My tenet is rooted in the ancient Chinese thought that “all disease comes from the heart”.
Touch Therapies
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ITT is a treatment process that I developed as a response to my desire to gain deeper access to settling into a rhythm of regulation with my patients as well as responding to the desires of my patients for more hands-on time with me.
In these 50 or 80 minute sessions, I maintain a presence with you throughout the treatment, providing a weaving of various modalities.
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Have you ever considered what it is that animates you? Your body and mind? Or the energy that grows a tree or that moves your one foot in front of the other? All are considered qi. Gong is cultivation, so a cultivation of the energy that we consider “life force”
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CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle manual therapy. I use this therapy to release tensions in the body, nudge a rhythmic flow for the cerebrospinal fluid and to help regulate the central nervous system. I started my journey of studying CST as a practice where I could hone the intuitive skills of subtle tissue, joint and energetic manipulations and adjustments that I was already naturally creatively expressing with my patients.
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My philosophy of understanding pain and stagnation patterns in human bodies respects the knowing that holding tension, whether it is in response to an emotional or psychological trauma, a physical trauma or accident, or repeated stress injury, can create restrictions in the tissues surrounding the holding that need to be released. Myofascial release is my response to these frozen painful areas. Using traction, compression and twisting techniques I slowly release the interconnective tissue that knits together the muscles.
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Cupping has been used for more than 5000 years as a health practice in many cultures. Small cups are placed on the skin and using a pneumatic vacuum pump, the tissue is drawn up into the vessel. This is similar to a “reverse massage”. Cupping will increase circulation bringing in fresh blood to an otherwise stagnant area, transport out accumulated waste products and fluids, and relax contracted tissues.
Gua Sha roughly translates as “dredging meridian stagnation”. A generous amount of oil is applied locally to the area where a tool is applied to “scrape” the skin with pressure, stimulating blood flow in the affected area. This helps to increase the healing of traumatized tissues and relieve pain.
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Sound healing instruments generate sound waves that create a resonance effect across the body’s tissues. This resonance causes an alternation of compression and then relaxation of the cells, akin to a cellular-level massage. When the cell is compressed, some of the fluids are pushed out taking waste products and toxins along. As the pressure relaxes fresh fluids containing nutrients are drawn into the cell, supporting a therapeutic healing process.
Acupuncture
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As a new patient, your initial acupuncture session will include an intake followed by your acupuncture treatment. You will rest on the table for around thirty minutes. Initial session is scheduled as an 80 minute appointment, so allow ample time in your schedule for this longer session. For follow up visits, you will have 50 minutes allotted for a brief intake to review what has been happening for you since the previous session, followed by your acupuncture treatment.
How to prepare for your session
In general, please wear comfortable loose-fitting clothing, refrain from caffeine immediately before a session, and do your best t not come hungry.
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You might be used to thinking of those tight spots in your body that cause pain as knots. When you are in the clinic on my table, I will find epicenters in those “knots” called trigger points. Trigger points can be massaged as well as receive acupuncture. Inserting a thin needle into the trigger point can release the contraction of the muscle and soften the surrounding tissues, as well as increase circulation in the area and reduce inflammation and swelling.
Psychedelic Somatic Therapies (PST)
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My work is to guide my patients to connect to the knowing that they are of their body and that mind and body are one, whilefacilitating the release of stagnant emotional blockages and unprocessed traumas.
Psychedelic Somatic Therapy (PST) is a unique treatment process that I have crafted as an alternative to psychotherapy’s talk-focused approach to healing and transformation with ketamine. I have developed a nuanced and gentle somatic approach as an alternative to the Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT) that is generally offered by licensed therapists and guides. Following my personal work of diving into these medicines as agents for deep insight and transformation, coupled with my study of varied somatic approaches to healing, I have developed a practice over the last six years of helping my patients to stay in closer connection with the somatic body while journeying into altered states within the PST model.
Meet Your Practitoner
Chase Desso, L.Ac
Licensed Acupuncturist & Wellness Practitioner
My studies have focused on pain - both physical and emotional suffering - the pain of the heart and the pain of the body. In my sessions, I integrate a variety of modalities to unwind the body from its state of dis-ease and support your body and mind to let go of patterns of disturbance. My deepest work here is to support your embodiment, which I describe as a presence with your emotional body and your awakening to the subtleties of your body's expressions.