Whole Person Wellness sessions are very broad offerings, because April understands that each individual is just that, individual. People come to her pink chairs from all types of lived experiences, traumatic pasts, curveballs from life, and so much more. Most of them saying, “I’ve tried everything” and not knowing where else to turn for help. April pulls from her personal wisdom and her practical training to guide and challenge her clients in growth. April offers services such as intuitive bodywork, Craniosacral Therapy, deep holistic nutrition counseling, trauma resolution therapy, and emotional release therapy in a uniquely curated way to meet their needs.

BabyCALM is a program developed by April in her 20+ years of working with infants. This program is designed for babies having feeding or sleeping issues, babies who never seem to settle or are constantly rigid, and babies who may have been born through traumatic circumstances. Babies can’t speak to us in a way most people understand, but they do have stories to tell and their own lived experiences just like we do, and they need help working through them when they get stuck, just like we sometimes do. BabyCALM combines infant craniosacral therapy and massage, nervous system resets, lactation or feeding counseling, and parent and caregiver education and counseling

An increasing rate of infants suffer from oral restrictions or ties. With over 20 years of lactation counseling experience, April is able to detect restrictive ties that often play a large role in breastfeeding struggles, impaired infant weight gain, clogged ducts, mastitis, and maternal pain with breastfeeding. April works closely with local oral surgeons to coordinate care for infants before and after oral tie releases. In pre and post tie release sessions April assesses each infant and their unique needs and is able to pull from her large skill set to help baby release tension, learn effective sucking. She also works with the breastfeeding parent to learn positioning, latching and many other skills to help maintain the breastfeeding relationship.

Intuitive body work is a combination of April’s formal training in both massage therapy and craniosacral therapy interlaced with her own personal wisdom and close connection to her intuition. In his book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, author Bessel van der Kolk, MD describes the ways in which our experiences are held, almost captive, in our physical body. April profoundly understands this and sees it almost daily in her practice. As a result April is able to help people find their blocks, and where they are “stuck” in their body. This is a powerful tool as it allows people not only to recognize their blocks, but helps them to build a stronger mind-body connection, release the things their body has held onto and move forward with a greater awareness of themselves

April has a unique perspective on birth, having trained as a midwife in both home and hospital settings and practicing  as a CPM in home birth settings, along with decades of experience as a doula. She has seen and heard every “I wish I'd known that before.”  In prenatal consultations April will walk with you through the web of choices and information that fall into your lap when you are expecting. Things like places of birth, care provider options, your choices and how to stack the cards so you have the best chances of achieving those choices, interventions and side effects, nutrition for childbearing years, and prep for postpartum.

In these sessions April combines her formal massage therapy skills with over 20 years of experience palpating bellies as a Midwife to help pregnant people find more comfort during pregnancy, relieve tension, prepare for birth and on top of all of that, relax. These highly attuned sessions in the last weeks of pregnancy can help to encourage baby to move lower and more centrally into the pelvis to help encourage natural onset of labor.