About The owner
Catie Bryans, LMT
GA License #MT012197
It all started when…
Catie first discovered amateur massage techniques while giving mini massages in chorus classes back in high school, a passion sparked for helping others reduce tension with comfortable pressures. This passion developed as she worked on friends and family members occasionally over the years and discovered that not only could she reduce their tension, but could also help alleviate some of their pain!
Working in the very fast-paced environment of the corporate world for over 17 years provided Catie with a wide variety of experiences. Over time, however, finding ways to distress and addressing her own self-care became a challenge. Seeking and learning more about personal nutrition & health, trying and applying these applications, eventually led Catie to make a career change. This deliberation and reflection on her interests re-sparked Catie's passion for massage.
Through a careful and thorough search for a school of massage, Catie discovered Cohutta Healing Arts Institute (CHAI). On top of giving their students an additional 50% over the minimum state required hours of education, she learned many things about herself, even more eye-opening experiences, and surprisingly had quite a few theories she had of health and wellness confirmed.
Among some of the things the educators at CHAI
helped her understand better were:
1) Maintaining stress level is not only beneficial but vital
to one's overall health.
2) Massage is a whole lot more than just "fluff", it's about taking care of yourself. For example, it can actually have some of the effects mild exercise has on the body!
3) Massage can help the recipient heal themselves, but it’s an on-going progress—it doesn't happen all in one session. Oh no, does this mean MORE massages? However will someone survive that??
Therapeutic work has become a large passion of hers. It goes beyond relieving muscle tension; it can focus on helping get to the root of dysfunction and pain issues with a wide variety of methods that can be applied.
Therapeutic massage has been known to be applied with deeper pressure, which is not always comfortable for everyone and not a necessity.
There are gentler approaches and techniques that can be just as effective, and sometimes even more so.
Catie is dedicated to find the pressure that is best suited for the client, according to their comfort level and needs.
Catie helps to make the session just as relaxing as it is therapeutic.
Then there are times a focus on relaxation to help with a reduction of stress can be just as therapeutic. This can also be a good opportunity for therapist to make any assessments that can be addressed in the next session discussed with the client after the session they just had.
Massage Therapy Continuing Education Instructor
Catie is also Lead Instructor at Professional CE Connection, a massage therapy continuing education company known for it’s knowledgeable instructors, variety of quality advanced courses, fun and relaxing learning environment, and repeat class members. They even offer a “mobile” service where massage therapists can host a class at their location and the instructor(s) come to them!
She has taught almost every live, hands-on course there is to offer, in addition a few online-courses. Check out what the training Catie has received and skills she has developed helped her to teach those courses well here!
GA License #MT012197
