Hi, I’m Christy.
I’m a massage and fascial release therapist, specializing in energy work—a bodywork approach that helps untangle the emotional stories our tissues hold, reducing interference to our natural state of coherence. Additionally, I am also an Awareness Coach, Access Consciousness Bars® Practitioner, Cacao Practitioner, author, and plant medicine advocate. While the majority of time time has been spent in hands-on bodywork for nearly 23 years, I’ve worn many hats. I’m based in Springfield, Missouri, USA, where I’ve been rooted since 2001.
My passion for fascia work deepened after studying with Maria Alfieris of Magical Hands Physical Therapy, attending her transformative two-day workshop in Orlando, FL (July 2024) and again in Atlanta, GA (February 2025), then facilitating her workshop in St. Louis in November 2025. Earlier in 2025, I also completed Paul Chek’s Holistic Lifestyle Coaching Level 1 course, further integrating movement, nutrition, rest, and JOY into my personal life and client sessions.
In January 2025, I agreed to take a leadership role as the Secretary of the Board for the Psychedelic Society of the Ozarks, an organization committed to education, community, and safe practices around psychedelics. This role is a natural extension of my long-standing advocacy for plant medicines. That advocacy deepened even further in 2025 as I began to work with other medicines including Kambo and Hape, among others and traveled to the Peruvian Amazon twice for a 10-day dieta, sitting in ceremony with Ayahuasca 10 times, a sacred experience that continues to influence my work and personal path.
While I hold four life coaching certifications, I prefer the title Awareness Coach because my work isn’t about telling people what to do—it’s about guiding them to become deeply present to their own lives and choices, and this comes from personal self-awareness. I’ve been a licensed and nationally certified massage therapist for over two decades, and my work continually reinforces a truth I hold close: our physical health is inseparable from our mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. My own journey through, and alongside addiction, has shown me that the only person we can truly rescue is ourselves. That’s why I believe self-care is not selfish; it’s foundational. You can’t pour from an empty cup.
As mentioned above, I am a plant medicine advocate. Supporting a non-profit organization rooted in reciprocity, healing and community has been a challenging, but incredible experience thus far and we look forward to continuing to expand that community as my reach continues to expand.
Life before massage therapy taught me a lot about what I didn’t want and more about what I do want to continue to choose. I worked in the legal industry, specifically IT and administration, even managing a branch with 14 attorneys in Chattanooga, TN, before returning to Missouri and co-owning Life Essentials Wellness Center in 2004. Since then, my path has woven through community service (helping allocate $2.1 million grant funded alliance for walkability projects, reviving a 15-year-old garden program for the local food bank), publishing the Ozarks’ first holistic wellness directory in 2012 and 2013, teaching massage business courses at PMTC Massage School, and co-founding the Queen City Beard & Moustache Federation long ago, which went on to raise over $120k for local causes before it began to dissolve to a passionate group of community supporters after the pandemic.
Outside my work, I’m happiest near water—paddling a canoe, kayak, or paddle board—or moving my body through yoga, gentle kundalini practice, or long walks in nature. I’m a fire sign with a deep love of music, dance, and travel, and I’m on track to visit all 50 states before my time here is up.
If you’re ready to reconnect to your body, your emotions, and your own inner wisdom, I’d be honored to walk beside you. Your relationship with yourself is the most important one you’ll ever have—and it’s the only one guaranteed for life.