Meet the Team

Scars do the important work of protecting, healing and binding us back together after injury, surgery, illness, infection or childbirth. They are a beautiful fact of life and tell our story. Scars sometimes don't know when to stop doing what they do best, which is to bind us together. Scars that have overgrown can also inhibit optimal circulation and posture. When scar tissue grows systematically over years, it can also cause pain or restrict movement or sensation, impeding proper function of muscles, organs and glands. People often don't realize that mesh of scars reach far into the body beyond the site of the original injury.

Scars that inhibit our ability to experience pleasure, sensation and movement anywhere on the body can reduced with healing touch. Gentle massage techniques to remedy scar tissue can encourage tissue regeneration, often bringing back feeling to scar sites, making scars more pliable, less painful and often less visible. Andy’s somatically informed hands-on techniques learned from the pioneering body worker and scar tissue remediation expert, Dr. Ellen Heed, bring needed blood flow and lymphatic drainage to scar sites to help restore them to healthy, more flexible tissue. During each session, he teaches clients techniques that enable them to facilitate their own healing process. Most people report noticeable changes in one or two sessions.

With nearly 25 years of experience as a certified holistic massage therapist, Andy brings a focused and intuitive grounding touch which comes from a place of compassion, kindness and non-judgement. His sessions are always client directed and based on clear communication and enthusiastic consent from the client.