I'm Amy Ward, RDCS, Owner of LOOM.™
I have spent the last 16 years serving patients as a cardiac sonographer in a variety of healthcare settings, including Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and Parkridge Medical Center in Chattanooga. My career has allowed me to care for patients ranging from those receiving routine cardiac evaluations to individuals facing life-threatening illness, traumatic injury, and complex cardiovascular disease.
I hold professional credentials through the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS), a nationally recognized organization that establishes rigorous standards for sonographers through advanced education, specialty examinations, and continuing professional development. My certification reflects a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of diagnostic imaging and patient care.
Working in healthcare for more than a decade and a half has profoundly shaped my understanding of wellness. While I am passionate about helping diagnose and monitor heart disease through echocardiography, I have also witnessed the devastating effects that preventable and lifestyle-related conditions can have on individuals and families. Many of the patients I have encountered have struggled with chronic diseases influenced by factors such as poor nutrition, unmanaged stress, lack of physical activity, inadequate sleep, and other modifiable health behaviors.
These experiences inspired my interest in integrative health. To me, integrative health means looking beyond symptoms and diagnoses to consider the whole person—body, mind, lifestyle, environment, and personal goals. It is an approach that values evidence-based medical care while also recognizing the importance of prevention, nutrition, movement, stress management, restorative sleep, meaningful relationships, and personal responsibility in achieving long-term wellness.
I believe some of the most powerful opportunities in healthcare occur before disease develops. My passion is helping people better understand the connection between their daily choices and their long-term health outcomes. Through education, prevention, and a whole-person approach to wellness, I hope to contribute to a future where more individuals can enjoy vibrant health and a higher quality of life.
Whether caring for patients through advanced cardiac imaging or advocating for preventive wellness strategies, my goal remains the same: to help people live healthier, fuller lives through knowledge, compassion, and informed healthcare decisions.
I'm excited about what's ahead for LOOM™
While we are focusing on the Manual Therapy side as we launch, soon our EchoVue™ technologies will provide a lower-cost look into your body and give you the guidance that labs sometimes don't reveal.
EchoVue™ Coming to North Georgia in 2027, stay tuned!
I'm Hollie Cope, CNMT, LMT, CMDT
Integrative Wellness didn't make me healthy...
but it saved my life.
As you will see from the gallery of photos, my own size and health status has fluctuated over the years. I've battled obesity and many other physical challenges. Yet, I've thrived against some serious odds. If integrative health practitioners had not been present in my life during my early twenties, and again, during a more recent crisis, I certainly would not be here today. I owe my life and my career to integrative doctors; the first of whom diagnosed my elusive endocrine disease after four long years of mystery and suffering. Their comprehensive approach led me to the correct medical specialist. In advance, I knew what tests they needed to run in order to finally give me medical confirmation and the protocols I needed to pursue in order to recover.
From that experience, I knew I wanted to serve people in that same way. I wanted to teach people how to see themselves as thriving beings— pulling them away from emotions of defeat. Not having answers and clear plans can make life feel like a mere existence as a collection of hopeless symptoms.
As Clinical Director of LOOM.™, our growing team takes a synergistic approach to facilitating wellness. Our integrative model incorporates mind, body and spirit while supporting your physician-led healthcare.
LOOM™ Therapists weave personalized wellness plans that
align with your medical directives and lifestyle goals.
We utilize a variety of complementary and manual therapies. Our therapies are scientifically sound and evidence-based. Wellness education is a key component of our model.
I have a diverse skill-set in complementary health. I am a certified neuromuscular therapist, certified meditation teacher, and licensed massage therapist in practice for 23 years. I'm also a certified pregnancy massage therapist.
Sometimes you need a new approach. Sometimes you need someone to help you weave all of the broken threads back together. Sometimes you need someone to help you get out the way of your own weaving. I know, because my own lifelines had become totally frayed. Remarkably, I was led back to healing and I want the same for you. Allow me to help you discover your own wellness potential as we
"put your life on the LOOM™"
MASSAGE THERAPY & CLINICAL BODYWORK
Hollie was licensed in Georgia in 2006 when the Board of Massage Therapy became official, but has been in professional practice since 2003. She specializes in hands on manual therapies. She has over 900 clock hours in advanced clinical education as a Neuromuscular Therapist, and can work in just about any modality. She graduated from ASHA in Atlanta, Georgia in 2003, and started her practice at Buckhead Wellness Group. She has taught Massage Therapy protocols to both students at ASHA in Atlanta and Neuromuscular Therapy to advanced instructors at SOCHI in Los Angeles. Moving back to Dalton in 2007, she started a private practice of her own in 2009, and it's been an amazing ride ever since. Massage/bodywork is her primary focus. Having advanced certifications in Neuromuscular Therapy and Pre and Post Natal Massage Technique have allowed her to align her passion to the clinical scope; creating space for healing beyond a day at the "spa."
MEDITATION AND YOGA
In 2016, Hollie traveled to Rishikesh India to become a Certified Meditation Teacher. Extracting the time-tested sciences of the Ayurvedic tradition, this 300 hour program has allowed her to develop programs for groups and individuals alike. Meditation practice can be utilized to heal from emotional and physical stress and to optimize sports performance. It helps you to organize your thoughts and reconcile them with the wellness outcomes goals that we set together.
