Inside Atlanta Healing Centers-One Approach to Integrated Wellness

Across Atlanta, more and more businesses are offering healing services under one roof. While standardized industry terminology doesn’t exist, “wellness centers” and “healing centers” are terms that have been applied to them. It’s common to find acupuncturists, energy workers, coaches, yoga teachers and more at such places. And while each one offers something different, all of them aim to support mind, body and spirit.

What is a Healing Center?

For the purposes of this article, we’re calling “healing centers” those businesses that offer at least five different services. Specifically, they offer at least two services that focus on emotional or spiritual health, and the rest focus on physical care. Their focus is on addressing the full spectrum of health. People go to healing centers for grief support, clarity and emotional grounding as well as treatments targeting the physical body, such as chiropractic, acupuncture or reflexology. Of course the lines between physical and emotional care can often blue, and that’s one of the advantages of going somewhere that offers a variety of modalities. In healing centers, emotional and spiritual wellness can take center stage, along with physical health.

Cultivating Community

Healing centers often nurture a sense of community. On the practitioner side, it comes naturally from sharing a space and working alongside other practitioners. For the clients it manifests in their relationship with the practitioners, the welcoming atmosphere and the group classes and events that many centers offer.

Becky Arrington, co-owner of The Well of Roswell with Donna Futrell, says her business is similarly focused. Alongside the hypnotherapists, relationship, polarity and energy therapists, The Well also offers classes on topics such as reiki and astrology. Arrington makes sure to keep these accessible to newcomers saying she and Futrell are “bringing the metaphysical to the mainstream.” By emphasizing accessibility, variety and personal wellness, Arrington explains that one of the “things we’re trying to do is really establish a d community here, where people feel comfortable, they feel welcome and it’s all about their well-being.”

This desire to create communal and social experiences has led Arrington to host an “Ancestral Awakening Tour” of Egypt, a place where she says many people have spiritual initiations or awakenings. For Arrington, this aligns with The Well’s philosophy on holistic health.

Supporting the Whole Person

Crystal Joy first came to The Well of Roswell for hypnotherapy sessions with Arrington; she had been her private customer before the center opened. In 2023 Joy was diagnosed with breast cancer and decided to integrate conventional treatment with natural approaches Over time, she explored other services at the center, including sound healing, breathwork and akashic record readings.

“Number one, I’m going to go to the doctor, and I’m going to do what they say. But I’m also going to go to everyone that I know that has an alternative healing method, and I’m going to do that too…And I am happy to say that’s worked out well for me.” Joy participated in a cancer recover group at The Well saying she was “also doing the emotional work. Because as we all know, there are emotional aspects to getting sick.” Her story isn’t unique. Many clients don’t just visit healing centers for support with health conditions, they seek out career guidance, spiritual insight or simply want to relax and recharge.

This is an excerpt of a feature article by Noah Chen for Natural Awakenings Magazine Atlanta.

https://www.naatlanta.com/2025/05/01/531344/inside-atlanta-healing-centers-one-approach-to-integrated-wellness