I deeply wish I could wave a magic wand and say, “My office is open, come see me in person!”, but we’re just not there yet and it’s not clear when we will be. I miss you all so much. In the meantime, I want to give a few examples of what online sessions look like and how they can be useful.
My living room turned home office.
M got in touch recently because her back was hurting. She was hoping for an in-person session, but since I didn’t have a timeline for that, she scheduled a 30 minute online session instead. I asked M a bunch of questions about when her back was hurting and what the causes were, same as I would do in person, and we were able to pin down the cause and troubleshoot it. I spent the rest of the session teaching her some easy homework to do to take care of her back. She felt much better after doing a few minutes of it.
S is a new client who I started working with a couple of weeks ago on shoulder and neck pain from some old injuries. In both of our sessions thus far, I’ve guided her through some hands-on work on herself. I’ve taught her how to free up her collarbones in a similar way that I would with my own hands, and I’ve had her use her hands to both stabilize and free up her neck. New client online sessions are an hour, and so far our follow-ups have been an hour as well. That may change later based on what she needs.
L is another new client (from Olympia, WA - remote work has a benefit!). She and I have been working together for a month and a half on the many types of pain she experiences through her left side, most initiating from an old ankle injury or anxiety. She’s got a very sensitive nervous system and found an hour to be too much input during our first session, so we’ve been doing 30 minute sessions. I teach her one or two new pieces of homework each time, ranging from getting to know her toes on her left foot to how to let her elbows be weighted when she practices piano.
They are not the same as in-person, but these sessions are helpful for many people. And if they don’t make sense for you, please take good care of yourself. I’ll see you soon.