Pricing

  • 60 Minute Full Body Focus - $110

    • A 60-minute session focuses on full-body relaxation and stress relief. We can tailor your session to focus on your tensest areas.

  • 90 Minute Full Body Focus Extended - $160

    • A 90-minute session is ideal for full body relief with ample time to work out one or more problemed areas. This is my most popular timed session.

Interested in me bringing massage magic to you? I am willing to travel up to 2 hrs for a day trip to bring my massage services to you and your group. Family vacation down the shore or upstate? Bachelorette or Bachelor party? Family reunion? Birthday party? Anything you can think of! Contact me for more details on travel and pricing.

Bodywork Education

  • Integrative Therapies in Hospice and Palliative Care - Integrative Palliative Care Institute - 2025

  • Intro to Sidelying Positioning and Draping for Prenatal Massage - Body Therapy Education - 2025

  • Birth Doula - Carriage House Birth - 2024

  • Herbal Massage - Breeze Bodywork - 2024

  • Foundations of Cupping - Jim Earley - 2024

  • Intro to Breast and Chest Care - The Mastectomy Guide - 2024

  • Radical Mental Health First Aide - N’Deye Oumou Sylla, LMFT - 2023

  • Pregnancy & Massage: Advanced Practice - AMTA Massage - 2023

  • 600 hr Certificate of Massage Therapy - Philadelphia School of Massage and Bodywork - 2022-2023

  • 95 hr Certificate in Prenatal & Postpartum Yoga Teaching - Amala Yoga - 2021

  • 20 hr Certificate in Yoga Nidra Teaching - Mia Park & Grateful Yoga - 2020

  • 200 hr Certificate in Vinyasa Yoga Teaching - Nature Yoga Sanctuary - 2019-2020

Book an Integrative Bodywork Session

I’m Abby, a Licensed Massage Therapist (PA LN #MSG015181) and Integrative Bodyworker in Philadelphia, PA. I practice at my private South Philly studio, in-home sessions, and mobile massage at various homes, events, and venues.

My technique blends multiple therapeutic massage modalities, including Trauma-Informed, Deep Tissue, Swedish, Myofascial, Hot Stone, Aromatherapy, Cupping, Breathwork, and Thai massage, to relieve stress in the body and mind. I offer a warm, perceptive, and light-hearted approach that is receptive to your needs. My diverse therapeutic background includes massage, yoga, herbalism, meditation, and healing arts. Although I work with a variety of clients, I specialize in palliative and pregnancy massage and love working with clients throughout life journeys.

I have been practicing yoga since 2008 and have over 300 hrs of training, including Vinyasa, Fertility, Prenatal, Postpartum, and Yoga Nidra. As a Certified Yoga Teacher, I share yoga-based stretching techniques so clients may practice pain prevention and general maintenance at home.

I have been working with herbal medicine since 2017 through the teachers of Midwest Women’s Herbal, Alyssa Schimmel, Kelly McKarthy, Tammi Sweet, and more. I may incorporate herbs into our session through scents, oils, salves, or compresses.

After your first booking, you will receive a thorough intake form emailed to you. This form helps me learn your medical history, meaningful information about yourself and your lifestyle, and any goals or boundaries regarding our sessions.

Each bodywork session is custom, collaborative, and intuitive. We will not only check in about your most up-to-date needs but also devise a plan for muscle maintenance between sessions. I value forming a strong therapeutic alliance so that clients can meet their wellness goals.

    • My integrative bodywork sessions blend various techniques, including Swedish, Deep Tissue, Cupping, Thai, Hot Stone, Aromatherapy, and Myofascial Release, all applied through a trauma-informed approach.

    • These sessions can help relieve chronic pain, deep muscle tension, stress-related conditions, and post-operative discomfort.

    • Integrative bodywork can support stress reduction, enhance flexibility, improve blood circulation, promote better sleep, and strengthen the immune system.

    • Regular sessions can also aid in preventing injuries, reducing inflammation and stiffness, minimizing scar tissue buildup, alleviating muscle spasms, and decreasing lactic acid accumulation.

    • During a session, you will lie face down, face up, or on your side on a massage table, covered by a sheet. Oil or cream will be applied to exposed skin, one limb at a time, and hot stones or cupping tools may be incorporated with your consent.

    • Pregnancy involves a miraculous series of events that can create unique challenges for a pregnant person. Massage can be a wonderful way to relieve tension in one’s quickly changing body and enhance one’s mental well-being.

    • Once you are no longer comfortable lying on your stomach, you will be given extra cushions to support you while lying on your side so that you can receive a soothing touch.

    • Focus will be placed on the head, shoulders, lower back, hips, thighs, feet, and anywhere else you request. If you are nearing your due date, I can also focus on labor-promoting pressure points in the hands and feet.

    • The physical body is often examined, poked, and prodded when trying to conceive. However, very little is paid to the emotional side of the journey, which can be the biggest key to pregnancy. Fertility massage can relieve some of the pressures and expectations to conceive.

    • Cupping therapy is an ancient healing method that can ease back pain, neck pain, headaches, and other issues. It uses suction to pull on your skin and increase blood flow to the affected area.

    • The suction force from cupping often breaks open capillaries under your skin. This suction may leave reddish circles that should fade in a week or two. Although these marks look like bruises, they’re not true bruises that injure muscle fibers.

    • Cupping shouldn’t cause pain, though you may experience some skin tightness during the process. After a session, you may feel slightly sore, but you shouldn’t have severe discomfort.

    • Many people who’ve had cupping therapy report that it:

      • Reduces pain and inflammation.

      • Decreases muscle tightness.

      • Improves blood flow.

      • Increases range of motion.

    • The main goal of palliative massage focuses on relaxation and comfort with less expectation around complete symptom relief or recovery.

    • Palliative massage has been proven to improve quality of life for the client, as well as manage symptoms such as pain, nausea, anxiety and depression, and sleep issues.

    • “Compared to traditional massage therapy, palliative care seeks to help clients just feel better, and not effect a particular therapeutic change or outcome, such as reducing muscle tension, loosening adhesions or even integration,” says Michael Patrick, LMT, owner at Centered Presence. “It is simply to calm, soothe and comfort.”