CranioSacral Therapy for Tinnitus in Oakland

You’re in the right place if you are looking into CranioSacral Therapy to help your tinnitus. From my studio in Oakland (Rockridge) my clients have found successful reduction of their tinnitus symptoms. There are many factors that can cause tinnitus and CranioSacral can help – especially when paired with other mind-body healing efforts from dietary, fitness, and lifestyle changes. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, we’re all too familiar with the stress of our urban lifestyle that may be making us more prone to experiencing tinnitus. CranioSacral Therapy is one healing modality worth exploring.

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.

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What is Tinnitus and What Causes It?

Tinnitus is the perception of noise or ringing in the ears. Causes can vary from excessive wax build up in the ear, damage to the eardrum, or infection of the inner ear with a plethora of less obvious causes. 

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 anxiety
CranioSacral Therapy for migraines
CranioSacral Therapy for TMJ
CranioSacral Therapy for Concussions

Also Now offering Holistic Pelvic Care™ treatments!

Does Craniosacral Therapy Work for Tinnitus?

Most people work well with a treatment once a week or every two weeks. I would say that over 90% of those I treat at least six times notice that they are not affected by their tinnitus as much, and feel more comfortable with it. The tinnitus is there but it is not nearly such a big deal. Craniosacral therapy is particularly good for tinnitus as it works very specifically on the parts of the central nervous system that switches off the stress response. It helps people come out of the freezing response, pass through fight or flight, back towards the ideal and calm state of homeostasis.

Why Does Craniosacral Therapy Work for Tinnitus?

CranioSacral Therapy (CST) works with the underlying cause of imbalance in the nervous system. It also aims to reduce restrictions of the bones, especially of the temporal bone which houses the ear, muscles and ligament attachments which when hypertonic (contracted) can exacerbate the problem. CranioSacral Therapy also removes restrictions on the bones of the skull, spinal column and sacrum allowing the cerebrospinal fluid to flow. When restricted, anything connected to this system is in stress, or distress. CranioSacral Therapy along with relaxation therapies such as neck massage or reiki, reduces the Tinnitus and the anxiety and stress that go along with it. 

The central nervous system is able to let go and switch off when genuine support is offered. When this sense of support is felt through direct contact, and the nervous system experiences a calm, clear and manageable contact, this brings in a very real possibility of transformation. We can only let go when we feel safe, and someone is there to hold us. Craniosacral therapy also brings sensitivity and energetic awareness into contact with your body. This gradually helps you develop your own awareness of how you really are inside at a deep level. In my mind it is one of the best therapies for bringing the nervous system back into a state of manageable calm.

Holistic Pelvic Care™:

HPC™ Initial Intake session - 90 min/$330
HPC™ Follow-up session - 60 min/$220

In our initial 90 minute Holistic Pelvic Care session in Oakland, your specific womb and pelvic floor concerns will be evaluated and an average treatment plan of 2-8 sessions may be recommended.