Nearly 60,000 Sessions: How Healing Touch Is Changing Care for Veterans
Corinna Kromer on Healing Warriors, Integrative Veteran Care & Bridging Science with Energy Healing
What happens when Healing Touch becomes part of a larger model of integrative care created specifically for veterans?
In this episode of The Energy Healing Podcast, Leila Briggs sits down with Corinna Kromer, Executive Director of Healing Warriors Program, to explore how Healing Touch is being incorporated into individualized care for veterans and their families.
Corinna shares her own journey from naturally sensing and working with energy to discovering Healing Touch and eventually leading an organization that has provided nearly 60,000 integrative care sessions since 2013.
Together, Leila and Corinna explore what it means to truly meet veterans where they are—from sleep, anxiety and hypervigilance to chronic pain, resilience and the challenges of military culture. Corinna also shares why Healing Warriors collects data, how research can help build credibility for Healing Touch, and why she sees science not as being at odds with energy healing, but as a doorway into understanding it.
At the heart of the conversation is a simple idea: healing cannot always be reduced to a protocol. Sometimes the most important thing we can do is listen, understand what someone is ready to receive, and meet them there.
What You'll Hear
- How Corinna's awareness of energy began long before she discovered Healing Touch
- The Healing Touch Level 1 class that gave a name to something she already recognized
- How Corinna became involved with Healing Warriors Program
- Why supporting veterans became deeply personal and meaningful to her
- How Healing Warriors integrates Healing Touch, acupuncture and craniosacral therapy
- Why services are offered at no cost to veterans and their families
- How Healing Warriors creates individualized care rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach
- Why sleep can be an important starting point for some veterans
- How practitioners adapt Healing Touch sessions based on what a client can receive that day
- The role of nervous-system regulation when working with hypervigilance
- How Healing Warriors approaches trauma-informed care
- Why resilience is an important part of supporting everyday life
- How Corinna explains Healing Touch to veterans who may be skeptical of energy medicine
- Why science is an important bridge in Corinna's approach to energy healing
- How and why Healing Warriors collects data
- What nearly 60,000 sessions have meant for the growth of the organization
- Why supporting spouses, partners and parents can matter too
- How military culture can shape the way veterans approach receiving care
- Why having veterans on staff helps Healing Warriors understand and serve its community
- How Healing Warriors works alongside the VA and existing care teams
- Corinna's hopes for expanding Healing Warriors and reaching more veterans
Chapters & Timestamps
00:00 Meet Corinna Kromer
01:20 Working With Energy Before Knowing What It Was
02:45 Discovering Healing Touch
04:15 From Volunteer Practitioner to Healing Warriors Executive Director
08:00 How Healing Touch Fits Into Veteran Care
09:00 Why Sleep Can Be an Important Starting Point
12:00 What a Healing Warriors Series Looks Like
17:00 Hypervigilance, the Vagus Nerve & Regulation
18:00 Meeting Each Veteran Where They Are
20:00 Sleep, Anxiety, Trauma & Resilience Programs
24:30 Introducing Healing Touch to Skeptical Veterans
28:00 Data, Research & Why Healing Warriors Measures Outcomes
30:00 Using Science as a Doorway to Energy Healing
35:30 Healing Touch Within an Integrative Care Model
37:00 Nearly 60,000 Sessions & the Power of Experience
42:00 Why the Experience of Healing Touch Matters
44:30 Military Culture & Learning to Receive Care
45:30 Why Understanding Military Culture Matters
49:30 Supporting & Expanding Healing Warriors
53:00 Integrating With the VA & Existing Care
About Corinna Kromer
Corinna Kromer is the Executive Director of Healing Warriors Program, where she supports the organization's work providing integrative care to veterans and their families.
Her journey with energy began early in life, long before she knew there were formal practices or language for what she experienced. After a career in corporate America, Corinna discovered Healing Touch when a friend asked her to attend a Level 1 class. What she encountered felt immediately familiar and led her deeper into Healing Touch education and practice.
Corinna became involved with Healing Warriors first as a volunteer practitioner, later serving on its board before stepping into the Executive Director role. Her work reflects a particular passion for science, research, individualized care and creating greater access to integrative approaches for veterans and their families.
Through Healing Warriors, she continues to help expand a model of care that includes Healing Touch, acupuncture and craniosacral therapy while working to build bridges between energy medicine, research and the broader healthcare community.
Healing Warriors Program:
www.healingwarriorsprogram.org
About the Host
Leila Briggs is the host of The Energy Healing Podcast, presented by the Healing Touch Program. A Healing Touch Certified Practitioner since 2015, Leila brings a lifetime of intuitive experience into grounded, heart-centered conversations about energy healing and lived spiritual practice.
The Energy Healing Podcast explores the world of Healing Touch through practitioner stories, education, research, and real-life experiences. Whether you're discovering energy healing for the first time, exploring your own healing journey, or considering becoming a practitioner, each episode offers practical insight and thoughtful conversations designed to help you discover, experience, and learn Healing Touch.
About the Podcast
The Energy Healing Podcast explores the world of Healing Touch through practitioner stories, education, research, real-life healing experiences, and healthcare perspectives. Hosted by Leila Briggs, the show helps people discover, experience, and learn Healing Touch—from first curiosity through practitioner education, certification, and professional practice.
Disclaimer
The information shared in this episode is provided for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical or mental health advice or as a substitute for professional diagnosis, treatment, or care. Experiences and observations described by guests are personal or organizational accounts and should not be interpreted as evidence that Healing Touch treats, prevents, or cures any particular physical or mental health condition.
Healing Touch and other complementary approaches discussed in this episode are intended to complement, not replace, appropriate conventional medical or mental health care. If you or someone you know is experiencing a medical or mental health concern, please seek support from an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
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