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THERAPISTS

Meet the Balanced Massage Team

We’re here to help you be active, happy, and healthy!

Our skilled massage therapists have decades of experience providing healing and restorative massage therapy. We all continue our education with regular professional development to keep up with cutting-edge practices and healing modalities. We’ve built Balanced Massage on the personalized service and customized experience you get every time you visit. Just like you, every therapist and every healing modality is different. If your first experience isn’t perfect, we encourage you to try another therapist to find the fit that is just right for you. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Our clients experience amazing results!

We know how important your good health and comfortable mobility is. Our goal is always to help you regain and maintain the quality of life you need to be happy, healthy, and fulfilled. You deserve the best!

We’re proud to have been voted Best Massage Therapist

by the Medford Sneak Preview’s readers 5 times.

Rebecca Ballard, Licensed Massage Therapist at Balanced Massage

REBECCA BALLARD, She/Her, LMT# 20078

Rebecca has 18 years of experience in the healing arts, with over six years of experience doing medical massage and therapeutic massage. As a master energy healer her philosophy is that each human being comprises four territories; physical, cerebral, emotional and spiritual. She believes in the connection between the body and mind and treats her clients wholistically.

Rebecca specializes in medical massage, energy healing, therapeutic massage, myofascial release, cranial sacral, trigger point, deep tissue and prenatal massage. By integrating her specialized massage skills with a deep intuitive ability, Rebecca targets the specific needs of each person and creates a profound impact for her client’s wellbeing.

When Rebecca isn’t offering relief to her clients, she is helping her community find peace and sanctuary while buying or selling their homes as a real estate agent. You can also find her out on the hiking trails as she has a strong passion for the outdoors.

KATHERINE BUONO, She/Her, LMT# 16173

Katie has been preparing for her path as a massage therapist for many years. A car accident in 2007 propelled Katie to study somatic and mindful movement to relieve her chronic pain, and inadvertently led to a degree in Dance from Oberlin College. Despite hearing from doctors “you’ll just be in pain for the rest of your life”, she started taking movement classes and found relief in mindful and somatic movement, as well as postural awareness training. This background influences her approach to bodywork and helps her intuit and recommend home exercises to help bring relief for her clients’ pain. Her interest in healing and the body continues to grow, which led her to pursue a certificate in Chi Gong and as a Registered Yoga Teacher.

With a strong and intuitive touch, Katie’s specialties are therapeutic relaxation massage, integrative bodywork, myofascial stretching, trigger point massage, and offering tailored somatic movements for at-home self-care.

When not helping clients experience more freedom in their bodies, she enjoys artistic hobbies including drawing, crocheting, baking, arranging flowers and gardening (which she is admittedly still learning). She’s been a Registered Bach Flower Remedy Practitioner since 2012 and is humbled by the healing power of nature. Katie enjoys studying both ancient and cutting-edge techniques as a massage therapist and looks forward to offering up her unique talents to our community.

Cara Wirt, massage studio owner

CARA WIRT, She/Her, LMT #10689, CAMT I, Owner*

*For a limited time Cara is accepting new clients into her schedule. If you have chronic pain, are healing an injury, or just need regular maintenance to keep up with your active lifestyle don’t wait to get on her schedule and find relief!

Cara founded Balanced Massage in 2004 and has been helping people of all ages and abilities move freely ever since. In addition to being a Licensed Massage Therapist, she is also a Certified Advanced Myofascial Therapist.  With a background studying alignment and body mechanics Cara is able to find and remedy the root cause of many imbalances in the body. Cara’s specialties are structural therapeutic massage, myofascial release, deep tissue, exercise and postural coaching, chronic pain and injury rehabilitation, and prenatal massage. She excels at helping her clients create balance and restore function in their bodies.

Cara was drawn to this work after her own success healing a whiplash injury with the power of medical massage. She was amazed at the results and wanted to provide others with the peace and freedom from pain that she experienced so dramatically at that time in her life. She believes that massage combined with proper functional movement can relieve most symptoms.

Cara brings her passionate belief that massage is an integral part of ongoing health and balance to her business and is determined to help people live, move, and maintain optimal health at every age and stage of life.

What Our Clients Say

“I am an active thirty-something who gets muscle soreness from daily job rigors to my weekend warrior activities. Routine massage maintenance from Balanced Massage has been a great remedy for me to keep up my quality of life comfortably for the past 10 years.”

Jon, age 39

“This is the best place to receive a massage. It is so easy to book a massage on line. The atmosphere is so relaxing and the massage takes care of all the tight muscles and stress.”

Gail
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