28 Years of Untangling What Stress and Managing Everyone Else Did to Your Body

My hands have been doing this work since 1999.

That's not a flex. That's just the truth. I graduated high school and walked straight into a massage room and I have never looked back. Over two decades. Thousands of hours. Thousands of bodies that came in braced and left breathing differently.

I know what I'm doing. And more importantly — I know what I'm feeling when my hands are on you.

Here's the deal about who ends up on my table.

It's usually not someone who treats themselves regularly. It's the woman who has been meaning to come in for six months. The one whose neck has been screaming at her since January. The one who, even when she finally makes the appointment, feels a little guilty for taking the hour. She has been holding everything together for everyone else for so long that her body has started keeping score.

That's in my lane. That's exactly where I work.

The short version of how I got here:

I started my career in Cincinnati at a clinical spa environment where I learned fast that this work is a skill — not a vibe. I got obsessed early with neuromuscular approaches, tension patterns, and why the body holds what it holds where it holds it.

In 2009 I opened my own private practice working alongside a chiropractor — results oriented, focused, clinical. As my reputation grew I expanded into working with professional athletes including players from the Cincinnati Bengals, Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns and the Las Vegas Raiders.

For over a decade my Cincinnati practice became the place people came after they had tried everything else. Chronic headaches. Neck and shoulder dysfunction that wouldn't quit. Pain that lived at the intersection of physical strain and emotional weight. Complex. Persistent. Stress-related. That was my specialty.

In 2024 I packed up my practice and moved my family to North Carolina.

After getting licensed here I reopened in 2025 — and my first clients were Hurricane Helene survivors and the first responders who carried the weight of that crisis on their bodies and never once stopped to put it down.

That chapter didn't surprise me. It confirmed what I have always known about who finds me and why.

What I do now — and why it's different.

My massage work today is informed by something most therapists aren't bringing into the room — deep training in somatic trauma work and nervous system regulation.

What that means for you practically:

I'm not just working the muscle. I'm working what the muscle is holding.

Chronic neck tension. Headaches that won't quit. Shoulders that live up around your ears. A body that is always braced, always ready, always on — even when nothing is actually wrong.

That's not just physical. That's a nervous system that never got the memo that it's safe to stand down.

I know how to work with that. Skillfully. Without rushing it. Without pushing your body somewhere it isn't ready to go.

My goal every single session is the same:

To create enough safety in the room that your nervous system finally exhales. That your body gets to be held instead of holding everything. That you leave feeling like yourself again — or maybe for the first time in a long time, like someone who actually lives in her body instead of just managing it from a distance.

If you are the woman who takes care of everyone and puts yourself last —

If anxiety shows up in your body before it ever shows up in your thoughts —

If you cannot remember the last time someone took care of you and you actually let them —

My table is for you.

28 years. I'm ready when you are.