About Us

Joan’s life has been to help others. Over the years, Joan has worked in health care in ancillary medical/dental positions. Given the opportunity to study massage therapy, the goal was to provide massage for wellness and provide ancillary health care by giving therapeutic massages.*

Leaving a massage practice in Naples, FL in the spring of 2007, where a majority of her massage clients were tennis players and golfers, Joan found similar needs in the Boston area.  Among her clients now are marathoners, golfers, competitive ice skaters, and an occasional NBA basketball player. In the Northeast, there is a growing practice including many pregnancy and postpartum massages and massages for those needing to increase their immune status and decrease anxiety and stress.

She has also done chair massage for Social Work Staff at Dana Farber, Boston; gratis full body massages for clients living with cancer during spa treatments at LaResidencia Spa, Newton; and chair massage to benefit The Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis:  Rock City Body Pilates, Allston.

Hundreds of hours of massage have followed Joan’s completion of a 750-hour massage therapy program in Naples, FL. Those hours include volunteering chair massages at North Collier Hospital massaging staff and volunteers.  In addition to the basic coursework hours in school, additional massage and bodywork continuing education seminars attended include Pregnancy Massage,  Sports Massage,  Healing Touch, Intro to Kinesio Taping, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome presented by David Kent, Esoteric Healing Levels I, II, and III, Lypossage, Tracy Walton's basic and advanced seminars “Caring for Clients with Cancer”.

As Joan was treated for two types of cancer, Western medicine was very important; however, the Eastern influences of visualization, meditation, yoga, and biofeedback were significant in her overcoming the disease process.  Massage was not incorporated in Joan's care, as studies had not yet proven massage safe for cancer patients. Studies, completed since then, indicate massage does not help spread cancer.  One such study:  Curties D. Could massage promote cancer metastasis? Journal of Soft Tissue Manipulation April/May 1994:3-6. Reprinted in Massage Therapy Journal Fall 2000;39(3):83-88.  An example of Western medicine practitioner accepting massage as ancillary to is reflected in the article written by Dr. Sanjay Gupta Just what the doctor ordered: a massage. TIME October 22, 2008.

* Therapeutic massages include Swedish massages which work out the knots, massage for cancer patients, those afflicted with autoimmune disorders, fibromyalgia, patients with neurologic disorders, hospice patients and others.