Your body is already communicating. This work helps you hear it.
Bodywork is the heart of this practice, and most of it is craniosacral fascial technique, from day old newborns to grandparents. The rest is massage built around what you actually need. Straightforward, skilled, and never off a script.
Craniosacral, for babies and everyone else
The body does not sort stress into physical and emotional. It keeps the record either way, in the connective tissue that runs through everything. Craniosacral fascial technique gently releases that held strain so the body can settle, correct, and heal. It is gentle enough for a newborn and reaches what other work cannot.
I practice the Gillespie Approach. You can read about Dr. Gillespie’s work, the Baby Brain Score, and infant driven movement directly at gillespieapproach.com.
What CFT helps with
Babies and kids
- Trouble latching or nursing
- Screaming in the car seat
- Unsettled sleep
- Fussiness
- Digestion
- Toe walking
- Tongue and lip tie revision support
Adults
- Chronic pain
- Headaches and migraines
- Injury and surgery recovery
- The tension nothing else has touched
- Stress the nervous system has not been able to set down
- The physical weight of grief, loss, and long seasons of pressure
Why I trust it.
My daughter did not arrive easily. She came out sideways with the cord around her neck and one arm raised above her head, which turned out to be exactly where that arm needed to be. She had a significant hematoma on the side of her skull and clear signs of strain in her neck. I started working on her minutes after she was born, and the next day I did what any good practitioner knows to do: I handed her to a colleague I trusted completely. Within a few sessions she could latch on both sides, ride in a car seat without screaming, and sleep like she was supposed to. That is not a sales story! That is why this work is the foundation of the practice.
For adults: the custom session
Adult sessions work differently than a standard massage menu. I work like a mechanic with soft hands: you tell me what hurts, I address what I find. A sore neck might mean craniosacral work, some scraping, and stretching woven into the massage. It can also just be massage, straight through, if that is what you want.
Everything else on the table
Cupping, hot stones, stretching, lymphatic support, scar tissue work, mud and castor packs. All of it available, none of it required. The session gets built around you, in the room, not off a menu.
Sessions happen in the Carmel office. Details and pricing →