Meet Our Team
YOGA INSTRUCTOR
Shari Simon
Shari, owner of Sun Dog Yoga, has been a practicing Bodywork Therapist for over 30 years. During her decades as a Bodywork Therapist, Ashtanga Yoga practitioner and teacher, Shari has cultivated her innate ability to use all of her senses to see and hear what is happening in her client’s being. This “sight” helps her guide each individual in recognizing outdated physical and psychological patterns and belief systems within, and aid in creating new pathways for healing and a healthy, vibrant life. Her history of helping others heal has included the use of Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Myofascial Release Therapy, Pranic Healing, Collard Bodywork (Mind-Body Therapy), Cizin I’raku (Mayan Reiki), Shiatsu/Shin Tai, Oriental Medical Theory, as well as years of study in indigenous healing techniques.
THERAPIST
Robin Pepe, LPC, MA, M.Ed.
Robin Pepe has worked in a variety of settings, including private counseling, inpatient treatment, schools, and family centers. She has successfully partnered with many clients to better their lives by advancing their emotional well being and by giving them the tools to develop healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
Robin promotes self-awareness and self-regard, which lead to the emergence of one’s best self. Her approach to treatment is eclectic, catering to each person’s individual needs. Her clients emphasize her non-judgmental style and her ability to quickly make them feel safe and comfortable during the counseling process. She believes in a trusting and supportive relationship with her clients, which is integral to success in accomplishing their individual goals.
Robin has earned a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University and a Masters in Special Education from the College of New Rochelle. She has completed course work at LaSalle University for marriage and family counseling. When residing in New York Robin worked at The Cornell Medical Center Psychiatric Division and The Pelham Family Counseling Center. Robin is also certified as a guidance counselor. She has thirty-two years of experience with various positions in the field of Special Education for the middle school and high school level.
BARRE INSTRUCTOR
Angie Lee
Angie Lee, owner of Barre3 Doylestown, has called Bucks County home since 2006. After starting her family, Angie sought a community to make friendships in a new area, seek balance in her life, and pursue her passion. Barre3 was the answer! She began her career as an instructor in the Newtown studio, where she taught for three amazing years. Today, Angie is thrilled to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning a studio and helping others through a movement focused on body-balance, mindfulness, and empowerment. Outside the studio, Angie enjoys spending time with her two boys and husband Joe, listening to music and watching sports.
Certifications: Barre3 certified Instructor, Owner + Mentor
ACUPUNCTURE & TRADITIONAL ASIAN MEDICINE
Dr. Kara Szumski
Kara Szumski has been practicing Acupuncture and Traditional Asian medicine for over 20 years. In addition to studying with numerous masters in the field, Kara began her training at the New Zealand School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and completed her graduate work through the New England School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Kara received her doctorate for Pacific College of Health and Science.
Kara specializes in Chinese & Japanese Acupuncture, Asian Herbal Medicine and other Asian techniques that foster natural health and healing. Her unique combination of education and experience enables her to create an individualized healing path for each client.
YOGA INSTRUCTOR
RoseMarie Monaco
Rosemarie’s experience teaching adult oncology patients is what brought her to KIN. About that experience she says, “While research proves that yoga helps the body to heal, that it reduces stress and anxiety, I have witnessed the way the practice lifts patients’ spirits and makes them feel whole.”
Rosemarie is an E-RYT-500, YACEP which translates to a registered teacher with Yoga Alliance (Yoga Standards Board) at the expert level, as well as a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider.
She is also certified to teach adult oncology patients, trauma victims, restorative yoga, Yoga Nidra and more. She has taught every level and nearly every type of yoga and meditation. Bottom line: you are in very good hands.
She has also developed yoga workshops on a variety of topics including The Legends Behind the Poses, Developing a Home Practice, Fine-Tuning Your Practice, Living the Lessons of Yoga and more.
A former communications professor and writer, she is the author of Just Believe, Stories of Inspiration.
LABYRINTH INSTRUCTOR
Marlene Rosenblum
Marlene is a resident of Buckingham Township for over 22 years. She is a registered nurse with over 40 years of experience supporting women and families as a childbirth educator, labor and birth nurse. Her approach to childbirth preparation is one that anyone can use to enhance their everyday living and she will bring these tools and more to Kin.
Marlene will also bring to the Kin community her experience with the labyrinth, reiki and meditation. Out of her strong connection with the labyrinth, she designed her unique version of a hand-held finger labyrinth, E.S.C.A.P.E. PATH®. E.S.C.A.P.E. PATH® launched commercially in 2015. Marlene routinely facilitates labyrinth walks as a volunteer at the Michener Museum Community Labyrinth.
