Massage Therapy

Katrina Shreve is a nurturing and caring person who is driven to achieve effective results for anyone seeking her assistance in improving their health and well-being. She is a respectable, trained professional in the field of Massage Therapy. Katrina dedicates her life to studying Alternative Health Care Methods and a Natural approach to Healing. She believes that every person possesses the ability to heal him or herself and that Nature provides us with the tools we need to preserve and conserve a healthy state of wholeness.

Katrina is a 2001 graduate of Cassadaga Valley Central High School, and already being set on becoming A Holistic Health Care Practioner, she immediately set forth to begin her path of healing to become a Licensed Massage Therapist. Having graduated from the Finger Lakes School of Massage in the fall of 2002, she was prepared to take the New York State Board Exam that following January. Katrina received her license that February and began searching for an opportunity to begin her career. In April of 2003 she was hired at a popular Day Spa in Lakewood, N.Y. Here she remained until she gained one- years worth of experience.

The accredited education Katrina received from FLSM consisted of a wide variety of effective modalities, such as: common Swedish Massage, Sports Massage, Pregnancy, Infant, and Elderly Massage, Reflexology, Neuromuscular Therapy (trigger point work), Shiatsu, Hydrotherapy, and Aromatherapy. Believing that touch can bring back self-awareness, she was also grateful to learn the intensive Anatomy and Physiology, as well as the Kinesology the school offered. Later to add Stone Therapy and pampering Spa services to the list, she also attended a Myofascial Trigger Point Release Therapy, continued education workshop taught by Tasso Spanos in August of 2003. Katrina intends to continue her search for knowledge in the Healing Arts and is determined to expand her credibility by receiving her certification in more Holistic areas. She is currently studying Nature's Sunshine Herbs and will also study under Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal method in the near future. She also intends to achieve National Certification (and eventually International) for Massage and her certification in Aromatherapy. Katrina's knowledge of increasing comfort and relaxation for her clients will consistently grow, as she will constantly be adding other applied techniques to her current list of modalities.

Katrina's approach to helping people begins with compassionately listening to her clients needs and expectations, then assessing which techniques would properly achieve the best results for him or her. By incorporating necessary techniques with relaxing Swedish massage, her clients always walk away happy and refreshed. She also includes suggestions for essential self-care and increases self-awareness to improve their health and increase their comfort, as well as including what other approaches may benefit them.

Katrina is an honest, reliable, open-minded, down-to-earth person with a big heart. Her non-judgmental, non-discriminative demeanor makes it easy to let go and kick back around. You can always expect ethical intentions and treatments from Katrina. Her warm sense of humor and increasing knowledge are comforting and enlightening. She encourages everyone to accept and embrace change and transformation and is always open to your comments and suggestions. Come and see for yourself what you can come to expect in your Massage Therapist! You are always welcome here.