Where healing begins and stress ends
Massage with M — a peaceful, home-based sanctuary where healing begins with compassionate connection and supportive touch.
My mission is to nurture human flourishing by offering a safe space for holistic healing, resilience, and inner peace — a place where you can truly rest, release, and reconnect with yourself.
Holding a Safe Space
Building trust and holding a nurturing honoring space.
Cultural Sensitivity
Supporting and respecting your cultural needs, spirituality, rituals.
Our Values
Inclusivity
Embracing every person as an individual, with your own unique needs.
Sensory Awareness
Happy to adapt sounds and smells to soothe, not overwhelm.
Hospitality
We believe in creating a space where every guest feels cared for and at home.
Relationship
We value investing time and careto build trust with every client.
My Story
My journey into massage and holistic healing began from a place of deep personal recovery. After a serious car accident left me wheelchair bound for six months, I had to learn to walk again — navigating multiple injuries and a traumatic brain injury along the way. That time marked the beginning of my journey into understanding the body, healing, and resilience. It was during my recovery that I experienced massage for the first time, from my late Grandma Olive. Her gentle, nurturing touch was more than just physical comfort — it was a moment of being truly cared for. Through her hands, I discovered the power of touch to calm the nervous system and bring me home to my body after trauma. That experience planted the seed for everything that followed. Living with and healing from PTSD — shaped by childhood experiences, the accident, and relationship trauma — deepened my understanding of how our bodies hold and express our stories. It also ignited my passion for self-development and continual learning, not only to support my own healing, but to create positive ripple effects in how I show up in the world. My curiosity and personal healing journey led me to train in social work and trauma-informed care, where I gained a deeper understanding of the emotional, psychological, and social layers of healing. In more recent years, I have followed a calling toward mind-body modalities — including holistic pulsing and fascial unwinding — approaches that gently support the body’s innate wisdom and capacity to release, integrate, and restore balance. Through Massage with M, I offer a space for others to experience that same sense of care, safety, and reconnection that supported my own recovery. My work is grounded in empathy, guided by lived experience, and centred on the belief that true healing happens when we feel safe enough to listen to the body’s messages and allow it to find its way back to harmony.
Training
I’ve spent the past seven years deepening and evolving my bodywork and holistic practice, refining the approaches that feel most aligned, and that consistently support positive outcomes for my clients—supporting them to ease pain, unwind tension, regulate their nervous system, and reconnect with their bodies.
My training spans a range of modalities — including NZQA Level 5 Deep Tissue Remedial, NZQA Level 5 Holistic Pulsing, anatomy & physiology, pregnancy massage, Myofascial release, Fascial Unwinding, advanced Fascial Unwinding (interoception), relaxation massage, RomiRomi and hot stone therapy — giving me the ability to adapt each session to client's individual needs.
Ongoing development is central to my practice. I continue to upskill to ensure my work remains up-to-date, effective, and supportive for physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
With a background in social work (Bachelor of Social Work), my approach is professional, attuned, and grounded. I combine technical skill with a calm, client-centred presence to create bodywork sessions that are restorative, and thoughtfully tailored to each person.
Massage therapists that are members of Respect Massage hold themselves to the highest standards of an ethical, boundary-driven practice.
Respect Massage members have a zero-tolerance policy for solicitations of any kind. Jokes, innuendo, and inappropriate requests are taken seriously and will result in the swift termination of the session.
When choosing a practice displaying the Respect Massage logo, you can have confidence in the safety and professionalism you'll experience as a client.