Phoenix Rising Counseling and Energy Healing Center

Long Distance Healing: Imagine being able to experience the benefits of Intuitive Counseling or Symptom Clearing Session work from the comfort of your own home or office without having to jump in the car and drive to an appointment. Now You Can by calling Ellie Pechet today!
Key Words:
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Description
Ellie Pechet, M.Ed., LMHC: Ellie is a highly trained and naturally intuitive practitioner with 25 years of professional counseling and healing experience.

Contact Ellie

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(508) 295-9809

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Ellie Pechet
Phoenix Rising Healing
53-C Minot Ave.
Wareham, MA 02571.

Traditional Counseling: Depression, grief, and loss can have a debilitating effect on a person’s life. Grief and loss are often very difficult to understand and work through. One common cause of depression is unexpressed anger turned inward. Other common causes include having difficulty accepting the loss of a significant relationship or when there is a traumatic incident or pattern that has not been effectively dealt with. Traditional counseling helps put past and current experiences in a perspective that is healthy and constructive, and as this happens, you will discover you have more energy and are able to function better in your life overall. Past and current relationship difficulties are often related to unresolved "family of origin" issues and patterns. It is vitally important to resolve unhealthy relationship patterns from the past in order to be able to create healthy, mutually loving relationships now and in the future. Using traditional counseling, Ellie will help you understand and resolve past and current relationship patterns. As a result, you will develop confidence and self esteem and start taking healthy risks — going after the dreams and visions of how you really want your life to be. During the counseling process, you will develop an intimate relationship with yourself, based on respect and compassion for self and others. Feelings of despair, hopelessness, anxiety and anger are replaced with hope, optimism, and confidence, and your ability to manage your life will dramatically increase as you start to come from a place of empowerment and self-direction.
SpiritualCounseling: Spiritual counseling brings traditional counseling to a higher level by exploring the aspects of your spirit, soul, and personality and how they interrelate. As you deepen your understanding of these key aspects of yourself, you will gain an even clearer perspective about challenging and confusing experiences in your life. As you gain further clarity about significant past and present relationships and the role each has played in your life, you will come to understand how each relationship has contributed to your growth and development on a soul level. The outcome of this process is the ability to put these experiences, many of which have been painful, into a perspective which will leave you feeling empowered rather than victimized — on a deeper level than you can even imagine. Spiritual counseling will also help you get clear about what your Divine Purpose is for being here this lifetime. If you already have a sense of what this is, but are not sure how to implement the next step, spiritual counseling will help you move forward in a way that feels very satisfying. Coming into alignment with one’s purpose is key to feeling on track and having a sense of direction. Knowing you are here to make a positive contribution that is uniquely yours and living this purpose is essential to living a life that is deeply fulfilling. Understand the opportunities for empowerment and soul progression through your most challenging experiences. Once you understand how you fit into the larger picture of creation and soul progression, you can have in-the-moment cognition of how life's synchronicities aren't coincidence, but are part of the progression of the soul. This understanding will empower you, allowing you to navigate through life in a way that does not go against your mission and purpose in this life. Ellie Pechet can help you visualize your empowering potential and help you see opportunities you may never have considered before. Deal more effectively with difficult people and challenging situations. Part of life is trying to deal with people and events that lower your vibrational energy causing a domino effect of depression. Many people rely on drugs and alcohol or other vices to numb the pain, but are never able to get difficult situations under control. Ellie Pechet will listen to your traumas and help you work through them, employing many techniques to keep you centered and best able to deal with difficult situations in positive, sustainable ways.
