A Deeper Way of Healing: Intuitive and Energy-Based Care
Shanti O’Connor MS | Hawthorn Healing Arts
At Hawthorn Healing Arts, healing has always been understood as more than symptom management. It’s about restoring balance, supporting the nervous system, and helping people reconnect with themselves during times of change, stress, or uncertainty. As the practice continues to evolve, so do its offerings — including new, integrative services from Shanti O’Connor that invite patients into a deeper layer of self-exploration and healing.
Shanti O’Connor, MS, NCC, has spent more than 15 years working as a therapist in Bend, supporting individuals, couples, families, and groups through counseling, trauma-informed care, women’s work, energy healing, and retreats. With a master’s degree in counseling, national certification, and extensive training across somatic, mindfulness-based, and energetic modalities, her work naturally lives at the intersection of psychology and embodied healing.
She is now expanding her services at Hawthorn Healing Arts to include Psychic Intuitive Readings & Mediumship and Intuitive Energy Healing — offerings that are a natural extension of her long-standing approach and deeply aligned with Hawthorn’s whole-person philosophy of care.
Where Psychology and Intuition Meet
Intuitive and energy-based practices are sometimes viewed as separate from therapeutic work, yet in Shanti’s hands, these approaches are seamlessly integrated. Her background in clinical counseling, trauma treatment, and group facilitation provides a strong container for sessions that are grounded, attuned, and responsive.
Rather than bypassing emotional work, these offerings often help illuminate what has been difficult to articulate — emotional patterns, relational dynamics, or experiences held beneath conscious awareness. For many clients, this work complements talk therapy, bodywork, or medical care by offering another pathway into understanding what’s happening internally. This integrative approach can be especially supportive for those navigating grief, major life transitions, relationship challenges, identity shifts, or periods of spiritual awakening — moments when insight is needed not just at the cognitive level, but throughout the whole system.
Psychic Intuitive Readings & Mediumship
Shanti’s intuitive readings draw on clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairsentience (clear feeling), and claircognizance (clear knowing). These sessions are not about prediction or fortune-telling; they are about insight, reflection, and gently bringing awareness to what is ready to be seen in the present moment.
Sessions may include intuitive impressions, energetic messages, or mediumship, guided by what will most support the client’s healing and growth. Some people come seeking clarity around a decision or relationship, while others are hoping to better understand recurring emotional themes, unresolved grief, or a sense of feeling “stuck.” What sets these sessions apart is their grounded, compassionate nature. They are held with intention and care, offering space for insight without overwhelm. The focus is not on being told who you are, but on helping you reconnect with your own inner knowing.
Clients often leave with:
- Greater clarity around life transitions or decisions
- Insight into emotional or relational patterns
- A sense of validation or reassurance
- Deeper trust in their intuition
Each session unfolds uniquely, shaped by what is most relevant in that moment.
Intuitive Energy Healing: Listening to the Energy Body
In intuitive energy healing sessions, Shanti works directly with the energy body — including the aura and chakras — to sense areas of imbalance, stagnation, or unresolved emotional imprinting. These imprints often relate to past experiences, trauma, or prolonged stress and can influence emotional well-being, nervous system regulation, and overall vitality.
By reading the energy field, Shanti brings awareness to what may be operating beneath conscious awareness. From there, she draws from a range of modalities to support release, integration, and regulation. Sessions may include:
- Energy work and chakra clearing
- Guided visualization
- Tuning forks and vibrational tools
- Intuitive or psychic insight
- Elements of guided visualization and somatic awareness
Sessions typically begin with a brief conversation to understand what the client is currently navigating, allowing the work to be responsive rather than prescriptive. No two sessions are the same; each is shaped by the individual’s needs and readiness. Many clients experience these sessions as deeply calming, often reporting a sense of emotional release, renewed clarity, or a greater feeling of alignment and ease.
Trauma-Informed, Empowering, and Integrative
A defining aspect of Shanti’s work is her trauma-informed lens. Every session is held with respect for boundaries, pacing, and choice. Rather than overriding the body’s signals, the work supports awareness, consent, and self-agency.
Clients are often offered practical tools or reflective practices to continue their healing between sessions, reinforcing that meaningful change unfolds over time. This emphasis on empowerment allows the work to extend well beyond the session itself. These offerings integrate seamlessly into Hawthorn Healing Arts’ broader approach, where physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual dimensions of health are understood as interconnected.
A Grounded Space for Deep Healing
Both intuitive readings and energy healing sessions are held in a calm, grounded, and sacred space — one that honors emotional depth without dramatizing it. Whether someone is seeking support around grief, trauma, relationship challenges, or personal growth, these sessions offer an opportunity to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with meaning.
By introducing these services, Shanti is expanding the ways she supports healing — offering patients another doorway into understanding themselves more fully, guided by experience, presence, and care. For those who feel called to explore healing beyond words alone, these offerings at Hawthorn Healing Arts provide a thoughtful, supportive entry point into deeper personal work — rooted in compassion, integration, and trust in the body’s wisdom.
Appointments with Shanti are available by calling 541-330-0334 or feel free to use our online appointment form.