A holistic, strengths-based Consultant, Educator, Mentor & Healer, Rachelle bridges Relationships, Women's Health, Childbirth & Energy Medicine. AlohaSmith Wellness Consulting sessions, workshops and classes are designed to provide practical information, tools and experiences that recruit inner resources and promote relaxation, inner peace and loving relationships within the context of our fast-paced, rapidly-changing, diverse society.

Born & raised in Hawaii, Rachelle earned her B.A. in Sociology: Inequality & Social Change from UC Santa Cruz in 1993. Full of naïveté and big dreams, she married her opposite and journeyed to the East Coast to further her education and to begin tackling "the bees in her bonnet," as her mother-in-law often says. While experiencing the consequent culture shock and marriage-reality shock, she worked as a School Social Worker and Employee Assistance Program Counselor toward her MSW from Boston College in 1997. Rachelle has since sought out and trained with many reputable, innovative, relationship enrichment programs, childbirth preparation programs and energy work modalities.

Rachelle is drawn to learn from life's challenges, to build bridges for the gaps in our cultural teachings and to share what she finds to be the most helpful, practical and personally enriching. She found relationship enrichment with PAIRS® and the MBTI® shortly after getting married, and Birthing From Within® and Hypnobabies® after her own traumatic twin birth experience. To assist in her postpartum healing, she discovered Reiki, LaHo-Chi™, and Healing Touch and soon began to offer others gentle, natural hands-on energy treatments that facilitate a deep state of full-body relaxation, the mind-body connection and the immune system response. Rachelle then found Energy Psychology techniques, the Tapas Acupressure Technique® and the Emotional Freedom Techniques®, to be wonderful links between her social work and energy work worlds. Right now, she is integrating all her work while pursuing her Nursing degree and has joined the Berkshire Healing Arts, a community of independent health and healing practitioners with a common orientation towards health, healing and wellness.

Still a wife to her complimentary opposite, Rachelle has worn many other hats over the years, from receptionist, camp counselor, waitress, retail sales associate, middle and high school teacher, Weight Watchers® Leader, "professional" volunteer, college instructor, Dress For Success® Manager to career counseling associate. Most importantly, she works very hard at being a "good enough" mom to her beautiful twin daughters. Since Rachelle loves to learn, grow, and improve, she will no doubt continue to seek out new information and incorporate new paradigms into her work and way of life.

With all of this, Rachelle brings rich life experience, professional knowledge, multicultural awareness and confidence in the effectiveness of her work. She has walked what she talks...and her mission is to share what she's learned with you.