Metaphysical Healing: One of Ellie Pechet’s natural abilities is Medical Intuition. She uses this ability to identify energy imbalances and blockages for your physical symptoms, and is able to obtain information about acute or chronic injuries you may be presenting with — thereby enabling you to find both causes and solutions. Ellie does not discourage clients from seeking medical treatment; in many instances such as working with clients who are being medically treated for cancer, both approaches can be effective simultaneously. Sometimes subtle conditions that might have been missed by the medical profession will be picked up during a Medical Intuitive Scan. A blueprint for treatment of a medical condition or symptom(s) is created as the result of doing a Medical Intuitive Scan. These scans are done from head to toe and the conditions that are most important to work on become evident, in order of priority, during the scan. The scan helps determine a course of action that will facilitate healing most quickly. Often, Ellie will recommend a combination of energy work in the form of Reiki and/or the Yuen Method with supportive counseling in order to facilitate the healing process and gives intuitive suggestions the client can implement on a practical level between sessions to help accelerate progress. (These suggestions help facilitate the healing work being done during sessions - whether these are done on the phone or in person.) The scan is an important first step in working with a client who is seeking help with a physical symptom or condition. Thyroid condition, problems related to digestion such as olitis or IBS, chronic neck and back pain, allergies and vision problems are just a few examples of the types of symptoms clients bring to Ellie, seeking information and assistance.
Reiki/Hands on Healing: Reiki Healing Energy is connected to the Higher Intelligence that sustains and balances all life on this planet. This energy has a wisdom of its own. It also has a healing and balancing effect on all aspects of the recipient’s mind, body, and spirit. Reiki Energy is extremely relaxing and is delivered in a gentle non–invasive method of hands–on healing that provides balance on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Reiki healing accelerates the evolution of the individual receiving treatment, and the effect of Reiki done on a regular basis seems to be cumulative on both a personal and spiritual level. Clients who receive Reiki on a regular basis tell me that the benefits of the session last the whole week between sessions. Reiki achieves a deep level of relaxation as it is used to treat the whole body. It facilitates the removal of blockages in energy flow and the release of toxins held in the tissues. You will be encouraged to consume plenty of water after Reiki sessions to help flush toxins released during the session from your body. Long-term practice of whole-body Reiki will restore the general condition of your body. The energy channels are opened to allow your body to deal properly and naturally with stress and the build–up of toxins. Reiki helps reduce emotional symptoms you may be experiencing, such as anxiety, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS: Ellie has had profound success alleviating symptoms such as back, shoulder, and joint pain, thyroid imbalance, colitis and other digestive disorders. ILLNESS & SURGERY: Reiki therapy is helpful when clients are recovering from illness and surgery. Reiki provides the additional healing energy needed to recuperate quickly from illness. Reiki can be used as a supplementary therapy to other types of treatment, medical or holistic, as it is a truly complementary treatment. This is a wonderful modality to use to reduce painful side effects from cancer (radiation and chemotherapy) treatments and thyroid treatments. HAVE PETS? Ellie treats pets suffering from many conditions including anxiety and joint pain. One recent example: her own pet turtle did not need to be sedated to have a scraping procedure done inside her beak to remove a build up of calcium. This was the result of Ellie giving the turtle Reiki on the drive over to the clinic! The vet was surprised and impressed when she found out the turtle had been a recipient of Reiki treatments by Ellie. Even plants are receptive to the Reiki healing energy!
EMF:
EMF stands for Electromagnetic Field. All matter is ultimately an electromagnetic phenomenon. An electromagnetic field permeates the entire body as subtle energy fibers. These energy fibers form patterns unique to each individual's reality. This is the energy body. Energy bodies out of balance translate to lives out of balance. Energy quality translates to mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well being. Thus, our well being depends upon the quality of our personal energy threads. These threads weave the fabric of our lives filled with the wisdom to appreciate who and what we truly are, spiritual beings with a purpose in life. The EMF Balancing Technique® developed and presented by Peggy Phoenix Dubro provides a path to find that purpose and the ultimate realization of soul's journey. Currently, there are four Phases available, each designed with it's own procedure, energy grid and benefits. They are performed in a sequential pattern and for most people need only be done once.
Stress Management: Every person has a natural rhythm and with today's increasingly fast pace, it becomes more challenging to maintain one’s natural balance and rhythm. Ellie, using a combination of counseling and energy work ,can help you achieve a more relaxed state and get in touch with your own rhythm . She will also give you techniques you can use on a daily basis that will help you maintain the peacefulness you feel during the session.
Long Distance Healing:
