Hi I'm Tracy. 

The people I've worked with say they feel cared for, listened to, encouraged, supported and never judged.

​They say they like how I work gently, how their body feels more relaxed and their minds feel more calm. They are often surprised there is such a tangible change. I like to make real change.

Because our bodies are sensitive and intelligent they respond well to gentle, intelligently applied touch. 

Women have trusted me to help them during the most sensitive and important times in their life - pregnancy, postpartum, the first years of motherhood, perimenopause and menopause. I've been to 11 births (in homes, hospitals and birth centers).

I especially love helping women because women's health issues are often dismissed, ignored, downplayed or treated aggressively. 

What I love about helping men is how practical they are. They don't seem emotional about their pain. I like how we get right to work.

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My story. 

Seeking pain relief for my own pain led me to where I am now.

I started doing touch therapy as a massage therapist, after a faceplant wipeout, while wakeboarding one summer, caused a whiplash injury. It was the first time I had been injured. I was in my early thirties.

Massage helped me get relief from neck pain but it didn't do much for migraines that developed later, so at 40 I moved on to craniosacral therapy, again seeking relief for my own pain. Then later osteopathy.

I was led to osteopathy through what felt like a mystical experience. It happened in the midst of doing a back massage.

I had done thousands of back massages so I wasn't thinking about what I was doing. I was just going with the flow and enjoying the movements, when quietly a short and clear sentence popped into my mind. I paused, looked down at my hands and heard: "These are the hands of an osteopath".

At the time I didn't even know what osteopathy was and I had never had a session so out of curiosity I went for a session.

The first osteo I saw was a quiet and unassuming woman. At one point she told me she was checking my vitality.

You can check that?! 

Another time she told me it's possible that my right ankle was causing my headaches.

What?! Tell me more!!! I was instantly fascinated.

She quietly suggested I might like to study osteopathy. Another seed to study osteopathy was planted.

But it would another 8 years before that part of my journey began.

My thirties were spent trying to get pregnant for years and trying to understand why that wasn't happening. A dream crushing miscarriage at 39 took me on a journey that led me to energy work to solve my emotional pain. It was the first time I had experience grief so deep in my soul.

Years later I took a short osteo training but it didn't appeal to me. It felt like a version of the massage training that I had.

In my late 40s I signed up for a second osteo training. This time an in-depth, 4 year masters program.

That's where I am at now, in my mid fifties. And I love what I do. 

People often ask me how I ended up working with babies and kids. It was in an energy work session, after the miscarriage that I learned I should work with babies.

Looking back I think if I had help, from someone like me, early in my life to unwind and balance my body I wouldn't have the same kind of health issues I had as a teenager and adult.

I was a big 10 pound baby. I started life with a head tilt, that stayed with me most of my adult life. As a teenager I had acne, chronic sore throat and often woke up with a kinked neck. When my neck felt pinched I walked with my head tilted to the side. I had braces too! It it was not a great look as a teenager. I definitely had some head, neck, mouth issues.