Our Mission
At HOPE Wellness Institute, we believe in helping as many people as possible experience dramatically improved health and wellness without invasive procedures or detrimental side effects. We are guided by a patient-before-profit approach, and we refer to other practitioners who share our principles and ideology.
The HOPE Wellness Institute service philosophy is rooted in holistic healthcare, complementary and alternative medicine. Our team of therapist and technicians have over 100 years of collective and collaborative experience reflected in our unparalleled products and technology.
Our goal at HOPE Wellness Institute is to be part of your healing team and not your dependency system.
Meet Our Team
Venice Sullivan, Ph.D., CNMT
Venice Sullivan is the founder, and Director of Care, at the HOPE Wellness Institute. She has been a medical massage therapist for over 30 years, specializing in pain relief, and clients who have experienced pain for long term and have tried multiple types of therapies with little or no relief . Her clients have ranged in age from newborn to 104 years old. She says there is nothing more special than working with babies. It is her joy to have been able to successfully assist in pregnancy with numerous couples struggling with infertility.
Venice believes her role is to be a conduit in helping you find the answers you seek. Her ultimate goal, with every client, is to unravel the puzzle and treat the problem, not the symptom.
Venice is a perpetual student, and is always looking for ways to improve her skills to assist clients to a deeper level of healing. She trained with Paul St. John in St John Neuromuscular Therapy, now Neurosomatic Educators and has studied with the Four Winds Society, Inner Access 101, BioLight Technologies and Cereset. She was an assistant instructor with St John Neuromuscular Therapy over 10 years, and was an instructor at the Massage Therapy Institute for Neuromuscular Therapy for another 10 years.
Venice loves to share all her knowledge with the therapists at the HOPE Wellness Institute, increasing their skills for your benefit. She is currently focusing her time working with depression and cognitive brain issues. Her passion lies with the Veterans, and increasing their level of care and healing.
Venice’s driving force is unraveling the mystery of pain, dysfunction and often the depression that accompanies it. She excels when someone has been in pain for an extended period of time and has been unable to find resolution for it. This has been the drive of her training, to help find more answers in order to deliver better care to you. Her belief is there is no one therapy that is right for everyone, or that any therapy is right all the time. We must work with the whole person, not the parts. This is theory behind the programs that we provide. Rather than using band-aids to fix the pieces lets provide care through a variety of programs to address the whole.
As Director of Care, Venice enjoys working with the team insuring the best care for each client that we work with.
Availability: Mon-Fri: By appointment only
Jessica Layton-Ricketts, NMT
Jessica’s career choice stems from a lifetime of dancing and coming from a family of massage therapists. Loving to find solutions, her passion became helping clients achieve long term relief from chronic pain, finding and treating the root cause of an issue and creating programs tailored to specific client needs.
Jessica’s formal training began at The Body Institute in 2005-2006. Her education continued under the tutelage of Drs. Michael Putman and Heather Taylor, DC. specializing in Spinal injuries and sports massage. Her dance background provided the realization that Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation was a great addition to clients road to wellness.
Jessica helps clients find relief by using a combination of modalities including myofascial release, deep tissue, craniosacral and PNF stretching.
Availability: Mon-Fri: By appointment only
Heather Buchanan, NMT
Heather started her massage journey in 1999 when attending The Massage Therapy Institute of Davis. There she specialized in Swedish, Sports Therapy, Energy work and Lymphatic Massage. She continued her journey practicing on friends and family. Heather continued her learning at National Holistic Institute in San Jose, Ca, where she learned Shiatsu, Cupping and Advanced Chair Massage.
Heather worked with a Chiropractor and a few Spas in Los Gatos. After moving back closer to family in Sacramento, she came to work at Hope Wellness Institute doing various roles. Venice Sullivan was gracious enough to teach her Neuromuscular Massage course one last time at The Massage institute of Davis, so of course Heather took full advantage of learning from a great teacher. Heather has continued to practice massage and is always on a journey of learning.
Heather has two children, McKenzie (14) and Hunter (13). She also enjoys being outdoors and taking the kids on adventures. They love going to Disneyland when possible. She is also the Head Coach at Bella Vista High School with the Colorguard and Dance Teams. Heather has a love of performing with various Winterguard and Senior Drum and Bugle Corps over the years. She currently takes a few dance classes to learn and be healthy.
Availability: Sun-Wed: By appointment only
Nancy Payne
Nancy Payne works as a Cereset Stress Coach for HOPE Wellness Institute. Nancy owned a medical transcription company before leaving the working world to raise her children. She had experience with brain wellness technology due to the special needs of her son, who is on the autism spectrum, as well as her own challenges with caregiver stress. With her life experience and an aptitude for technology, she is a valued part of the Cereset team at the HOPE Wellness Institute.
Bill Schlack, Cereset Brain Wellness
Bill was raised in Downey in California. He came up to UCD and has lived in Northern California ever since. Out of college he began working in agriculture for a few years but realized he liked people more than tomato plants. He worked in retail and wholesale electronics and began working with small computers and the internet in the late 90s.
In 2012 he had meningitis and “minor” brain surgery. The doctors saved his life but had no options available to give him a life back. After exploring Eastern medicine and several “non-medical therapies” he found Venice and The HOPE Wellness Institute. With their help he has rebuilt brain capacity & function well beyond what was considered possible. Today he runs Cereset Brain Wellness sessions to help others achieve success like he has seen. He travels with his wife and dog, and especially enjoys hiking.
Rosie Beguhl, Office Manager
Rosie Beguhl works as the Office Manager for HOPE Wellness Institute since 2016. Rosie was born in and raised in Sacramento, CA. After graduating from Elk Grove High School, she took on various occupations while going to college at the various community colleges in her area. Due to her background, as an EMT-1A, Medical Coding, Cabinet Making, and Jewelry Making, she had been self-employed for most of her life, and raised a family with her husband of 30 years.
Using her various skills, she applies all of those to be an integral part of the HOPE Wellness Institute team. Her most recent professional and personal goal was met by graduating in the Spring of 2023 from American River College with a double major in Social Science and Psychology. Rosie has always been interested in why people do what they do. Some of her hobbies include reading, sewing, jewelry making and fitness.