Imagine being able to experience the benefits of Intuitive Counseling or Symptom Clearing Session work from the comfort of your own home or office without having to jump in the car and drive to an appointment. Session work done over the phone long distance is just as effective as in person and allows clients from many states to be able to receive the benefits of session work no matter where they are located. Another wonderful benefit is that you can continue to process the session or take a rest at home instead of having to get up and go somewhere. This processing time helps the work that was done during your session to continue on an even deeper level. With long distance session work, you can get even more benefit from the healing, intuitive, or counseling work you just did!
About Ellie Ellie Pechet, M.Ed., LMHC: Ellie is a highly trained and naturally intuitive practitioner with 25 years of professional counseling and healing experience. She has been featured as the guest on popular radio programs such as the Organic Thinking Show, The Healthy Living Show, the Connect Show with Jeanne White. She has also been the featured guest on cable television shows such as the Living Your Dreams Show with Nancy Cantor and other programs.Her private practice is a combination of holistic and traditional counseling and metaphysical healing. Ellie holds a Masters Degree in Counseling from Cambridge College. She discovered early on that her passion is helping as many people as possible heal and shift in a positive way as quickly as possible. At the beginning of her career, she enjoyed doing talk therapy with her clients, and although clients would feel supported and helped, she felt that she could help even more than using only talk therapy. Ellie started to get trained in healing modalities that embraced a body, mind and spirit approach. She was first trained in Reiki becoming a Reiki Master, was then trained in Electro Magnetic Field Balancing Technique, and then became trained in the Yuen Method of Healing.
Fees for Services: 50 minute sessions; Traditional, Spiritual and Intuitive Counseling, Mediumship and Angel Readings Reiki Energy Work. $125
Medical Intuitive Scan $150
Removal of Spirit Attachments $150
Yuen Method of Healing $200
Combination Session $185 for a 75-minute session (Does not include Yuen Method or Medical Intuitive Scan) Under dire circumstances, a lower fee may be negotiated. This will be done on a case-by-case basis.
Incorporating these healing modalities into her counseling practice, she noticed that her clients were healing and making progress much faster than using talk therapy by itself. Ellie added a whole new dimension to her counseling & healing practice when she started to incorporate her natural intuitive abilities with clients who were receptive to a higher level of communication, such as hearing from their own personal Guides and Angels. Over time, as her abilities became more powerful, she became aware that she had the ability to scan clients intuitively and identify energy blockages and problem areas. This practice evolved into doing medical intuitive scans. Ellie uses these scans as a tool to help navigate a plan for clients coming in with physical discomfort and medical symptoms. As a result of working together with her own team of Spirit Guides, medical intuitive scans help expedite progress and a reduction of physical symptoms. Long Distance Healing: Imagine being able to experience the benefits of Intuitive Counseling or Symptom Clearing Session work from the comfort of your own home or office without having to jump in the car and drive to an appointment. Session work done over the phone long distance is just as effective as in person and allows clients from many states to be able to receive the benefits of session work no matter where they are located. Another wonderful benefit is that you can continue to process the session or take a rest at home instead of having to get up and go somewhere. This processing time helps the work that was done during your session to continue on an even deeper level. With long distance session work, you can get even more benefit from the healing, intuitive, or counseling work you just did!
Testimonials:
Yuen Method of Healing; "The Yuen Method facilitated by Ellie, an intuitive gifted healer, has helped me heal two long standing family emotional challenges. I'm grateful! Also through Reike she has helped me heal a long standing thyroid imbalance. We continue to work together -- she is a powerful channel for healing."
- Carole Darraugh
"I first met Ellie Pechet when she came to Rowe Camp and Conference Ctr to do a demonstration of her healing techniques using the Yuen Method. I went to her for some session work and in a span of minutes, she is able to perform miraculous healings that are effective almost immediately and continue to work once the process has been completed. As a long time student of energy healing myself, I am completely amazed at ther ability to do this. There are tangible, noticeable differences in the energy she uses in a Yuen Healing versus a Reiki healing and she is able to switch modalities in a matter of minutes. Her healings have been like magic and I believe she has a magical wand attached to her hand. When she waves it at you, you know something is happening. I have no doubt that she talks to spirits in the other realms as she was able to reveal to me information that she had no way of knowing without this communication. The planet has been gifted with the unique abilities to offer so many different modalities and to know which is right for her clients at which time. "

