Our Story

After 40 years of nursing across the full spectrum of care—from Newborn Nursery to Hospice—Yvonne Miller-Secreto, RN, recognized a recurring truth: many families experience critical gaps in support during life’s most vulnerable moments. This insight sparked her mission to bring compassionate, holistic wellness into people’s lives directly.

The Wellness Galaxy was born from this vision—a collective of medical and holistic professionals who believe healing should be accessible, personal, and empowering. Our goal is to help cultivate “a healer in every home.” Through mobile health fairs, affiliate clinics, workshops, online courses, and books, we teach individuals how to integrate holistic tools confidently into daily life.

 

We empower people to participate in their healing by demystifying health and offering practical, soul-centered support. With the right tools and guidance, everyday environments can become healing spaces, reducing stress and fostering peace at home.

Our work supports all stages of life—from childhood and adulthood to elder care and end-of-life. Whether you’re caring for yourself or a loved one, we help transform difficult transitions into moments of clarity and connection.

One of our core offerings is the Spectrum Wellness Doula program, where trained non-medical professionals provide emotional, cultural, and spiritual support during significant life events. These doulas bridge the gap between clinical care and personal healing.

We’re also committed to community-centered wellness. From childbirth to eldercare, no one should face these moments alone. Our approach ensures individuals and families feel supported, informed, and connected.

At The Wellness Galaxy, we honor the past, embrace innovation, and remain dedicated to guiding others on their healing journey—because true wellness begins at home.

CEO and Founder

Yvonne Secreto, R.N.

Yvonne Miller-Secreto, RN, brings together a powerful combination of healthcare education, business acumen, and lived experience. As a Nurse Entrepreneur, Author, and CEO/Founder of Health Awareness Educational Products and Services LLC, she created TheWellnessGalaxy.com™ and AdvancingHealthAwareness.com. These platforms unite doctors, nurses, and wellness experts to merge the latest wellness technology with whole-body healing, making health education more engaging, accessible, and relevant. Through The Wellness Galaxy, she offers Mini Mobile Health Fairs for homes and communities, providing cutting-edge services, interactive wellness education, and certification programs. In Fall 2025, Advancing Health Awareness will launch a new initiative to offer per-diem and consulting opportunities for MDs, NPs, RNs, MSWs, LPNs, and Doula-Para professionals, focused on home-care counseling and holistic medical support across communities.

Yvonne holds a degree in health care administration from CCNY/CUNY and has business certifications from Hofstra University’s Entrepreneur Program and Columbia University’s Non-Profit Business Certification Program. With over 40 years of experience as a clinical registered nurse, she has worked with diverse patient populations in multiple care settings, blending compassion with strategy in every role. Her professional affiliations include the Holistic Nurses Association and the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, reflecting her lifelong commitment to integrative wellness and advancing health equity through innovation and education.

Cheryl Lowry, RN
Co-founder

Cheryl Lowry has been a registered nurse for 40+ years, a holistic RN for 25+ years, and has experience in home health, medical surgery, and psychiatric nursing. A holistic practitioner with expertise in Reiki, reflexology, ear candling, flower essences, MAP and calibration readings, hypnotherapy, past life regression. Cheryl is an Author and  Leader in TWG Children’s Program.

Shoadire Emily Sheppard
Co-founder

It all started with Shoadire becoming a Reiki Master in 1996. Over the years, she has expanded her studies and provided healing energy services to people and their home/business environments. She is certified in several energy healing modalities. She journeyed, transforming her vocation from an educator with an MS ED to an energy healer, energy teacher, and speaker sharing several healing modalities.

Stephanie Christian
Co-founder

Stephanie Christian is a Certified Usui Reiki Master, Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, and Essential Oil Specialist. After two decades in the corporate world, she now focuses on supporting others in stress reduction and self-care through natural techniques. Her healing sessions include Reiki, essential oils, herbs, writing exercises, breath work, and visualization. An intuitive practitioner, Stephanie became a holistic wellness advocate after her recovery from stage 4 endometriosis. Her motto is "Self Care Equals Self Love," guiding her approach to managing symptoms and fostering well-being.  After working over 20 years in the corporate world, Stephanie likes to support others with stress reduction by diving within to achieve a deeper connection with mind, body, heart, and soul. 

Healing Modalities: 

  • Reiki 
  • Essential oils 
  • Ayurvedic Wellness Counseling 
  • Zen Tubes 
  • Sound therapy 

Evy Fung

Evy is a versatile leader with training as a Reiki Master, Meditation Teacher, Inner Child Guide/Healer, Death Doula, and Spiritual Mentor. Her compassionate approach empowers individuals on their transformative journeys, thus fostering healing, mindfulness, and spiritual growth. She honors the heart, mind, and body and upholds a partnership with her clients that champions self-discovery and emotional healing. She helps her clients through life's challenges and transitions.

