Regina Rivers, owner of Rivers Healing Arts, has been a shamanic practitioner (since 2003), offering journeying, shamanic extractions, soul retrievals, energy healing (since 1984), relationship coaching (since 1995), past life regressions, death-midwifery (psychopomp services) and Shaman Oracle card readings to her clients. She is a certified Reiki Master/Teacher. In 1991, Regina created UpWriting Yourself™, a workshop that uses writing and journaling as tools for inner healing.

Among others, Regina’s main shamanic teachers include Tom Cowan, Cecile Carson, M.D., don Oscar Miro Quesada and most recently, Judy Hoaglund. She was also a student of Death Midwife, Nora Cedarwind Young. In 2012, Regina spent 15 days in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle learning plant-spirit medicine from both a Shipibo shaman and a medicine man.

Presently, Regina is the Public Relations Director of the McCollum Foundation, an organization that works to bring peace and sustainability to the earth through global events. In February 2019, Regina traveled to Allahabad, India, as a peace ambassador with the McCollum Foundation, to attend the holy Kiva Kumbh Mela Festival at the Ganges River.

Regina also enjoys writing about shamanism, relationships and human nature. She has written many articles on shamanism for the online site, Soul Bridging. Her article, "The Alchemy of Healing: Transforming from Victim to Victor" appears in the book Sexual Lives.  She co-wrote the textbooks, Managing Authentically: Combining Ancient Wisdom and Modern Psychology in the Workplace and Relating From Your Heart. Most recently, her article, Sacred Journeys, was included in the collection of stories titled Mystical interludes II, edited by Emily Rodavich.

In the past, Regina was cofounder and Chair of SITE NITE, which from 2009 until 2018 offered presentations on multiple consciousness-raising topics twice a month in the Pittsburgh area.

Regina lives in Allison Park where she also sees clients. She presents workshops on a multitude of subjects and enjoys lecturing when invited.