About Tracy

I have always been interested in the health fields. My senior year of high school, I was on the “health track”. Most of my classes were geared toward nursing. I volunteered as a “candy striper” at Sacred Heart that year as well. After graduation, I got a job in a nursing home as a nursing assistant.

Tick tock, tick tock…

Eighteen years and three (amazing) kids later, I found myself back in school in 1998. When I started back to school, it was my intention to go into the nursing program. Several semesters into the prerequisite portion of the agenda, I felt the need to change course, mid-stream. The change had nothing to do with a change of heart, nor desire. It was however, what was best for my kids at the time. And to my great good fortune, I had stumbled/lucked into my “true calling”. Within weeks of starting the hands on portion of the massage curriculum, I understood what I should be doing with the rest of my life.

I began studying herbalism in the mid- ‘80’s, and I have never stopped.

I graduated from massage school with several hundred hours over the required minimum to take the licensing exam in 2001. Since then, I have avidly pursued continuing education.

 I have taken multiple courses to specialize in Pregnancy care, pregnancy massage, as well as labor and delivery support.

I have developed my own technique for stone massage that is yielding remarkable results, and is very popular with my all of clients.

I participated in some case studies exploring the efficacy of massage when dealing with trauma and/or abuse survivorship.

I completed a Medical Office Assistant training program and the licensing exam for too. During my MA courses I finally learned how the medical office and the insurance world interface. I started to change the face of my practice, by accepting insurance clients, and working with those who had been in Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVA’s). My practice was changing to one that specialized in chronic pain, and injury management.

Since then, I have worked with Cancer patients both during and after their chemo and radiation treatments. I have worked with their families as they dealt with the stress of the disease as it was tearing up their lives as they were to support their loved ones. I have likewise worked to comfort and ease the bodies of hospice patients nearing and right up to the end of their lives. Additionally, I have worked with clients in chronic pain, and those with chronic disease. Through it all, I am continuously astonished and awed at how effective massage and bodywork can be when dealing with the human condition.

I will probably never make sweeping changes in the world at large. However, I feel so privileged to have the job that I do; because I can make a difference for the person on my table. How awesome is that?!