Nancy Fabro, HTCP
HTP Ethics Committee Chair
Nancy Fabro was educated as a Licensed Practical Nurse and for over 12 years successfully managed her business as Owner/Director of a major Canadian Home Care franchise. She sold her business in 2003 and became interested in Healing Touch as a continuation of her desire to bring wellness to others. She is currently a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner/Instructor and Qualified Mentor. She is a member of the Natural Health Practitioners of Canada and is serving as Chairperson of the Ethics Committee for the Healing Touch Program. She has a Healing Touch Practice on her peaceful country acreage.

Nancy Lester, BSPA, LMT, HTCP/I
HTP Ethics Committee Vice-Chair
Nancy, founder and president of Healing Arts Inc., has been in a holistic private practice for over 15 years providing healing touch and therapeutic massage. She is a Certified Healing Touch Instructor since 1998 teaching levels 1-4 and Anatomy for Healers. Nancy brings to her work over 25 years of nursing experience including critical care, hospice and home care, rehabilitation and hospital administration. She has been a student of holistic studies and spirituality since the early 80’s. Nancy has presented workshops on starting a business, dream interpretation, and healing touch for self care and loves learning from her students and clients as well as teaching. As a qualified mentor, she supports monthly practice sessions and mentoring meetings in her community. She is a member of HTPA and AMTA. Nancy feels honored to be co-chair of the ethics committee and to work with such heart centered and proficient peers.

Melinda Graham, RN, CPIMI, CIMI, HTCP
HTP Ethics Committee Member
Melinda (Mindy) Graham, RN, HTCP, CPIMI is a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner who additionally holds certification in massage and touch interventions for infants and young children with special needs. Her nursing background includes 30 years of experience working in the NICU, public health and early intervention venues where clients included premature and fragile infants, infants and toddlers with special needs, pregnant and parenting adolescents, and pregnant women at risk. She has specialized training in sensory integration and the use of touch, rhythms and journaling as healing modalities. She has completed HealthRhythms - a musicempowerment protocol created by the health division of Remo drum company. She currently serves as a member of the Ethics Committee for the Healing Touch Program. In her private practice, Sparrow Song, Mindy provides a range of gentle healing arts as she works with women of all ages and young children.

Cynthia Hutchison, DNSc, RN, MSN, HTCP/I
HTP Ethics Committee Member
Cynthia Hutchison is the Director of the Healing Touch Program™. In the early 1980s, she began studying natural health and energy therapies. She is an avid student of spirituality and energy medicine. As a doctorally-prepared nurse from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. (1987), Cynthia is also knowledgeable in the mainstream health sciences. With a master's degree as a clinical specialist in mental health, she has maintained a private practice in Healing Touch for many years. In 1995, Cynthia initiated the research program for Healing Touch and became the first Director of Research. She was invited by Janet Mentgen (founder of HT) in 2003 to serve as the Assistant Program Director. Cynthia became the Program Director in May of 2005, several months before Janet's death. She brings much positivity, enthusiasm, and creativity to her classes. Boulder, Colorado has been her home since 1993.

Dr Monica Nebauer, RN, PHD, HTCP/I
HTP Ethics Committee Member
My name is Dr Monica Nebauer (RN, PHD) and I am a Registered Nurse and Midwife and work as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Australian Catholic University in Brisbane, Australia. I have been practicing energy work for the past 22 years, and started learning Healing Touch in 1994. I have been a certified practitioner of HT since 1997, and an instructor since early 2008. I practice HT in my healing room at home with family, friends and clients, and I also practice HT at the University with colleagues and sometimes, students. I am delighted, humbled, and honoured to be representing Australia on the Ethics Committee of Healing Touch Program and to have the opportunity of working with such a wonderful, knowledgeable, and heart-centred group of HT colleagues.

Vickie Smith, LMT,HTCP/I, NCBTMB
HTP Ethics Committee Member
Vickie Smith has been active in the healing arts for over fourteen years as a practitioner and over twenty years in personal growth. She is co-owner of a Wellness Center in Las Vegas, Nevada and has a full time private practice in bodywork. Vickie is a Nationally Certified Licensed Massage Therapist in Nevada and Arizona, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner/Instructor, HTP Presenter, Reiki Master, and a Professional member of the AMTA. Vickie is currently in the certification process for Cranial Sacral Therapy, through the Upledger Institute and in her third year of post-graduate Gestalt training through the Gestalt Institute of LV, Nevada. She has been teaching workshops on Reiki, Bach Flower Therapy, and Energy Balancing since 1997. On a daily basis, Vickie feels privileged to work with clients who allow her to be both the teacher and the student.