If you are living with trauma, you know the difficulty of keeping up with life. Trauma—whether from a physical, emotional, or other cause—can interfere with your sleep, your health and relationships with others.

Trauma can be held energetically anywhere in the body for many years after the incident, and often needs to be released with energetic and manual bodywork. Heart Centered Therapy, a spoken dialogue technique, may be used to assist the release process. While bodywork is a great adjunct to psychotherapy, it does not replace it.

Click on the links below to see a description of each specific therapy.

Therapy Benefits

Myofascial release

Relaxes tight muscles, enables freer movement, lessens pain, and improves blood flow.

Lymphatic Drainage

Calms nervous system, helps release emotional content which can be carried in the “waters” of the lymphatic system, and stimulates immune system which can be suppressed by the stress of trauma.

Reiki

Clears energy blockages, offers a touch-free therapy for those in extreme pain, calms nervous system, and helps ease the release of emotion.

CranioSacral Therapy

Calms nervous system, releases trauma held in body in the form of “energy cysts”, and balances energy. Used in conjunction with spoken dialog to help clients release physical and emotional traumas safely and become centered by the end of the session.

Reflexology

Balances entire body through the feet, clears chakras, treats organs, induces deep relaxation, and provides an alternative way to treat any part of the body that is too painful to be touched. Trauma is often held in the feet, because they are the part of the body farthest from the head.

testimonial

I came to Phoenix healing Arts because of my chronic body pain. After working with Mimi, my physical symptoms were relieved by her wide range of bodywork methods. At my request, Mimi answered my questions as to what was going on in my body while she was working. She suggested several techniques I could use in between sessions to take care of myself. I especially appreciated it when she created a safe space and dealt with the emotional issues which arose because of my extensive trauma history.

Signed,

C G

“Mimi Rhys is an amazing healer.  She blends her extensive knowledge of the human body with an intuitive understanding of the relationship between the body and the psyche.  I enthusiastically recommend Mimi’s services to anyone.”

DC

I had tried numerous mainstream and alternative modalities over the years to help me heal from a serious car accident over 20 years ago. When I came to see Mimi Rhys, it was to help with back and hip pain. My expectations were low as I had resigned myself to living with the pain as nothing seemed to last. Mimi did a combination of cranial work, myofascial release, and energy work to address my issues. Her work removed the twist in my body (which I had not realized was underneath much of my chronic pain). I would heartily recommend her – especially to anyone who thinks there is no lasting relief for them from pain.
DB