OUR TEAM
Our Practitioners
🍃 At Caritas Center for Healing, we believe that healing begins in a safe, compassionate environment where you feel heard, respected, and supported. Our community of experienced practitioners brings together a diverse range of specialties, each united by a shared commitment to helping individuals, couples, and families move toward greater health, balance, and well-being. Whether you are seeking support for emotional challenges, relationship growth, physical discomfort, or a deeper connection with yourself, you will find caring professionals who are dedicated to meeting you with empathy, wisdom, and personalized care.
Every healing journey is unique, and finding the right practitioner can make all the difference. At Caritas, you’ll discover a welcoming space where collaboration, kindness, and whole-person wellness are at the heart of everything we do. We invite you to learn more about each of our practitioners below and find the person whose experience, approach, and philosophy resonate with your own path toward healing and personal growth.
Karen Olson
Founder · LPC · Certified Imago Therapist
Karen Olson, MA, is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and founder of Caritas. She utilizes a broad variety of techniques tailored to individual clients’ needs.
She is especially passionate about counseling couples through the Imago therapy model as outlined by Dr. Harville Hendrix. A certified Imago therapist and workshop presenter, she has received advanced training in this method from Maya Kollman.
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The Imago model honors the relationship between two people as a vehicle for change and deep healing. In her sessions with couples, Karen seeks to empower the “team” of the couple. Using practical techniques to help couples improve their communication and facilitate deeper understanding and compassion, Karen guides couples towards conscious love and growth, healing old wounds in the process.
In her work with individuals, Karen uses an eclectic approach, with a strong focus on the teachings of Carl Rogers and client-centered therapy. If appropriate, she utilizes EMDR therapy, a powerful and efficacious form of treatment that helps heal issues at the root source. She is trained as a level-2 EMDR therapist and is certified in this modality.
Karen’s life-long interest in natural healing was fueled by her upbringing (her mother served on the board of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, OR in the ’80s) and by her own health challenges. (She was hit by a truck in 1979 and sought alternative treatment to help her heal.) Perhaps following in her mother’s footsteps, Karen served on the board of Arizona Integrative Wellness Coalition (AIWC) now Arizona Wellness Alliance from 2009-2016. She is a co-founding member of this organization dedicated to supporting and educating holistic health practitioners and those that share their philosophy.
Karen’s intention is to provide a safe, supportive environment so that clients can tap into their own inner wisdom and create the change they want in their lives. She supports people in nurturing all aspects of their health–psychological, emotional, spiritual, and physical–and understands that these are delicately interwoven. Part of that support includes operating Caritas and striving to offer a broad variety of complementary or adjunctive therapies, workshops, and experiences at the center.
Contact Karen: (520) 940-0486 or e-mail her.
Nanie Carrillo
Acupuncture & Traditional Chinese Medicine
Nanie Carrillo is a cornerstone of Caritas, providing services to Tucson community members here at Caritas since 2007! She provides compassionate health care using Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and massage therapy.
She also offers clients acupuncture, Chinese herbal therapy, massage, moxa, cupping, and counseling in nutrition and exercise.
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A licensed acupuncturist and certified in Swedish massage, Reiki, CranioSacral and Shiatsu, Nanie graduated from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. She is a Diplomat in Oriental Medicine certified by the NCCAOM, a member of AAAOM and the AZSOMA.
Call Nanie at (520) 979-7078 or visit https://acupuncturedelsoul.com/
Clarrissa Palma
Licensed Aesthetician
Clarrissa Palma is a licensed aesthetician and a beauty industry entrepreneur. As an Aveda Institute graduate, she is trained in age-old Ayurvedic knowledge combined with modern science for a holistic mind and body approach to skincare. Her mission as your aesthetician and beauty professional is to educate and empower you to feel confident and comfortable in your skin.
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While providing aesthetic services, she believes that beauty radiates from within and encourages her clients to approach beauty as a whole.
Clarrissa obtains all of her clients through word of mouth and caters to her valued clientele by appointment only. She looks forward to meeting you and serving you as your skin care professional.
Contact her at (520) 861-4561. For a list of services or to book a service visit her website at StillPrettyOfficial.com
Bethany Brandt
Licensed Massage Therapist
Bethany Brandt is a licensed LMT with a background in yoga, herbalism, caregiving and doula support. She uses hands-on techniques to facilitate the release of patterns of tension, aid treatment of structural misalignment and provide relaxation of the muscular and nervous system of the body. Bethany has been working with the human body, through various approaches for the past decade.
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She has been a practicing LMT for 4 years and is a graduate of The Arizona School of Integrative Studies, here in Tucson. Bethany has experience as an LMT in Medical, chiropractic, and Spa Settings.
