Thomas A. Beardshall has been a life-long student of everything relating to religion, spirituality, meditation, prayer, metaphysics, philosophy, self-help, psychology, personal growth, and achieving success and abundance.    Currently he has a full-time professional practice in which he provides a wide variety of healing modalities for his clients, including hypnosis, guided imagery, energy field therapies, Reiki, Healing Touch, and Therapeutic Touch. He has taught many classes, workshops, and retreats around the country for national and regional organizations as well as conducting many independent classes and retreats on topics of healing and spiritual growth and development. He operates the Holistic Wellness Center, which is located in McMurray, Pennsylvania, which is south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Thomas A. Beardshall is a Reiki Master and is nationally certified through Healing Touch International as a Healing Touch Practitioner. He was also certified in 1997 as a Healing Touch Instructor. He is well-known in Western Pennsylvania as a teacher and healer and has published magazine articles regionally and nationally as well as his recent book, Steering Your Way Through Life.