Supportive Practice
An approach to touch grounded in clear communication, ongoing consent, and room to change your mind.
Thoughtful touch, clear choices, and a pace we choose together.
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One tool within an individualized session.
Trauma-aware bodywork describes how care is offered. It recognizes that past experiences may influence what touch feels like today, without assuming what those experiences were or interpreting your responses for you.
Consent, choice, and responsiveness are part of every session. This is an approach that can inform different techniques, rather than a technique you need to select separately.
From technique to session
A few ways this approach could fit your care. These sessions are starting points, and techniques can be considered across any session. Together, we choose what fits your preferences, your needs that day, and your practitioner’s training.
Attune
Tender, nurturing bodywork with room for choice, trust, and changing your mind. Receive attentive care at a pace we choose together.
$225
90 min
$300
120 min
$450
180 min
Attune
An unhurried, flowing session centered on receiving care and attention. Make room for what you enjoy, without feeling responsible for conversation or anyone else’s comfort.
$225
90 min
$300
120 min
$450
180 min
Hold
Attentive bodywork while grieving, with room for quiet, ordinary conversation, emotion, and changing preferences. You can receive care without explaining your loss again.
$225
90 min
$300
120 min
$450
180 min
A closer look
Before hands-on work, we discuss what you want included, what you prefer to avoid, and how you would like us to check in. We explain a proposed change before asking for your agreement. Quiet is welcome, and silence is not treated as consent to something new.
Pressure, pace, positioning, and areas of contact remain open to adjustment. If you are unsure, we can pause rather than ask you to continue through discomfort.
We can begin with a small area, discuss staying clothed, or take time to choose an approach before contact starts. Simple words or signals can make asking for less, more, something different, or a stop easier.
You are welcome to talk or be quiet. Feelings and sensations can be acknowledged without judgment or a demand to explain them. No particular emotional response is expected, and the practitioner will not tell you what your experience means.
Thoughtful care
Trauma-aware practice centers consent and pacing, but massage can still feel activating or unwelcome. The client may pause, change, or stop contact at any time. Acute mental-health crisis, overwhelming distress, or needs beyond massage scope call for appropriate licensed or emergency support.
When symptoms are new, severe, unexplained, or changing quickly, medical evaluation comes before massage.
This is massage and bodywork, not psychotherapy or a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Conversation supports the care you receive; it does not involve analyzing your history or directing emotional processing. You remain the person who decides what your sensations or feelings mean.
