Kathleen Riley McCarthy has been helping clients reach their highest potential for fifteen years, teaching easy and effective self-healing techniques that relieve anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and pain.
She is the author of wellness, personal growth, and energy medicine publications, including What You Feel is Real, Everyday Miracles, Healing & Wellness Beyond Recovery, and Intention Journal For The Authentically Lovable You.
Riley earned her B.A. in Communications from Michigan State University in Lansing, MI, and holds a Certificate in Integrative Holistic Health from Energy Medicine University in Sausalito, CA. She is a graduate of the Advanced Corporate Coaching Program with Corporate Coach U, Inc. and is a certified chaplain with the International Fellowship of Chaplains.
HOW IT STARTED
The Inspiration
He said, “Let’s call it ‘Potions’. She said, Let’s add the word ‘Prayers’. So together, the husband and wife team created Potions & Prayers — inspired apothecary for the authentically lovable you.
Kathleen Riley McCarthy, Energy Medicine Practitioner and Co-Founder, takes Potions & Prayers to a whole new level by applying her knowledge of the body’s energy system towards a full spectrum of products for healing and wellness.
“A BRAND THAT CELEBRATES THE HEALING JOURNEY OF AUTHENTICITY.”

ABOUT THE OWNER
Kathleen Riley McCarthy, ACCP, DEH, WHEE, ADS, is the Co-Founder and Owner of Potions & Prayers along with her husband Chris McCarthy. She is also the Founder and Integrative Holistic Health Practitioner of The Dove House, a healing and wellness center. Her intention to start Potions & Prayers was based on the need to raise money for The Dove House, a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit, in support of trauma survivors.
McCarthy has been helping clients tap into their authentic selves for over fifteen years, teaching easy and effective self-healing techniques that relieve anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and pain. She has authored books on personal growth and energy medicine including What You Feel is Real, Everyday Miracles and Healing & Wellness Beyond Recovery.
She earned her B.A. in Communications from Michigan State University in Lansing, MI, and holds a Certificate in Integrative Holistic Health from Energy Medicine University in Sausalito, CA. She is certified in Auricular Acupuncture Detox for the reduction of alcohol cravings and drugs, including nicotine, and for the relief of stress (PTSD), grief, emotional trauma and pain.
McCarthy is a graduate of the Advanced Corporate Coaching Program with Corporate Coach U, Inc., and is a certified chaplain with the International Fellowship of Chaplains.