Christine Tressel, LMP I am a massage therapist who uses a responsive approach in my work, taking into account both the physical and emotional aspects of treatment. I believe in the body’s ability to communicate on many levels and listen to your body’s needs.
My touch is intuitive. My work is a collaboration based on mutual trust and respect, so every massage is unique and balanced. Involvement in farming and creativity play heavily into my practice in the pursuit of health.
We can schedule a deeply relaxing “retreat” for your body, or we can work together to address pain or dysfunction with therapeutic treatment.
My therapeutic work focuses on assessment through an ever deepening knowledge of anatomy. Fascial connective tissue covers everything in our bodies. It protects us and keeps us intact and functioning. When that fascial protective response enters an inflammatory loop, we experience limitations and our bodies get stuck in pain.
Fascial Counterstrain is a very gentle, body-based manual therapy that assesses your body’s dysfunction through a series of “tender points.” Each tender point calls for the release and desensitization of a particular structure, which in turn allows compensatory contractions to be located and or spontaneously released.
Counterstrain treats all systems in the body, including the vascular, nervous, visceral and musculoskeletal systems, therefore resulting in more complete healing and relief from many symptoms and conditions. Counterstrain can help alleviate conditions from muscle pain, joint stiffness, and pain such as frozen shoulder, digestive issues, muscle weakness, neuropathies, balance issues, concussive symptoms, whiplash, edema, and much more, as fascia is involved in the entire body and its functions.
Treatment is passive, and relaxing as it normalizes the body’s nervous state, returning function to areas of concern.
Course of treatment may be completed in one or two sessions or over a longer period as needed.
To schedule a relaxing or treatment session with Christine Tressel, LMP Call or text 360-473-7336, or use our contact form.