Client Resources
Want more info on what TMJ Massage or Craniosacral Treatments are like? See below.
Self-Care Tips
Supportive Self-Care between sessions
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Therapeutic Sighs. Inhale slowly through your nose, take one more small sip of air at the top, then release it all with a full, audible sigh through your mouth. Let the weight drop from your shoulders as the nervous system resets. It's ok to let sound or movement come — your body knows how to unwind.
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If you sit or stand for long periods, take frequent movement breaks. Allow each one to tell your brain, "this is the new normal — relaxed, mobile, awake."
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Stretch Warm, Stretch Slow. Try gentle stretches after a warm bath, light exercise, or before bed — when the body is supple and receptive. Hold each stretch for at least 30 seconds, giving your nervous system time to recognize and accept the new space you’ve created.
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Hydration as a Healing Practice. Hydration isn’t just about water — it’s about creating a fluid environment where your tissues can respond and repair. Drink steadily throughout the day, every day. Consistent hydration helps your fascia stay pliable and responsive, enhancing the effects of every treatment.
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TMJ Focused Treatments – Tell Me More…
When your jaw holds tension, your whole body feels it.
Jaw discomfort, headaches, neck tension, or even hip and back tightness can all stem from patterns rooted in or around the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) — the hinge that connects your jaw to your skull.
TMJ dysfunction can make chewing, speaking, or resting feel difficult. But beyond the physical symptoms, it can also create fatigue, overwhelm, and a sense of imbalance throughout the entire system.
In my approach, we address TMJ dysfunction not as an isolated issue, but as part of your body’s larger story — the way stress, posture, injury, and emotional holding patterns weave together over time. We unwind the neurological patterning of these layers to create lasting relief over time.
A Holistic Approach to TMJ Relief
Lasting change begins when the nervous system feels safe enough to let go.
Our treatments combine gentle precision with grounded care:
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Craniosacral therapy calms the nervous system and helps the jaw, neck, and cranium realign from within.
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Myofascial release softens the connective tissues that contribute to jaw, neck, and shoulder restriction.
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Therapeutic massage restores circulation and movement throughout the upper body.
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Intraoral TMJ techniques (optional and always with consent) address the muscles inside the mouth that directly influence jaw tension and alignment.
These modalities are blended in each session based on your body’s priorities, helping you find relief not only from jaw pain but from the deeper stress patterns that sustain it. If it feels safer to start with massage techniques only, and work up to craniosacral techniques, that is always an option in our work together.
What to Expect
Your first sessions begin with a calm, attuned intake — a space to share your story and where you’ve been living with tension or pain. From there, we start by settling your nervous system so your body can trust the process and open to deeper healing.
As we continue, treatments become more focused and refined — tailored to your body’s rhythms and patterns. You may notice relief in your jaw, fewer headaches, and a general lightness in areas that have felt chronically tight.
Some clients experience noticeable change after one or two sessions, while others benefit from a series to support more lasting realignment. The complexity of your patterns and life-style choices between sessions can affect progression.
For Women, Especially
Many of my clients are women who’ve learned to “hold it all together” — in the jaw, the shoulders, the body itself.
TMJ work is not only physical; it can also help unwind the subtle emotional tension that builds from overexpression, suppression, or constant bracing. As the jaw softens, the breath deepens. And as the breath deepens, the whole body finds rest. Becoming conscious of breath and how we hold tension is part of the process of coming home to your body.
Your Body’s Way Back to Ease
This work is not about forcing change — it’s about creating the conditions for it.
Each session is a collaboration between your awareness, your body’s beautiful self-healing capabilities and my hands: listening, guiding, and helping your body remember how to let go.
You don’t have to live in tension. Relief is possible — and it begins here.
Craniosacral Therapy - What is it?
Craniosacral Therapy
Where stillness becomes medicine for the nervous system.
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a subtle yet profoundly effective manual therapy that works with the body’s most delicate rhythms — the movements of fascia, bone, and cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. With a gentle, listening touch, CST supports the body’s innate self-correction, often called the inner wisdom.
This work helps the nervous system unwind from chronic stress, injury, and depletion. Rather than forcing change, it creates the quiet conditions where the body can recognize imbalance and restore harmony from within.
How It Works
Beneath the surface of our muscles and joints, there are subtle movements — rhythmic fluctuations in tissue, membranes, and fluid that reflect the state of the central nervous system. When these rhythms become restricted through stress, injury, or long-held tension, the body’s ability to self-regulate can become compromised.
Through precise, feather-light contact, craniosacral therapy:
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Relieves fascial and neurological tension
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Improves fluid flow, symmetry, and communication between systems
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Supports vagal tone and the shift from sympathetic (fight-or-flight) to parasympathetic (rest-and-repair) regulation
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Encourages deep restoration from chronic depletion and nervous system fatigue
The touch is subtle, but the effects reach deeply into the body’s organizing intelligence — promoting recalibration without triggering guarding or defense. Holds can be anywhere on the body but tend to be at the hips, sacrum, neck or head, within your comfort level.
The Experience
During a session, you’ll remain fully clothed as your body is gently supported. Many clients describe feeling waves of warmth, gentle movement, or a deep sense of stillness and calm — as if their system is reorganizing itself from the inside out.
This quiet work often feels like a neurological reset, helping restore balance, clarity, and vitality. For some, it’s like the deep rest of a full night’s sleep; for others, it’s a gradual release of long-held tension that the body has been ready to let go of.
Frequency & Integration
Because craniosacral therapy works so closely with the nervous system, change tends to unfold gradually and naturally. Clients addressing chronic or complex patterns often begin with weekly sessions to build momentum, transitioning to maintenance visits once the body’s rhythms have stabilized.
Those who integrate CST into their regular self-care often find it helps them stay regulated, grounded, and resilient — a subtle yet powerful anchor in their overall wellness.
In Essence
Craniosacral therapy helps the body remember how to listen to itself — how to self-correct, soften, and come home to balance.
It is care that feels quiet, but changes everything.