- Jaime Durand, Reiki Master, Practitioner of Shamballa Multidimensional Healing

"I knew how heavy-hearted (my husband) had been and it was so long that he had been feeling lousy. (Ellie) did the Yuen method with him and after just his first session with Ellie, he came home a completely different person. It was great! We went out last night and we laughed together for the first time in a long time. Ellie, you are a Godsend!"

- Maureen Gordon

"The healing work with Ellie is an amazing process and she works really quickly. It has only been about 5 weeks that I have been going to her, yet, my life is so different now. I feel a lot more confident and strong and able to handle situations that come up better. My thinking is a lot clearer now and I am a victim no longer!"

- Arnette Peccini

"I am writing to tell you how appreciative I am for your help in dealing with my ‘stage fright.’ The Yuen session I had with you miraculously helped shift that energy. My recent Las Vegas presentation was amazingly stress free and it was by far the largest audience I have ever given a presentation to. Thank you again for this gift."

- Jayne Pelossi, Interior Designer

"When Ellie used the Yuen Method for my healing issue. I could feel the energy moving in my body and when we were finished I can honestly say that years of guilt and sadness had been miraculously lifted away. Weeks later the feeling of relief is as strong as it was initially."

- Lynda Schneider

"My whole life I felt tense, anxious and unable to focus. After just 2 sessions of Ellie doing the Yuen Method with me, I feel free of the guilt and anxiety that have always plagued me. This is especially true in regards to issues with my Mother that I had been unsuccessful at resolving until I came to see Ellie. I highly recommend her for Counseling and the Yuen Method. "

- Kim Hahn

"I feel like I have had an awakening. The Yuen Technique is amazing. Though we only focused on one thing, it has already affected so many areas of my daily life. I feel gentler and a lot less reactive, especially with my family. Thank you Ellie!"

- Michelle Gordon

Intuitive Readings and Sessions

"My ears had been blocked for months, causing me great discomfort. In one our sessions, Ellie Pechet gave me lasting relief from this condition. Even more important, I found Ellie's intuitive read of my personal situation very powerful and helpful over the long-term. Ellie has a special gift. I would highly recommend her to anyone for her intuitive counseling and hands on energy work."

- Donna Rigolizzo, M.D. Psychiatrist

"I highly recommend Ellie's work...with my lower back, I could feel the pain being drawn away from my body...Miraculous!"

- Sylvia Gay, Certified Hypnotherapist

"Ellie worked on my knee injury and relieved it of irritation and swelling. She was also helpful in putting the injury into a new perspective which moved it from an annoyance to a life learning event."

- Linda Lawless, Psychotherapist and Owner of Lawless & Company

"... as a result of our first session, the swelling in my arm is substantially less and I have been feeling almost no pain in the area you worked on! After our session, I also felt much calmer at work and have been feeling really good over all. "

- Donna Chambers

"Before my healing session with Ellie Pechet I was feeling down and confused; still feeling the effects of a recent divorce. I was especilly impressed with Ellie's ability to accurately diagnose the size and stage of a fiberous tumor that I was receiving medical treatment for. As a result of my healing session I felt an overall sense of well being and inner peace."

- G. Regan, Food Service Manager

"Thank you seems such an insufficient way to convey how grateful I am. From that first desperate phone call, your insight has amazed me. What I thought was a problem, we discovered was merely a symptom. I've learned to pay attention to how I feel, and to use that in my daily life to stay comfortable with myself. To use one of my favorite analogies, I still sometimes feel like the guy in the rowboat without a paddle, but at least now I know I can swim. "

- Kevin Geary

"Ellie's treatment of a knee injury not only eased pain and expedited recovery it was good for the soul! My knee was pain free when I left her office after one of my sessions, and I have always left her office with a tangible feeling of well being and substantially increased energy level. It has been a great uplifting, well worth trying experience!"

- Anthony Cataldo, President Photronic Devices

Easing Cancer Treatments

"I finished chemotherapy and after that and six weeks of radiation, I was left feeling joyous, but fatigued and in pain. As Ellie started to do the Yuen Method with me in our session, I began to feel a lightness within me, like burdens were being lifted. Gradually, my whole body felt rejuvenated and I noticed increased clarity in my thoughts and most of all...no pain! It is now several weeks later and these feelings has continued to last. Following cancer treatment I expected pain, fatigue and depression Thanks to Ellie and her skill at doing the Yuen Method, I feel more rejuvenated than I could ever imagine."

- Pansy Brown, Social Worker

Spirit Attachment/Mediumship/Angel Reading

"My first session with Ellie Pechet, she removed a Karmic spirit attachment. When it was gone, I immediately felt lighter and was able to get a lot more done at home. In subsequent session work with Ellie, she removed feelings of despair that had been with me for decades. In another session, she removed the hurt feelings I had carried for a very long time, associated with my Mother.

In a subsequent session, Ellie cleared the deep feelings of hurt I had about my sister and this was so powerful. Ellie guided me through another technique in which she had me unhook from my sister energetically and remove energetic hooks going from her to me. I felt so relieved after this process.

Since doing session work with Ellie, I no longer have the sad feelings that were perpetually pulling me down. I brought my husband in to see Ellie and she removed a spirit attachment that had been with him for a long time. He has seemed more loving and open since she cleared that spirit and did some additional clearing work with him.

Knowing that Ellie clears spirit attachments from homes and suspecting that there were some in and around my home, I had her come over and she removed 12 spirit attachments inside my home from cellar to attic and an addtl. 7 from the property. She then placed an emerald green protective shield around my property lines to prevent others from coming in. My home feels a lot clearer now. I can breathe more deeply and I sleep a lot better at night."

