I was trained by, and taught at, Sam McClellan‘s New England Institute for Integrative Acupressure in Haydenville, Massachusetts.

I have worked with area chiropractors and maintained a private practice since 1992. The key thing I’ve learned in over 20 years of practice is that bodies know what to do when they have the right information and that my job is to listen to what the body is saying. I help my clients’ bodies get the information they need to make adjustments toward health. Often, my clients notice my hands move right to the place that is giving them distress, even if the client hasn’t mentioned that place to me. While my client doesn’t understand how I find those places, in my finger’s eye, it’s jumping right out at me.

I first became intrigued with acupressure in 1989 when a friend was suffering from severe premenstrual cramps and a self-help book recommended specific acupressure points. Together, my friend and I tried pressing on those points. When I put my fingers on the places the book suggested, I realized that one finger would start feeling different. It was like my finger was sinking into a stick of butter or almost like a bit of static electricity. I later realized I was feeling chi moving through the points. I worked on my friend for two hours and she fell asleep. After she woke up, she said, “From the first time I got my menstrual cycle, I have always had really bad cramps for the first three days of the cycle. This was the first time without such cramps and I had a really good night’s sleep.”

I wondered “What else is this stuff good for? Why isn’t it household knowledge?”

That first experience led me to read more and to try out acupressure on myself. Later, I studied for two years at the New England Institute for Integrative Acupressure.

My interest in the healing properties of herbs started when I was about ten years old. I was outdoors with my mother and I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes and getting big welts. My mother grabbed some jewelweed, rubbed it on the welts, and there was no more itch. When I was in my late twenties, that interest in herbs led me to study with herbalist Kate Gilday in Wendell.

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