Our story
The story behind the centre
This did not start as a business plan. It started with an injury, a diagnosis, and a woman who would not accept that there was nothing left to try.
Pasqualina “Peg” Coppola
“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.”
In 2016 Peg’s life turned on a traumatic physical injury. Multiple surgeries followed, and then an autoimmune diagnosis. Conventional therapy took her a certain distance and then stopped having answers.
So she went and found her own. She read everything, experimented on herself, and worked through the alternatives one at a time — driven, in her own telling, by an innate stubbornness about healing. What she kept coming back to were non-invasive, restorative approaches and energy healing modalities. Once she saw what it did across different stages of disease and disorder, helping other people find it became the point.
She credits her progress to staying informed and researched, and to an unwavering belief that healing was possible given time and faith. The line above — from A Course In Miracles — is the one she leaned on when it was hardest.
She wrote it down
Becoming An Empowered Patient
Peg’s account of the search — alongside interviews and the scientific research she gathered along the way. It reached Amazon bestseller status in 2021. If you are at the beginning of your own version of this, it is a better starting point than anything we could write on a website.
Why we opened
“The power that makes the body heals the body.”
That principle is the whole basis of this centre. We do not treat anyone. We maintain an environment within which the body can do what it is built to do — and we back that up with published research, clinical case studies and the reviews of the people who sit in this room.
It is why the research library on this site is eleven studies deep, why our reviews are published unedited, and why the first visit is priced so you can simply come and try it for yourself.
The space
A quiet building, on purpose.
We have our own front door on Tamiami Trail, in a building shared with a few other offices, with parking right outside — not a suite inside a busy plaza. You walk straight in.
Gulf Coast Energy Spa is a private membership centre, open by appointment Monday to Saturday. Sessions can be arranged outside our posted hours when you need them to be.
Who you will meet
The team
Peg runs the centre. Everyone else on this list is an independent practitioner who brings their own clients and their own training into the room for our events.
Peg Coppola
Founder · owner
Donna Sica
Singing bowls · light language
Clara Martinez
Reiki & reflexology
Janie Brynolf
LCSW · hypnosis
Nicole Moeller
Breathwork
Photographs and short bios are being added as each practitioner confirms them.
Come and see the room.
Book a first session, or call or text and ask us anything first.