An Advanced Clinical Massage and ScarWork Therapist, Cécile is trained in Holistic & Relaxation Massage as well as Sports and Remedial Therapy. She specialises in complex pathologies, chronic pain, and scar tissue. Her practice covers a wide range of techniques, but it is her extensive training in Myofascial Release in its many forms that truly resides at the heart of her approach to bodywork. She is a certified ScarWork Therapist (both the Sharon Wheeler’s and the RESTORE approach) and is very passionate about the functional improvements it offers in the long term. Drawing from this varied knowledge and array of techniques, she helps clients to find lasting relief through a better understanding of their body by teaching and promoting daily self-care and mindfulness.
Cécile first encountered massage while studying Physical Theatre, Puppeteering and Acrobatics in an international school where she was also introduced to Feldenkrais and the Alexander technique. Fascinated by physiology, her practice is very much influenced by her theatre training – a positive, responsive, and intuitive approach combined with a precise understanding and use of body mechanics and based on a thorough assessment of the body in movement.
Registered with the CNHC, a member of the Massage Training Institute, Fascia Hub and Gil Hedley’s online worldwide community of Somanauts, she works with a variety of clients – professional musicians and physical performers as well as artists and desk workers, pre and post-natal clients, military and medical staff, clients suffering from long covid, fibromyalgia and ME, pre and post-surgery clients, marathon runners, yoga/pilates practitioners to name a few – tailoring her treatments to their short and long term needs.
Trust and collaboration between client and therapist are essential to her and she aims at progressively building a solid therapeutic alliance.
When she isn’t at the clinic, Cécile can be found tap dancing and ceilidh dancing, swimming, practicing yoga and meditation. She is always keen to try new physical activities to learn and understand what the mind/body goes through from the inside out to better help her clients in sessions.
She completed the BTEC Professional Diploma in Advanced Clinical Massage Therapy with the Jing Institute of Massage and Complementary Medicine in March 2024. It is a 3-year degree-level qualification and the highest level of clinical and sports massage training in the UK.
