CranioSacral Therapy
A gentle, trauma-informed reset for your nervous system — for all bodies, all genders, and all orientations.
What is CranioSacral Therapy (CST)?
Our bodies hold stress in patterns and sometimes these patterns manifest as tension, fatigue, pain, or just a sense of being stuck “on.”
CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle, hands-on practice that uses light touch to help the body downshift out of constant alert and into more regulation. It is less about fixing and more about listening to what your body has been holding.
“Cranio” = the head.
“Sacral” = the sacrum, the base of the spine.
CST pays attention to the system in and around your brain and spinal cord and how that system connects with the rest of the body. CST uses light touch to listen for those patterns - to help the body downshift out of constant alert, into a more regulated, relaxed state.
Sessions are quiet, collaborative, and paced with care.
We begin with a brief check-in. What are you carrying (physically, emotionally, or both)?
Then we move to gentle hands-on work. I listen for stress patterns and, using light touch, I’ll help these systems regulate and relax.
I invite you to simply arrive as you are. Notice what you notice - and make a little room for your body and nervous system to speak and then to do what they need to soften and reset.
What sessions are like:
Trauma recovery
A stressed or overwhelmed nervous-system
Pain patterns or tightness in the body
Headaches, jaw tension, or TMJ-related discomfort
Feeling “out of your body” or disconnected
CST can help with:
A little note: This isn’t a ‘quick fix’, and CST is not a cure-all. But over time - with gentle, steady support - we can help your system remember what it’s like not to be on high alert all the time.
Educators and healthcare workers who spend so much time supporting others that their bodies and their needs are always asked to wait for a more convenient time.
Community organizers and clergy carrying urgency, grief, and the weight of responsibility.
Men who don’t feel entitled to “self care” - but who are tired of carrying tension, fatigue, and stress.
Someone adjusting to their aging body - loss of energy, shifting mobility, or adjusting to a body that doesn’t move the way it used to.
Someone carrying a lot in silence - looking for a place where they don’t have to explain everything.
Anyone looking for a gentle, more supported way of connecting with their body.
Parents carrying the demands of daily care, with little time to notice what your own body needs.
Students navigating stress, life transition, and/or the pressure to keep up.
Flight attendants, baristas, or waiters whose bodies are always moving fast, staying alert, and absorbing a lot.
Folks recovering after surgery, injury, or illness - for extra support while the body heals.
CST is for anyone whose body has been doing a lot of work — visible or invisible — to get through life.
CranioSacral Therapy can help bodies that are tired, braced, overworked, disconnected, healing, or simply ready for more ease.
Who this work is for
If you are an organizer, healthcare worker, youth worker, educator, advocate, or anyone carrying a great deal for others, personal care often ends up at the bottom of the list. I know that rhythm well. Bodies tend to remember it over time — the urgency, the vigilance, the grief, the pressure to stay available, and the habit of putting yourself aside.
Since 2020, many of us have also been carrying the layered stress of the pandemic, the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the uprising that followed, local and national instability, ICE occupation and community grief, and the ongoing weight of world events. If your system has felt braced, tired, or overextended, that makes sense.
I’ve spent two decades working as a helper, healer, and therapist, and I know how meaningful it can be to have a place where you do not have to hold everything alone. CranioSacral Therapy offers a quiet, gentle place for your system to settle and remember another rhythm. Receiving support is not about having everything figured out — it is about caring for your body so you can continue to care for the work, people, and communities that matter to you.
A special note to caregivers
You are welcome just as you are.
However you arrive — carrying stress, pain, tenderness, fatigue, curiosity, uncertainty, or hope — you are welcome.
CranioSacral Therapy is here to support all bodies, all genders, and all orientations.
CST offers a place to listen to the story of your body, to care for the vessel you live in, and support your system in finding more ease.
You do not need to earn your way into this space. You do not need to perform wellness or have things figured out. If you are willing to arrive, there is room for you here.
Curious and ready to get started?
If you have questions about CranioSacral Therapy or want to talk about whether it might be a supportive next step for your body and your life, I would be glad to connect.