Bodywork for Women
in Northeast Portland, Oregon
Abdominal Massage, Craniosacral Therapy & Pelvic Floor Therapy
Abby has opened a private practice again after closing her first during the pandemic in the Gorge — the last two Thursdays of October are open for booking and come November, her schedule will be fully open. She will be located at 45th and Glisan in Northeast Portland, offering wellness massage, prenatal and postpartum massage, abdominal massage and womb healing. craniosacral therapy, and pelvic floor therapy all rooted in somatic awareness.
More details are coming soon. Please note, rates are set by length of service, not modality ~ $150/60 minute session, and $180/90 minutes session. A membership is available for those coming at least monthly ~ $125/60 minute sessions, and $150/90 minute sessions (this includes an unlimited amount of sessions at the membership rate per month). Abby is still updating her website and getting all the final details in order, but feel free to reach out with any questions.
She will be accepting Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield starting November 15th, 2024, and is currently in network with Providence Insurance. Abby can always offer a super bill, and if you have Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield and would like a session before the 15th, Abby will offer you the membership rate.
Abby loves working with the belly, pelvis, and womb, and she loves to offer full body-full being treatments as well— her love is nourishing the heart, the nervous system, and one’s vast entirety.
If you are seeking injury rehabilitation, or deep structurally focused treatments, this has never been her greatest gift though that’s not to say she doesn’t incorporate deep-tissue work, or things like trigger point therapy, or that she doesn’t work with chronic pain, it’s just that her love, is working with clients who are seeking presence beyond that.
Abby has been a massage therapist since 2011 and started focusing on working with women and offering abdominal massage in 2015. In the first five years of practicing, she largely worked with women processing sexual trauma in their bodies and with women suffering from various gynecological and hormonal disorders — things like PCOS, endometriosis, uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts, and chronic pelvic pain. For the past five years, she has worked at a Mama’s clinic, largely working with women through conscious pre-conception, pregnancy, and postpartum.
Being with women as they dance with their unique relationship with their womb, with themselves as women, with their bodies, hearts, and life is an honor.
I love holding space for it all. I love holding space for you to bear your soul, and for you to rest in silence. I love holding space for you to let go, release, and receive. I love holding space for you to alchemize the wildness of life, and I love holding space for the uncontainable, and unconfinable experience of woman. ~ Abby
Modalities
All sessions are charged by length, not modality. When booking select 60 or 90 minutes and when confirming your appointment you can select which modalities you would like to include.
Wellness Massage —
A nervous system reset of deep full body relief & nourishment.
A wellness massage is a traditional therapeutic massage where the session is catered to your desires and wellbeing treatment by treatment.
Abdominal Massage —
Womb healing, hormonal, menstrual, reproductive, and digestive support, and cesarean scar tissue treatments.
Abdominal treatments can be focused in deep physical support and/or energetic support, and they can also be focused on either the womb and pelvis, or on digestive support and healing.
Cupping, castor oil, and heat are often included, as well as low back, glute, and hip work depending on what you are coming for.
Gentle abdominal massage can also be beneficial during pregnancy and can be incorporated into prenatal sessions.
Holistic Pelvic Floor Therapy —
Internal vaginal work for pain and disconnection.
Pelvic Floor Therapy is internal vaginal work to address a range of experiences from pelvic or back pain, postpartum recovery, prolapse, incontinence, or those preparing for birth, and for those simply wanting to connect with themselves.
There will be lots of dialogue to make sure you are comfortable, and know exactly what is happening, while there is also space held for treatments to be an incredibly restorative and nourishing experience. The pelvis is an intimate part of one's body, and these treatments are offered with much respect for this.
Pelvic floor work are often is very beneficial in tandem with abdominal work, this is something you and Abby can discuss in your initial appointment.
Craniosacral Therapy —
A gentle hands-on treatment nourishing the body’s structural, organ, nervous, circulatory, and lymphatic systems.
The client can stay fully clothed, with gentle hands-on presence as Abby follows the craniosacral rhythm allowing the body’s intelligence to lead, unwinding, and recalibrating from the inside out.
