I’m a New York State Licensed Massage Therapist, trained at Pacific College of Health and Science, with intensive study in Sports/Medical Massage and Tui Na—Chinese internal medical massage—under Master Yang Fukui.

My work is grounded in close attention to how the body moves, adapts, protects itself, and returns to ease. I study Qi Gong with Master Hal Asbury, an ongoing practice that continues to deepen my understanding of internal movement, breath, and flow.

While my early studies in sports medicine gave me a strong foundation in anatomy and function, they also led me toward gentler, nervous-system-informed approaches. I draw on the clinical principles of Dermoneuro Modulation, developed by Diane Jacobs: a careful, specialized approach to skin contact that considers the relationship between the subcutaneous nervous system, sensation, and the central nervous system.

I am also an Advanced-level student in the three-year Somatic Experiencing® training program, developed by Dr. Peter Levine. This body-oriented therapeutic model explores patterns of fight, flight, and freeze with care and at a pace that supports safety, resilience, and renewed agency. I study with Debra Clydesdale and David Berger.

Over the years, it has been a privilege to bring this learning to thousands of people. Some arrive simply wanting to relax; others are navigating more complex patterns of tension, stress, pain, or dysregulation. Every person brings a different history and a different body. That is what keeps me studying—drawing from established traditions, current clinical thinking, and the practical wisdom gained in the treatment room.

Outside of my practice, I am a lifelong student of Vladimir Vasiliev’s Systema, a Russian martial art and way of living rooted in non-destructive movement, awareness, and breath. Massage and breathing are deeply connected in this tradition, and breath remains a central thread in my own study and work.

Most importantly, I am interested in the person in front of me. The range of people who walk through our door—their experiences, questions, and ways of moving through the world—continues to be my greatest education.

“The Somatic Experiencing® method is a body-oriented approach to healing trauma and other stress disorders. It is the life’s work of Peter A. Levine, PhD, resulting from his multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, psychology, and indigenous healing practices, together with over 50 years of successful clinical application. The SE™ approach releases traumatic shock and restores connection, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. “

Aleks is currently a student in the SE program, he is authorized to practice Somatic Experiencing®

Dermo Neuro Modulation (DNM), a structured, interactive approach to manual therapy that considers the nervous system of the patient from skin cell to sense of self. Techniques are slow, light, kind, intelligent, responsive and effective.

Ortho-Bionomy uses gentle positioning and movements which can allow tension patterns which are creating pain to relax, reset and reorganize from within.

Tui Na (Classical Chinese Massage for orthopedic sport injury and internal medicine. Grounded in traditional Chinese Medicine philosophy, this massage style includes a variety of techniques from stretching, muscle activation, pushing and pulling on tissues, holding acupressure points, manipulation of joints both with assistance and without, tapotement, cupping, as well as the use of herbal liniments and poultices if necessary.

Deep Oscillation is a unique, patented, proven, FDA- Approved non-invasive therapy method that creates biological oscillations using electrostatic attraction and friction. This generates a gentle kneading effect deep within the tissue.

I use a small machine and I wear gloves. It is very gentle and relaxing and is approved for post surgical pain and scar tissue work.

Used specifically in Lymphedema, Scar Therapy, Pre-Post Op treatments, Fibrosis, tendon/ligament tears and ruptures, muscle soreness, muscle repair, muscle and joint pain.

Deep oscillation therapy supports, intensifies, and improves the effects and lastingness of other therapeutic methods and manual techniques such as manual lymphatic drainage, classic massage, anti-edemic therapy and vibrational massage.