Working with the craniosacral system—the brain, spinal cord, and the membranes and fluid that surround and protect them—to support the nervous system’s natural capacity for healing and reorganization.
MY APPROACH
Craniosacral therapy is gentle work that follows the body’s own intelligence. Using light touch—often no more than the weight of a nickel—I listen to the craniosacral rhythm, the subtle pulse that flows through your system from head to sacrum. This isn’t about forcing change or following protocols. It’s about creating space for your system to remember what it already knows.
My training comes through Gary Strauss and the Life Energy Institute, which integrates traditional craniosacral therapy with energy-based healing. This approach recognizes that we’re working with more than just anatomy; we’re engaging with the body’s inherent healing wisdom and its capacity to reorganize around presence.
WHAT HAPPENS IN A SESSION
Sessions can be done in-person or at a distance—both online and through what I call “energetic attunement.” For in-person work, you’ll lie fully clothed on a table while I place my hands gently on different areas—your head, sacrum, feet, or anywhere the system draws my attention. For distance sessions, we work through guided awareness and energetic connection.
Sessions adapt to your nervous system’s needs—some are gentle and still, others may involve more active processing or communication. People often experience deep relaxation, physical release, subtle movements, warmth, or the surfacing of emotions or memories. The changes often continue to unfold over the days and weeks following a session as your nervous system integrates what shifted. Each session is different because I’m following what your system is ready to address in that moment.
WHAT CRANIOSACRAL ADDRESSES
The craniosacral system has profound influence over your nervous system, and your nervous system affects everything—how you move through the world, how you respond to stress, how you heal. When restrictions develop in these membranes and tissues—from physical trauma, emotional stress, or life patterns—your whole system compensates.
This work addresses those compensations at their source. It supports your nervous system to shift from patterns of protection and holding into states where healing happens naturally. It’s particularly effective for chronic pain, anxiety, trauma responses, and the kind of symptoms that seem to have no clear cause but significantly impact how you feel in your body.
Often the most profound shifts happen when craniosacral work is combined with other modalities in a synthesized approach—especially for complex cases where Western medicine hasn’t found clear answers. This integration allows us to address both the physical restrictions and the energetic patterns that maintain them.
BEYOND THE PHYSICAL
Craniosacral therapy operates at the intersection of the physical and energetic. While I’m working with real anatomical structures—the dura mater, cerebrospinal fluid, fascial connections—I’m also tracking energy flow, following how patterns connect within the body and psyche, attuning to subtler qualities: how your system organizes around safety, where it’s holding old patterns, what wants to shift.
This is where the work becomes both art and science. Your body holds not just physical tensions but emotional imprints, unprocessed experiences, ways of being in the world that served you once but may no longer. As restrictions release in your craniosacral system, other things can shift too—patterns in relationships, responses to stress, your capacity to be present.
INTEGRATION—AFTER SESSIONS
The effects of craniosacral work often unfold over days and weeks following a session. Your nervous system continues to integrate the changes, sometimes in ways that surprise you. People report sleeping differently, feeling more settled in their bodies, having clearer boundaries, or simply feeling more like themselves.
This isn’t about dramatic breakthroughs—though those can happen. It’s about supporting your system to function with more ease, to respond rather than react, to access the resilience and wisdom that’s already there.
Sessions are 60, 90, or 120 minutes and can be done in-person or online. Distance sessions work through guided energetic awareness. Depending on your constitution, some people prefer the denser quality of hands-on work while others resonate more with the energetic subtlety of field-based sessions.
Polarity Therapy
Polarity Therapy was developed by Dr. Randolph Stone, an osteopath, chiropractor, and naturopath. It is a synthesis of Eastern and Western medicine, culminating from healing modalities such as: reflexology, acupressure, craniosacral balancing, yoga, qi gong, and Ayurveda. Dr. Stone distilled the essential principles of healing into a comprehensive and clear approach to holistic wellness. His goal was to find a unified healing principle underlying the many different healing practices.
He taught that the human energy field is affected by diet, movement, conscious and subconscious beliefs, relationships, life experiences, trauma and environmental factors. Polarity sessions balance these issues through bodywork, verbal counseling, self awareness, nutrition, and Polarity yoga exercises.
The foundational energy principle of Polarity is that life is filled with polarities : positive, negative, and neutral poles. The goal is to integrate and hold space for whatever types of energy are present without judgment. It’s impossible to avoid the negative experiences, but we can learn how to move freely in and out of them. Many of our issues arise from the inability to move in and out of different states of being (aka feeling/being stuck) and unprocessed issues over time manifest in the body as pain, disease, and illness.