Coaching the Body
Take the Next Step in Your Healing Journey!
Coaching the Body® is a unique, science-based approach that blends clinical bodywork, trigger point therapy, neuroplasticity, and Thai massage techniques to relieve pain and restore movement. Using detailed assessments and muscle activation tools like the Muscle Liberator™, this method helps identify the true source of pain—often referred pain from trigger points—and retrains the body to release chronic holding patterns.
Each session is focused, targeted, and therapeutic, offering lasting relief for low back pain, hip pain, sciatica, shoulder/neck tension and pain, elbow pain, frozen shoulder, plantar fasciitis, and more.
This is an interactive treatment and involves feedback from the client. I recommend a 90-minute session due to having to work through many muscle groups.
Shoulder/Neck Pain
*Please wear a t-shirt or tank top.
Upper Body Pain
Chronic pain involving the neck, rotator cuff, shoulder, mid and upper back, elbow, and hand. Frequent headaches, pain/tension while turning your head, problems raising your arm, pain between your shoulder blades, and "frozen shoulder".
Low back/Hip Pain
*Please wear a long pair of shorts or sweats/yoga pants.
Lower Body Pain
Chronic pain involving the low back, hip, leg, and foot. A diagnosis of bursitis or sciatica with pain that shoots down the side or the back of your leg, deep pain in your hip, knee pain, plantar fasciitis, etc.
Further Explanation
Geek Alert!
Neuroplasticity is the nervous system’s ability to rewire itself based on experience. When I’m coaching the body, I’m really coaching the brain and nervous system to change how it interprets and responds to movement, tension, and pain.
Here’s how that shows up in my work:
1. Pain isn’t just tissue — it’s perception. - I've learned that chronic pain often sticks around not because something is still damaged, but because the brain has learned a protective pattern. Through neuroplasticity, those patterns can be unlearned.
So I’m not just “fixing muscles”—I’m helping the nervous system feel safe enough to turn the pain signal down.
2. Repetition rewires patterns - Every time my client moves, breathes, or relaxes differently, I’m giving their brain new input. Repeated enough, that becomes their new normal. That’s why I combine hands-on work with simple self-care or movement—it helps reinforce the change.
3. Threat vs. safety signals - The nervous system is always asking: “Am I safe?”
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Guarding, tightness, and pain = protection mode
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Ease, movement, relaxation = safety mode
My touch, cues, and education all act as inputs that help shift someone out of threat mode, allowing muscles to relax and movement to improve.
4. Body maps can get “blurry” - With chronic issues like low back or shoulder pain, the brain’s map of that area can become less accurate. I use targeted touch, awareness, and movement to help “update” that map—basically sharpening the brain’s understanding of the body again.
5. Expectation shapes outcomes - If someone believes “my back is fragile,” their nervous system responds that way. I work to help them experience “my body can move and feel better,” and over time that belief helps rewire their response.
In simple terms: I’m not just working on muscles—I’m helping retrain the brain to feel safer, move better, and stop overprotecting.
