Gainesville, Florida
Bodywork for pain management and injury recovery
Integrative massage therapy for chronic tension, injury recovery, and restricted movement. Holistic, assessment-driven care that makes a difference.
Gainesville, Florida
Integrative massage therapy for chronic tension, injury recovery, and restricted movement. Holistic, assessment-driven care that makes a difference.
01 — What I Work With
Most people arrive having been treated only where it hurts. That's the default in massage, and for a lot of complaints it isn't enough. The framework I work from is called regional interdependence — the well-documented principle that impairment in one part of the body contributes to symptoms somewhere else entirely, and that working only the painful area can leave the actual driver untouched.
So the questions I ask matter as much as the hands-on work. Which movements and directions bring the pain on, and which relieve it. What else has happened to you that you've stopped thinking of as relevant.
If you come in with knee or hip pain, I'm going to ask whether you've ever sprained an ankle, and whether it was properly rehabilitated. The answer frequently changes the plan — what looked like a knee problem becomes a knee problem with a foot and ankle that need real attention. If you come in with jaw pain, I'll work the joint directly, and I'll also work around the pelvis. In my experience the link between jaw tension and hip alignment is consistent enough that I plan for it.
This is how I work with athletes too. I trained in sports massage and spent two years working with University of Florida athletic teams. I still see athletes at every level, and the most useful thing I offer most of them is the standing appointment rather than the emergency one.
The clients I work best with have something specific they want resolved, and are open to the idea that the body works as a whole — that the answer isn't always where the pain is.
Desk posture and jaw clenching. Your entire trunk needs work, and we'll talk breath — often involved, rarely treated.
Including sciatic-type symptoms and the hip and glute restriction that often drives them.
Tension-pattern headaches and TMJ-related discomfort, worked through the neck, jaw, and skull.
Soft-tissue work alongside your PT or physician's plan, once you're cleared for manual therapy.
Forearm, wrist, and elbow patterns from keyboards, tools, instruments, or training.
When something just doesn't move the way it used to and you can't get it to let go.
02 — Sessions & Rates
First-time clients start with an intake session so we can build an accurate picture before any hands-on work begins.
15-minute intake and assessment, followed by 60 minutes of bodywork.
15-minute intake and assessment, followed by 90 minutes of bodywork. Best if you have more than one area to address.
I ask for 24 hours' notice. Your first late cancellation is forgiven — no questions asked. After that, a missed or late-cancelled session is charged in full.
Come anyway. I'll work with whatever time is left. I usually have someone booked after you, so I can't run past your scheduled end time, and the session is charged in full.
03 — Your First Visit
We start with a conversation. Fifteen minutes to go through your health history, what's bothering you, and what you want out of this. Bring anything relevant — imaging, a PT's notes, a list of medications.
Then we get to work. You'll be draped throughout and only the area being worked on is uncovered. You're in charge of pressure the entire time, and telling me to ease off is always the right call — that's technique, not politeness. Persistent pain often involves a nervous system that has learned to stay on guard, and forcing through that doesn't work. I've trained in nervous system regulation and trauma-informed care, and I work at a pace your system will actually accept. That isn't a lighter session; the work stays specific and precise.
Afterward, we'll talk about what I found, what I'd suggest between now and next time, and roughly how often it makes sense to come in. No packages, no pressure to prebook a dozen sessions.
04 — About
I came to bodywork through Pilates. I finished my comprehensive teacher training in 2014 and was teaching at Evolve Pilates when I started working alongside Kelli Sanders, one of Evolve's co-owners, who combined private sessions with Integrative Neurosomatic Therapy. Watching her work changed what I thought was possible — people whose pain hadn't moved in years were getting better. That's why I enrolled at the Florida School of Massage, graduating in 2015, and I kept teaching Pilates at Evolve the whole way through.
The hands-on neurosomatic training came during massage school and for a long stretch afterward — mentoring under Kelli, learning to combine the technique with movement. Once I was licensed I started seeing massage clients at Evolve as well, and rented a small office inside a downtown Gainesville gym because I already knew who I wanted to work with. It filled within months.
At the same time I interned with University Sports Massage, which covered nearly every UF athletic program — football, swimming, track, gymnastics, tennis, baseball — and in 2016 I traveled to divisionals with the men's and women's swim teams.
In 2017 I moved my practice to House of Yin as it opened, and worked there full time until my first daughter was born in 2020. Between a pandemic and a newborn, I stepped back from the table. My second daughter arrived in 2023, and later that year I started seeing a few clients again — one day a week, then two. I'm returning to full-time practice now, and I'm taking new clients.
I still teach. I'm lead teacher at APEX, an XFormer studio in Gainesville offering Lagree-adjacent modern Pilates — high intensity, low impact resistance training — and I teach yoga at its sister studio, YogaPod. I also lead the anatomy section for most of their teacher training cohorts. Teaching anatomy to people who will spend their careers cueing other people's bodies keeps me more precise than treating alone would.
I've also trained in trauma-informed somatic work through Tim Morrison's Spiritus Breathwork facilitator training. It deepened my understanding of nervous system regulation and taught me that honoring each person's capacity for depth and pressure is paramount in this business of compassionate touch. I don't offer breathwork sessions, but that training shapes how I pace a session and how I read whether a body is actually available for what I'd otherwise do to it.
Outside the treatment room I keep up my own movement practice — Pilates, yoga, and more recently a consistent weightlifting habit. The rest of my time goes to my husband and our two daughters, three and six, and to as much of north Florida's water as we can get to.
Training & Credentials
Florida MA105998
Graduated 2015
2014
Mentorship under Kelli Sanders, Evolve Pilates
University Sports Massage · UF Athletics
Trauma-informed training, 2022
APEX & YogaPod teacher trainings
APEX, lead teacher · YogaPod
05 — The Space
06 — Booking
Not sure which session is right, or whether I'm the right person for what you're dealing with? Email me at kaleigh.lmt@gmail.com and describe what's going on. I'd rather tell you honestly than take a booking that won't help.