Massage therapist in Bowburn, Durham

Hi, I’m Zoe, a skilled massage therapist and active listener who’s holding a safe space for you.

As a massage therapist, my focus is on empathic and nurturing relationship-based care. Sessions are about more than the massage and its physical benefits. They also create space for holistic holding and emotional comfort.

When you arrive, you’ll be welcomed into my home and my dedicated treatment room. There’s nothing clinical or impersonal here. It’s a homely space that’s been curated intentionally, so it feels cosy, supportive and safe.

Inside, I’ll hold a calming and restorative space for you. A space where you can take time for yourself, away from the stresses and pressures of everyday life.

It’s a place for contemplation with resources for personal reflection. Where you’re free to talk and I’ll provide the deep listening and understanding that will make you feel truly heard.

Combined with the massage, this holistic approach will help you release any emotions you’ve been holding, so you can feel your pain and tension melt away.

My massage sessions will help you feel restored, relaxed and revitalised.

We’ll start with a 90-minute support session. This appointment is £75 and includes a discussion about your needs, a physical assessment, a personalised care plan, and a session of bodywork.

Here’s what my clients have had to say about their experience.

I’m trained in various modalities, which are used to achieve different results. Whether that’s releasing tension, relieving pain or restoring movement and balance.

When I create your personalised care plan, I’ll bring together a range of techniques for your specific needs and wellbeing.

Closing the bones is a traditional massage ritual that uses bodywork to bring deep healing. It provides a welcome space to rest and be held. And it allows emotions to be honoured and released.

The ritual can support you through all kinds of major life changes and transitions in your body. Like becoming a new parent, dealing with loss or grief, entering puberty or menopause, or recovering from trauma.

Closing the bones uses a combination of rebozo and hands-on massage to rebalance your body, release held emotions and bring a deep sense of healing.

The ceremony lasts about three hours, in your own home and I’ll invite you to prepare for it so it feels special and personalised. You can choose your favourite songs and scents to create a calming space. And a poem, reading, or words you’d like me to say.

The ritual begins with a safe space for sharing, where you’ll feel held and listened to.

I’ll then softly rock your whole body, from your head all the way down to your toes. This is followed by a gentle massage in the abdominal/pelvic area.

When you’re feeling relaxed after the massage, I’ll wrap you in rebozos from head to toe. While you’re wrapped, I’ll bring in other elements, like your favourite meditations, or some gentle drumming around your body to help you relax even further.

The ceremony ends with a reading to bring you back into the room. I’ll then carefully unwrap you.

After the ceremony, we’ll share cacao and home-baked treat. And I’ll hold space for you to share whatever might have come up for you during the ritual.

Clients have described the experience as truly magical, intimate and healing. And said they emerged feeling renewed, powerful and full of bliss.

As well as being a massage therapist, I’m an experienced doula, supporting women and birthing people through pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Bodywork, which includes pregnancy massage, can be added to those care packages.

After birth, postnatal massage can help your body to heal and recover more quickly. It can also help you adapt to caring for a newborn.

My postnatal massage can:

• Reduce stress and feelings of overwhelm
• Give you space to focus on your recovery
• Soothe tired muscles and improve wellbeing
• Ease neck, back and shoulder tension from carrying your baby.

The prices listed are a reflection of my skill set, my experience and also what I feel I need as a small business owner considering my own financial needs and commitments. I want to honour that my pricing might not be accessible to everyone, and that as someone who has navigated solo parenting and a complex benefits system in the past, I understand and am passionate about cost not being a barrier. I am open to people contacting me to discuss a different payment plan or a reduced rate and this will be offered at a discretionary basis based on my workload and availability at the time. I will always strive to support you in the way you specifically need, whilst making sure I am also held and provided for.

Looking for massage to help with relaxation, pain, discomfort or pregnancy?

A support session will give you space to talk, to be witnessed, to share… and for us to come together to develop support that feels right for you.

The session is £75 and includes a discussion about your needs, a physical assessment, a personalised care plan, and a session of bodywork.