Hi — I'm Nate.

I've been doing bodywork for 12+ years. Long enough to have stopped chasing technique for technique's sake, and long enough to know that the most powerful thing on any given day is rarely the fanciest tool in the kit.

I started in massage. Swedish, deep tissue, the standard track. Within a couple years I realized that for a lot of clients, the muscle was just the doorway — what was actually stuck was further in. That sent me to Reiki, and eventually to becoming a Reiki Master. The energy work changed how I did the manual work, and the manual work kept me grounded in what bodies actually do.

Coaching came later. I kept noticing that clients would lie down with shoulder pain and get up wanting to talk about a job they hated, or a marriage they were avoiding, or a version of themselves they'd lost track of. The body knows first. So I trained, got certified, and added coaching to the practice. Now I get to work with people on both sides of the conversation.

How I work

Three things, every session:

1. Listen first. I want to know what your body has been doing — not just what hurts. The story matters.
2. Work with what's there. Plans get adjusted. If you came in for deep tissue but your nervous system needs Swedish today, we'll have that conversation.
3. Send you home with something to do. I'm not the whole solution. Two sessions a month plus the right home practice will outperform weekly massage and no homework, every time.

Credentials

• · Licensed Massage Therapist
• · Reiki Master
• · Certified Life Coach

Where you'll find me

I see clients out of Essence Salon and Spa LLC at 15 S Oak St, Union, MO 63084. Sessions Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9 to 5, plus Saturdays by appointment. All booking goes through Vagaro — link below.