About Us

A Nurse Who Listened Deeper

Nightingale Healing began with a question that wouldn't go away: What if healing means something more than what we were taught?

As a registered nurse, Mikkelle Hickey spent years inside the healthcare system — the early mornings, the 12-hour shifts, the emotional weight of holding space for people at their most vulnerable. She saw what modern medicine does well. She also saw where it falls short — the moments when a patient needed presence more than a prescription, when the body was asking for something the system couldn't name.

That question led her somewhere unexpected. Into Reiki. Into energy work. Into traditions that have been healing people for thousands of years, long before anyone wrote a prescription for it.

Meet Mikkelle

Mikkelle is a registered nurse, Reiki master, and intuitive healer. Her practice draws from a wide lineage — HeartMath research on heart-brain coherence, Jungian depth psychology, A Course in Miracles, ancient healing traditions, and her own direct experience of what happens when you quiet the clinical mind and let something deeper come through.

She works with crystals, sound bowls, chakra systems, and focused intention. But the modality isn't the point. The point is creating a space where healing can actually happen — not just symptom management, but the kind of shift that changes how you move through the world.

Mikkelle currently offers healing sessions locally in Iowa. As her practice grows, she's building toward something bigger: a platform where these conversations aren't whispered in corners but spoken openly, with both rigor and reverence.

Why "Nightingale"

The name is intentional. Florence Nightingale was a nurse who looked past symptoms to systems — who understood that healing environments matter as much as treatments. She saw what others missed.

Nightingale Healing carries that thread forward. A nurse who sees beyond the conventional, into what actually heals.

The Vision

Nightingale Healing is not a skincare company. It's a healing platform built on four pillars:

• Healing Practice — Reiki sessions, intuitive healing, and energy work
• Content & Media — Long-form conversations that bridge science and spirit, challenging what we think we know about consciousness, health, and human potential
• Community & Education — Curated resources, book lists, and workshops for people on a healing path
• Products — Handcrafted tallow skincare made with locally sourced ingredients, because what you put on your body matters as much as what you put in it

Mikkelle brings the healer's direct knowing — the intuition, the clinical experience, the hands-on practice. Alex brings the architect's framework — systems thinking, research, and the technical infrastructure that makes the platform possible. Together, they're building a space for the conversations that matter most.

Our Products

Every jar we make starts with grass-fed tallow — one of the most biocompatible moisturizers that exists, rich in vitamins A, D, E, and K. We blend it with carefully chosen botanicals, essential oils, and carrier oils. No synthetic preservatives. No seed oils. No ingredients you can't pronounce.

We handcraft everything in small batches in Iowa. The products are one expression of our philosophy: that the best things for your body come from the earth, not a lab.

This Is Just the Beginning

Nightingale Healing is a work in progress — and that's by design. We build as we grow, guided by the people who find their way here. If you're on a healing journey of your own, you're in the right place.