Alison Cooke

Alison has been practising and teaching Therapeutic Touch® (TT) for more than 25 years. She is both a Recognized Practitioner and Teacher and the TTIA with the TTNO. For the same number of years she has been providing TT in Stirling Manor LTC and in Pastoral Care for Eastminster United Church. She facilitates two TTNO branches on Zoom; her local Stirling Branch and the TTNO Virtual Branch. In 2014 she received the TTNO Founders Award for her work as both Recognized Teacher for the TTNO and their webmaster. She teaches Foundations andLevels 2 and 3 as well as Therapeutic Touch for Self-Care workshops, bringing with her over 20 years of experience teaching in both high school and elementary public school systems. Recently, Alison, along with co-author, Crystal Hawk, published Be Your Own Healer: Self-Care with Therapeutic Touch. This book outlines the self-care program they teach. She has attended the Montana Dialogues since they began in 2010.