Marlene is a Veriditas Trained Labyrinth Facilitator, Reiki Level 2 Practitioner, and certified in prenatal meditation, Calm Birth®. The labyrinth, reiki, and other meditative practices allow one to experience healing energy, aid in becoming centered, introspective and to find peace and calm.
Services Marlene will provide at Kin will be Reiki sessions, educational sessions on the labyrinth, planned facilitated labyrinth walks and an open heart to listen and be present. www.escapepathllc.com
YOGA INSTRUCTOR
Leslie Carson
Leslie Carson, founder of Yoga for You with Leslie, believes that yoga is not about mastering poses and positions – it’s about empowering you to feel better physically, emotionally, and spiritually regardless of your current diagnosis, treatment regimen, physical or mental state. It’s about helping you free yourself from suffering and dysfunctional patterns and distractions and develop more nurturing, mindful and beneficial behaviors. Through gentle movement, controlled breathing, journaling, meditation and many other tools from her specialized training and life experience, Leslie will guide you to connect to the balanced happier pure heart and inner wisdom that is inside of you right now. This is who you truly, deeply are, and that never changes no matter what is going on in your life or health, you just need to quiet down and focus to hear and feel it. And she believes that yoga is most powerful when it is personalized and adapted to fit your unique needs and abilities.
Leslie has a BS in Biology, is a Yoga Alliance Certified RYT-500 Viniyoga teacher and Optimal State Specialist in Yoga Therapy for Mental Health with 20+ years of practice and teaching experience. For more information, visit her website at Yoga For You with Leslie
Certified Reiki Practitioner
Robin Wood
Robin began practicing Reiki in the mid 1980’s for people who had AIDS. A Certified Reiki Master, she has been volunteering at the Fox Chase Cancer Center since their Reiki Program began in 2013, after retiring as a Rehabilitation Counselor for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. At the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Robin provided treatment services to both patients in the hospital as well as for out-patients in the Young Pavilion. Many of the patients Robin has shared Reiki with have told her how calming and peaceful they felt while receiving a treatment. They especially requested sessions before going to the infusion room because some felt less stressed and actually slept while receiving a chemo treatment. Reiki offers a feeling of well being, hope and positive energy.
Therapist
Mary G. Brownsberger, PsyD, ABPP
Mary is a rehabilitation neuropsychologist who has worked with survivors of sudden onset disability, including that related to cancer, since 1997. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from La Salle University in 2006, completed pre-doctoral internship in rehabilitation neuropsychology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC, post-doctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at Bancroft NeuroRehab, and is board certified in Rehabilitation Psychology. She recently retired from her position as Director of Psychology for Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network in Allentown PA. Prior to completing her doctorate, she was the executive director of a small non-profit in the Washington DC area that provided services to individuals with disabilities. She completed teacher training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction under the tutelage of Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli in 2009, and was a Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer from April 2010 to August 2015. Her primary areas of research interest are community participation following sudden-onset disability, and the utility of mindfulness-based modalities to improve consumer outcomes as well as to improve staff resilience to burnout and compassion fatigue.
As a breast cancer survivor as well as a rehabilitation neuropsychologist experienced in trans-disciplinary treatment models, she supports the integration of her services with all modalities that support health and well-being, and that increase resilience and community participation.
Therapist
Kathlyn Drewicz, M.S.Ed., M.Phil.Ed.
Kat Drewicz is a mental health therapist, who has a wellness based approach to therapy that highlights self-care, self-compassion, and positive self-talk. She cares deeply about providing a collaborative and person-centered space for her clients, because having a safe, nurturing, and nonjudgmental environment is vital to healing.
Kat views genuineness as the key to the therapeutic relationship. She understands that every client has a different lived experience and aims to empower and advocate for all her clients. Kat wants to listen to each client’s story and, she works to make sure every client is heard, validated, and appreciated.
Kat Drewicz received a dual master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Professional Counseling. Kat has worked in various settings including schools, community mental health, and private practice. She currently practices at Welsh Therapy in Doylestown."
Yoga Instructor
Joe Simek
Joe Simek is an Internationally Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT 875-Hours), a 500-Hour Level Yoga Teacher, and co-owner of Dragonfly Yoga Studio. He is also on the staff at the Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy School, where he leads trainings and mentors students.
