Integrative Bodywork and Trauma Resolution

I'm so glad you've found my website.  And I hope you're here because you are curious.  Maybe you're curious because you've heard about Somatic Experiencing and you'd like to learn more about it.   Or maybe you are in pain and you'd like to see if I can help. Let me tell you what I do and how I might seve that need.

Somatic Experiencing (SE):  SE is  a naturalistic approach to healing from charged events in your life.  That could be from an accident, to a surgery, to a traumatic event, to how you were brought up.  By paying attention to our bodies and with support we can allow the charge from the event to leave our bodies.  This can help to aleve your symptoms and the tools you learn will allow you to do this on your own.

Massage Therapy:  I am a certified massage therapist.  I do deep tissue, swedish, ThaiAyurvedic Massage and Pregnancy massage to name a few.  SE informs all the work I do.  Deep tissue is not the elbows in the back kind of massage.  I ease into the tissue.  I listen to your needs of pressure and how deep to go.  I'd rather ease into a muscle and go deeper and not have you be sore the next day.  I refer to myself as a "body detective" to find where the pains are and how to relieve them.  I can also give a relaxing swedish massage.  

I have studied with Carol Osborne Sheets who is one of the best Pre-Natal massage instructors around.  I love helping a woman through this exciting time of her life.  I am also practicing to be a Doula.  I wish to help the parents make the experience of birth to be as trauma free as possible.