Bodywork and manual therapy in Portland, Maine.
Reconnect with your body.
Step out of the cycle of chronic pain and find a body that feels like home again.
Reconnection is the remedy.
You were meant to move freely.
Every moment you live in pain shapes how you show up—in your body, in your relationships, in your joy. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
When tension unwinds, possibility returns. Let’s help your body become something that carries you forward, not holds you back.
There was a time when movement felt effortless—when you didn’t have to second-guess a stretch, a hike, a deep breath. When your body moved with you, not against you. Chronic pain has a way of convincing us that tension is just part of the deal now. But those times don’t have to be a memory. There is a pathway to return home to more freedom of movement.
Here, we don’t just soothe what hurts. We work with your body like a trusted companion, mapping its patterns to shape its change. We gently unwind what’s stuck and reawaken what’s been forgotten. Because pain is simply a signal that it’s time we do something.
It’s time we come back to ourselves.
Pathways To Healing
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Integrated Manual Therapy
Stand-alone sessions focused on chronic pain or movement limitations, incorporating all available modalities to bring long-lasting relief through improved alignment.
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Structural Integration
3- or 12-session series to restore balance to your structure for greater ease in movement, better posture, injury prevention, and longevity.
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ScarWork Therapy
An incredibly light-touch approach that invites old and new scars to soften, heal, and restore connection, resulting in lasting functional change.
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Lympathic Drainage & Nervous System Regulation
Find internal flow states with gentle techniques, promoting the body’s most natural healing states.
The path to feeling free again is more natural than you think.
Before your session:
Before any hands-on work, I’ll listen to your story: what brings you in, what injuries or pain you’re concerned about, what goals you have, how you feel, and how you move in your body every day.
During your session:
We begin each session looking at how you stand and move, noting what is working and where you feel “stuck” with tension and compensation patterns. This helps guide our work. Then, we’ll move into hands-on techniques to help mobilize your tissues and begin restoring balance to the whole body.
After your session:
I’ll provide you with tailored suggestions on how to continue supporting your progress in achieving lasting change.
Meet Monique - Board Certified Structural Integrator
I pay attention to the quiet things—how your spine reveals your stress, how your jaw mirrors your hips, how your body holds your story.
I listen deeply. Through my ears to what you tell me, through my eyes for the patterns I see, and through my hands with what I feel.
Together, we create space—inside your joints, your breath, your life. We work with your body to deeply unwind patterns that have kept you stuck, sometimes in places you don’t even realize, to help you move freely again and in better alignment.
It is a joy to help people return to movements they thought were gone for good. Because your body hasn’t forgotten how — it just needs help remembering the way.
Let’s bring you home to yourself.
Caryn L
“I feel more freedom in mobility and less pain, aches, and pinches. More range of motion. [She] has the gift of skill there. For true healing.”
Jeff A
“…truly a miracle worker.”
Unsure of where to start?
Book a free 15-minute call to discover what might work best for you