Mindful Movement
Susan Limongelli
Susan Limongelli has been studying qigong and mindful movement for several years and completed her early training online with professional instructors in Bangalore, India in 2020. She hopes to bring this unique style of matching breathwork and simple yet challenging movements to people of all ages. She believes that in these difficult times, every tool we have to promote our own health and wellness is very valuable and this practice is easy to learn and fun to do.
Yoga Therapist, C-IAYT, ERYT500, MFA
Michelle Stortz
Michelle Stortz, C-IAYT, ERYT500, MFA, is a certified yoga therapist specializing in yoga for cancer and chronic illness. She works in numerous medical settings in the Philadelphia area. Michelle has been studying in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition for the past 15 years, has trained in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction curriculum and is a certified facilitator of Yoga Nidra . www.MichelleStortz.com
Massage Therapist, LMT CPC
Lisa Santa Barbara
Lisa is a licensed massage therapist and has been practicing massage since 2001. She has a passion for wellness, wholeness, and spiritual growth. Lisa's training and her intuitive and caring nature create a space of trust for all who work with her.
She has been an iPEC-certified life coach since 2013 and received training in Energy LeadershipTM. She is a Journaling Transformation Coach, mentor, and writer who continues to evolve, learn, and redefine herself.
Lisa contributed to Bucks County Women's Journal (2015-2016) on Wellness Coaching. She is the founder of Soul Writing© and was a contributing writer for Heartrepreneur ® Magazine.
Yoga Instructor
Carolyn Prieto
We are so pleased to introduce Carolyn Prieto. Carolyn has been Kin’s wonderful and sensitive Gentle Yoga instructor on Wednesday mornings. She has been a yoga practitioner over ten years, practicing, as well as going through teacher training at Sun Dog Yoga in Doylestown. Carolyn is certified with Ryt 500 and also has had Yin Yoga training with Sally Miller. Carolyn has her own studio where she holds small private classes.
As a breast cancer survivor herself, Carolyn has a personal understanding and innate empathy with the guests she supports her class. She knows how yoga promotes self awareness, healing, and brings about a peaceful mind and overall well being. This is what she wants to share with her class. Carolyn is extremely attuned to her class members and is very sensitive to their needs in their transitional time of healing.
As a painter Carolyn is able to see Yoga through her artist’ eyes and she is an active docent at the James Michener Museum. She lives in Doylestown where she raised her five children and volunteered in the local schools. Carolyn now donates her time, talents, skills, and personal cancer experience to Kin while helping others through their cancer journeys.
Reflexologist
Sharin Harbeck
Sharin is a certified Reflexologist and Reiki master who has always been driven to help people. She enjoys connecting on a personal level with her clients and she finds her greatest pleasure when she is able to make a positive impact on other people's lives. While her kids were growing up she achieved this by spending her free time volunteering in the schools, on the PTO and as an officer on the board of every sports organization they were involved with. She often said she was "saving the world one athlete at a time".
Sharin's passion for the healing arts leads her to continue to explore additional holistic and energetic healing modalities that she incorporates into her sessions.
When she's not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and 2 grown children.. She and her husband are very active within the Jeep community, they enjoy exploring this beautiful state, finding oddities, taking off-road adventures or just hiking through and spending time connecting with nature.
PILATES INSTRUCTOR
Mayra Rosner
Mayra is the owner of Club Pilates Doylestown/Newtown. She has been practicing and teaching Pilates for over 15 years. Her certification includes a comprehensive Pilates training from the NYC PhysicalMind Institute. She is also certified as a TRX and Barre instructor.
Mat Pilates is a strengthening and lengthening form of exercise that focuses on your core (trunk) muscles while also training your arms and legs. Mat Pilates is based on the original exercises Joseph Pilates developed to strengthen his own body as a very young man and then began teaching others. The Mat work came before any of the Pilates Apparatus (equipment) he developed. It includes over 500 exercises and can be practiced anywhere. Mat Pilates can be modified for any body, or fitness level.
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Joe Montone
Joe Montone is a lifelong Bucks County resident and founder of newly formed concerts & experiences venture, Remedy Presents.
For over 11 years, Montone has created platforms for community to flourish through live music.
He has curated live music programming for Doylestown's Pride / Art Festivals, TileWorks, Michener Art Museum, Restore Tour, Maxwell's On Main, Siren Records, Del Val University, Stacks Co., and Park(ing) Day.
He is also the creator of Distance Picnic On Pine -- an outdoor picnic and live music experience.
