CranioSacral Therapy for Anxiety in Oakland
I’m so glad you are looking into CranioSacral Therapy to treat your anxiety. From my studio in Oakland (Rockridge) my clients report a reduction of overall anxiety from regular CST sessions and other daily mindfulness practices. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, we’re all too familiar with the stress and anxiety of everyday life. CranioSacral Therapy is one healing modality that may help ease your anxiety and support your nervous system.
In my sessions, I incorporate CranioSacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, SomatoEmotional Release and energy work. It is my goal that you leave your session feeling empowered around your own health and more connected to your body. CranioSacral Therapy helps reconnect you to your body’s innately wise and self-healing capacities. I believe that physical injuries and illnesses are our opportunity to communicate with our deeper wisdom.
How Do We Get Anxiety?
When people experience anxiety, it is an emotional response to various triggers often based in long-rooted beliefs. Sometimes the anxiety is generalized to many situations while other times anxiety is in response to social interaction or connected to an intense fear of heights, public speaking, and many other things. Anxiety experienced in the body can cause a feeling of restricted breathing, muscle tension, headaches, digestive problems, skin rashes, or general aches and pains.
What is CranioSacral Therapy?
CranioSacral Therapy uses a gentle touch to evaluate and release restrictions in the soft tissues. Once the tissue is released, the body doesn’t have to spend the extra energy to work around the restricted area and you will feel much better. By freeing the central nervous system to perform at its best, CranioSacral Therapy naturally eliminates pain and stress, strengthens your resistance to disease, and enhances your health and well being.
As a skilled CranioSacral therapist, I listen with my hands to the subtle rhythms of the body, detecting restrictions and imbalances held in its various systems, especially the nerves, tissues and fluids. As shifts and changes happen in your body, I will ask you questions to continue to guide the process, and support you to connect with your body’s inner wisdom. Sometimes there are just physical changes, and sometimes during a session CranioSacral Therapy facilitates the gentle release of unprocessed emotion and trauma.
From my Oakland studio, I serve the East Bay communities from Walnut Creek to Berkeley and clients come from San Francisco and Marin for:
CranioSacral Therapy for mom’s and babies
CranioSacral Therapy for migraines
CranioSacral Therapy for tinnitus
CranioSacral Therapy for TMJ
CranioSacral Therapy for Concussions
Also Now offering Holistic Pelvic Care™ treatments!
Does Craniosacral Therapy work for Anxiety?
Although CranioSacral therapists are not psychotherapists, they are trained to release restrictions in the body. Emotions are often linked to tension held in the body and sometimes can be released along with physical restrictions. In that way, CranioSacral Therapy can help to address the root causes of anxiety and depression without the use of medications. CranioSacral Therapy has been experienced as calming to the central nervous system, allowing the body and mind to be stronger and more resilient.
I have recommended many people who suffer from anxiety give CranioSacral Therapy a try. Everyone I know who has experienced CranioSacral Therapy, reports that CranioSacral Therapy provides a profound relaxation with lingering positive benefits and pronounced relief from anxiety in particular.
Why does Craniosacral Therapy Work for Anxiety?
The CranioSacral System consists of the brain, spinal cord, membranes and fluid within it. The fluid has a rhythm all its own, similar to the tide of the ocean or your heartbeat and pulse. When there is a disruption in the flow of this fluid imbalance in the body and mind can occur. And it works the other way too…When we have emotional responses to anxiety-provoking experiences and this emotion cannot be expressed in a way that is healthy, this emotion is remembered or stored in the tissues of the body, the muscles, bones and organs.
When people experience CranioSacral Therapy, the body relaxes, the brain activities slow down and the ego with its defense mechanisms gets out of the way. The stored emotions often will surface for the purpose of release and healing. CranioSacral Therapy uses a whole-person approach to healing, acknowledging that the mind, body, and spirit are intricately connected. CranioSacral Therapy calms the mind and restores its connection with the body. This integration of our mind, body, spirit and emotions is profoundly relaxing and restorative.
Sirena can work miracles with her hands. She worked on me when I had a migraine and it was gone! She is a gifted and loving healer, I couldn’t recommend her more!
Sirena provides a wonderful and safe holding environment. She’s thoughtful and is always fully engaged in the work. I always walk out of her cozy office feeling uplifted and lear. Highly recommend.