About

Carmen is a Registered Massage Therapist with a special interest in persistent pain, stress-related symptoms, and psychophysiologic conditions. She helps people build a greater sense of freedom, safety, and confidence in their bodies, drawing on pain science, neuroscience, neuroplasticity, pain psychology, and trauma-informed care.

Pain and physical symptoms rarely have a single cause — they're shaped by the nervous system, stress, emotions, life experience, and overall health. Carmen takes this whole-person view in her work, combining manual therapy, movement therapy, somatic exercise, education, and self-care strategies to support change that lasts. Her sessions are collaborative and consent-based, integrating fascial release, trigger point therapy, muscle energy techniques, craniosacral therapy, and somatic coaching.

Carmen offers her services at Cascadence Massage and Wellness, in Suite 201 at 466 Josephine St, Nelson, BC, Canada. As well as Mobile Treatments within Nelson city limits for those who prefer care in the comfort of their own space.

Her Services

Registered Massage Therapy — Hands-on treatment combining fascial release, trigger point therapy, muscle energy techniques, and craniosacral therapy to address pain, tension, and stress-related symptoms at their root, while calming and regulating the nervous system.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy takes a whole-person approach to healing, honoring the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit. Rather than the practitioner "doing" something to the client, it's an orientation to the body's natural wisdom, allowing innate intelligent processes to arise and bring about authentic physiological and psycho-emotional change.

In practice, the therapist takes up a position of neutrality, listening for subtle movements in the body's fluid and tissue fields, and encourages the forces of health already present to set the priorities of the session. The natural movement toward stillness is seen as deeply healing, with the practitioner's role being to support the body's own resources rather than impose an external agenda.

Somatic Coaching — A guided, body-based approach that helps clients build interoceptive awareness, process stored tension or trauma, and develop tools for lasting nervous system resilience between sessions.

Clinical Pilates (coming soon) — Trained through NEU Mat Pilates Teacher Training, Carmen will offer private clinical Pilates sessions designed to rebuild strength, stability, and movement confidence — bridging the gap between hands-on treatment and long-term physical resilience.

Together, these offerings create a holistic continuum of care: massage therapy to address what's happening in the tissues and nervous system, somatic coaching to deepen the mind-body connection, and movement therapy to build the strength and confidence to carry that progress into daily life.

Please note: Carmen is currently not accepting ICBC or WorkSafeBC claims.