CHIROPRACTOR
Jeff Sklar
Dr. Sklar has practiced chiropractic medicine for over 20 years. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Palmer University of Chiropractic ’97 where he was recognized for clinical excellence. For the next decade, he treated patients in Old City Philadelphia at his integrative healing arts center, Triune Wellness. In 2009 he was recruited to be the Medical Director of Chiropractic Services for Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) in Philadelphia. As a trailblazer in the profession, Dr. Sklar developed chiropractic protocols to treat patients struggling with the side effects of cancer treatment. Countless patients under his care have found relief from the challenges of chemotherapy induced neuropathy, radiation induced tissue fibrosis and tightness, GI/bowel issues, headaches, fatigue, sleep disturbances, as well as muscle and joint pain. Patient outcomes most often result in reduced pain, improved energy and focus, with optimized function throughout the body’s frame and systems.
CERTIFIED EFT PRACTITIONER
Sue Claricurzio
Sue Claricurzio is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Health Coach, and Certified EFT Practitioner. After working as a dietitian for years in healthcare she was lucky enough to stay home to raise her three children. Discovering a passion in EFT, or Tapping, has brought a new light to Sue’s professional world. Helping people heal through tapping is magical, but even more special is being able to teach her clients this energy healing technique. It’s like giving them a gift they can use everyday in every way. Sue grew up in Bucks County and continues to live there with her husband, Mike, and their three children. Whether it’s hiking, mountain biking or just being in nature, that is Sue’s happy place. She is also dedicated to her daily Transcendental Meditation practice. Making Sunday dinner for her family while listening to Frank Sinatra with a glass of red wine is “home”.
Support Group Moderator
Jody Rosenblum
Jody Rosenblum, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. has a Bachelor's in Social Work from the State University of New York in Albany and a Master's degree in Social Work from Rutgers University in Camden, NJ. She employs an eclectic mix of approaches and therapies when working with children, adolescents, adults, and families who are challenged with depression, anxiety, emotional regulation, substance abuse, loss, and grief. Jody uses cognitive behavioral therapy, yoga, and breath work to provide compassionate support and guidance to folks who struggle with life challenges, for each person she aims to increase self-awareness and facilitate positive change. Jody has demonstrated that an individualized approach can facilitate such awareness and change. During the past 30 years Jody has worked in a variety of settings, including the local hospital, an outpatient recovery center, schools, and the homes of children and their families. When not working, Jody enjoys time with her family, friends, and her dog, Maddy. She enjoys gardening, practicing yoga, reading and listening to music.
Of note, Jody is also a cancer survivor and thriver. Diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2018 , having a mastectomy, chemo and radiation. This experience lends to increased sensitivity and compassion for those on a similar journey.
At KIN my role will be to facilitate support groups for those impacted by cancer and their families.
Patient Advocate
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly is a Patient Advocate volunteer for Kin Wellness dedicated to helping cancer patients and families manage their illness and navigate the health care system. Brian has more than 40 years’ experience helping health systems operate more efficiently. As a senior vice president, he helped grow his company – MedAssets, from 60 employees to over 3,000 employees. Brian holds a Master’s Degree in Health Care Policy, Planning, and Administration from New York University. He has achieved certification from the Patient Advocate Certification Board and is a certified Ombudsman volunteer with the Pennsylvania Department of Long Term Care. Brian and his wife – Suzanne, have lived in Bucks County for more than 30 years. Their 4 grown children and 11 grandchildren keep them active. In his free time, Brian can be seen walking his 13 year old rescue dog – Petty, or wandering local golf courses searching for errant tee-shots.
Instructor - Breathing/Meditation & Angelic Reiki
Erika Rotella
Erika Rotella is a Certified Transformational Coach in the last year of her Doctorate of Spiritual Science. She has first-hand experience and knowledge to helps others create a life they love living! For over 28 years, Erika has been studying and implementing Transformational Success Principals and Practices resulting in amazing higher frequency paradigm shifts. These shifts allow her clients to create greater results than they have known before. Erika’s workshops and coaching programs help create lives filled with clarity, confidence and achievement.
“The world as we have created it, is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking” --Albert Einstein
Book Club
Jo Ann Alberts
Jo Ann has been an avid reader all her life and has been involved in a number of book clubs for many years. Primarily they have focused on a variety of novels, including historical fiction, mysteries and character development. She has lived in Bucks County most of her life and presently resides in New Hope, PA. She is married and has two children and 3 grandchildren who live in the area. Jo Ann currently serves as a Deacon at Thompson Memorial Presbyterian Church in New Hope.
Instructor - Artist
Robin Seiz
Robin is a self-taught mixed media artist who is so grateful to be doing what she loves in the second chapter of her life. Robin has always had her hand in creative outlets, scrapbooking, jewelry making, gardening and in the last 5 years mixed media. The love of paper, all things vintage, and upcycling are at the heart of her work.
