Meet Simona

Licensed Massage TherapistRoll Model® Method Practitioner

I’ve spent seven years and thousands of hours helping people navigate pain and discomfort related to injuries, aging, stress, pregnancy, recovery, and everyday life.

Over those years, I’ve come to realize that creating lasting change in the body is a learning process. And like any kind of learning, it requires participation. It can’t only be something that’s done to you.

I know this process from my work, but I also know it from my own life.

Early in my career, I spent two years living with daily back pain. During that time, a massage therapist taught me how to use therapy balls for self-myofascial release. I began using them almost every day while also learning how to move differently, get stronger, breathe, experiment, and pay closer attention to what actually changed how I felt.

It changed much more than my back pain. It changed the way I worked with my own clients. I became increasingly interested in helping people participate in the process—to notice, experiment, and develop tools they could use outside the treatment room.

I’m interested in helping people feel more at home in their bodies through every stage of life—whether they’re navigating pregnancy and birth, recovering from surgery, adjusting to aging, or simply learning how to respond with greater confidence to the inevitable aches, pains, and changes that come with living in a human body.

Outside of work

My husband and I met in massage school, we often collaborate and teach workshops together. I invite you to explore his bodywork and movement classes if you are curious about cultivating a deep movement practice.

We’re raising two kids together, and these days I’m especially enjoying the practice of being a wife and mother—roles that continue to teach me about patience, attention, growth, and change.

After having my second baby, I fell in love with the practice of calisthenics. There’s something deeply satisfying about working toward a physical skill that you simply cannot rush. Right now, I’m working on my chest-to-bar pull-ups and pistol squats—and keeping myself strong enough to roughhouse with my very strong two-year-old. I can’t have him surpassing me in handstands and pull-ups too soon.

In a lot of ways, the things I care about outside of work are the same things that shape my work: paying attention, staying curious, practicing consistently, and seeing what becomes possible over time.