Your body is already communicating. This work helps you hear it.
Bodywork at Know by Hand is tailored, built around your history, your goals and what actually shows up when skilled hands pay attention. Not a spa menu, an informed hands-on assessment.
Craniosacral, and what that actually means.
The human body is interconnected, structurally and functionally. What happens in one area affects another. The body does not distinguish between physical and emotional stress. It just keeps the record either way. Craniosacral fascial technique works with that reality directly, addressing tension and strain held in the connective tissue system so the body can do what it is already designed to do: regulate, correct and heal itself.
What I practice specifically is the Gillespie Approach, one method within a broader family of craniosacral techniques that includes Upledger and others. I use it as the foundation of most sessions because it reaches what other work cannot and because it is appropriate for nearly every body, every age and every history.
Why I trust this work.
My daughter did not arrive easily. She came out sideways with one arm raised above her head, a significant hematoma on the side of her skull and clear signs of strain on the right side of her neck.
Minutes after she was born I started working on her, and then I did what any good practitioner knows to do. I called someone better positioned to help and handed her off to a colleague I trusted completely.
Within a few sessions the signs of strain began to dissipate. She was able to latch on both sides, ride in a car seat without pain and screaming and sleep like she was supposed to.
That is not a sales story. That is why craniosacral fascial technique is the foundation of this practice and why I will never stop recommending it to the parents who find their way here.
For the practitioners who refer here.
Collaborative care at Know By Hand works in both directions.
Physicians, nurse practitioners, lactation consultants and midwives refer clients when there is a physical or structural piece that bodywork can address. Mental health therapists and social workers refer when something somatic is showing up in their sessions that needs hands-on attention. That referral is received, respected and communicated back.
When something surfaces on the table that belongs in your office instead, it goes back to you. Clients do not leave without a next step and referring practitioners do not lose the thread.
The network in greater Indianapolis is established. The communication is reliable. My lane is clear and it stays that way.
What this work tends to help with.
Infants and young children
- Difficulty latching or nursing
- Discomfort riding in a car seat
- Unsettled sleep
- General fussiness and difficulty self-settling
- Digestive discomfort
- Toe walking
- Post-oral tie revision support
Children and adults
- Chronic pain and long-held tension
- Headaches and migraines
- Recovery from injury or surgery
- Physical strain patterns that have not responded to other approaches
The less visible stuff
- Stress the nervous system has not been able to release
- Physical symptoms connected to grief, loss or major life transition
- Significant physical transitions and the structural changes that accompany them
- Veterans and others navigating the physical weight of prolonged stress
Other Things I Do Well
Therapeutic massage, cupping, hot stones, therapeutic stretching, lymphatic support and scar tissue work. Every session is built around what is actually needed, not a standard menu.
Where sessions happen.
In-home, workplace and corporate, pop-ups, employee appreciation events, sports facilities, hospice and retirement communities. The practice travels.
Whether you are a referral source or ready to do the work, the next step is a conversation.
A short call or message first. We make sure this is the right fit before anything gets booked. No surprises, no awkward starts.