Robin has been published in Somerset Studio, a premier magazine in the mixed media world. She has been on several creative teams working with other artists to promote their work through blogging and creating pieces using their products.
Robin has been a Guest Designer for Art Foamies, a company who makes foam stamps and has created her own rubber stamp.
Robin serves on the Board of Bead For Life, the sister organization to Street Business School, an organization whose mission is to end generational poverty by empowering women as entrepreneurs.
Prior to her retirement, Robin worked in Human Resources in the Pharmaceutical Industry. She has two grown sons who are married. One of the highlights of her life are her two grandchildren; family is an important part of Robin’s life.
Robin lives in Bucks County with her woodworking wife. Together they love creating each day.
Patient Advocate
Paddy Hansrote
Paddy Hansrote is a Registered Nurse with decades of experience as a dedicated patient advocate, Case Manager with specialized experience in medical billing. She has worked for large university hospitals, physicians, outpatient services and health insurance companies for purposes of analyzing medical bills, reviewing explanation of benefit forms and validation of healthcare charges. She is an expert in determining whether insurance companies have paid as much as it should have and if not, why not. Paddy also has experience with insurance denials and followup. On a personal level, Paddy helped her oldest brother with denials related to his cancer therapy. She was successful in negotiating his bills to a manageable amount for her brother and family.
Instructor
Emily Keane aka “The Board Housewife”
Emily Keane is the owner and creator of The Board Housewife, a hand crafted cheese and charcuterie business based out of Doylestown, PA. She artfully curates made to order cheese and charcuterie boards that will be the highlight of your next event. Emily opened The Board Housewife in October of 2020 after working as a stay at home mom for almost nine years to her daughter, Gracie. She opened it with the goal of nourishing her beloved Doylestown community with delicious cheese and charcuterie while also nourishing her creative side. She has always had a love of food and worked in numerous restaurants throughout highschool, college, and her early post college years. During college she explored careers as a Chef and in Hospitality Management and ultimately earned a BA in Business Management. She’s lived on both coasts and traveled around the world and food has always been the key to discovering the world around her. After college she worked in Corporate Retail, in Buying and Production, while managing her own food blog (shout out to Pretty In Pork!) where she dreamt of one day writing her own cookbook. The Board Housewife is the next stop on Emily’s journey through food but far from her final destination.
Instructor - Artist
Nancy Taylor
Doylestown artist Nancy Wexler Taylor is an art detective. Her exploration of art mediums leads to an understanding of the materials which creates freedom in her work.
This is expressed in her Broken Dish Mosaics. Using pieces of broken ceramics, plates, dishes and other found objects she creates wall adornment, jewelry, garden poles and large scale work.This art form is known as Pique Assiette and is French for stolen dish. Nancy’s appeal for this art form lies in the search for the dishes, breaking and redesigning them along with humor, recycling,and significance of the found objects.
Her latest endeavor is Pilfered Pressed and Framed flowers.Exploring gardens, empty lots and the side of the road she harvests flowers, weeds and grasses that most people never notice.The pressing process always has a surprise ending. Nancy benefits from this delicate art form as it slows her down and causes her to see the intricate nature of each flower.
Most of all Nancy is passionate about teaching in a variety of mediums. This includes art using books, portrait collage, broken dish jewelry and other found items .Her technique is a step by step approach that helps to support confidence in the student. She has taught for The Doylestown Art League,Greater Norristown Art League, Makers off Main in Doylestown,and her private studio .Summer of 2022 she was an artist in residence at Star Island,Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire.
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Yoga Instructor
Margaret Henley
Margaret is a retired physical therapist and active yoga teacher. She graduated from Abhyasa 200 hour teacher training in 2012, Yogadharma 300 hour teacher training in 2015, and Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra teacher training in 2016. She began studying yoga to increase strength and flexibility for martial arts, but soon began focusing more deeply on yoga and Dharma. Her teaching focuses on alignment, core strength, breath and awareness. Margaret lives with her husband Gene in Doylestown.
Access Bars & Sound Bath Instructor
Andrea Snyder
Andrea has been a resident of Doylestown for over 25 years and is a wife, mother of two grown sons, and someone who feels most at home surrounded by nature. She is a life-long learner, home herbalist, yogi, bird watcher, meditator, lover of crystals and angels, and all about a healthy lifestyle. She is a sound healing practitioner and performs at many local venues under the name Bodies in Harmony.
