FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
I charge $60/hour. I have a $20 outcall fee, which is per visit, not per client (i.e. if two clients want me to come over, it is still just a single fee). This fee is waived for visits of three or more hours (two people each getting 90 minutes, a spa party, etc.)
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
I suppose the first thing is to find out what the client want and/or needs. Shared decision making is a concept that is just taking off in medicine, but I believe it is something massage therapists have been doing for years. Simply put, it is an acknowledgement that there are TWO experts in the treatment room: one is an expert when it come to massage and ways it can be used to help, but the other is an expert in their own body and what would be best for it. They both should have input to come up with the plan together, to give the best results.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
It is probably easiest to go chronologically: I grew up in a family of hypnotherapists, as bizarre as I know that sounds, learning it from my mother and grandfather. I started massage school back in '99, but had a passion for it even before that. Besides learning a wide assortment of modalities, which I combined into my own, I also gathered knowledge from different workplaces, such as destination spas and a chiropractor's office. I obtained my bachelor's degree in Biology, which gives me a little more vision about anatomy and what is happening beneath the surface.