Adrienne Zahner is the founder of High Energy Decisions, LLC. She works with organizations and individuals to promote conscious leadership, better decision-making and personal well-being.

Adrienne’s High Energy Decisions^® leadership and personal development programs teach how to assess energy levels, identify issues of stress and reduce the impact that these factors have on decision-making ability. Intensive personal coaching is offered through Integrative Healing services. Typical reactions from clients? They:

• Are more enthusiastic
• Are consciously aware of their values and goals
• Find it easier to focus on those goals
• Feel better – physically and emotionally
• Are more relaxed, yet energetic
• Feel empowered to live and work with balance, peace and joy

Adrienne's Biography

Adrienne Zahner earned her doctorate degree from Temple University School of Medicine, and she has experience, degrees and certifications for coaching and therapeutic work with the human energy field. Her professional journey includes government, consulting, corporate, not for profit and private sectors.

Adrienne ’s experience includes management and development of science health risk policy for the U.S. Government. She successfully worked with diverse stakeholders in facilitating the drafting and completion of science guidelines for industry, for which she won a Special Achievement Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has been a consultant and manager in Fortune 500 Corporations, government and social service agencies, not-for profit and private sectors. Her direct health care experience encompasses diverse settings including inpatient and outpatient facilities, schools, hospice and long-term care facilities, and private practice.

Adrienne holds a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a Ph.D. in Pathology from Temple University School of Medicine, and a Masters Degree in Social Work from St. Louis University. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (MO), Licensed (MO) and Nationally Certified Massage and Bodywork Therapist, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Certified Usui Reiki Master Practitioner and Teacher.

Adrienne’s passion is to inspire each person to become the best person and leader possible. She helps clients feel empowered to live and work with purpose and meaning, to find alignment and integrity with personal values that allow feelings of peace and joy. In addition to her work, Adrienne enjoys her relationships with her son, friends, standard poodle, three birds, and chakra (energy) garden. She adores music, and incorporates her ethnic drums, flutes and vocals in her work. Nature hikes, photography, travel, sailing and beaches are some of her many interests. Above all, she creates peaceful space for all who share her life and work.

Articles by Adrienne Joy Zahner

Living A Vision — Healing Touch             See also: Integrative Healing — Journey For Peace

I had a recurrent vision for years that involved my life’s purpose. It was sacred, in that I was wearing my prayer shawl and had prayers on my arm and forehead. I was moving my arms over a man in a bed, who was between life and death. I knew that I was helping, but not controlling his fate. I had never seen before what I was doing. The vision was a mystery.

After 9/11/01, I had a long talk with God. I wanted to progress with this vision, and I asked to be led. In my networking quest, I talked with Joanne Guerrerio, an oncology nurse at Barnes Hospital. I told her that I knew I was to be in holistic health, but having a very western perspective with my Ph.D. in Pathology from a medical school and Master’s Degree in Social Work (for counseling), I was not aware of the possibilities. Joanne intuitively encouraged that I study energy healing. She suggested Healing Touch because the certification program endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association would give a credential that was supportive of my other credentials for integrating the clinical and education work. Joanne had brought Healing Touch to St. Louis a few years earlier.

I attended my first class the next month. As the instructor waved her arms over a person in the same way as in my vision, a feeling of awe charged down my spine. The mystery of the vision was revealed, and I had found my path.

Joanne and Lia Farber became my mentors. Lia is a Palliative care nurse who brought Healing Touch to DePaul Hospital. I did most of my 100 treatments and case study for certification on patients there. During the two years that I completed the Certification Program in Healing Touch, I also became a Licensed Massage Therapist. I could now integrate therapies for mind, body and spirit. Clients report that results are “amazing”, with pain, anxiety, depression and stress being greatly reduced or eliminated within a treatment. Transformational changes have occurred in a few sessions.

In August, I had the honor to serve as mentor for the Healing Touch students in their final class prior to certification. There are many who stand on the shoulders of the pioneering angels in Healing Touch who empowered me to live my vision.

Published in The Healthy Planet, October 2005, p. 7, St. Louis, MO

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Integrative Healing — Journey For Peace
by Adrienne Joy Zahner

What is healing? My mentor and I were discussing this recently. She had encouraged me to follow my own vision of doing energy therapy and bodywork with counseling, so that I could offer integrative therapy for mind, body and spirit. The results with my clients provided the clues for the answer to the question.

I had worked with a woman to help her relieve anxiety over her terminally ill mother. She achieved deep relaxation in treatments, and learned techniques for her self-care. When her friend committed suicide, she came to see me in a state of high anxiety. In one Healing Touch treatment, she experienced the presence of an angel and sensed that her friend was fine. Spiritual counseling at the end of the session supported her reframing of religious beliefs that had caused anxiety. She said: “This is amazing. I can put this behind me now.” When her mother died, she said that she was at peace. There have been similar peaceful results for clients grieving losses.

A woman had spasms of her vocal cords for twenty years. She could speak only a few words per breath in a gravelly voice. Integrative therapy revealed traumatic memories of past injuries to her throat, which were energetically released. Within a few sessions, she was speaking full sentences per breath in a stronger voice. She had achieved peace.

Clients often want better balance in life and relationships, and some may need to make transitions. One client came energetically depleted from her job. With encouragement, she discussed her dream of teaching compassion and forgiveness. In one session of integrative therapy, she said that she felt the blocks were removed and she now had energy to move on. Two weeks later, she told me she had left the job, gone to a conference on global peace, returned home that morning and had a job interview with a woman she met at the conference. She accepted the offer to teach compassion and forgiveness to children. She remarked on the wonders of synchronicity in meeting me when she did, and all that followed.

At times healing may involve a cure. Often, healing is a journey for acceptance, moving on, and ultimately a sense of peace. Integrative healing works holistically with mind, body and spirit to facilitate client empowerment for healing, well-being and peace.

Published in The Healthy Planet, November 2005, p. 13, St. Louis, MO