CranioSacral work emerges from a long lineage of hands-on healing, including traditional bone-setting practices found across Indigenous and folk medicine traditions, as well as osteopathy, founded by A.T. Still in the late 19th century.

Through practitioners such as William Garner Sutherland, Rollin Becker, and James Jealous, this work evolved into a practice of deep listening, one that attends not only to structure, but to fluid, rhythm, and the body’s inherent organizing intelligence. There are also meaningful parallels with classical East Asian medicine, which has long approached the body as an interconnected system of movement, vitality, and relationship.

At its core, this work is an art of listening: less about imposing change, and more about meeting the body in a way that allows change to emerge.

CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle, hands-on approach that works with the nervous system, connective tissues, and the subtle rhythms of the body. Rather than focusing on symptoms alone, the work listens for patterns of tension, compensation, and overwhelm that may be limiting the body’s ability to regulate, adapt, and heal.

Through light touch and careful listening, sessions support the body in shifting out of patterns of protection and strain, creating space for greater ease, mobility, and nervous system resilience.

People often seek CranioSacral Therapy for support with:

• Nervous system dysregulation and chronic stress

• Anxiety, overwhelm, or difficulty settling

• Concussions and post-concussive symptoms

• Headaches and migraines

• Jaw tension and TMJ-related discomfort

• Neck, shoulder, and back tension

• Chronic pain patterns

• Fatigue and burnout

• Sleep difficulties

• Sensory sensitivity

• Recovery after injury, illness, or surgery

• Trauma-related holding patterns within the body

• Feelings of disconnection, guarding, or persistent internal tension

Sessions are quiet, collaborative, and deeply individualized. Some people experience physical release, others notice shifts in breath, rest, emotional regulation, or their relationship to stress and sensation. The work follows the body’s pace rather than imposing force, supporting its innate capacity toward balance and repair.

Birth, growth, and early development ask a tremendous amount of the body and nervous system. Even in loving and healthy circumstances, babies and children can sometimes carry patterns of tension, compression, overwhelm, or sensitivity that affect how they move, feed, rest, digest, and relate to the world around them.

Pediatric CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle, non-invasive approach that works with the nervous system and developing body to support regulation, ease, and adaptability. Sessions are slow, quiet, and responsive to the child in front of us. Infants may be held, fed, sleep, move around, or simply rest during the session.

This work may support:

• Fussy or difficult-to-soothe babies

• Babies who seem uncomfortable in their bodies

• Digestive discomfort or elimination difficulties

• Reflux, colic, or frequent spitting up

• Breastfeeding and latching challenges

• Latch patterns contributing to nipple pain for mothers

• Babies who strongly favor turning their head to one side

• Babies who prefer one breast or one nursing position

• Babies who appear highly sensitive or easily overwhelmed

• Babies who resist or struggle with tummy time

• Teething discomfort

• Difficulty settling or sleeping

• Children with mobility or coordination challenges

• Sensory processing or sensory integration difficulties

• Vision-related strain or compensatory patterns

The work does not force change or “correct” the child. Instead, it supports the body’s natural ability to reorganize, regulate, and develop with greater ease. Often, small shifts in comfort and nervous system regulation can ripple outward into feeding, sleep, movement, and connection.

Visceral Manipulation is a gentle hands-on approach that works with the movement and mobility of the organs and surrounding tissues within the body. Our organs are designed to glide, adapt, and respond with each breath, movement, and experience. Surgery, injury, inflammation, stress, illness, scar tissue, or prolonged tension can sometimes create restrictions that affect not only the organs themselves, but also posture, breath, circulation, and the nervous system as a whole.

Because the organs are deeply interconnected through fascia, ligaments, and the autonomic nervous system, restrictions in one area can create compensations or discomfort elsewhere in the body.

This work may support people experiencing:

• Digestive discomfort, bloating, or abdominal tension

• Rib, diaphragm, or breathing restrictions

• Pelvic tension or feelings of compression

• Diastasis recti (abdominal separation), prolonged or rapid birth.

• Neck, jaw, shoulder, or low back pain with deeper underlying patterns

• Scar tissue or post-surgical restrictions

• Feelings of internal tightness, pulling, or “stuckness” within the body

• Nervous system overwhelm, guarding, or chronic stress patterns

• A sense of disconnection from the body after illness, injury, or prolonged stress

In session, this is approached through gentle, specific touch and subtle mobilization, often around the abdomen, diaphragm, ribs, throat, and pelvis, in a way that is slow, respectful, and responsive to your system.

Intraoral work is a gentle, specialized technique used to address tension and restriction in the jaw, mouth, cheeks, and related structures. Because the jaw is so closely connected to the nervous system, breath, vagal tone, and patterns of bracing or holding, this work can have effects that reach far beyond the mouth itself. It can be especially supportive for TMJ discomfort, clenching, headaches, facial tension, and stress-related holding.

This work is always discussed in advance and performed with your clear consent.

*For returning clients only.