I am located at Tree of Health in Hillsdale.

I first came across massage in the middle of an extraordinarily difficult pregnancy wherein I faced several serious, potentially life-threatening issues for both myself and my baby.  My first massage was instrumental in easing the anxiety I had during this very difficult pregnancy.  Because of its profound therapeutic effect on me, I decided that massage therapy was my life’s calling.

During my pregnancy, I appreciated that massage therapy was a form of natural medicine that assisted in treating my aches and anxieties rather than adding more medication to what I was already taking.  Though there are restrictions on how to massage people with different issues, massage is generally available to most people and it has positive effects on both physical maladies and on behavioral health issues.  It also has significant positive benefits for babies and young children.  Possibly what I like most about massage is that I can see or feel the physiological response in real time and I can see my clients improve as I work on them.

I prefer an integrated approach to massage therapy.  Each massage should be tailored to the individual client’s needs – keeping in mind the client’s comfort level during the massage and the client’s desired outcomes from the massage.  Many people associate neuromuscular therapy as a more aggressive technique, but taking an integrated approach I am able to utilize this traditionally more aggressive technique more gently along with myofascial release and still achieve the positive benefits these techniques provide. An integrated approach allows me to focus on a wider variety of people, while achieving positive results for all.