Kelly Whisman Licensed Massage Therapist

Deep Tissue

Slow, specific work into the layers that have been holding on the longest.

60 minutes
$85
90 minutes
$105
A therapist’s hands working along a draped client’s shoulder, with leaf shadows falling across the wall behind.

Deep tissue has a reputation for being something you endure. It should not be.

The point is not pressure for its own sake. It is finding the tissue that is actually restricting you — which is often not where the pain is — and giving it enough time and enough patience to let go. That takes slow work into the deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue, and it is why the ninety minute session is the one most people settle into after their first visit.

Done properly, it improves range of motion, eases the severe, stubborn tension that a lighter massage skims over, and helps injured tissue heal in a better pattern than it would on its own.

I will ask about your history because it matters. A shoulder that was hurt in high school changes how you carry yourself twenty years later. Knowing that changes where I start.

You will get feedback throughout: where I am working, what I am feeling, and whether the pressure is right. If it is too much, say so. That is not a failure of toughness, it is information, and it makes the session work better.