Rosanne Bostonian, PhD operates a Reiki practice where she uses light-touch energy work to administer healing to patients. Reiki originated in Japan as a stress reduction technique and has also been used to promote healing in the body. Reiki involves the use of "laying on hands" to guide a person's "life force energy" or spirit in a spiritual manner. Reiki practitioners treat each person as a combination of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual attributes and use a series of hand positions to help access a person's life force energy.