About Me

I am a Certified Trager© Practitioner and licensed massage therapist, with a practice in Washington, DC, since 1998.  

 

I graduated from National Massage Training Institute in Falls Church, Virginia after completing a 600-hour program, and became certified with the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCTMB), earning the highest score possible on the national exam.  I have been licensed in Washington, DC, for 24 years.  

Every year, I enroll in as many continuing ed courses in bodywork as time and money will allow.  Most recently, I've studied myofascial release with a disciple of Ida Rolf.  I have taken advanced classes in the Trager Approach and now assist in classes to help certify more Trager practitioners and deepen my understanding of this richly profound work.  To further my expertise in massage, I have taken continuing education courses in:  Active Isolated Stretching with Aaron Mattes, founder; Neuromuscular Therapy for Cervical Cranium; Upledger CranioSacral Therapy, Level 1; Soul Lightening Seva Stress Release (acupressure protocol); Sovereign Seminar on Neck Work; Scar Tissue Release; and Reflexology.

Before starting my massage therapy career, I taught for DC Public Schools.  I have a Masters in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University.  At H.D. Cooke Elementary School, where most of the students come from non-English-speaking households, I founded and published a student newspaper.  Students from 1st through 6th grade, many of whom struggled with reading and writing in their classrooms, did all the writing and illustrating for a bimonthly publication.

My major at San Francisco State University, where I studied as an undergrad, was Phys. Ed. with an emphasis in Modern Dance.

My hobbies include dancing of almost any kind, writing, reading, listening to good jazz, talking to lively people.