Therapists

Vanessa Santos

Integrative Massage & Somatic Touch

Your body holds more than you think. Tension that won't budge, a restlessness you can't quite name, a tiredness that sleep doesn't fix. These aren't problems to push through. They're signals. Vanessa's work is about learning to listen to them. A Portuguese bodywork therapist with over a decade of practice, Vanessa brings together Shiatsu, Tui Na, Deep Tissue, Fascial Release, Sports Massage, Lymphatic Drainage, Trigger Point Therapy. She doesn't arrive with a fixed protocol. Each session begins with you, your body, your patterns, what you're carrying that day. What makes her approach distinct is her certification as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). Somatic Experiencing is a clinically developed method that works directly with the nervous system: reaching the stress, old tension, and ingrained patterns that hands-on bodywork alone doesn't always touch. For anyone who carries chronic tightness, the aftereffects of injury, or physical stress that keeps returning, this combination is where something real tends to shift. She's also a surfer. Years spent reading the ocean, its rhythms, its constant change, have sharpened her sensitivity to the body's own intelligence. That attunement shows up in how she works: present, unhurried, responsive. Sessions with Vanessa are quiet and attentive, shaped entirely around what your body needs. You leave with more ease in your muscles, more space in your joints, and a steadiness in your nervous system that tends to stay with you well past the treatment table. She offers integrative massage therapy and somatic touch sessions.

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