In 2007 graduated from Oklahoma Health Academy
with my Massage Therapy degree and have my
Massage Therapist License with Tulsa.

In July of 2011 I became specialized in Pediatric Massage Therapy.

I am very passionate about Pediatric massage therapy, because I believe that they are a child first that just happens have a condition. Not because they are a condition and just happen to be a child. Massage/nurturing touch is done through story telling and play based on the age of the child. Because of this mind set, approach, and the special training I received this is what separates me from others that say they work on children.

From a Personal note, I wish my parents know about massage therapy when I was growing up. Every child goes through growing pains particularity in there teenage years. When I was a Teenager I would get very bad leg cramps during the night. I know some things to do like point my foot up to help with the pain but if I tried to get out of bed to walk it out, I would became tangled in my sheets and become more paralyzed with pain. My parents had to put a "baby monitor" in my room at night so that they could hear me when I cried for help. I was told leg cramps where caused by a deficiency and that I needed to eat bananas. If my Parents had only known about rubbing/massaging my legs that it would have helped greater then eating more bananas than a monkey!

After I grow out of the "growing pain years", I still deal with the effects of not getting the knots out THEN that where created by the leg cramps. My calf muscles are short and tight, my shoes get misshaped and curved up because I cant sit with my feet flat on the floor, I can't wear boots, Went skiing my senior year and missed out on a whole day of skiing while I went around town trying to find sky boots that would be big enough to fit around my calf. While in massage school I could not stand much pressure or work done on my lower legs.

The longer a knot is in a muscle from its initial onset the longer it takes to get the knot loosened from the muscle, so that the muscle can go back to its full length of movement. Its only now after receiving massages regularly that I'm able to stand for my calves to be touched without pain and not causing my shoes to misshape and wear out so soon.

So my point is that children and teens need massage/nurturing touch NOW. To help there muscles deal with there growing and changing bodies along with the other benefits that getting a massage helps.