Andrea completed her 200 hr. YTT and Usui-Tibetan Reiki Master/Teacher Certification at Yandara Yoga Institute in Baja, Mexico. She is also an Access Consciousness Bars Facilitator and enjoys seeing clients at her home studio. She enjoys incorporating sound healing, crystals and chakra balancing into her practice.
She recently completed her SoulMonic Sound Healing Certification with Three Trees, which incorporates many types of indigenous, Shamanic and contemporary sound healing techniques with a deeper understanding of the energetic worlds and methodologies of frequency/vibrational healing.
National Board Certified Health & Well-Being Coach
Debbie Heller, MS
Debbie has worked in the health and wellness field for over 20 years. She is passionate about optimizing well-being for herself and for her clients, knowing that everyone can be a little more well tomorrow than they were yesterday.
As a health and well-being coach, she helps her clients decide where they would like to begin creating more well-being - whether it be physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual - then helps them create a vision of where they’d like to be, and then together create a game plan to reach that vision. She has worked with hundreds of clients and it doesn’t matter where one starts, everyone can successfully reach a higher level of well-being. This passion has led her to work in private practice and in corporations as a wellness counselor, health and wellness coach, health educator, and as a healthy cooking instructor.
She has certifications as a National Board Certified Health & Well-Being Coach, as a Diabetes Prevention Lifestyle Coach, and as a Lifestyle Medicine health coach. She has also completed training in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program.
She has a particular interest in helping those dealing with cancer as her two daughters went through that journey in the past. She understands how challenging that journey can be.
www.debbieheller.com
Chiropractor
Dr. Wendy Attadgie
Dr. Wendy Attadgie moved to Bucks County in 1989 after completing her Doctorate of Chiropractic degree at Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis, Missouri. She began practicing in Southampton and expanded to Newtown, opening her satellite office in 2002. She maintains a family based practice, along with her staff of massage therapists, treating people of all ages and stages in life. Her years of experience have allowed her to design appropriate treatment plans that are suited to each person’s individual needs. She utilizes light touch and instrument adjusting techniques as well as traditional manual adjusting and trigger point therapy. She prides herself in helping others learn effective ways to help their body heal optimally and empower them to function and feel the best they can. She has practiced yoga for over 20 years and integrates breathing and postural instruction into her treatment protocols.
In her free time, next to practicing yoga, Dr. Wendy enjoys hiking, kayaking, reading, country line dancing, listening to music, playing Mah Jongg with her mom and girlfriends and taking walks with her husband and Cavapoo, Bamba. She has two adult daughters living in the New York City area who always look forward to visiting and receiving an adjustment from Mom! Dr. Wendy is honored to share her loving and nurturing adjustments with the guests at Kin!
Facialist
Paula Mason L.E.
My name is Paula. I’m a licensed esthetician and owner of Beautiful You by Paula, LLC Aesthetics.
My husband and I live in Warrington. We were both born and raised in Bucks County. We purchased a beautiful farmhouse built in 1856. This beautiful gem is located on 11 acres and was told to be part of the Underground Railroad. This is where you can find Beautiful You by Paula.
My specialty is pragmatic skincare. I specialize in chemical peels, nano-needling, micro-needling, lash lift and tints, derma-planing, teen and men facials, acne facials, backcials and all things brows, skincare coaching.
I’m a child of God, I’m a doting daughter, a faithful wife, & Bella’s mama. When I am not in the spa, I enjoy hanging out with my family & friends. I also enjoy drawing & painting and kayaking on Peace Valley’s Lake Galena. Not only am I a licensed esthetician, I am also a substitute teacher at Plumstead Christian Academy Middle/High School and a 4th grade Sunday school teacher.
Yoga Instructor, HR RYT
Andrea Wytish
Andrea Wytish is a certified 200 HR RYT who is also in the process of completing her 500 HR RYT in Dharma Yoga. Andrea fell in love with movement at the age of two when she began her journey as a dancer. Along the way, she added competitive cheerleading and also earned a minor in Dance Movement and Theory from Temple University.
Certified in yoga in 2019, Andrea has taught at premiere studios in NYC and more recently in her hometown of Bucks County, PA. Andrea focuses the class on the yogis in the room, providing mindful cues and options for each movement. Her personal practice extends into her teaching through fluid, grounded, and challenging asanas along with breathwork, yoga nidra, concentration, and meditation.
