What is Craniosacral Therapy?

Craniosacral therapy is an integrative soft contact approach that was originally based on osteopathy. During one session the practitioner works with the patient to accompany and assist the body to find and release physical, mental and emotional trauma.

This therapy is gentle but effective and safe and can be applied to people of all ages as a complement to traditional medicine treatments, while if there is no specific pathology or ailment helps to eliminate tensions and anxiety increasing the body’s vitality.

Is Craniosacral Therapy for you?

Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, non-invasive therapy that supports the body’s natural healing processes. Suitable for adults, children, and even babies, CST addresses a wide range of physical, emotional, and mental health concerns. By focusing on the craniosacral system—comprising the membranes and fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord—CST promotes relaxation, reduces stress, and fosters balance within the body.

  • Key Benefits of Craniosacral Therapy Include:
  • Supports Emotional Well-being and Reduces Anxiety : Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, effective approach to managing stress and anxiety. By promoting relaxation and balance in the nervous system, CST helps individuals foster a sense of calm and emotional well-being, supporting overall mental health.
  • Supports the Management of Panic Attacks: CST aims to regulate the body’s autonomic nervous system, reducing the intensity of stress responses and supporting individuals in managing the frequency and severity of panic attacks.
  • Eases Symptoms of Menopause: CST helps balance the body’s rhythms, which can ease common symptoms of menopause, such as mood swings, hot flashes, and sleep disturbances, promoting emotional and physical well-being during this transitional phase.
  • Assists Mothers with Birth Trauma and Postpartum Challenges: Craniosacral Therapy (CST) helps mothers recover from birth trauma by relieving physical discomfort such as back, pelvic, and abdominal pain, and promoting healing of perineal or caesarean scars. It also supports emotional well-being by reducing anxiety, emotional distress, and symptoms of postpartum depression. By gently restoring balance to the body and releasing stored trauma, CST facilitates both physical and emotional recovery, helping mothers transition more easily into their new role.
  • Supports Recovery from Chronic Fatigue: Chronic fatigue can impact daily life significantly. CST can help individuals regain energy and vitality by promoting deep relaxation, easing tension, and supporting the body’s natural capacity to restore itself
  • Promotes Digestive Health: By enhancing circulation and calming the nervous system, CST can alleviate discomfort associated with digestive disorders, encouraging better overall digestion and digestive function.
  • Reduces Stress Before and After Surgery: CST helps prepare the body for surgery by reducing pre-operative anxiety and stress, alleviates physical tension, help address emotional stress. fear of the outcome, etc. and it supports recovery by addressing physical tension and emotional trauma that may arise Pre-Surgery Benefits:
    • Examples:
      • Pre-surgery
        • Breast Cancer: Eases chest tension and supports emotional readiness.
        • Colon Cancer: Helps to release abdominal discomfort and stress before surgery.
        • Hysterectomy: Reduces pelvic floor tension and calms emotional stress about reproductive changes.
      • Post-Surgery Benefits:
        • Breast Cancer: Releases tension in the chest and shoulders, promoting mobility and emotional healing.
        • Colon Cancer: Supports digestive health and eases abdominal pain.
        • Hysterectomy: Alleviates pelvic discomfort and supports emotional adjustment.
  • Relieves Headaches and Backaches: CST has a strong reputation for its effectiveness in easing chronic headaches and back pain. By addressing the root causes of tension, it helps restore comfort and mobility, improving quality of life.
  • Encourages Healing After Grief: Loss and grief can manifest as emotional and physical tension. CST provides a gentle and supportive space for individuals to process emotional pain and restore balance, fostering resilience and emotional healing.

What to expect

A Craniosacral therapy session includes:

  • First session, some notes are taken to understand the reasons for your visit and your expectations and in subsequent sessions for following the progress
  • Treatment on table
  • Review of the session at the end.

During the session, you will lay on your back on a treatment table, fully clothed, you will take some deep breathings and I will start making gentle contact on your shoulders, head, along the back, base of the spine or other affected areas to encourage healing and rebalancing

Each session is reviewed. Improvement or resolution can occur after a few sessions, although on occasions more treatments for deep-rooted problems may be needed.

Some clients consider regular sessions to be beneficial to support general health and stress release

To an overall view of the treatment and what is the therapy about, I invite you to watch a video by clicking on the Craniosacral Association Logo below. (The video was produced by the Craniosacral Association of the UK).

My story

Many years in a demanding and stressful working environment ended up in weakening my immune system and caused the deterioration of my health, which led to a carcinogenic tumour over 15 years ago.

In the quest to improve my health and as a complement to traditional medical treatment I came across Craniosacral Therapy, a very gently hands on therapy that changed my life and my health. Through the process of my treatments, I learnt that sustainable health comes from balance in our way of living, involving the physical, mental, emotional, social aspects of life and Craniosacral Therapy became so relevant that I decided to change my career to become a Craniosacral Therapist.

I am fully qualify Craniosacral Therapist, registered as a member of the UK Craniosacral Association and fully insurance. I have undertaken postgraduate studies in Craniosacral Therapy applied to Neurodiversity – children and adults-, Trauma, and healing baby trauma, Biodynamic Cranial Touch, Embryology, and I have also been supporting  adults, teenagers and young children with general trauma, anxiety and stress, PTSD, trauma post-cancer, depression,  Multiple Sclerosis, among others, in the community affected by the Grenfell Towers events and surrounding areas for two years at KOTG in London.

Contact and Location

Communication in English and Spanish.

How to contact me

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Where to find me and business hours by previous appointment.

Tunbridge Wells. The Practice Rooms. 96 High Street TN1 1YF

Thursday
10 am – 4:30 pm

Friday
9 am – 4:30 pm

Saturday
9 am – 1 pm

If the available appointment times do not align with your schedule, please contact me via live chat or the chat box, and I will be happy to explore alternative options.