Your body is a temple
Treat it well and be rewarded
Health includes physical vitality, emotional well-being, a sense of purpose, and a capacity to enjoy life. I will support you in Remembering the Inherent Health that lies within you.
I “listen” to your whole system and harness the body’s inherent self-healing potential to restore health where it has been compromised. My clients find deep, lasting and profound healing, self-awareness, and transformation from our sessions.
While biodynamic craniosacral therapy is what I offer primarily, my sessions combine the various modalities I have been immersed in over the past 20 years, and I hold space no matter what comes up in a session.
I am also offering distance sessions to meet the needs of my clients. Distance healing is a wonderful way to receive a session in the comfort and safety of your own home.
In both in-person and distance sessions, clients report that a distance session feels much like an in-person BCST session, and sometimes, it is even more powerful. After all, everything is energy and we are all connected.
Why seek a session with me?
In person session: 90 minutes at Wellsview Cottage in Annapolis, MD.
Sessions are $110 - (Insurance does not cover this service)
Distance session: 90 minutes over the phone or Zoom
Sessions are $110 - Payments via PayPal or Venmo (Insurance does not cover this service)
What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST)?
BCST invites you to connect deeply within and remember the Intelligence of your whole system.
BCST is a healing art that works with the energies responsible for creating and maintaining health in the human system. While not a manipulative therapy, it has its roots in osteopathy and has evolved to include influences from advances in neuroscience, human development, pre and perinatal psychology, as well as trauma resolution. Practitioners use an educated gentle, non-invasive touch to listen for and to engage with the expressions of health in the system.
This modality is deeply supportive in balancing the nervous system. Trauma and the daily stresses of life can cause imbalances and taxation within our Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). This therapy helps to slow things down, create a deep relaxation, self repair and connection to our body. The system comes back into balance, functions better, and all aspects of life begin to feel more peaceful and at ease.
In a session, you are fully clothed, and the practitioner will gently place their hands on different areas of the body, including the head, sacrum, spine, belly and more.
BCST is intrinsically a yin approach to life and healing.
Visit the Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association to learn more.
Benefits of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Acute/Chronic Pain:
Injuries, Surgeries, Chronic Inflammation, Headaches, Backaches, Sciatica, Structural Misalignment. The functioning of the nervous system plays a key role in how we heal from injury and how we experience and perceive pain over time. Pain activates the nervous system creating a condition that slows the healing of tissues, and contributes to inflammation. BCST encourages/support the nervous system to return to a less activated state.
Auto-immune disorders:
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies, Multiple Sclerosis, Inflammatory Skin disorders. Here, the effects of an overactive nervous system can challenge the immune system, compromising its ability to recognize real threats to the body’s health, while actually mistaking the body’s own tissue as an invader. BCST supports the immune system to function more efficiently and intelligently.
Trauma and Nervous System Dysregulation:
PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Difficulties Sleeping. BCST is particularly effective in working with the effects of shock and trauma. Nervous system overwhelm, called the “freeze response” can result in long standing feelings of helplessness, patterns of behaving that recapitulate the trauma, or the inability to move forward in a creative empowered way with one’s life. When the nervous system is strengthened to discharge shock and trauma, inner resource and the ability to access one’s Inherent Health, personal strength, wisdom and resiliency may be enhanced
“My sessions with Christel have all been over the phone because of geographical distance. I’ve had three sessions so far, mainly dealing with the effects of anxiety, and each one is progressively more powerful. The most obvious change for me is how deeply my body relaxes during the practice, and how long it continues to stay balanced after the session is ended. Christel has a very gentle, clear way of communicating. She brings her amazing, intuitive presence to the work, so that even at a distance, I can ‘feel’ her hands manipulating tissue, and my body responding to the craniosacral alignment. She inspires a feeling of safety and trust; I find it very easy to relax and be open to the work. I am truly grateful as I see the results. .” D.D.
Biodynamic craniolsacral therapy is a gentle and powerful therapy. I feel calm and able to carry my weight with more ease after a treatment with Christel. She really has a capacity for helping me to release whatever is weighing me down and I just move in to that space of letting go. I feel comfortable and trust her intuition and skills whenever I'm on her table. Jonna C
Christel is a wonderful therapist. I saw her for cranialsacral therapy during a very stressful time. Each session started with Christel talking to me about what was going on, offering suggestions for therapy and then taking all my information, gave me a calm, relax therapy. I always felt calmer and happier after each session. Christel is an amazing therapist, knowledgeable, capable and compassionate. I look forward to more sessions with her. Sara C