Dr. Gillespie received her Ph.D. in Human Development from Fielding Graduate University, and her B.S. in Microbiology from California State Polytechnic University Pomona, CA. She is also an ordained minister in the American Spiritualist tradition.
Dr. Gillespie apprenticed to a transpersonal practitioner for two years and conducted a practice in Reiki and medical intuition for over 30 years. She has taught "The Human Energy Field and Energy Medicine," at Saybrook University and acts as a psychopomp at a local hospice. Her own research interests are in transpersonal experience at the end-of-life, consciousness and meditation as a behavioral intervention. She led one of the first studies in Reiki funded by the NIH and was a co-founder of the Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine at the University of Michigan. Her book, “The Anatomy of Death: Notes from a Healer’s Casebook” is available on Amazon and chronicles her journey as a psychopomp.
