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Your body is not a battleground.
It is a doorway. A remembrance.
A sacred home.

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Offering Embodied Healing & Sacred Touch for Women Remembering Wholeness beyond Trauma, Disconnection, and the Deep Ache for more

What is a trauma-informed approach to massage therapy?

For me, trauma-informed care isn’t a technique—it’s a way of being with someone. It’s a practice rooted in trust, clarity, and a steady respect for each person’s inner world. It means tending to the space between practitioner and client with gentleness, clear communication, and collaboration, so that nothing is rushed and nothing is assumed.

This approach doesn’t depend on anyone sharing their history. Instead, it honours the simple truth that every body deserves to feel safe, to have choice, and to remain in control of their own experience.

Trauma-informed practice is less about what I do with my hands and more about the spirit in which I offer the work—the atmosphere of safety, spaciousness, and autonomy that allows the body to soften in its own time.

The four principles of trauma-informed massage therapy

  1. Trauma awareness

  2. Safety and trust

  3. Collaborative choice and connection

  4. Strength-based skill-building

1. Trauma Awareness

For me, trauma awareness begins with recognising how profoundly past experiences can shape the way a person moves through the world. People develop all sorts of creative, intelligent adaptations to help themselves cope or stay safe, and these responses can show up in the treatment room in many ways—irritability, pulling away from appointments, feeling flat or unmotivated, struggling to name preferences, or sensing a distance from one’s own body.

Through a trauma-aware lens, these responses aren’t framed as problems; they’re understood as survival strategies that once served a purpose. This perspective softens the edges of challenging moments and helps me stay present, steady, and compassionate while holding clear professional boundaries.

Trauma awareness doesn’t mean being a trauma expert. It simply means being able to recognise when someone’s reactions might be shaped by their history, and responding with the kind of care that honours their pace, their agency, and their dignity.

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    Care and Healing Initial Consultation

    You are ready to heal, to soften, to take the first brave step toward tending what’s been held quietly inside.
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    1:1 Relational Embodied Healing

    You are carrying stories in your body that long to be met, through attuned, embodied relational work that invites release, repair, and reconnection.
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    Trauma-informed Massage Therapy

    You are holding tension that won’t dissolve through conventional massage, you need a safe, slow, trauma-aware touch that listens to your body’s pace and wisdom.
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    Practice Groups in Collective Healing & Community Grief Rituals

    You are not meant to do this alone, you need a circle, a community of practice where healing, presence, and belonging are woven together.

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    Land-based and Water-based Healing Rituals

    You are craving connection with the earth and the waters that remember, you need ceremony, movement, and sacred contact with the living world to ground and renew you.

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    Rights of Passage

    You are being called to the sacred work of initiation, to tend the young, fragmented parts within you and to walk the path of soul maturity, moving toward the wise elder you are here to become.

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I deeply appreciate your consideration in working with me. Taking the step to connect with someone new requires courage, and I do not take your trust lightly. It is an honour I hold with the utmost care, and I promise to meet you with presence, compassion, and respect.

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