Craniosacral Healing
With nearly 500 births attended as a midwife, I bring an experienced, intuitive approach to supporting mothers and babies through the childbearing year and beyond.
Come experience a session where your body or your baby can soften, unwind, and be supported without force. A space where healing happens through listening, not fixing.
Craniosacral Healing
For Babies & Newborns
- Breastfeeding & latch challenges
- Tongue tie recovery
- Breathing difficulties
- Colic, reflux, digestive issues
- Sleep issues
- Head shape asymmetry / torticollis
- Sensitivity or discomfort after birth
*Especially supportive for babies born via cesarean, vacuum, or forceps.
Craniosacral Healing
For Mothers
- Relief for back pain, headaches, fatigue
- Optimal fetal positioning
- Pelvic and ligament support
- Postpartum recovery (pelvic floor, cesarean healing)
- Stress, anxiety, hormonal balance
For Children, Adults & Elders
Craniosacral therapy gently releases stress and tension, and headaches, while supporting better sleep and a deeper sense of calm and balance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Craniosacral Therapy?
When the body has more space and mobility, it can function more optimally. This work supports the nervous system, improves circulation, and allows the body’s natural healing intelligence to come forward.
Sessions are done fully clothed in a calm, nurturing environment and are deeply relaxing for both adults and children.
What does a session feel like?
What Can Craniosacral Therapy Support?
During pregnancy and postpartum, it can relieve common discomforts such as neck, back, and pelvic pain, support the nervous system through stress and fatigue, encourage optimal baby positioning, and aid in recovery and integration after birth.
This work meets both mother and baby where they are—offering a calm, supportive space for the body to release tension and return to balance.
What You May Experience
Every session is unique, but many clients report:
- Deep relaxation and a sense of calm
- Release of tension and increased mobility
- Improved sleep (for both babies and adults)
- A feeling of being more centered, balanced, and at ease
Some shifts are felt immediately, while others unfold gradually as the body continues to integrate the work.
What should I expect during a Craniosacral Therapy session for my baby?
While it may appear that very little is happening, this light, intentional touch allows the practitioner to feel the craniosacral rhythm and gently release restrictions within the bones, muscles, and connective tissues.
Some parents notice immediate shifts in their baby, while others notice changes unfold gradually over time, depending on what the body is working through. It’s common for babies to feel deeply relaxed after a session, and many will sleep especially well. Babies can remain in your arms for the entire session if that feels best. This helps them stay calm, regulated, and connected while receiving the work.
In some cases, a single session is enough to create meaningful change, while other babies may benefit from a series of treatments for more lasting results.
Is Craniosacral Therapy supportive for all ages—elders, adults, and children?
For children, it can help regulate sensitive nervous systems and support growing bodies. Adults often experience a release of tension, stress, and overwhelm, along with a deeper sense of calm and clarity. For elders, it offers a quiet, restorative approach that supports comfort, mobility, and integration.
By engaging the body’s natural healing intelligence, craniosacral therapy creates space for meaningful, lasting shifts—both physically and energetically.
How long is a typical session?
Sessions are unhurried and tailored to your individual needs.
- 60-minute session
- 75-minute session
Each session includes a brief check-in, hands-on treatment, and time to gently transition afterward.
I offer individual sessions and thoughtfully designed packages for ongoing support and deeper, lasting results. Some clients notice changes after one session, while others benefit most from a series. This depends on what your body (or your baby’s body) is working through.
Some clients notice changes after one session, while others benefit most from a series. This depends on what your body (or your baby’s body) is working through. We can discuss a plan that feels supportive and realistic for you.
Tell me about Craniosacral Therapy for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum
Craniosacral Therapy for Preconception, Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum
Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle, hands-on treatment that supports the body in returning to balance and optimal function. Using light, intentional touch—about the weight of a nickel—this work engages the body’s natural rhythms to release restrictions and restore ease within the tissues. Sessions are done fully clothed in a calm, supportive environment.
Preconception & Fertility
If you are preparing for or trying to conceive, craniosacral therapy can help address imbalances or restrictions within the pelvis and reproductive system. By supporting alignment, circulation, and nervous system regulation, it creates a more receptive foundation for conception and invites the body into a state of readiness and ease.
Pregnancy & Birth
As the body changes during pregnancy, areas of restriction can impact comfort, mobility, and even the baby’s positioning. Craniosacral therapy helps create more space within the body, allowing babies to move and settle more freely. Mothers often describe a sense of relief, deeper relaxation, and a stronger connection to their bodies and their babies as they prepare for birth.
Postpartum
In the postpartum period, this work gently supports recovery, integration, and replenishment. It can help release tension held in the body from pregnancy and birth, restore balance, and offer a quiet, restorative space during a time of profound transition.
Throughout all stages, craniosacral therapy supports both mother and baby in settling into a deeper state of ease—encouraging bonding, regulation, and the body’s natural healing intelligence.
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Whether you are seeking support for your baby, your body, or your family, this is a space where you are gently held and supported.
Schedule your session and give yourself (or your baby) the space to soften, release, and come back into balance.