- Arnett Peccini

"I understand so much more about why I have had to suffer for so long at the hands of family members, particularly my Mother. During a session with Ellie, she dialogued with a spirit who said he was my son and I was his abusive father from a past life. Dialoging with this spirit, he told Ellie that he had been attached to me for 27 years and that he wanted me to know what it felt like to be abused. Now I understand why I have spent my life healing from being victimized and why as an adult, I choose to help others heal from their traumas in my work as a licensed psychotherapist.

I apologized to the spirit for hurting him so badly in that former life. He accepted my apology and agreed to have Ellie guide him to the other side. I felt an immediate lightness in my entire being when he left. Since that unhappy spirit left, I feel stronger. I feel that I can now more easily create the life I want without slugging through the old negativity and pain that had been so much a part of my life. I no longer feel guilty or victimized. The cycle of being the abuser and the victim has been broken. Yours in Gratitude, Molly Mc Guiness Ps Several days after my healing with Ellie, my psychotherapist commented on how much lighter and calmer I seemed even before I shared with her my healing experience with Ellie."

- Molly McGuiness

Angel Reading/Mediumship " …thank you for the fantastic Angel Reading. I have been looking over the notes you gave me. They are rich with great messages for me and they also provided some very solid guidance for me going forward. I especially appreciate the personal messages as well as the Guidance for my business challenges. I will be reviewing those notes on a regular basis and will do my best to put the Guidance from our session into effect. In fact, today, I followed the Guidance you gave me and WOW… I got the answers I needed within an hour. On a more intimate and personal note, I got a chill by the way you were able to physically describe my Mother who died and your ability to deliver a message that felt really genuine from her. It is comforting for me to know that she is still here looking out for me."

- Jim Della Volpe, Business Advisor/Executive Coach

Other Services

"... The Reiki work you did on my gluteus maximus was really effective. I'm so amazed. There is practically no pain there now. I've never experienced anything like this before ..."

- Valerie Brady, Nursing Student

"The energy work we do completely relaxes me. I have not had a sleepless night since I have been seeing Ellie ."

- Jessica Kimball, X-Ray Technician

"Ellie worked with me for over an hour and I left her office 100% lighter, happier and much more clear concerning my part in this family drama than when I had arrived. I left her office healed of the emotional pain that had me bound be to the situation. The situation hadn't changed but I sure had! For me, it felt like nothing short of a miracle. "

- Jayne Billings, Co-owner, Chiron Promotions' Whole Body & Spirit Expos

"I have asthma and chronic bronchitis and had suffered a bout of pneumonia this past winter. At the time of the Reiki clinic, a common cold had turned into another raging respiratory infection, which I was still battling despite 2 rounds of antibiotics. Even though the Reiki session was only 20 minutes, by the next day my respiratory infection and constant coughing had cleared up. My hiatial hernia has not bothered me since. "

- Janice Afonso

Yuen Method of Healing

"The Yuen Method facilitated by Ellie, an intuitive gifted healer, has helped me heal two long standing family emotional challenges. I'm grateful! Also through Reike she has helped me heal a long standing thyroid imbalance. We continue to work together -- she is a powerful channel for healing."

- Carole Darraugh

"I first met Ellie Pechet when she came to Rowe Camp and Conference Ctr to do a demonstration of her healing techniques using the Yuen Method. I went to her for some session work and in a span of minutes, she is able to perform miraculous healings that are effective almost immediately and continue to work once the process has been completed. As a long time student of energy healing myself, I am completely amazed at ther ability to do this. There are tangible, noticeable differences in the energy she uses in a Yuen Healing versus a Reiki healing and she is able to switch modalities in a matter of minutes.

Her healings have been like magic and I believe she has a magical wand attached to her hand. When she waves it at you, you know something is happening. I have no doubt that she talks to spirits in the other realms as she was able to reveal to me information that she had no way of knowing without this communication. The planet has been gifted with the unique abilities to offer so many different modalities and to know which is right for her clients at which time. "

- Jaime Durand, Reiki Master, Practitioner of Shamballa Multidimensional Healing

- Maureen Gordon

- Arnette Peccini

- Jayne Pelossi, Interior Designer

- Lynda Schneider

- Kim Hahn

- Michelle Gordon

Intuitive Readings and Sessions

- Donna Rigolizzo, M.D. Psychiatrist

"I highly recommend Ellie's work...with my lower back, I could feel the pain being drawn away from my body...Miraculous!"

- Sylvia Gay, Certified Hypnotherapist

- Linda Lawless, Psychotherapist and Owner of Lawless & Company

- Donna Chambers

- G. Regan, Food Service Manager

- Kevin Geary

- Anthony Cataldo, President Photronic Devices

Easing Cancer Treatments

- Pansy Brown, Social Worker

Spirit Attachment/Mediumship/Angel Reading

- Arnett Peccini

- Molly McGuiness

- Jim Della Volpe, Business Advisor/Executive Coach

Other Services

"... The Reiki work you did on my gluteus maximus was really effective. I'm so amazed. There is practically no pain there now. I've never experienced anything like this before ..."

