Your treatment journey truly begins BEFORE you walk through the door! By connecting here, we have already started to engage with each other.
You will be warmly welcomed and invited to join me in a process which will give you the chance to reconnect with your whole self – mind, body and spirit – and, if needed, reflect on and address worries, anxieties and attitudes that can be very real barriers to recovery.
All massage treatments and coaching sessions will start with a short consultation. We’ll agree on the right treatment plan to address the issues you need help with.
Well, I like to think of my work as “therapy-informed bodywork.” Working with me you will have access to my personal blend of Eastern and Western massage techniques and approaches (ranging from deep tissue remedial massage, sports massage (including specialist Kinesio taping), myofascial release, trigger point therapy and other neuro-muscular techniques), Reiki and my unique solution-focussed Body-Mind coaching service.
We are inter-connected human beings – body and mind, spirit and emotions, past and present. By working with me you won’t just be getting a therapist who is skilled in one field and who focuses only on one issue or body part. You will be getting my full experience and attention to help you focus on the whole of YOU!
As well as being in practice for over 9 years, I have also presented and demonstrated at professional events, including the Back Pain Show in London and Birmingham, the Integrative Health Convention in London, Leeds Wellbeing Week, and Health and Healing Festivals in Leeds, York, Pudsey and Ilkley. And behind this lies over 30 years of professional leadership, management, training, communication, mentoring and coaching experience in Public, Voluntary and private sectors.
I like to explain Holistic Massage Therapy as a bodywork approach that takes the whole person into account. We are not just the sum of our body parts; our various body systems – nerves, muscles, digestion, immune, etc. – are all interconnected and interdependent. But our bodies also respond to how we think and feel – our minds and our emotions – or the “Biology of belief” as geneticist Bruce Lipton puts it.
My holistic massage service has a range of benefits such as pain relief, reducing stress levels, improving muscle tone and increasing mobility. Typically, the sort of muscular and other soft tissue problems I regularly deal with include:
Holistic massage therapy also helps to improve mood and relaxation, chronic pain, the effects of depression, anxiety, irritability and poor, restless sleep, fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, ME and fibromyalgia.
You don’t need to know what’s best before getting in touch. We can begin with a free consultation, a simple conversation to see what feels supportive and explore whether coaching is the right approach for you.