Crystal Jackson-Thomas

Crystal Jackson-Thomas is a budding energy healing practitioner. She focuses her work on using reiki on healing ancestral patterns, soul stories existing in the individual's akashic presence, systemizing use of the Ho’opono prayer for soul maintenance. She also works with the elementals (including crystals, tree spirits, ocean energy) to elevate spirits who are ready to move from 4D to a place of power in 5D and to fortify communication with ancestral and soul lineage.

SaDegra Bey

SaDegra Bey is a bioenergy healer, Reiki Master, and practitioner of medical Qi Gong with over 20 years of experience in holistic wellness. He has taught stress management and energy healing practices to seniors, survivors of domestic violence, artistically gifted children, and adults with intellectual challenges. Known for his compassionate and intuitive approach, SaDegra helps individuals reconnect with their inner resilience through breathwork, movement, and energy awareness, supporting physical well-being, emotional balance, and spiritual clarity in everyday life.

Nonkulie Dladla, M.D.

Dr. Nonkulie Dladla is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician with extensive leadership experience in healthcare, including roles as Medical Director, Chief Medical Officer, and Interim CEO. She is certified in Functional Medicine and BHRT, and has led regulatory compliance efforts, EMR platform development, and innovative clinical models. Dr. Dladla holds medical licenses in NY and NJ, completed her MD and Master's training at Cornell, and is affiliated with multiple professional organizations. Her career spans directorships, clinical instruction, and population health management across diverse healthcare settings.

Mable Guzman, M.D.

Founder of AMG School of Nursing amg.edu

Pierre Aurelien, M.D.

Dr. Pierre Aurelien has enjoyed a distinguished career as a preeminent and innovative doctor in the field of acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and chiropractic treatments. He was one of the few practitioners in the U.S. to be awarded duel Doctoral degrees for Acupuncture and Oriental medicine. He has also completed courses towards a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. 

Dr. Aurelien was one of the acupuncturists selected to participate in the ground-breaking detox program at Lincoln Hospital in NYC during the heroin epidemic of the 1970's. He is a certified NADA trainer and has developed his own modified 5-point acupuncture protocol to treat addiction, chemical dependency and mental illness.

Dr. Robin Cooper, Ph.D.

Robin holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Miami University-Oxford, OH. She teaches Mindfulness, Movement and Meditation and serves as a Holistic Doula/Life Coach. Aromatherapy, crystal healing, herbal and writing therapies, along with Reiki love energy healing (remote or in-person) are a few of the modalities used to support the wellness of those she serves.  

  • Usui Reiki Certification  
  • The Wellness Galaxy 200 hr Wellness, Yoga CYT  
  • Breathe4Change. 

Soleil Robinson

Soleil is certified as a Kemetic Reiki I & II practitioner. She also became a Usui Reiki Master in December 2024 through The Wellness Galaxy. She incorporates various healing modalities into her remote and in-person reiki sessions including aromatherapy, crystal healing, sound therapy, meditation and breathwork. In addition, she is a Licensed Esthetician in the State of Nevada where she provides holistic facial treatments using natural, plant-based skincare products.

Johnell Derrick Alzheimer’s Specialist, CADDCT, CDP

Derrick Development’s Wellness Care Management provides compassionate, dependable support and empowering educational workshops on the fastest-growing disease in America, Alzheimer's and other dementias. 

Yolanda Lester, R.N.

Over 40 years of nursing excellence.  

Charmaine Phillips

Charmaine is agraduate of theSwedish Institute, the oldest massage school in the United States, where she earned a massage certificate and NYS license. My areas of focus are Reiki, Swedish massage, deep tissue massage, body work for the childbearing cycle aka pre- and post-natal massage, chair massage, cupping and reflexology.

Kathy Phillips-Harding, M.S.N, R.N.

Master of Science in Nursing, with Distinction, 1998 graduate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Health Science Center at Brooklyn. with Specialization in Continuity of Care for High-Risk Mothers and Infants. Certified Professional Childbirth Educator. Licensed as a Registered Nurse in New York and New Jersey, she is experienced as a Wellness and Holistic Health Coach, Personal Trainer, Reiki Master, with Reflexology coursework completed at Laura Norman School of Reflexology in New York, Additional training includes H/C-PRI Assessor, Dementia Care Training, and UAS-NY Screening training. Her current focus is work with geriatric, long term care, hospice, rehabilitation, and wellness patients and clients with aromatherapy essential oils use when requested.

Ruth Campbell-Harris

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Carolyn English-Massaquoi, RN

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