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Acupuncturist
PATRICK WONG, PhD, L.Ac., CA
Patrick Wong was born in Yantai, Shandong province of China and is a graduate of New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (NYCTCM). He obtained his clinical Master's Degree in Acupuncture. Recently he earned his PhD degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Fujian Traditional Chinese Medicine School in Fuzhou, Fujian of China. He has over 2,000 hours of clinical training in traditional Chinese Acupuncture, as well as Acupuncture Physical Medicine, which integrates classical acupuncture with modern Acupuncture techniques.
Patrick is certified as a Diplomat in Acupuncture from the NCCAOM, and he currently holds a state license to practice acupuncture in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. He has over 10 years of clinical experience from his current office locations in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. He has attended different acupuncture modality training programs and applies these techniques in his clinical practice.
His #1 goal is to achieve optimum health and to improve the quality of life and well-being of his patients by alleviating pain and restoring good health. Patrick uses a holistic medical approach that recognizes and values the complete nature of each person, including these primary aspects: Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual. He believes in an integrated, holistic, complementary therapeutic treatment. He will make every effort to communicate and educate in a clear manner, take the time to listen to questions and concerns and thoroughly explain all aspects of his treatments to his patients in order to help his patients get the best medical care possible.
Patrick uses different techniques specific to the needs of the patient. He specializes in Chronic and Acute Pain Issues, Sports Injuries, Infertility Menopause/PMS Symptoms, Smoking Cessation (Quitting Smoking), Weight Loss, Allergy Control, Immune Support for Cancer Patients, Stress, Anxiety & Depression, Digestive Complaints and Cosmetic Acupuncture Treatment for Facial Rejuvenation (Cosmetic Facelift). He treats all ages, including children, and Patrick strongly believes in the body’s natural ability to heal itself - with some help from acupuncture.
Holistic Coach
Diane Eyer
Diane has an extensive and diverse background.
Holistic Coach, Author, College teacher helping to create deeper self-worth, experience healing, harmonize relationships, and greater peace and clarity.
Diane has a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and has written several influential books about how research in psychology gets done and applied. I
She has taught psych at Penn and Temple and has since expanded into “energy work”, the use of subtle energies that form the basis of Eastern medicine and Yoga and practices like EFT.
Diane became a Reiki Master and practitioner of Kryia (meditation) yoga and explored many modalities that use subtle energies to help release stress and bring about peace.
Diane ran a private practice in Newtown, PA. Whether through coaching counseling energy work or the combination: What people have experienced from this work is feeling seen and cared for, more peace and fulfillment - the ability to experience more joy, revitalized energy, new level of trust in life, relationships healed, realizing the core of issues, embracing heart-felt direction.
Diane has undergone treatment for skin cancer.
Grief Coach
Pam Hamilton
Pamela Hamilton is the owner of Heart And Soul Works, a practice designed to support those going through life’s transitions. Grief isn’t only about death, it’s also when we are faced with illness, the loss of a job, a relationship, a home, a beloved pet, empty nests or are supporting someone going through those losses.
She has spent many years training in a variety of healing modalities of the mind, body and spirit, including work as a Lay Chaplain at Doylestown Hospital. In 2005 Pam earned her Masters in Divinity from the Beloved Community’s Seminary of Spiritual Peacemaking in Ashland Oregon and was ordained as a Interfaith Minister. She has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Moore College & Design in Philadelphia.
Pam has done extensive studying of loss and grief, to help those who are sick, have experienced loss or are supporting others facing these challenges. Bringing years of experience of many healing modalities like yoga, meditation, breath work, sound healing, art therapy and more, Pam has made it her mission to help others move through life’s transitions. Also taking her years of experience of being a caretaker on her husband’s 10 year cancer journey, she has created systems and programs to help ease the job of being a caregiver to others.
To learn more about Pam and Heart And Soul Works, visit their website at: www.heartandsoulworks.com
Massage Therapist & Access Bars Practitoner
Jessica Fields
Jessica Fields- Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Aromatherapist and Access Bars Practitioner
Jess Fields is originally from Montgomery county and has lived in Bucks county for the last 4 years. She is a business owner and single mom of 2 girls, ages 16 and 12, both of which keep her very busy. She has been a Licensed Massage Therapist since 2014, a Certified Aromatherapist since 2020 and an Access Bars Practitioner since 2021.
In 2020, she started Seven Pines Apothecary, where she makes all natural aromatherapy products like massage and body creams, soy candles, lip balms, essential oil roll ons, etc.
In the Fall and Spring, you will most likely see her out and about at local art festivals, events or craft markets near you under a Seven Pines Apothecary tent. She loves interacting with the community, networking and creating connections with other small business owners.