Traditionally, Yoga is an exercise that prepares the body for meditation, and Hollie has enjoyed teaching it under her certification from both non-religious and ecumenical Christian perspectives. Hollie has also taught yoga classes and individual sessions for special populations—
youth, elderly and persons of size.
FOOD & NOURISHMENT/Eating By Divine Design™
What LIFE is food currently fueling for us at this modern time in America? Clearly, as we lead the developed world in Obesity and Diabetes, we have exploited the concept of food as nourishment. We have hijacked the neurochemical pathways to pleasure in the brain, and we have capitalized on food’s ability to render happiness and entertainment. Food has become, perhaps, the strongest catalyst of consumerism. Food is far more than an industry on its own; it drives many global markets, either directly or indirectly. Food is powerful, and so is the human body. It is time that the power is restored to its proper place; to thriving people that build legacies in wellness where food is healing us; not misleading us.
Eating By Divine Design™ is a program that asserts that our bodies are designed to thrive upon natural, whole foods, as God intended. This program is wonderful for anyone desiring to reclaim their health or claim victory over food addiction.
While this program has helped our founding team, we utilize the expertise of several food and nourishment coaches, nutritionists and dietitians who can help you learn the optimal way to fuel your body and thriving health.
EchoVue™ Wellness Screenings
Preventive ultrasound screening offers a safe, non-invasive way to gain valuable insight into your cardiovascular and endocrine health, helping identify potential concerns early when intervention may be most effective.
An echocardiogram evaluates the structure and function of the heart and can identify abnormalities involving heart valves, chamber enlargement, reduced pumping function, congenital defects, and other cardiovascular concerns. Early detection may support timely medical intervention and help reduce the risk of complications such as heart failure, arrhythmias, and stroke.
Vascular ultrasound assesses blood flow through the arteries and veins and can identify plaque buildup, arterial narrowing, aneurysms, and circulation disorders. Detecting vascular disease early may provide an opportunity for treatment and lifestyle modifications that can reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, peripheral artery disease, and other serious cardiovascular events.
Thyroid ultrasound can reveal structural abnormalities that may otherwise go unnoticed. The examination can identify nodules, cysts, enlargement, and other changes that may require monitoring or further evaluation. Early awareness allows patients and their healthcare providers to make informed decisions about ongoing care.
While no screening can guarantee prevention, early detection often creates opportunities for meaningful lifestyle changes, medical treatment, and ongoing monitoring before conditions become more serious. Combined with healthy nutrition, regular physical activity, stress management, restorative sleep, and appropriate medical care, preventive imaging can be an important part of a proactive approach to long-term wellness.
THE SPIRITUAL COMPONENT
For many years, Hollie's therapist motto has been, "Create Space For Healing." Often, we stand in our own way with a collection of toxic thoughts and learned negative habits. During her 23-year career, she has developed a keen sense of how the body reflects trauma & grief and "holds onto" mental and emotional patterns. There is a scientific basis for this scope of work called "psychosomatics." Sometimes, specialized doctors and counselors are needed to address the psychological basis of trauma patterns. Sometimes bodywork and meditation are the solution. Sometimes, we just need to honor what the body speaks and reconcile it with prayer and reflection, as God directs.
LOOM™ Integrative Wellness is founded upon our personal relationships with Jesus Christ, whom we believe is available to all people, regardless of religion. We welcome people of all faith traditions as our high professional standards and ethics remain universal. Spiritual care is an optional component at LOOM™ and your treatment plan can remain entirely free of spiritual or religious nuance. As with all of our offerings, we always refer out to other professionals when our scope of practice does not meet the need. Spiritual care is especially honored in this way.
At the same time, our therapists want to support your preferences during therapy. Hollie Cope has personally taken advantage of unique opportunities to learn clinical pastoral methods and has recently had the privilege of providing spiritual support within a hospital setting.
Sadly, we have also witnessed many unfortunate manipulations of spiritual care frameworks within complementary healthcare. It is our mission to preserve safe spaces for all individuals who wish to acknowledge their spirituality as they pursue overall wellness. We do not tap into cosmic forces. We do not attune to mysterious energies. If desired, we simply acknowledge faith in "The Great Physician," and honor it throughout your wellness plan at LOOM. Before getting started, you can let us know if our spiritual component fits your personal perspective of care.
COMPLEMENTARY HEALTH CONSULTING
The Dalton community has always been supportive of Hollie's mission in wellness as a community advocate, a private practitioner, an educator of integrative health, and finally a complementary health consultant. She has offered interactive modules for Dalton Public Schools and provided programs to employees at Shaw Industries. She has also written educational literature for Navicent/Atrium Health Pediatrics in Macon, Georgia. Amy has 16 years of experience that includes working in a fast-paced level-1 trauma center. She understands what it takes to be efficient and concise, even under the greatest of pressure. She wants pressure to be eased for patients and clients who can prevent catastrophic events and she knows how to educate corporate teams on how to integrate services for employee health and productivity. We aim to support public and private organizations in vetting programs, practitioners and infrastructures that promote integrative wellness initiatives.
Physicians, this is your invitation to bring
LOOM™ Integrative Wellness to your practice.
Practitioners, this is your invitation to join an amazing team to expand the reach of your expertise.
To our clients, we are blessed by your patronage in Dalton since the first studio opened in 2009. We are thrilled to elevate our respective practices with LOOM™.
We look forward to working with you!