- Valerie Brady, Nursing Student

"The energy work we do completely relaxes me. I have not had a sleepless night since I have been seeing Ellie ."

- Jessica Kimball, X-Ray Technician

- Jayne Billings, Co-owner, Chiron Promotions' Whole Body & Spirit Expos

- Janice Afonso

Press Coverage:
Pop culture boosts paranormal profession November 12, 2006 Cape Cod Times By AARON GOUVEIA, STAFF WRITER
BUZZARDS BAY - Ellie Pechet doesn't need to watch the ''Ghost Whisperer'' on television. She claims to be one. The soft music playing in the background meshes with the soothing sound of a trickling waterfall as Pechet, who runs the Phoenix Rising Holistic Healing Center on Main Street, prepares to help an earthbound spirit move on to ''the other side.'' Sitting in her office with her eyes closed, she dangles a crystal on a silver chain from her hand and it swings like a pendulum. She tells her client - a local businesswoman who wished to remain anonymous - a male spirit attached itself to her three days ago. The woman says that's when she began feeling anxious, frustrated and depressed. However, in just minutes Pechet says she has cleared the spirit and leaves her client with a sense of relief. In addition to earning a master's degree as a licensed mental health counselor from Cambridge College in Cambridge, Pechet claims she is a psychic and medium who can communicate with earthbound spirits and detail past lives. And business is good, Pechet said, thanks to the paranormal surging into the mainstream. ''Medium'' and ''Ghost Whisperer'' are prime-time television shows featuring psychic individuals, who communicate with the dead to solve crimes and complete the deceased's unfinished business. An Internet search shows roughly a dozen other businesses on Cape Cod specializing in psychic readings, but Pechet claims no one else in the area combines energy work, counseling and mediumship like she does. There are no special licenses or permits required for this type of business, according to town planning officials. Whether she's clearing a haunted house full of ghosts or extricating a client from a dark spirit, the bottom line is her clients leave a session feeling better both physically and emotionally, Pechet said. ''I realized quickly that traditional counseling is limited,'' she said. ''Although I enjoy it, I wanted to find other ways to help people shift in a positive direction more quickly and effectively.'' According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 21 percent of Americans believe living people can communicate with the dead and 37 percent believe in haunted houses. Pechet said she realized she was a medium eight years ago, but knew she was psychic even before that. She claims her powers are growing and now she can sometimes gain insight into unsolved accidents. For instance, she recently spoke with a client who was depressed over the drowning of a family member. However, Pechet said she was able to communicate with the victim and describe what he was wearing at the time of his death, as well as provide specific details of the drowning. Hearing what had happened during the accident and being assured the spirit was moving on to the other side was a relief for her client, she said. By contacting her spirit guides, Pechet said, she can communicate with the dead and both kinds of spirit attachments - karmic spirits and ghosts with unfinished business. Karmic spirits have a connection to one of a person's past lives, Pechet said, while ghosts with unfinished business need closure before they can ''move on.'' While sitting in Pechet's office one day last month, Jeffrey Hennessy, 43, of Wareham said he has been a client of Pechet's for a year. When he moved back to this area after a 20-year absence, Hennessy had just lost his job and his father was dying. After his dad's death, Hennessy said he was depressed and felt a constant weight on his shoulders. During one of his first visits with Pechet, she told Hennessy she could see and hear his father who was still present in Hennessy's house. Although he had his doubts, Hennessy became a believer when Pechet told him that his father wanted him to start making omelettes again. Making omelettes with his father had been a family tradition, he said, and since his dad's death he had been buying ingredients to make omelettes but letting them rot in the refrigerator. He said there was no way Pechet could have known this since they had never met before. ''It took me by surprise but that's when I really started believing in Ellie (Pechet),'' Hennessy said. ''Now I never second-guess.'' But Benjamin Radford, editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Skeptical Inquirer,'' said it's important to separate common sense and television entertainment. Radford has spent the last 10 years investigating claims of paranormal activity, and specializes in examining supernatural claims from a scientific point of view. He has received countless reports of supposed psychics and mediums who claim to possess the same abilities as Pechet. While most of these people aren't being intentionally deceitful, their claims are usually inaccurate, he said. ''For the most part, the people who claim they can speak to spirits really believe they can,'' Radford said. ''There are some hoaxsters and liars, but for the most part they're misinterpreting their experiences.'' For her part, Pechet said, her client list is growing. Her folder of testimonials is getting thicker. Interested parties can call Pechet for prices, but she charges $125 for a basic 50-minute session and $185 for 75 minutes. Those sessions include readings, counseling and energy work. Aaron Gouveia can be reached at agouveia@capecodonline.com.

