Welcome new and returning clients
The Book Now button in the upper right hand corner will take you to my calendar and online scheduling and payment processing. Text 509-846-9286 for scheduling assistance. Pre-payments are appreciated. "Are we a Good Fit?"
What to Expect
Craniosacral Therapy is expressed more whole over a period of time and series of sessions. This supports your rate of your evolution toward wholeness and healing.
A First Client appointment consists of a ten minute check-in about the health intake you submit, from a link sent a couple days prior. Then, as with return appointments, we check-in about your current experience of your body, as well as hopes for the session and our work in general. We make agreements for the safety of the session. We make sure your comfort is important and primary. We may do a preliminary body-awareness accessing exercise. You will remain dressed and lay on a therapy table with bolsters, blanket as needed. There is soft music playing. I will mask for the table work.
Many migraine and chronic pain clients initially see me for periods of more frequent treatment until their symptom load comes down several notches. This is followed by a relaxed schedule of appointments as needed, and continuing with lifestyle supports such as the homework.
Please arrive with loose fitting clothing; avoiding hoods and sleeveless shirts. If you are early, you are welcome to enter and use the restroom and be seated in the wait area. The door code is in the confirmation and reminder emails. At the door and can't find the confirmation email? No problem, I will find you at appointment time.
Rates
$230 90 min.
$195 75 min.
$165 55 min.
A New Client appointment is 75 min.
Superbills for insurance reimbursement are available upon request. Clients pay at the time of service. Check with your insurance for "out-of-network" massage therapy benefits and instructions.
Tips: not refused, not required:)
Cancellation policy
A fee of $75 is charged for a missed or late cancellation notice within 24 hours on the first occurrence. Subsequent late cancellations will be charged $165. Thank you for understanding; this is literally the worst part of my job to keep the doors open. I have so much gratitude for the kindness and reciprocity clients show me for this work.
Why the fee?
While you are not receiving the service you reserved, the time has still been set aside for you, and without advanced notice it is very difficult, if not impossible, depending on how much notice, to find someone else to sell that time to. Because this is a low-volume business (I only see one client at a time, for an entire hour or more), every cancellation not only leaves a significant hole in the schedule, but also represents a significant loss of income. The cancellation fee mitigates the loss.
Is the fee punitive? Don't you make exceptions?
Though I certainly sympathize with those who are unable to make the appointment due to circumstances beyond their control, and no matter how good the reason for missing an appointment is, the financial loss suffered is no different. There is no malice towards those who miss appointments; it is simply a matter of recuperating the cost for lost time. I may make an exception if I can fill someone in the lost spot!
Safety, Time, Progress and Lasting Effects
For best results, allow 30 or more minutes after each session for some "you" time, without demands. Each session mines information; trailheads to your own deep resources. Keep exploring those and you'll make pathways your body will remember and from there spontaneously explore and embody as habit. Supporting these healing pathways with homework is important. This work may have good results without homework, but if you want the best bang for your buck.....homework is where its at. An ounce of prevention my people, often, regularly.
In a session we work together within informed consent, cooperation, and safety; nothing is forced. Your participation is vital as your needs and comfort are important. We will regard cues given by your body with curiosity and respect, with trauma-informed tools as needed. Responding to what I am palpating in your system, I provide your cerebral spinal fluid (energetic and physical) with "conversations" that allow your central nervous system to express and expel historic, residual, and day-to-day energetic-emotional-mental-physical loads that get compounded in the nerves and musculotendinous junctions. Decreased tension and pain, ease and broader possibilities are natural results of just this alone. A decrease in tension is the pre-requisite to the deepest work. Take comfort if it takes a few sessions to do this; you are in the best of company with most of my clients. In each session we also help your body take in the deep rest needed for integrating the work we did so that it is from your unique blueprint that the next level of health and well being can emerge on its own - literally like like leaves unfurling. "When Spring comes, the grass grows by itself." (Tao te Ching)
This work takes time. One by-product to a slow approach is that your body starts to remember how to access states of ease underlying all patterns on its own. I will reflect back to you how your body is moving toward this inherent template, like leaves finding the sunlight. "Toward" is what is important; seeming imperfections embraced. I provide specific lifestyle micro-wholisms you can add or modify. Promoting the template of health that already exists in your heart, in life, in dna, in the planet, is a lifetime study. Small habits of uncombing and allowing, in baby steps, with gobs of self-compassion are steps that bear fruit over time. This work is a counterweight to daily demands of productivity, so patience. Patience.
All goodness surround you.