Bethany’s breadth of experience and integrative approach allows for flexibility and fluidity when working with clients. Her passion is working with people no matter their life stage or experience, helping them to find what works for their bodies, minds and spirits. Bethany experiences gratitude to be trusted with the bodies of her clients; to be given the opportunity to work with, to learn from and to serve them.
Contact Bethany at integratemassageandwellness.com via email at bethanybrandt82@gmail.com or by phone at 520.490.7142.
Anita Mischuk
Contemporary Alexander Technique
Anita Mischuk is a certified teacher of Contemporary Alexander Technique. Originally from Germany, Anita relocated to the United States in 2017 after completing over 1600 hours of training with the German branch of the Alexander Alliance International.
Her interest in the Alexander Technique stems from its wide range of applications.
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She has personally experienced benefits such as developing a free and natural singing voice, navigating stairs without knee pain, maintaining composure in challenging classroom settings, and releasing unconscious tension.
Anita’s practice is centered around helping clients achieve overall well-being and
rediscover their innate coordination, leading to pain-free movement and personal
growth. Through a combination of gentle hands-on techniques, carefully chosen words, guided imagery, and mindfulness practices, she facilitates this transformative process.
Anita brings a wealth of positive qualities to her holistic approach, including
compassion, curiosity, kindness, knowledge, and creativity. In addition to her private practice, she serves as a faculty member for the Contemporary Alexander School in Santa Fe, NM, and teaches highly tailored individual sessions and group classes in Tucson, the greater Tucson area, and Flagstaff. Her work is influenced by a range of modalities, including Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, hypnotherapy, energy work, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).
Contact Anita at: anita@walkoneasystreet.com; phone (520)222-9428; website: www.walkoneasystreet.com
David Davis
Rolf Method of Structural Integration
David Davis has over 40 years of experience as a practitioner trained in the Rolf method of Structural Integration.
He recently moved to Tucson from Colorado and is opening his practice to new clients.
To learn more about how David can bring greater health to your body, mind and spirit, please contact him at psintegrity777@gmail.com or call him at 720-334-3651.
Enjoy his video “David Davis Art of Seeing” on YouTube. More information about his practice will be featured in the coming weeks!
Jeff Rogers
Diplomate Certified CranioSacral Therapist
Jeff, a Diplomate Certified Upledger CranioSacral Therapist, has served clientele in Tucson for more than 30 years. His own profound experience with CranioSacral Therapy (CST) while a student at The Desert Institute of the Healing Arts led to his dedication to studying, practicing, and teaching others about how CST can help people access their body’s intelligence to discover how to live a healthier and pain-free life.
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Jeff worked with Dr John Upledger, developer of CST, on numerous occasions and has assisted with CST classes throughout the United States and New Zealand. He is a recurring primary therapist with the Comprehensive Therapy Programs in Florida and New Mexico.
CranioSacral therapy in its purest form is a client directed approach to enable each person to open into their deep and authentic truth. The therapist is the facilitator, using the gentle placement of hands to help release tension in the body’s connective tissue, with each person allowed to soften in their own unique way. Because of this intention, CST can be a quietly empowering journey for the client to discover their own biological wisdom inside…what Dr. Upledger referred to as our Inner Physician. Everyone needs a place where they can land in their truth and begin to release the old body-brain story confusions and restore true coherence and connections.
As with so much in life, CST is a process that unfolds over time and consistency, facilitated by establishing a deep rapport between practitioner and client.
Contact Jeff at cranialjeff@cox.net or 520-990-5865. Visit his website at tucsoncraniosacraltherapy.com
Lynda Skinner
Oriental Medicine & Herbalism
Lynda Skinner has joined Caritas Healing Center after two decades of private practice. She has been licensed and certified in several healing modalities and incorporates Somatic Experiencing™ and Narrative Therapy into all sessions. Lynda attended Han University for Oriental Medicine. This provided an opportunity to bridge western and eastern theories, respectively. Lynda takes a meta-disciplinary approach to her work with clients.
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She is a trauma-informed shamanic practitioner, human development leader, and integral therapist who integrates indigenous healing traditions, psycho-somatic techniques, shadow work, lucid dream work, and meditation into a career that now includes filmmaking. Lynda enjoys spending time with her daughter, Alana, and doing service projects in Tucson and all over the world.
Lynda considers her spiritual path to be one of life-long learning and is devoted to deepening her understanding of health and healing. She stays focused on her own inner work in order to be of service. Relational safety, ethics, and integrity are the guiding foundations while communing with others. Her continued studies have focused on the practices that balance the three wisdom centers of the body. Her sincere intention is to respectfully reclaim the wisdom of ancient cultures and their healing practices.
Contact Lynda at www.amomati.com via email at info@amomati.com or by phone at 520-981-9911.
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