CranioSacral Tallahassee

Assisting you in achieving wholeness of body, mind, and soul

Has your feeling of wholeness been compromised by adverse physical, emotional or spiritual experiences and would you like to restore your wholeness?

A central premise of CranioSacral Therapy is that your body knows how to heal itself. During a session, we tap in to this inner wisdom and use its guidance to assist you towards restoring your wholeness.

Why CranioSacral Therapy?

CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a light touch bodywork modality that approaches healing from a radical different angle then traditional medicine. The traditional western approach to healing involves a therapist or doctor who assesses or diagnoses you and based on that determines the best treatment plan for you. Central to CST is the notion that a part of you is whole and healed. We call this your inner wisdom or inner physician, and this part knows exactly what you need to feel whole again in body, mind and soul. We therefore during a CST session tune in to your inner wisdom and use it guidance to assist you in achieving wholeness of body, mind and soul.

This approach makes CST uniquely suited to work on complex issues that are sometimes hard to approach with the mechanical reductionist approach used in western medicine. CST therapists often have excellent results treating people with a range of conditions such as:

  • Migraine
  • Headaches
  • Chronic Neck and Back Pain
  • Motor-Coordination Impairments
  • Colic
  • Autism
  • Central Nervous System Disorders
  • Orthopedic Problems
  • Concussions
  • Traumatic Brain Injuries
  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • Dementia
  • Spinal Cord Injuries
  • Scoliosis
  • Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
  • Infantile Disorders
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Emotional Difficulties
  • Stress and Tension-Related Problems
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Other Connective-Tissue Disorders
  • Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJD)
  • Neurovascular Disorders
  • Immune Disorders
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Post-Surgical Dysfunction
  • Stroke
  • Orthodontics

Who are we?

Melissa Forehand vanderLinde, BS LMT

Kim Forehand vanderLinde, PhD LMT

Melissa (MA31638) is a Tallahassee native. She went the Core Institute to got her massage license in 2000. She then went on to get a Bachelors degree in Dietetics from Florida State University in 2004. In that same year, she started studying CST at the Upledger Institute and she is now a teaching assistant for the Institute.

Courses

Kim (MA92689) is original from the Netherlands. In the mid 1990s, she started her massage training with an offshoot from the OSHO rebalancing massage. In 2004, she finished her PhD in biological sciences and moved to Tallahassee to work for Florida State University as a researcher. She started studying CST with the Upledger Institute in 2017 and went back to massage school in 2018 to get her Florida license. She is specializing in working with TMJ and PTSD.

Courses

We are LGBTQ friendly and we finished the Mental Health First Aid course provided by the National Council for Behavioral Health.

Services

Services

Prices Melissa

Kim will change her prices July 1st, 2024.

Prices Kim

Kim will change her prices July 1st, 2024.

CST individual sessions:
60 minutes
90 minutes

$80.00 ($70.00 till 7/1/2024)
$120.00 ($105.00 till 7/1/2024)

$90.00 ($80.00 till 7/1/2024)
$135.00 ($120.00 till 7/1/2024)

CST multi-hand sessions:
60 minutes
90 minutes

$125.00 ($110.00 till 7/1/2024)
$180.00 ($150.00 till 7/1/2024)

Intensive Outpatient Programs
Please contact Kim or Melissa to discuss details.

Packages
We offer a discount of $5.00 for a session if you buy a package of 3 or more sessions.

Testimonials

If you're looking for a gentle and powerful approach to help shift some blockages or tensions in your life, I wholeheartedly recommend trying craniosacral therapy with Melissa. I wasn't sure what to expect from a session. What I experienced were some subtle and deep openings in my body that have stayed with me. It was as if everything that was out of place was coming back into balance again. I felt a lot lighter after the treatment and much more at ease. I'm amazed that such a subtle practice, which is largely based on listening deeply to the body/mind, can have such profound results. Melissa brings great warmth, presence and attention to her work with people. I strongly endorse Melissa’s capabilities as a Craniosacral Therapist, and unhesitatingly recommend her services to anyone needing support in gaining wellness.

Diann Worzalla, Tallahassee FL

Contact Us

Melissa

Abundance Wellness Center,
325 John Knox Rd, Building T,
Tallahassee, FL 32303
(850) 510-4877

Kim

Abundance Wellness Center,
325 John Knox Rd, Building T,
Tallahassee, FL 32303
(850) 363-8897