Gabriella has been able to offer me healing hands through a lifetime of back injuries, stress from work, weight lifting, and those occasional self-maintenance days. I have always felt comfortable, cared for and safe on her table . . . she definitely listens! She takes her cue from you. You get to decide if you need quiet during the session or if you are up for comfortable conversation. Gabriella is comfortable with either. She checks in with you, asks for feedback and is responsive in her methods of individualizing her care. She encourages me to be an active part in my own treatment by sharing with me passive resistance stretches or offering me suggestions for moves I can do at home to maintain her good works. I have gone to Gabriella for a general ‘tune up’ massage and given her special instructions, “Don’t bother with my right arm. It hurts like heck, so much so that I physically could not pick up a book.” In her quiet reassuring manner Gabriella said, “Let me have a look at that.” I must confess to a degree of skepticism when she DID NOT massage my arm but went to the scapula and worked in, under and around it. Amazingly, she CORRECTED it! When I left her studio I sat in my driver’s seat, PAIN FREE, I was actually able to pick up a book in the back seat for the first time in weeks. “Gabriella brings the ability to intellectually engage me in her massage work. I so appreciate understanding what and why she is doing what she does.”
Gabriella has been able to offer me healing hands through a lifetime of back injuries, stress from work, weight lifting, and those occasional self-maintenance days. I have always felt comfortable, cared for and safe on her table . . . she definitely listens! She takes her cue from you. You get to decide if you need quiet during the session or if you are up for comfortable conversation. Gabriella is comfortable with either. She checks in with you, asks for feedback and is responsive in her methods of individualizing her care. She encourages me to be an active part in my own treatment by sharing with me passive resistance stretches or offering me suggestions for moves I can do at home to maintain her good works. I have gone to Gabriella for a general ‘tune up’ massage and given her special instructions, “Don’t bother with my right arm. It hurts like heck, so much so that I physically could not pick up a book.” In her quiet reassuring manner Gabriella said, “Let me have a look at that.” I must confess to a degree of skepticism when she DID NOT massage my arm but went to the scapula and worked in, under and around it. Amazingly, she CORRECTED it! When I left her studio I sat in my driver’s seat, PAIN FREE, I was actually able to pick up a book in the back seat for the first time in weeks. “Gabriella brings the ability to intellectually engage me in her massage work. I so appreciate understanding what and why she is doing what she does.”