The Gentle Peach is dedicated to supporting women's lifelong health journey, with a specialized focus on pre/post-surgical recovery, autoimmune issues, and oncology support. Our practice offers deeply personalized care, inspired by our practitioner's own health experiences, ensuring a compassionate and holistic approach to each client's journey.

Ruth McDonald, LMT, MLD-C, CDT is a licensed massage therapist with advanced training and certification in decongestive therapies using the Vodder Technique from the Academy of Lymphatic Studies. She brings personal experience and expertise in providing tailored treatments that cater to the unique needs of women. Whether you're preparing for surgery, recovering post-operatively, navigating an oncology journey, or seeking therapeutic relief, our compassionate and skilled approach is designed to enhance your well-being and quality of life. 

The Gentle Peach is passionate about your anonymity, autonomy, safety, and promoting body positivity in every treatment. For this reason, each session is led by you and the needs of your body, and all sessions are by appointment only.

Core Services:

Complete Decongestive Therapy:

Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD)- Gentle and precise techniques to support the lymphatic system, reduce swelling, and promote healing.

• Pre-operative and Post-operative: Customized treatments to prepare your body for surgery and aid in recovery, minimizing discomfort, encouraging the removal of anesthesia, waste, and toxins from body tissues, reducing swelling, and enhancing recovery and reducing pain.
• Oncology MLD and Massage: Specialized care for those undergoing cancer treatments, focusing on comfort, decreasing swelling, pain relief, and emotional support.

Therapeutic Massage- Indicated for pain, tension, and stress with therapeutic techniques to reduce stress, ease your mind, and leave you feeling lighter and more at ease. Pacify your nervous system from daily or traumatic stress through calming techniques.

Scar Therapy- softening and flattening of scars, reducing scar tissue build up to help make scars less noticeable.