The Ghost Whisperer October 26, 2006 Wareham Courier By Kristen DeOliveira, CNC Newspapers

Staff photo/Richard Archbold
Ellie Pechet is the owner of Phoenix Rising Counseling and Energy Healing Center in Buzzards Bay. In the healing room, a room that I am told has previously hosted the spirits of Geronimo and Jesus Christ, of loves lost, kings conquered, and parents who've passed away, the trickle of a rain chime rings constant. The scent of lavender washes over light lilac walls hung with a purer purple tapestry. A stone of a similar hue is set in the necklace that wraps around the neck of a Wareham woman who breathes deeply as she settles into a rocking chair at the center of the room. A rose quartz sits above her shoulders for protection. Amethyst, she says, is a crystal that holds the capacity for healing. The color purple, she continues, also exudes that curative quality. An amethyst crystal hangs at the end of a silver chain that Phoenix Rising Healing Center proprietor Ellie Pechet often dangles from her fingers - the direction of it's swing, she says, relays recommendations from her spirit guides - guides who facilitate conversations between the spirit and the physical world. Both the course the chain takes and vigor with which the stone swings help Pechet decipher which of the services she dispenses from this space might serve her clients best. Counseling with complimentary healing techniques is what this Wareham resident offers inside Phoenix Rising Healing Center, hidden under an Enterprise Rent-A-Car sign on Main Street just west of the Buzzard's Bay rotary. Pechet describes herself as a medium, a medical intuitive, a metaphysical healer and a psychic. She couples her heightened spiritual sense with a master's degree in counseling from Cambridge College. Today, as a medium, she offers a mini-reading. Sinking into a chair blanketed in the image of an angel, I am reading-ready. She asks if I have a grandmother in spirit, and I do. Pechet says she sees an elderly woman at my side. The "woman" is cranky and in her late 70s, and more than a little impatient. When the escription doesn't quite match that of my deceased grandmother, Pechet asks her to step aside. Before bidding us goodbye, the woman calls Pechet a blabbermouth. The comment, although uncalled for, is somewhat typical of the outbursts of an elderly family friend who passed away some months ago. A stylish woman with a soft demeanor and dark hair emerges. Pechet says she looks somewhat Mediterranean - maybe Italian, with a handsome face and an eye for appearances. A pudgy, blue-eyed woman - short and smiley with a sparkle in her eye and a pink complexion - is next. Although I express uncertainty about their identities, certain pieces of their descriptions do induce thoughts of a great aunt whose photo sits atop my grandmother's piano, or a neighbor who invited me inside her home as a child. Pechet has practiced "mediumship" for roughly 10 years. Her specialty of late, however, is work she refers to as a sort of modern-day exorcism. Later, in the next room - the room Pechet's pendulum passed over when she decided which would be most amenable for our interview - I sit beside a bookshelf that houses titles holding the secrets to children's past lives; crystal, gem, and metal magic; and auras and how to read them. Under Asian-inspired wall hangings and figures of a belly-less Buddha, I observe Pechet as she expels a dark spirit. Lee Daymon manages the Lobster Hut seafood market next door. Six months ago Pechet relieved Daymon of a negative spirit attachment. Post-session clarity allowed her to put the pieces of her problems together, Daymon says, and she felt like a dark cloud was lifted.
"I actually felt it lift through my body and come out of my body, and you feel 100 percent better right from the onset. It opened me up to appreciate and want to learn more about life's greatest battles, but also realize how important your own true spirit is." Daymon said Ellie's reading have been right on, and she recommends her services to those who have not had success with traditional counseling. Pechet sees her services - from readings of past lives and archangels, to reiki and electromagnetic balance therapies - not as entertainment, but as a catalyst for physical, emotional and spiritual healing. "It's a way to get clear, accurate information quickly, and I'm result oriented and do whatever I can do to help people as quickly as possible. It's extremely gratifying," she said. As Halloween approaches, Pechet explains, the veil between the physical and non-physical world thins. Earthbound spirits are more easily evidenced, spirit activity surges, spirit guides may be reached less arduously, more people come through with more messages - especially for their loved ones, she says. It's the perfect time for people to set intentions, to decide to leave behind the trappings of negativity, to set an internal filter for the quality of energy they choose to welcome into their lives. It's also the perfect time for Ellie Pechet to drop her reading rates.
For more information about Phoenix Rising Holistic Healing Center,
call 508-295-9809 or visit www.phoenixrisinghealing.com.

