Practitioners

Betsy has been a dedicated Bowen Technique practitioner since 2013, offering clients in central Pennsylvania exceptional, results-driven pain relief. Her expertise in Bowenwork®, combined with advanced training in multiple complementary modalities, allows her to deliver highly individualized and effective care.

In 2015, Betsy graduated from the Massage Therapy program at Harrisburg Area Community College and became a licensed massage therapist, further strengthening her hands-on clinical skills.

Continuing her commitment to professional growth, Betsy began her studies with the Upledger Institute in 2016, earning training as a CranioSacral Practitioner. This work deepened her understanding of the craniosacral system and its role in addressing a wide range of physical concerns, while fostering a powerful mind-body connection.

Additional advanced training in McLoughlin Scar Tissue Release, Joel Crandall’s VOILA Method and Access Bars training has enhanced Betsy’s ability to address complex and persistent issues, bringing greater balance and resolution to areas that are often difficult to treat.

With more than 30 years of experience in the fitness industry, Betsy has also served the Carlisle community as an instructor for SilverSneakers®, group fitness, and yoga classes. As a certified Personal Trainer, she brings a comprehensive, whole-body perspective to her work, guiding clients toward improved mobility, resilience, and overall well-being.

Tabitha is the owner of Carlisle Bowen Works. She has had a passion for helping people through Occupational Therapy training, CNA certification and the Bowen Technique. Tabitha first learned about Bowen Therapy in 2013 by visiting Carlisle Bowen Works and experiencing the relaxation benefits and pain relief. After joining Carlisle Bowen Works in 2024, she became a certified Bowen Practitioner. She has been passionate about sharing the many benefits of Bowen Technique with the community.

Jillian graduated in 2013 from Baltimore School of Massage in York, PA. She has experience working in environments ranging from spas to healthcare offices. She believes in the many benefits of massage including pain relief, stress relief, improved circulation, improved posture, and better range of motion. She likes to customize her client's session based on their wellness needs.

She specializes in Prenatal Massage, Pediatric Massage and Hot Stone Massage, among many other modalities.

Karen is a passionate practitioner with over ten years of experience in massage therapy, facia stretch therapy, and manual lymph drainage to promote healing and pain relief.  She addresses the following conditions: sports injuries, pre & post surgery recovery, and acute/chronic pain issues.  Additionally, she addresses edema, lymphedema, neurodegenerative diseases, like Parkinson’s disease and chronic autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis.  With a focus on wellness and rehabilitation, she provides an integrative approach to support her clients in achieving greater freedom, ease of function, relaxed and decompressed tissues.  By creating a healthy fascia and lymphatic system and releasing stored adhesions/blockages, the elimination of metabolic waste is encouraged. This accelerates the flow of fresh oxygen and nutrients, additionally reducing tension and inflammation while improving the body’s flexibility.

Through her work, Karen creates and facilitates a calm, nurturing, and quiet space where clients can reconnect with their inner truth, regulate their nervous systems, and awaken their innate healing intelligence. This encourages the healing process while simultaneously uncovering emotional and energetic root causes of emotional and physical imbalance. She blends skilled hand movements, restorative stretching techniques and innovative tools with an aim to decrease pain, inflammation, stress and tension within the connective tissue to restore proper “flow,"
posture, alignment and range of motion.  Both therapeutic and regenerative, her combined modalities work synergistically to support each person toward greater vitality, balance, coherence and long-term wellness.

Elaine is a gentle Reiki Master Practitioner who is committed to promote healing, balance and
well-being through the ancient art of Reiki. She is also certified in ReikiVoice, and Lotus Light Reiki, a new  transmission of Reiki energy empowering a higher level of consciousness.

Additionally, she is attuned to Angelic Light Language, TM Meditation trained and a certified yoga instructor.
Over the years of sharing Reiki, Elaine has learned that while Reiki can be subtle, it truly is powerful in the way it supports healing. Having been diagnosed with cancer in 2022, Reiki sessions helped facilitate the healing process during her treatments and recovery afterwards by calming her mind and body which allowed for deep relaxation, stress reduction and pain relief.

She lives her days with more balance, clarity and awareness which help her focus on maintaining her overall well-being. It is Elaine’s truest heartfelt desire to share all that she has learned to assist her clients to cultivate a deep sense of calm, clarity and peace in their everyday life.

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Joe Schaefer

Joe Schaefer is an AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher who has a passion for making movement easier for others. Inspired by his own misfortunes, Joe has an intense interest in helping individuals avoid the hazards of improper and inefficient posture and movement.

Following a series of music-related injuries, he discovered the Technique and began to see that harmful Musculo-skeletal habits were at the root of his difficulties. Joe enjoys rock climbing, hiking, swimming, and making music as a local musician. 

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Andy Hockley has been offering counseling in central Pennsylvania since 2002, providing services to adults, children, and families in multiple settings in the community. He is licensed as a social worker in Pennsylvania. Andy is trained and certified as an Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist and has been providing Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy since 2016. He is also  a certified Access Bars Practitioner.

He is excited to bring these unique and powerful healing modalities to Carlisle Bowen Works.