About Amanda

Hi, I'm Amanda

I see you, doing all the "right" things - therapy, coaching, healing work - and still feeling stuck.

I see you exhausted from holding space for everyone else while running on empty yourself.

I see you absorbing everyone else's energy, and putting your own needs last.

I see you frustrated that all your effort into healing isn't sticking, no matter how hard you try.

I see you knowing life could feel different - you just don't know how to make it happen.

This does not have to be your path

You do not have to keep doing the work without it ever really working.

I understand this more than you know, because I have lived it myself.

I use Reiki and intuitive energy reading to support self-aware women who have done years of inner work but still feel stuck, to finally decode and clear the patterns holding them back, and learn practical tools to create effective, long-term healing.

Here is my story

The discipline gave a name to what I already knew.

I came out of the womb able to feel and move energy - always aware of an invisible, magnetic pull between my hands, instinctively knowing where to direct it and that it would help. At 15, I turned it off. At 18, I turned it back on.

The real turning point came after my third baby, sleep-deprived and run off my feet, when I met my Reiki Master. I realised Reiki was what I'd always been doing with my own hands - I just hadn't known there was a discipline to it. My soul aligned in that moment, and I knew I'd come home.

Not long after, I moved through a dark night of the soul - challenging personal circumstances, three young children, a full-time business. From the outside, I had everything. On the inside, I was forced to figure out who I really was, what I stood for, and how I could sleep at night with myself. Reiki is what saved me - my spiritual practice, my healing tool, my connection to something bigger.

I trained in London in the Usui Reiki Ryoho lineage, moving through Reiki 1, 2, and Master over almost a decade, taught with deep integrity - required to walk my talk at every level before advancing. In 2015, I moved to LA, opened my own healing studio in Santa Monica, and later added meditation teacher training and sound healing to my practice.

Fun facts about me

Nature, the moon, the ocean, and a very Pisces amount of feeling.

I'm a beekeeper and I breed Monarch butterflies - basically nature's way of reminding me daily that letting go and turning into something new is just... the whole point.

I free dive in the Bahamas, where I live part-time, and yes, I have genuinely given Reiki to a coral reef. The fish did not complain.

I've lived in three countries - London, Los Angeles, and Nassau, Bahamas - chasing sunshine the entire way.

Aside from raising my three children, my greatest privilege in life is working with wildlife - hummingbirds, snakes, sharks, alpacas. Basically, the more exotic and unbothered by me, the better.

I'm obsessed with the moon, and I trust a good astrology forecast more than most news outlets.

I loathe rain so much I moved continents to avoid it. Twice.

If one thing truly defines me, it's that I'm a Pisces through and through - head in the stars, feet in the ocean.

Professional bio

Reiki Master, Sound Healer, Intuitive Energy Guide, and Meditation Teacher.

Amanda Gestetner is a Reiki Master, Sound Healer, Intuitive Energy Guide, and Meditation Teacher who supports self-aware women who have done years of inner work but still feel stuck, helping them decode and clear the patterns holding them back through practical, lasting healing tools.

Trained in London in the Usui Reiki Ryoho lineage (Reiki 1, 2, Master), Amanda holds a BA Honours from the University of Leeds and has practised energy work her whole life, with her formal professional practice beginning in 2009. She has taught at two of LA's most well-known studios, The Mindry in Malibu and Unplug Meditation in Santa Monica, and now works with a global clientele.

Amanda is the creator of The Frequency Shift, a 12-week programme combining Reiki and intuitive energy coaching to help women create lasting transformation from within.

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