Orthopedic and Medical Massage in Canandaigua, NY


I help people listen to their bodies so they can care for themselves effectively and compassionately.


My fundamental focus with clients is improved functioning in everyday life and this can be measured by a feeling of ease within ourselves. Creating and then building the skills to consistently re-access this feeling of ease over the course of time can be practitioner facilitated, but is ultimately client self-driven. I try to be adaptive to clients’ changing life conditions by addressing medical and orthopedic concerns as well as the emotional response to them, which includes the expectations we have for ourselves, the way we think about health, and our educational knowledge base of how we work.

I also work with clients who are not seeking therapy for medical reasons, but who are invested in maintaining their performance. I work with martial artists, lifters, runners, and adventurers! I work with massage connoisseurs and those new to bodywork.

I am learning every day. There are many approaches to bodywork in which I am very proficient and many that I am not. If I’m not the appropriate person to help you with your concern, I may be able to offer a referral. It also may be the case that, in addition to massage therapy, you would be best served working with a care practitioner in another discipline.

Please message me if you have questions that I have not addressed here.

Thank you.

Areas of Care Therapeutic Massage May Benefit

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Bereavement, Depression, Major Life Changes: improve mood and sleep quality, lower cortisol and increase serotonin, dopamine, and endorphins

  • Pain management for fibromyalgia and other chronic conditions: reduction of myofascial pain syndrome and inflammatory cytokines, mitigation of opioid use, vagus nerve stimulation and co-regulation for remyelination

  • Cancer Diagnosis: restoring energy due to cancer-fatigue, integrating continuity of self during extensive medical procedures, nausea reduction

  • Orthopedic, Preventative, and Rehabilitation: freeing soft tissue nerve impingement, increase range of motion, post-operative scar management