Hi, I'm Lisa Kammerud, LMT.

I'm a licensed massage therapist specializing in trauma-informed, clothed bodywork.

"We wound alone;

we heal together."

Through subsequent energy and bodywork sessions, and with the power of the communities with whom I studied, I learned to listen to my own body, to un-thaw the frozen muscles and feelings I had held in for 40+ years.

I didn’t know that so much more connection, joy, and freedom was possible until it arrived.

One of my mentors frequently says, "we wound alone; we heal together." I did not believe that I could be safe with other people, much less be seen at my most authentic. The only way I could - and did - come to believe differently was through the embodied experience of seeing and being seen, and the world not ending, over and over. My body needed new muscle memories of safety! And through my body changing, I claimed my wisdom and my power.

"...my actual work was to deeply listen and be present."

I became an LMT in 2016, after spending over a decade in international development.

I was responsible for adapting the project design and conducting training in partnership with human rights groups and other community organizations. Everywhere I went, from Bangladesh, to Kyrgyzstan, to Senegal - I found that my actual work was to deeply listen and be present with the reality on the ground.

I bring those lessons to working with clients now; and I find that the ability to communicate across language/referential barriers, to facilitate and support the wisdom and strengths of the people around me, and to be satisfied with small changes over time, are all profoundly useful in my work today.