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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03e8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="16d8dcd0.jpg" border=0 width="141" height="205" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Joan Furman"><U>Home Page</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Joan"><U>About Joan</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Experiential Therapy Group"><U>Experiential Therapy Group</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Experiential Therapy Weekend Intensives"><U>Experiential Therapy Weekend Intensives</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Equine Therapy Weekend Intensives"><U>Equine Therapy Weekend Intensives</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Classes"><U>Classes</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Book: The Dying Time"><U>Book: The Dying Time</U></A></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Services</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Writings"><U>Writings</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Group Travel"><U>Group Travel</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Frequent Questions"><U>Frequent Questions</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Driving Directions"><U>Driving Directions</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Joan"><U>Contact Joan</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Privacy Email Lists"><U>Privacy & Email Lists</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Online Payment Center"><U>Online Payment Center</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <B>Joan Furman</B></div> <div> <B>Joan Furman, MSN, AHN-BC, CET II -- Holistic Nurse Practitioner, Counselor, Experiential Therapist, & Reiki Master Teacher.  Located in Nashville, Tennessee.</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Services</B></I><IMG SRC="08662730.gif" border=0 width="98" height="115" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <U>A Healing Partnership</U></div> <div> In my practice, I work with the interaction of mind and body, and offer individual therapy and group programs designed to create a healthful mind/body relationship. In working with you and your counseling concerns, we may include therapies such as guided imagery, relaxation therapy, journal writing, and a variety of healing touch therapies. If you need a doctor or other necessary health care provider, I am happy to make referrals.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Joan"><U>New Clients are Welcome - Click here to contact Joan</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <U>Counseling</U></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Personal growth issues</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Exploration of unhealthy life patterns</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Persons working with 12 step programs</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Domestic abuse</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Healing shame of sexual abuse</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Concerns of sexual orientation</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Adjustment to physical illness</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Dying, death, and bereavement</div> <bR> <div> <U>Physical Health Concerns</U></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Women’s health</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Nutrition and lifestyle choices</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Headaches, neck and back pain</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Chronic or acute pain or infection</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Other symptom control</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Life-altering illness</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Life-threatening illness</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home, hospital, or office appointments</div> <bR> <div> <U>Holistic Counseling</U></div> <div> Holistic counseling, tailored to your concerns, promotes self healing and a genuine sense of aliveness by exploring the opportunities to create the life you really want. In emotional healing, we explore blockages to your happiness and fulfillment. If you have physical illness, we find ways to use your mind and emotions to assist you in healing. While this approach does not promote "mind over matter," it does value the powerful roles of the mind and emotion in healing. Holistic counseling includes addressing personal growth issues or physical health concerns with this definition of health in mind:</div> <div> Health Is:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">welcoming responsibility for your life</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">having choices and making decisions</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">loving ourselves and others and being loved</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">healing</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">an aliveness with love, trust, expectancy and enthusiasm with which we live our lives</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">living a relationship with our spirituality</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">seeking the highest truth</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">learning to have fun and consciously creating success</div> <bR> <div> <U>Guided Imagery</U></div> <div> Thoughts, feelings, and attitudes affect health. Positive and relaxing guided imagery taped specifically for you and your issues is used for surgery, to reduce or alleviate painful symptoms, or to accelerate personal growth and success.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Touch Therapies </U></div> <div> Touch therapies, or energetic healing therapies, are painless and pleasant. Therapeutically controlled and directed touch supports and assists the body in regaining harmony and balance, while complementing other healing practices such as medicine, surgery, and psychotherapy. It reduces or alleviates pain, accelerates healing, reduces stress and anxiety, and assists you with personal growth issues. While some of these therapies relieve tension and pain in common problem areas such as head, neck, and back, others are more useful for generalized pain or symptom management. We decide together which of these are the best for you:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reiki</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Therapeutic Touch</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Healing Touch</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Acupressure</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reflexology</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Craniosacral Therapy</div> <bR> <div> <U>Relaxation Therapy</U></div> <div> The relaxation response is a physiologic state of profound rest that slows the heart and respiratory rate, lowers blood pressure and muscle tension, stabilizes blood flow to the muscles, and increases rest-state alpha and theta brain waves. These changes are elicited through a short, simple relaxation technique similar to meditation. Regular use of this technique decreases anxiety, increases your ability to cope with stressful situations, and enhances your sense of well-being.</div> <bR> <div> <U>About Holistic Nursing</U></div> <div> Holistic nursing is a discipline that integrates modern health care with powerful self-help treatments to strengthen the natural healing capacities of the mind, body, and spirit. It is based on an academic nursing background, a sensitive balance between art and science, analytical and intuitive skills, and the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of modalities to promote healing and the harmonious balance of human energy systems. Holistic nursing works with the causes of poor health, which are multi-dimensional, involving the interaction among physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and environmental factors. It recognizes that all persons have the potential for growth and progression toward wholeness and of being their own healer; that all persons have the right of self determination thereby assuming the primary responsibility in guiding, directing, and controlling their own health, disease, and illness. Holistic nurse practitioners assist people in assuming personal responsibility for their health and to learn from disease and distress as opportunities for increased awareness of the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Joan Furman, MSN,AHN-BC, CET II</U></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Board Certified Holistic Nurse Practitioner</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Certified Reiki Master Therapist/Teacher</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Author</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Faculty member at Vanderbilt University</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Faculty member at Tennessee State University </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Degrees in nursing and psychology</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">International study of health systems</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>