Different Ways of Healing
Wareham's Ellie Pechet offers traditional counseling as well as hands-on therapy
April 13, 2004
Wareham Courier
By DON CUDDY, Standard-Times correspondent

As modern life becomes increasingly hectic, stress exacts its revenge upon a generation that is working too hard, sleeping too little and driving too far and too fast. In Japan, the stress of overwork started taking such a toll on workers in the 1970s that many suddenly just dropped dead from it. This phenomenon has a name. It is called "karoshi." As the toll continues to mount in all of the industrialized countries, people are beginning to explore different ways to cope with the unceasing assault on their time, their attention and their sense of well-being.
To meet this need, a new group of practitioners has emerged to offer some alternatives. New forms of therapy and healing are available to those left unfulfilled by more conventional remedies. Ellie Pechet is one area professional who represents this new movement. She operates the Phoenix Rising Counseling and Energy Healing Center on Main Street in Wareham, a location that testifies, in itself, to an increased willingness on the part of many to embrace change. Although a licensed mental health practitioner with a master's degree in counseling from Cambridge College, Ms. Pechet prefers to emphasize her role as a guide and a healer, helping her clients to reduce stress by achieving a better understanding of who they are and the kinds of imbalances that lead to physical and emotional difficulties. "I do practice traditional counseling and would probably adopt that approach when I see a client for the first time," Ms. Pechet says. "Traditional counseling helps to clarify issues and change unhealthy patterns of behavior. It's really a starting place for the people I work with." But, she stresses, it is only a starting point. "Holistic counseling is more of a mind, body, spirit approach," she explains. Lifestyle, nutrition and diet, type and frequency of exercise, the use of prayer or meditation all factor in evaluating the needs of the people who come to see her. "One woman came to me because even though she felt tired all the time she could not sleep," she relates. In what has become a common scenario the pressure of juggling a career, family life and social responsibilities were simply proving too difficult for the woman. "When she tried to sleep, her mind was racing and she was not getting enough rest," Ms. Pechet says. "So we looked at how we might change that. I made several suggestions. She began to take a 30-minute break when she came home from work to transition from her job back into the household. She also installed a water fountain in the bedroom to soothe her and began to write her thoughts in a journal at bedtime. This served to empty her mind before turning out the light. And it did work. I have a testimonial." A session with a holistic counselor can also include hands-on therapies such as Reiki, a form of energy healing with origins in Japan. This is a technique that aims to restore spiritual harmony and balance. Ms. Pechet is a Reiki master. The word itself comes from the Japanese term for "Universal Life Force." "Many of the people I see have had some acquaintance with Reiki but usually not in conjunction with counseling," she says. Clients at Phoenix Rising have the opportunity to avail themselves of different modalities, she says. Next to her comfortably furnished office is the Healing Room, an inviting place of soft music, subdued lighting and oriental rugs. The sound of water can be heard rippling discreetly from a corner fountain and the warm air carries an exotic fragrance. "Reiki is experiential," she says. "It's not an intellectual process. You can feel it in the body and in the energy field. You don't have to understand it. A big part of my work is helping people get out of their heads and into their bodies. Into their hearts." Ms. Pechet believes that many common ailments such as neck pain, back pain and chronic headaches are physical manifestations of emotional distress. "I'm probably more of a healer than a psychotherapist," she says. "When people leave here they are more relaxed. They have a plan; they feel nurtured. The Reiki helps pull it all together and it adds a nice balance to the talk therapy." Ms. Pechet traces her involvement with Reiki back to an encounter with a cat. "When I lived on the Cape, I saw this cat get hit by a car. It was after hours and I called a vet. While waiting, I was trying to comfort it and I remember wishing that I had the power to ease its pain. I had heard about Reiki so I began to study it." That was back in the mid-'80s, and as she went on to pursue a career in counseling it became apparent that she could combine both disciplines to deal more effectively with the problems common to so many of the people she saw. While the holistic movement in general has gathered many adherents, particularly in the last decade, there will be people who remain skeptical about the efficacy of any New Age practices. What would Ms. Pechet say to the unconvinced? "I think that people should just keep an open mind. Once a person gives Reiki a chance to work, particularly as a means to relieve pain, they will be able to feel the benefits immediately. They just have to have that willingness to try something different."

Ellie Pechet can be contacted at (508) 295-9809 or on the Web at www.phoenixrisinghealing.com

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