Craniosacral Healing
Through light touch the body is communicating through his/her rhythms while relieving pain and dysfunction in the body. The craniosacral system includes the bones, sutures, fluids, membranes and soft tissue from the head to the pelvis. There is a slow, gentle rhythm that can be felt throughout the entire body. I work with the rhythm to release tension and encourage healing at the core of the body through light touch. William Sutherland, the founder of craniosacral therapy said, “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.” By helping to correct and bring the body into balance, we help the body to align structurally and get all of the systems working properly. I personally feel that not every baby needs to be treated, but what a gift to a baby if they could be evaluated to release restrictions in the body before they become an issue later in life.
Craniosacral Healing for Babies
Craniosacral therapy is a gentle, non-invasive and effective hands-on therapy that benefits babies adjusting after a long or difficult birth, or as wellness care. It is safe and beneficial for newborns after birth by relieving restrictions in the body to create health, harmony and well-being.
Newborns benefit from this therapy because of the intense pressure on the cranium during the birthing process to fit through the mother’s pelvis. During birth, the cranium bones of the head naturally override each other and then expand back as part of the birth process. However, in some instances, this may not happen and can lead to problems. It can help to prevent breastfeeding challenges by enhancing their tongue thrust, sucking reflex and latch. When a baby has had a frenotomy (clipping of the frenulum under the tongue) to free up a tongue tie, sometimes breastfeeding issues continue. Craniosacral therapy eases the tightness in the baby’s mouth, head and neck, leading to breastfeeding success. If a baby was born by cesarean or with a forceps/vacuum then they especially need this therapy to ease the abrupt pressure that the body went through during the birth. Craniosacral Therapy is important for a challenging birth of any kind or if a baby is experiencing any health problems.
Issues that can be addressed with Craniosacral Therapy include:
- Breastfeeding challenges
- Latching problems
- Breathing difficulties
- Colic, fussy babies
- Digestive issues/ constipation
- Reflux
- Sleeping issues
- Teething pain
- Asymmetry head shape
- Developmental delays
- Spitting up
- Toritcollis -babies favoring turning heads to one side
- Babies that were or is tongue tied
- Babies that seem uncomfortable or overly sensitive
Issues that can be addressed during the childbearing year:
- Nausea / Vomiting
- Neck or Back pain
- Headaches / migraines
- Chronic fatigue / sleeping disorders
- Dizziness
- Low energy
- Immune system boosting
- Vision problems
- Numbness
- Heat or cold sensitivity
- Temporal mandibular joint pain [TMJ]
- Constipation
- Cramping
- Stress and Tension-Related Problems
- Depression / Anxiety
- Sciatic or other nerve pain
- Pubic Symphysis Pain
- Rectus Diastasis
- Pelvic Ligament Pain
- Optimal fetal positioning for birth
- Premature Engagement of Baby in Mother’s Pelvis
- Recovering from Cesarean birth
- Improve pelvic floor strength and function
- Breastfeeding Complications
- Accident injuries
- Poor digestion or constipation
- Chronic pain
- Thyroid disorders
- Hormonal imbalances
- Allergies
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Scoliosis
Craniosacral Therapy for Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum
Craniosacral Therapy is a form of manual therapy that uses gentle touch to help the body come back into balance and function optimally. The body needs mobility and when parts of the body don’t move independently, pain and loss of function may occur. The amount of pressure used is about 5 grams (the weight of a nickel) and the therapy is done fully clothed. Pregnant mothers often report a feeling of ‘more space’ for the baby to move and grow. This treatment helps both the mother and baby to relax, feel more comfortable and bond.
“ I was blessed to receive a cranial sacral session from Tracy; laying down on her treatment table in a warm cozy cabin surrounded by beautiful redwoods, I let my body surrender into deep relaxation. I loved Tracy’s kind compassionate and confident manner and touch. I felt a lot of energies move, especially a strong release of tension around my neck. I left the treatment feeling quiet, centered energized and more balanced. I look forward to sharing this my family especially my 4.5 yr old. Thank you Tracy for sharing This powerful healing gift”
— Ilana Meallem (Aguahara practitioner, environmental peacemaker, mama)
Preconception and Fertility
If you are planning or trying to conceive then receiving Craniosacral Therapy can help treat any imbalances or restrictions in your pelvis and reproductive organs giving you support for an easier conception.
Craniosacral Therapy For The Whole Family
Craniosacral therapy is a wonderful way to support babies, children and adults in a family. It addresses our internal self-healing system and helps empower each person to be part of their own healing.
What should I expect during a Craniosacral Therapy session?
Craniosacral therapy is done wearing comfortable clothing and can be performed in the parents’ arms. The hands-on part of a session for an infant usually lasts 15-45 minutes. Though it may look like nothing is being done, this light, conscious touch is palpating the craniosacral rhythm and releasing restrictions in the bones, muscles, and tissues. Parents may notice immediate change or they may occur over time depending on what is going on for your baby. Babies will often sleep well after a treatment. Often one session is enough, but some babies require several to see a change.
“When a mother is sharing her birth story to me, I often feel the baby teaching me and showing me what took place during the birth with my hands. I feel honored to feel this connection to them both and to be able to hold the space for a baby to do the healing needed to thrive.”
—Tracy Lough