NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR
REFLEXOLOGY EDUCATORS
ABOUT NCRE DIRECTORS
Jan Weal-Grubb, President
Jan Weal-Grubb, BSN, RN, LMT, NCREd and ARCB Certified Reflexologist. Believing reflexology connects people and our furry friends in a profound, caring, healing and balancing way. Practicing reflexology since 1996 and then ARCB Certified in 2005. A RAA member since 2008. A member of the Ohio Reflexology Association and serve as Ohio’s delegate on the Delegate Assembly. Received the Full Reflexology Certification (foot, hand and ear) from the American Academy of Reflexology. She has taught clinical and/or academia for reflexology, massage therapy, paramedic and nursing. Currently an educator for the World Reflexology Foundation (bringing self-help to people). Mentors have been many: Miss Finzel was my first in High School, Mrs. Wescott, an RN who was married to a Lutheran Pastor and next in the non-reflexology world Annie Tamargo, all these women inspired her to be her best and that she could do anything she put her mind to. In the world of reflexology there are also many,to name a few: Dr.Manzanares, Bill Flocco, Ko Tan, Dr. Martine Faure-Alderson, Sue Ricks, Touchpoint and Sally Kay. She is passionate about learning, teaching and sharing.
Sarah Preusker Gallagher, Treasurer
Sarah Preusker, NBCR, NCREd, received her reflexology certification from the New York Open Center in 2001, and the American Reflexology Certification Board (ARCB), shortly thereafter. In 2013, she achieved proficiency in the Manzanares Method and in 2017, her Masters Certificate. She is the first reflexologist authorized to teach this method which she currently teaches in Chicago. Sarah has had a long career as a full-time reflexologist in New York City and Chicago. During a twelve year period ending in 2020, she was involved as lead reflexologist in three National Institutes of Health randomized clinical trials. These studies were headed by Dr. Gwen Wyatt, MSU, as Principal Investigator and resulted in statistical significance for reflexology. Sarah was a professional classical ballet dancer from 1981 to 1998. It was a natural transition to reflexology for Sarah as she went from working with her feet to working on feet. That transition also included her passion. She is equally as passionate about reflexology as she was about her former life in ballet. To know more about Sarah, visit her website: ReflexFeet.
Chantel C. Lucier, Director
Chantel C. Lucier, NBCR, RMT, CMT, NCREd, is a national board-certified reflexology educator and practitioner, a reiki master teacher in the Usui and Tibetan lineages, and the creator/author of Intuitive Reiki: An Integrative Approach, which also serves as the manual for her one-on-one mentorship program. She holds certifications in Traumatic Stress Studies, SBIRT, Massage Therapy, Foot Reading, Mudra Therapy, and Reflexology Lymph Drainage (RLD).
Chantel offers advanced level training programs and courses in reflexology, intuitive reiki, and holistic self-care mentorship. Some of her classes include Reflexology for Trauma & Addiction (Level I-III), The Brain & Pain, and A No-Mind Approach to Wellness. These, alongside her Compassionate Intake Process, help teach wellness professionals and the everyday person how to sit in the spaciousness of healing and not in the dis-ease. Chantel is an author of five books, the creator of colorful reflexology maps and posters, is the president of the Reflexology Association of California (RAC), and is a continuing education provider with ARCB and NCBTMB. To know more about Chantel visit ChantelCLucier.com
Donna Favilla, Director
Donna Favilla NCREd, ARCB Reflexologist, LMT, CLD, CCE completed her certification through the American Reflexology Certification Board and received National Certification for Massage Therapy in 2000. Donna was a co-owner of the Haddonfield Massage & Wellness Center in Haddonfield. This was the first wellness center in Southern New Jersey offering foot reflexology and prenatal massage therapy to pregnant women. Donna currently owns Perinatal Health LLC in Haddonfield, NJ, where she provides childbirth education for women, labor doula services, perinatal massage therapy, reflexology and professional training. Donna has regularly appeared as a guest on the WVLT 92.0 FM “Let’s Talk About It” program and on the RVNTV wellness cable channel and was a presenter for a 2009 “Finding Your Balance” seminar and for the 2017 Midwifery Conference (Reflexology for the Birth Worker). Donna is passionate about working with women and families to help them through their journey.
To know more about Donna, visit her website at Perinatal Health LLC
Emilee Eide, Director
Emilee Eide, NCREd, ARCB certified reflexologist, reflexology educator and classical homeopath. “Many lives in a lifetime", she has an undergraduate architecture degree, has been a NCTMB massage therapist, birth doula, feng shui practitioner, water therapy instructor, reiki practitioner, ‘spirit play’ religious educator, and first and foremost, a dedicated mother of two amazing daughters. Inspired after hearing a radio interview with Dr. Oz on the benefits of reflexology for post op heart surgery, such as reducing rates of infection and decreasing recovery time, she enrolled in a reflexology program, which began the following week. A graduate of Sue Watson’s Healthy Soles School of Reflexology in 2010, she has a thriving home based reflexology practice, Sole Purpose Reflexology. In 2013, she ‘inherited’ the school, and over the years has transformed it into her own, Sole Purpose Reflexology School. It is an honor and joy for her to teach and mentor others on how to express their uniqueness through their reflexology skills, to be present, caring and mindful reflexology practitioners. She loves being a student and a teacher. The transformative process of becoming something you have never been before is a journey that she enjoys supporting and facilitating her students through. A student herself, she recently completed a four year program in classical homeopathy at the Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy. As a homeopathy student, she facilitated study groups with other classes and looks forward to implementing and integrating new ways of teaching based on her experiences from having recently been a student.