Healing Services

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A treatment approach that works best for YOU.  

With over 10 years experience as a professional bodyworker, I’ve collected many modalities and refined my skill for tuning-in to what approaches may work best for each individual client on my table.  

If you are looking for: 

• Relief from physical pain and tension. 
• Relief from headaches. 
• Improved sleep.
• Unwinding of chronic stress or anxiety.
• Support with emotional overwhelm.  
• Pregnancy or Post-Natal Massage

I will create a tailored treatment to meet your goals and the needs of your body and nervous system.  

Some of the modalities, tools and techniques I might employ are: 

• Swedish massage.
• Myofascial release work.
• Warm Bamboo massage - using heat to melt through the layers and bring detoxification and relaxation.
• Gua Sha - a scraping technique with jade stones to break up fascial adhesions (known as “knots”), flush out toxins and increase blood flow in the area. 
• Cupping - using silicone cups to break up fascial adhesions, pull toxins out and increase blood flow in a more gentle way.
• Passive stretching.
• Trigger point release.
• Trauma-informed healing touch.
• Craniosacral therapy.
• Energy clearing techniques.  

We’ll start by first discussing how you’re doing and what you’re looking for, then I let my hands “listen” to your body and tell me what is needed. Checking in along the way to make sure it all feels good for you.  

Some body’s do well with deep pressure and more aggressive treatments. Other body’s respond much better to a lighter touch, working at the fascial level to allow things to melt and release in their own time. For other folks, we may leave treatment work out all together and focus solely on deep relaxation and nervous system replenishment. Every body is perfectly unique and it’s my goal to be attuned to that.  

All treatments are completely non-sexual and you will remain appropriately draped the entire session. 

*NEW! Skin Brushing Massage!*

Used in Ayurvedic Medicine for thousands of years, skin brushing is a wonderful way to release toxins through the lymphatic system, stimulate the immune system, increase circulation, and exfoliate dry skin.

I will use a course dry brush of all natural boar's hair in fast-paced brush patterns to create this effect, followed by massage!

This treatment is both relaxing and invigorating, creating a sense of renewal and groundedness. Of literally and symbolically sloughing off your “old skin” and emerging brand new.

This can be completed in a 60 minute session including full body general massage, or as part of a 90 minute session with more time for additional treatment-focused work.

See below for pricing and scheduling. 

We all get “tied up in knots” with the daily stresses of life and the remnants of traumas we’ve experienced. These tension patterns show up in the body as chronic muscle tightness and rigidity. It shows up in the mind and emotions as anxiety, depression, sleep struggles, decreased libido and inability to focus. It also affects our relationships and ability to create the kind of lives that allow us to truly thrive.

In a Somatic Energy Healing session, we’ll address these underlying emotional and nervous system patterns with a unique blend of craniosacral therapy, manual massage, chakra clearing energy work, guided meditation and breath coaching.

Each session unfolds intuitively based on what is present in the moment on the table. There’s no guarantee of a specific outcome with one session. We will move at the body’s pace and see where it takes us.

You may experience some form of emotional catharsis if that’s what the body needs, or simply a deep nervous system reset and relaxation. You may also experience energetic sensations and receive new insights and clarity from your deeper self.

You will typically remain fully clothed during the session, unless working in combination with massage.

This work pairs nicely with talk therapy and other emotionally oriented modalities to facilitate the process of embodying and integrating the transformation occurring. 

If a lot of trauma is surfacing for you during these sessions, I will recommend finding a counsellor to work with and can make some recommendations. If you have acute PTSD or an active chemical addiction we will need to work in partnership with a licensed mental health practitioner. 

If you’re unsure if this work is appropriate for you, please write me and we’ll discuss your unique needs.

Note: If you’ve been receiving craniosacral therapy with me as a stand alone treatment, we can continue to do that. Select the Somatic Healing session on my online scheduler and indicate in the notes that you are looking for craniosacral therapy.  

*6 Session Somatic Energy Healing Program*

If you’d like to work over a series of regular sessions to concentrate on either a specific issue showing up in the body, or for a general holistic reset, a 6 session program might work best for you.

Here are some examples of areas we may focus on:

• Breath development and release. Many of us store tension around the diaphragm or upper chest. We’ll evaluate your unique breathing pattern and areas of restriction and work to free things up so you can experience the relief of a full deep breath! This is often a starting place and forms a foundation for future work.

• Hip and pelvic release. The hips and pelvis are a major storehouse for the pent up energy of fight, flight, freeze. Chronic low back pain or issues with menstruation in women are indications of holding patterns here. I’ll use a combination of craniosacral, manual release (massage), energy work and somatic coaching to assist in the process of unwinding the pent up energy in this area. Allowing you to feel more secure and at ease in your body, life and relationships. 

• Heart and arm release. The arms, shoulders and hands are often experienced as extensions of the heart. As well as the lungs, upper back and rib cage. Many of us guard our heart’s due to past hurts. But when those walls aren’t emotionally processed, they become chronic tension in our bodies and cut us off from the ability to give and receive love fully. Again, using a combination of modalities we’ll gently assist the body in alchemizing those walls and letting the heart find a new level of openness.

• Neck and throat release. When our self-expression has been repressed in some way, it can manifest as chronic tension in the neck and tightness in the throat. We’ll work to clear the pathway for your deeper self-expression to come to the surface again, allowing you to voice your true feelings, needs and desires in life, set appropriate boundaries, and access your creativity.

• Leg and foot release. When we have a hard time making decisions and moving forward in life, it’s sometimes the result of a chronic lack of embodiment of the lower body. We tend to spend a lot of time in our heads to try and stay safe. But being able to access the energetic state of Groundedness is what actually allows us to know which direction to go, and gain the traction we need to get there. 

These are just examples of potential areas of focus. We will create a customized plan based on your unique goals and body wisdom. 

See bellow for pricing and scheduling.