan also founded and served as Board Chair and Clinical Director of Under-ground Railroad: A Community Center for Recovery and Wellness, an acupuncture-based substance abuse treatment program from 1997-2003. A Class of 1988 Acupuncture Master’s Degree student at the TAI Sophia Institute, she served as an adjunct faculty member there from 1995-2000
What about fees?
We want you to receive the care you need. We offer pediatric rates and a generous sliding scale that will allow you to meet your other responsibilities. The full fee for all treatments is $80. Acupuncture treatment begins with a comprehensive exam, lasting 1.5 to 2 hours, the fee for which is $150.
We are a non-profit organization. Your contribution will help us serve. Please mail your tax-deductible donation to 8505 Fenton Street, Suite 202, Silver Spring, MD 20910. (donation form)
