Welcome, I’m Amber.
From an early age, I was incredibly sensitive to and perceptive of the world around me. This sensitivity on all levels led to a variety of health challenges (eczema as a baby, headaches as a 14 year old, anxiety and digestive issues as a young adult, etc.), but also to an even deeper pursuit of what is healing?
For anyone who has gone on their own health journey that wasn’t able to find direct answers, you know how frustrating and complicated this scavenger hunt of health can be. I am grateful for the wisdom I have gained from some of these challenges at an early age that has led me to a place to now be able to address similar frustrations for my clients and students.
Now I find great joy in watching clients go from feeling betrayed by their own bodies to being empowered, and stepping into a future more fully and more freely for who they are designed and desiring to be.
My Approach
The nature of the work I do is very different– my psychology degree offers me information about the nature of how human beings operate in the psyche, while my massage background dives into the fundamentals of how the muscles, tissues, organs, and systems of the body work. However, the “wisdom” of the body is the cohesive unit of how mind, body, and spirit work together. It’s my studies in energy work that have helped bridge the gap between the mind and the body.
Everything in the universe is made up of energy– it’s the animating life force behind all things, and the connecting point between what makes me different between you. It’s the story behind who we are and what makes us tick or what ticks us off.
You may be a working mom of several kids, feeling like you’ve had to hold the world together from a young age or everything would fall apart, a business owner trying to juggle what it means to be a man in today’s day and age while also being attentive to the intuitive nudges that show up in the board room, or an artist struggling to find the ground beneath your feet. Whoever you are and whatever you bring in, I can help you release some of the old beliefs and fears that are restricting you from showing up freely and balanced in life, at work, at home, and in the world at large.
When we balance the energetic dynamic with the physical body, you find a person that is not having to choose between their two worlds of the left brain (logical) and the right brain (intuitive), but balanced and confident in how to show up with both.
Let’s Talk Credentials
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I have a BA in Psychology and a minor in French from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. I have over 1000 hours of training in massage, including an associates degree from the Boulder College of Massage Therapy in Boulder, Colorado.
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I have focused most of my work on incorporating energy based modalities mixed with hands on bodywork, including Zen Shiatsu, Chi Kung (from The Center Place in Boulder, CO), Craniosacral work (from Dynamic Body Balancing), and various other energy modalities, mostly based in Chinese medicine theory. I am a member of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) and a member of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB).
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I taught for nearly seven years at the Boulder Massage Therapy Institute as the basics of massage teacher and basics of energy teacher. I’m currently serving on the Programmatic Advisory Committee to give curriculum for an up and coming massage school in the Boulder area. I love my hands-on practice and come alive when teaching, but my passion is helping people learn to listen to and honor their intuition whether in my office or in the classroom. .
Who am I outside of the office?
I actually enjoy reading all kinds of books, doing puzzles, singing as part of my worship team at church, writing spoken word, poetry, or music, traveling around the country and world, and making up really great dad jokes.
I once traveled on a few humanitarian clown trips to Peru, Haiti and Guatemala with Patch Adams and members of the Gesundheit! Institute (yes, it’s a thing). I studied abroad in Southern France (Aix-en-Provence) as a junior in college and cannot wait to go back. As patient as I may come across, I’m fiercely competitive, especially in escape rooms. I’m a big fan of corny jokes, especially making them up on the spot. I’ve been known to sing to my students while teaching, or making up names of muscles to help them remember. If a kid hands me a banana or a shoe as a phone and asks me to answer it, you better believe I’m going to do it.
