How I can help you:

Stress Management and Spiritual Counseling: Often when we or those we love face serious illness and/or chronic pain, we easily recognize the physical nature of our difficulty. Yet we may also be facing deeper, less obvious challenges.  In my experience, new understandings, perspectives and awareness often emerge from skilled and insightful listening, and exploration of the spiritual aspect of being human. This may allow for a different relationship with our situation, illness, and/or pain, transforming our daily experience. 

Massage Therapy, Western and Eastern Approaches:  The role of massage and Traditional Chinese Medicine in reducing or alleviating pain and distress is well known and documented. I have worked with hundreds of clients, with conditions such as migraines; pain due to illness, accidents or injuries; digestive disorders; insomnia and more, helping them claim a higher level of functioning, and reduction or elimination of pain. Please see additional information about the benefits of massage below. 

Therapeutic Exercise and Nutritional Guidance: My education and experience in Sports Medicine equip me to assist you with movement, therapeutic exercise, and changes to your diet which can improve your quality of life -- reducing your pain and increasing your energy. 

Experts estimate that upwards of ninety percent of disease is stress-related. And perhaps nothing ages us faster, internally and externally, than high stress. Massage is an effective tool for managing this stress, which translates into:

• Decreased anxiety.
• Enhanced sleep quality.
• Greater energy.
• Improved concentration.
• Increased circulation.
• Reduced fatigue.

Massage can also help specifically address a number of health issues. Bodywork can:

• Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion.
• Ease medication dependence.
• Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body's natural defense system.
• Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
• Improve the condition of the body's largest organ—the skin.
• Increase joint flexibility.
• Lessen depression and anxiety.
• Promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks.
• Pump oxygen and nutrients into tissues and vital organs, improving circulation.
• Reduce postsurgery adhesions and swelling.
• Reduce spasms and cramping.
• Assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays.
• Relax and soften injured, tired, and overused muscles.
• Relieve migraine pain.
• Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.
• Release endorphins—amino acids that work as the body's natural painkiller.

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