Craniosacral Therapy is supportive for people with a diverse array of physical, mental, and emotional health challenges. It's widely effective because it brings balance to the body at the deepest levels, helping us access and unleash our innate capacity for self-healing.
Craniosacral Therapy helps people who live with chronic stress and/or anxiety by shifting their nervous system from survival mode into a state of grounded regulation, where they are better positioned to handle life's stressors with ease. Regular sessions will help expand your capacity to stay calm and regulated, even in moments when life feels challenging.
The body has an astounding ability to hold onto the energetic imprint of trauma you’ve experienced throughout your lifetime. Because the energy and emotions associated with past trauma reside within our tissues, there is no amount of verbal processing that will successfully release trauma from our body. We must work directly at the level of the body if we want to clear the stuck energy and old emotions that we've been holding onto. Craniosacral Therapy creates a safe container where you can gradually process and release old emotions and trauma. This often gives way to a profound sense of lightness and freedom, as the body lets go of unproductive patterns it's maintained for months, years, or even decades.
People with mood disorders such as depression or bipolar disorder can benefit tremendously from Craniosacral Therapy's ability to regulate the nervous system and release past trauma from the body that might be contributing to these disorders. This work creates a foundation of stability where deeper emotional healing becomes possible, complementing other forms of mental health care.
Craniosacral Therapy can be extremely supportive for postpartum women, as it helps their bodies process and integrate the intense physical and emotional experiences of pregnancy and birth. This modality also helps women release the physical and emotional trauma they might have experienced during birth. Interestingly, when a mother receives Craniosacral Therapy, it has a ripple effect throughout her entire family! A baby (and really all children under the age of 7) can only have a regulated nervous system if his or her mother is regulated.
Craniosacral Therapy can be hugely beneficial for women who are preparing to conceive. It's wonderful for lowering stress levels, and it promotes hormonal balance by calming your mind, body, and nervous system. This work helps release any physical or emotional tension that might be affecting your reproductive health, and it also supports better circulation to your reproductive organs.
Craniosacral Therapy can be extremely supportive for people with all different kinds of digestive issues. This work rebalances the entire nervous system, including the vagus nerve, which directly influences gut function. Craniosacral helps interrupt stress-digestive dysfunction cycles while creating the necessary underlying conditions for your digestive system to return to a healthy state.
Craniosacral Therapy addresses chronic pain, muscle tension, and arthritis by working with your whole system, not just the site of discomfort. By helping your body release deep patterns of tension and bringing your nervous system into better balance, this gentle work often leads to lasting relief without any forceful manipulation.
Craniosacral Therapy can help provide relief from neck and back pain by helping the body release deep patterns of tension and by improving structural alignment throughout the whole body. Rather than forcing change, this gentle approach invites the body to gradually unwind the patterns it’s been holding on to, and this often leads to profound and lasting relief.
Craniosacral Therapy can support people who deal with chronic headaches or migraines by improving the flow of cerebrospinal fluid around the head and releasing points of tension within the head, face, neck, and shoulders. This gentle approach addresses both the symptoms you might be experiencing and the underlying causes of your headaches. Over time this work often helps people experience fewer and less intense headaches.
Craniosacral Therapy works wonders when it comes to clearing brain fog. It improves the flow of cerebrospinal fluid around your brain and reduces inflammation within your cranium (and throughout your whole body). This gentle work supports better mental clarity by creating the right conditions for your brain to function more efficiently.
Craniosacral Therapy can help alleviate various symptoms associated with neurological conditions, and in some cases, it can even slow the progression of the condition. It does so by calming the nervous system and improving the flow of cerebrospinal fluid around the brain and spinal cord. This gentle work is a wonderful approach for reducing pain, improving sleep, enhancing energy levels, and generally enhancing quality of life.
Craniosacral Therapy can provide significant support for people who have ADD/ADHD by calming their overstimulated nervous systems and improving the flow of cerebrospinal fluid around their brains. This improved fluid flow can enhance focus and mental clarity. This gentle work helps create the conditions for people to concentrate more easily while reducing the internal restlessness that often accompanies ADD/ADHD.
Craniosacral Therapy can help alleviate the pain and discomfort of TMJ and tinnitus by unwinding tension patterns throughout the cranial system and helping people better manage their stress.
Craniosacral Therapy is an amazing tool for athletes looking to accelerate their healing from new or old injuries. This work improves circulation, reduces inflammation, and supports the body's natural repair processes. Whether you're dealing with acute injuries, concussions, or chronic pain patterns from years of training and competing, this gentle work can help you find relief by restoring balance and function to your body's foundational systems.
Craniosacral Therapy helps people who struggle with sleep by shifting their nervous system out of 'doing' mode and into 'being' mode — a state in which deep rest is actually possible. Regular sessions help retrain your nervous system to access states of calm and relaxation more easily, supporting better sleep patterns over time.
Craniosacral Therapy can be a very helpful approach for managing symptoms/pain associated with autoimmune conditions. It also provides support by reducing inflammation and activating the body’s self-healing processes. This gentle work will help shift your body out of a state of chronic stress and hyper-vigilance, and this will free up the resources your body needs to better manage your symptoms. This work can also help boost your energy levels and improve the quality of your sleep.
I am a licensed massage therapist serving the communities of Davidson and Williamson County - including Nashville, Brentwood, Nolensville, and Franklin, Tennessee - with a highly energetic form of Craniosacral Therapy. I support people working through a very broad variety of health conditions, from concussions to PTSD; hormonal imbalances to depression and anxiety; and chronic pain to autoimmune diseases. The work I do facilitates deep healing and transformation within my clients at the physical, mental, and emotional level. I welcome all clients and I primarily work with women, including prenatal and postpartum women.
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