Shannon Hensley, MD, MPH, HTP

Shannon Hensley is an Energy Medicine practitioner and Spiritual guide. Shannon’s understanding of self-healing was initiated in 2013 with a mystery illness, subsequent brain tumor misdiagnosis and a copperhead snakebite.  This abruptly awoke her to activate her own inner knowing and support the innate intelligence of her body to heal.  Using herbal and nutritional support, Reiki, sound healing, chanting, Eden Energy Medicine, and Healing Touch training, Shannon continues to be deeply engaged with embodied learning. 

Shannon graduated from the Honors College at the University of Kansas with highest distinction from the College of Liberal Arts & Science and with departmental honors in human biology for her thesis work in mechanisms to prevent temporal lobe epilepsy. She was selected as the Most Outstanding Junior Woman at the University. During college, she was also a Mayo Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellow in Molecular Neuroscience.

She earned a Medical Degree (M.D.) from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine where she was honored as a Taketa Scholar, a Ross World Service Scholar, the Chicago Youth Program’s Most Valuable Volunteer, and an Albert Schweitzer Fellow.

Later Shannon attended Harvard University where she earned a Masters Degree in Public Health with a concentration in Family and Community Health. She attended as a Zuckerman Leadership Fellow in a joint program with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Shannon is a Healing Touch Practitioner and an Usui Reiki Master. She has had Books Neuraltherapy Training (BNT) as well as death doula and grief work training. She is self-educated in herbal medicine over the past decade. 

Before medical school, Shannon served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer for two years in the West African nation of Ghana where she was a science teacher and health educator. 

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* Although Shannon has a Medical Degree, she is not licensed to practice medicine. Sessions are not meant to diagnose, treat or cure any specific conditions and are complementary to conventional medical treatment.