Each session is tailored to where you are on a given day. Your job is to communicate your needs, and Kate’s job is to figure out what works best to help you achieve your goals.

Sessions tend to be a combination of the techniques described here. You won’t believe how much we get done in an hour!

Zero Balancing
Zero Balancing is a subtle, full-body system designed to enhance one's life and well-being by integrating the body’s energetic system with its bony structure. Created by Fritz Smith, MD, osteopath, and acupuncturist, Zero Balancing is often described as "acupressure to the bones."

Zero Balancing is received fully clothed while lying on a massage table. During a ZB session, your bones and full body are addressed head to toe with medium compression pressure—neither too much nor too light. ZB is not an adjustment.

At the end of the session, clients feel calm, "worked on," and more at ease with emotional and physical challenges. Other benefits reported include a quieter mind, less pain, reduced anxiety, and more joy!

For more information, please see About Zero Balancing.

Massage
Kate’s strengths in manual therapy focus on injury and pathological work including digestive or fertility issues, orthopedic/treatment massage, lymphatic drainage, and massage cupping.

Belly massage
Gentle abdominal massage does a world of good for digestion, low back pain, menstrual cycle and cramps, elimination, and much more. This work can be included in any session, and although there’s never any obligation to include it, once you experience belly massage, you may never want to go without it.

Orthopedic/treatment massage
Calming, relaxing massage promotes healthy breathing, releases stored tension in the muscles, improves circulation and range of motion, and ultimately, over time, eliminates the body's tendency to store and manifest stress as physical tension.

This massage is also an effective rehabilitative therapy to ease specific conditions such as chronic pain, sports injuries, tendinitis, TMJ syndrome, headaches, fibromyalgia, tennis/golf elbow, shin splints, musicians' injuries, and much more.

Lymphatic drainage
Manual lymphatic drainage can dramatically reduce inflammation and swelling locally (in one spot) and systemically (in your whole body). This work is great for pre- and post-surgery, helping to speed up recovery time. It’s also the best therapy for acute injury when other more direct techniques may not be comfortable.

Lymphatic drainage often includes massage cupping (see below).

Massage cupping
Massage cupping uses negative pressure (suction) rather than compression to pull and stretch connective tissue while moving lymph and stagnant blood. This work releases rigid soft tissue, drains excess lymph and toxins, loosens adhesions, softens scar tissue, and brings blood flow to tired skin and muscles.

The pulling action engages the parasympathetic nervous system, creating deep relaxation through the entire body. Plus, it feels great! Clients are surprised at how relaxed, warm, and light they feel hours, sometimes even days, afterward.