In 2021, Jess started Spa Pamper Parties, a mobile spa event business. She put together a team of local women small business owners and professionals who offer body, mind and soul services for a unique and upscale in-home experience for you and your guests. Some services include; Massage, Tarot card readings, Henna tattoos, Sound Bath, Psychic and Mediumship readings, DIY aromatherapy bar and many more! They go to your location, whether it be a home or business, for any occasion.
She is very open and passionate about her own healing and spiritual journey and how that has guided her on the path of Holistic wellness and helped influence her love of giving back to her clients and the community. Jess's favorite quote is "Self care is a medicine for the world."
www.sevenpinesapothecary.com /
IG @sevenpinesapothecary
IG @spapamperparties
Professional Artist – Instructor
Louise Max
Louise Max has been a professional artist for more than 30 years. She is active in several art groups and also volunteers at Good Stuff thrift shop which benefits children.
Louise has had her own graphic design business, and also has had her illustrations and designs produced on home décor items, greeting cards, garden décor and flags, and four published books.
She has also taught mandala classes and art classes in Pennsylvania and Vermont.
She now enjoys creating mixed media paintings, sculpture and assemblage art with mystical or whimsical themes. Her work is also found in private collections.
Louise has a degree in associate art and a certificate in art therapy.
“My desire is to help others express themselves through art, and to learn to enjoy the process. I was drawn to Kin’s mission because I too have personally been through the cancer journey twice, and can understand and empathize with Kin’s clientele. I am very enthusiastic about sharing the experience of creating through art, it is very uplifting.”
Esthetician
Jacquelynn Troxell McKay
Jacquelynn Troxell McKay is a Doylestown native. Growing up and attending the local schools has given her a deep personal connection with this community.
Jackie is a graduate of Central Bucks West, Bucks County Community College and Bucks County School of Beauty Culture. She became an entrepreneur in 1985 when she opened her original Esthetics Treatment Center in Doylestown. In 1997 she became the co-founder of Essentials Salon & Day Spa and managed the facility and spa for the following 25 years. Since her retirement Jackie has been continuing on her own personal journey of reinvention and healing. She is excited to begin the next step by bringing her unique skills to Kin and her spa style facials to their guests.
Jackie is grateful to be a 4 year cancer survivor.
Meet our Board
Keith Fenimore, Chairman/Founder
Keith Fenimore grew up in New Hope, PA and now resides in Doylestown with his family.
He has an extensive career as a marketer, content creator and philanthropist.
Keith is dedicated to helping others. It is this focus and passion that inspired the creation of two non-profits; Pine2Pink 501(c)(3) and Main St. Missions 501(c)(3), which runs and operates Kin Wellness and Support Center.
Fenimore Chairs the Boards as founder and holds the title of Executive Director of Kin.
His non-profit’s mantra is “By the Community, For the Community.”
Shelly Hayes, Vice President
Dr. Shelly Hayes, MD is a Radiation Oncology Specialist at Fox Chase and has over 19 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from Temple University School of Medicine medical school in 2002.
In her 13 years of practice as a radiation oncologist, she has witnessed the toll that cancer takes on patients and their families, physically, mentally and emotionally. Treating the whole patient has always been her ultimate goal; however, she has felt unequipped to do so in many instances, primarily due to the lack of services directed towards the whole patient. She is extremely excited to help in developing a cancer wellness center in Bucks County. She has been in practice for 11 years in Bucks County and wants nothing more than to be able to provide her patients a place where they can go to decompress, escape, rejuvenate and connect with others who are walking the same path of cancer.
Nancy Catricks, Treasurer
Nancy Catricks is the Vice President of Global Safety QA for Charles River Laboratories. Charles River is a Contract Research Organization that provides products and services that help companies accelerate their research and drug development efforts. She has been with Charles River for 23 years and currently oversees multiple global cross-site QA teams.
Nancy received her undergraduate degree in Small Animal Science from Delaware Valley University and her Master of Science degree in Quality Assurance/Regulatory affairs from Temple University. She is currently working on a Master of Arts degree from Delaware Valley University in Management and Organizational Leadership.
Nancy resides in New Britain with her husband, two children ages 13 and 10 and her Doberman pup.
Kristina Fenimore, Secretary
Kristina Fenimore grew up in Salt Lake City, UT and moved to the East Coast over ten years ago.
While raising her two children, Kristina has a spent a career in Project/Production Management.
Kristina has always loved volunteering her time to helping non-profits. She feels blessed to be a part of the Kin Wellness & Support Center. Cancer has affected her family in many forms so being able to give back in a space like Kin is truly an honor.