About Jessica

Q: How did you get into bodywork? My first experience in bodywork was actually while I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley getting an Economics & Public Policy Degree. While taking an extracirricular class that taught Thai massage class for working with people with degenerative disorders (e.g. multiple scleroris, cerebral palsy), I had first-hand experience seeing how much better people felt with bodywork alone. This is coming from someone who had never had a professional massage before.

My name is Jessica and I’m a CMT/NMT/bodywork practitioner/healing facilitator/ specializing in maximizing efficacy and ultimately, value.

When I started my practice, I found some fair success as a ‘sports’ massage therapist working but after a few years felt like I was witnessing my clients come in for the same reoccuring issues over and over and the purpose of our sessions became ‘maintenance.’ Frankly, I wasn’t going to accept mediocrity. I wasn’t satisfied with symptom-management, and wanted to make an impact and do the most good. I did what most practitioners do and started getting really high-level bodywork training that gave me more (and better!) tools to work with, but still I found that my practice, though generally successful, was still feeling limited. I knew the tool, but did not understand the network that I was applying them towards. Then, it dawned on me that *none of these tools really matter if you do not fully understand the system you’re applying them on*

I truly hit my stride when I shifted my focus away from the tool and instead, focused on *synthensizing the problem*. I switched from following the protocol of the tool I was given, and instead prioritized identifying and what the actual problems were so that I could maximize the effectiveness, and ultimately, the value of my tools and training. My priority has always been to be the best practitioner I could be. I just needed to design a straightforward system that allowed me to be that.

Quickly, my effectiveness as a practitioner improved dramatically. I started seeing dramatic results amongst my clients. I was solving more complex issues that clients have been struggling with for years and had ultimately given up on. How did that impact my practice? When I solved (not managed!) their biggest problems, they told all their friends. And then their friends told all their friends. My practice grew exponentially and became recession-proof. My rates doubled. My priority has always been to do my job well, and I had hit a point that I felt well-compensated for it.

My goal for every client is that they ‘graduate’ and frankly, don’t need me anymore and come in when they want. Even as many clients have graduated, I have a constant growing network of successful client cases.

As I am seeing how much demand there is for quality work, my objective remains to do the most good. I want more people to see that quality of care that health and wellness practitioners can offer. I want more practitioners to feel

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Today, my strategy as a practitioner is to always prioritize assessment and efficiency. I value all details of someone’s physical history and interweaving the collection of incidents our brains and bodies are constantly accounting for that accumulate for how our muscle and fascial systems operate today.

My goal is to always find an answer in the soft tissues and consider every aspect of someone’s physical history and find a way to explain that weird -thing- that you’re always dealing with. It may seem that having your back go out every year seems normal, but why accept that?

Experience working with complicated histories whether they be from major traumatic injuries such as car accidents, sports injuries, and surgeries, or slow buildups coming from scoliosis. Through these experience in purely focusing on accurate assessment and investigation have I learned to work with simple decision-tree models to target the root cause of pain.

My goal for myself and my clients is to have as many “good years” as possible. What do I mean by good years? To me and my clients, that can mean:
-More years playing the sport that you love
-Still breaking PR’s in your 50’s
-Stopping pain and need for surgery?
-Stop Pain Medication

Jessica began studying bodywork to help people find relief resulting from injuries and overuse. Given her own active lifestyle, she has learned the importance of therapeutic maintenance and loves supporting people in their activities and everyday life. As a soft tissue specialist, Jessica focuses on strategy to help her clients as efficiently and accurately as possible. She utilizes her own blend of cranial-sacral fascial therapy and neuromuscular technique to target the root cause of pain and disorganized movement patterns.