Reiki, disability advocacy, community, and healing that makes room for real life.

Hi, I’m Monica.

I’m a Reiki Master Teacher, Disability Advocate, and NCIDQ Interior Designer. I’m also a disabled, neurodivergent woman, a mom, and someone whose understanding of healing has been shaped as much by lived experience as by professional training.

I live with PTSD, autism, hEDS, and POTS, and I use a wheelchair. I know what it is like to move through systems, spaces, and healing environments that were not designed with bodies like mine in mind.

That experience changed the way I understand support.

I no longer believe healing should ask people to push harder, override their bodies, become more productive, or fit into someone else’s idea of what “well” is supposed to look like.

I believe support should meet people where they actually are.

How I got here

Before Restorative Healing Haven, I spent 8 years working as an interior designer.

That background taught me to pay attention to environments — how a space feels, how people move through it, what makes something accessible, and how easily design can either support someone or leave them out.

My own life eventually made those questions much more personal.

Trauma, neurodivergence, chronic illness, disability, caregiving, and major changes in my own capacity forced me to rethink what healing looked like when “getting back to normal” was not the goal.

Over time, Reiki became one of the practices that helped me reconnect with myself without demanding that my body be different first.

And eventually, I began teaching it.

Today, much of my work is about helping other people experience healing, learning, and community in ways that are slower, more accessible, and more human.

What I believe

Restorative Healing Haven exists because too many healing and wellness spaces unintentionally exclude the very people who may need support most.

My work is grounded in a few simple values:

• Your body is not a problem to solve.

• Rest is part of care.

• Accessibility should be built in, not added as an afterthought.

• Trauma-informed care should include choice, consent, pacing, and autonomy.

• Neurodivergent and disabled people deserve spaces that do not require masking or pretending to have more capacity than they do.

• Spiritual practices should support your agency, not replace it.

• Healing does not have to mean becoming the person you were before.

My goal is not to tell people how they should heal.

It is to create spaces where people can learn, explore, rest, and reconnect with themselves without pressure.

What I do now

My work currently centers around:

Reiki Education
I teach Reiki 1 and Reiki 2 live online, with an emphasis on practice, accessibility, nervous-system awareness, and helping students develop a relationship with Reiki that actually fits their lives.

Integrative Reiki
One-on-one Reiki sessions designed to offer space for grounding, rest, energetic support, and reconnection without demanding performance or productivity.

Disability Advocacy & Education
I create educational content and workshops around disability, chronic illness, accessibility, and the ways healing and wellness spaces can become more inclusive.

The Haven Community
The Haven is an online community connected to my newsletter where disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, Reiki-curious, and generally wonderfully human people can connect without needing to perform wellness. You can join us in The Haven by joining my newsletter below.

I also write and teach about the intersections between healing, disability, nervous-system safety, accessibility, and lived experience.

Why Reiki is still at the center

Reiki is not something I use to promise cures or tell people their illness exists because they have not healed enough.

That is not how I practice.

For me, Reiki is a practice of presence.

It can create a moment where someone does not have to fix anything. Where their body gets to be exactly as it is. Where they can listen inward, rest, notice, and reconnect.

That philosophy shapes both the way I practice Reiki and the way I teach it.