FAQs

No. However, superbills containing license numbers, treatment codes, session notes, and the necessary information for reimbursement, can be provided to those who have out of network benefits, health share accounts, and other means of obtaining session cost coverage.

Yes! The City of Fort Collins, New Belgium, and many other employers offer reimbursement and stipends for massage, Rolfing, and Structural Integration.

Schedule online at wholesometherapies.as.me, call or text (303 900 8937), or email FrontDeask@WholesomeTherapies.com

Fort Collins (Tues, Wed, Thurs), Boulder (Mon, Fri), North Platte NE (about once monthly)

Sessions are between 30-minutes (mostly for kids), 60-minutes, and 90-minutes. 90-minute sessions are highly recommended, especially for first time clients to provide more opportunity for intake, assessment, treatment, and debrief.

This is an individual decision where factors like urgency, lifestyle, age, financial resources, and availability come into play. Some clients are seen multiple times within a week, and some are seen once. If your body and health is regularly compromised from long standing injury, profession, hobbies, or other, you have the time, drive, and finances to consistently receive support, you may need to come in more regularly. If you are overcoming a nagging injury that is mostly healed and needs a little support and you're time is limited, come in for a session or two. Overall, your needs and capacity are what take priority in determining frequency of treatment.

Cash, check, and Venmo are preferred as they come without additional fees. Paypal, Zelle, and credit card including Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts (FSA and HSA) are also welcome.

Female clients overcoming injuries and limiting beliefs, investing heavily into their personal development and pursuing a greater life, are who I’m currently working with most.

Understanding life includes surprises and unexpected interruptions, the Wholesome Therapies cancelation policy is sensitive to this part of the human experience. Therefore: ~ Each client's first non-emergency cancellation within 24 hours has a one-time waiver of session cost. ~ The 2nd non-emergency cancellation within 24 hours results in a 50% session cost. ~ The 3rd and subsequent non-emergency cancellation within 24 hours results in a 100% session cost with future sessions needing to be paid for at time of scheduling. The intention of this policy is to be sensitive to life's challenges while being respectful of others.

Ida Rolf coined the term Structural Integration, and a majority of her clients stayed with the term Rolfing. While other schools, including Anatomy Trains, took Ida’s work and built on it, the original intentions of Structural Integration have been to realign the body's structure, improve posture, and increase body awareness, with the goals of reducing pain and tension, enhancing movement and flexibility, and promoting emotional well-being. Structural Integration is often delivered as a series of sessions (e.g., the "Rolfing 10-series" or the “Anatomy Train 12-series") to systematically work through the body. Learn more here

Anatomy Trains builds on the foundations collected by Ida Rolf with an anatomically specific map of fascial connections, providing practitioners and clients with insights into specific lines and patterns of imbalance. It further distinguishes itself from Rolfing by taking into consideration the influence that the arms lines and head-to-toe spiral lines of tissue continuity have on one’s body. Learn more here

The first step involves completing an initial health intake form, and standing and moving assessments. All of these elements greatly influence how you experience the world through your body, and how your body adapts to your world. Shorter intake check-ins occur during each session.

Practitioners will use their fingers, knuckles, palms, forearms, and elbows in their techniques. Pressure can be applied directly into the skin and body (perpendicular), along with the skin and at an angle to the body (tangential) and even pulling the skin away from the body (think of cupping). Practitioners regularly move specific body parts and ask you to move your own body during treatment. The pressure of touch can be very gentle and sometimes very deep, depending on the targeted tissue, intention, and capacity of your system. Your feedback during the session is extremely important, influences treatment, and is often requested.

The specific touch that SI provides can produce significant sensation and sometimes an awareness of no sensation or numbness. Pain can be relieved, mobility and range of motion can be increased, tension can be released, and dormant tissues can be activated. Emotions and memories - such as injuries, beliefs, values, and recollections - can even come up in sessions. At the end of an SI session, the practitioner will often share corrective exercises and stretches, movement/mechanics modifications (like walking or breathing adjustments), along with suggestions for lifestyle and ergonomic improvements. You can even record these suggestions on your phone, to easily refer back to when practicing at home. Following through with the guidance can greatly improve the gains obtained in the 60 to 90 minute SI sessions.

After sessions, clients typically report feeling at ease, lightness, openness, clarity, and centeredness. Being still, tuning in to how you feel mentally and physically, or walking, and getting into nature helps you remember these desirable sensations and get the most out of your session. Be sure to hydrate to help eliminate stored toxins that may have been released during a session and also to bring nutrients to your body!

After sessions, clients typically report feeling ease, lightness, openness, clarity, centered-ness, and other. Feeling, studying, and focusing on one’s body at this time (by mindful movement, walking, and getting into nature) helps the body remember these desirable sensations and get the most out of your session.

Read the related blog linked here.

The application of most SI often requires your skin to be directly touched by the practitioner. You can wear loose-fitting T-shirts and shorts, or just your underwear in a session.