Hi, I’m Lynsi.

Minnesota-born, Wisconsin-raised, and now happily rooted in Colorado with my husband and plant babies.

I’ve been a Licensed Massage Therapist since 2016, after completing a 1,400-hour bodywork program in Minnesota that blended both Eastern and Western traditions: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shiatsu, Thai massage, and “Western” therapeutic and Swedish massage. Since then, I’ve also completed certifications in advanced massage cupping and oncology massage. Prior to becoming a massage therapist, I took a shot at being an art historian, walked away with an M.A. but no job, a decent amount of debt, and zero regrets (I still firmly believe the humanities will save us).

Over the years of doing this work and learning to exist in my own body, I realized something crucial. No matter what intervention you choose, your nervous system decides whether or not to receive it. Our brains resist this truth, but it’s the nervous system that’s actually running the show. Yours talks to mine. Mine talks to yours. And, together, they’re in constant dialogue with everything around us, expanding and retracting.

Despite entering into a body-based profession, I struggled for many years to use anything other than the brute force of my logic and cognition to attempt to “feel better.” Once diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, I would swing rapidly in and out being activated and engaged to falling off the wagon and crashing hard (I didn’t know it then, but this was just my nervous system cycling in and out of freeze mode). Needless to say, this brings with it a host of other health-related issues and, more importantly, the stories around my “story” which were never helpful. So, I kept reading, over-intellectualizing, buying supplements, sitting and thinking, trying to meditate, practicing gratitude, doing yoga, keeping active, using light therapy, acupuncture, you name it. If I just learned enough about this, I was pretty sure I could puzzle this out with my brain. For a long time, I thought I had all the tools—certainly all the cognitive ones—but they weren’t “working” and I couldn’t figure out why.

Nervous system work changed that. It answered the “why can’t I…?” questions that followed me for decades. Now, it’s the lens through which I understand the body, our relationships, and the way we move through the world. Instead of “Why can’t I…?”, it’s “Of course this is difficult.” What was previously a failing on my part to be able to “fix” myself was just my nervous system trying to help me do just that. I just wasn’t listening. At all.

Now, I listen.

That’s how I hope to support you: by sharing what I’ve learned through my own trial and error, and by being an empathetic, nonjudgmental, and steady guide as you navigate your own path back to regulation and safety. After years of learning and doing this work, I want to show up for both of our nervous systems, together. Nervous system work might give you the rationale and intervention you’ve been looking for this entire time, as it did me.

Outside of the professional realm, I love coffee and donuts and the mountains and feeding my backyard squirrels and traveling and learning and good movies and random books and theater and art museums—anything that shows me what it means to be alive. I have an old and dusty black belt in karate and still enjoy yoga when my hypermobile body allows for it to be done safely, but otherwise just appreciate moving my body in simple ways that are kind and supportive rather than depleting.

Thanks for reading. I look forward to working with you.