Somatic Bodywork for Women in Portland, Oregon
Craniosacral, Abdominal Massage, Pelvic Floor Therapy, Postpartum, Prenatal, and Wellness Massage
Abby McHale, LMT
Promo code BODYLOVE - $20 off first visit.
Every session, regardless of modality, is nervous system-based, trauma-informed, and can include as much or as little somatic dialouge as you wish. Sessions are tailored to your needs and desires day by day, and will not only nourish your body, but they’ll nourish your entire well-being.
Abby has been a massage therapist since 2011 and started focusing on working with women and offering abdominal massage in 2015. In the first five years of this, she largely worked with women processing sexual trauma in their bodies and with women suffering from various gynecological and hormonal disorders — things like PCOS, endometriosis, uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts, and chronic pelvic pain. For the next five years, she worked at a Mama’s clinic, largely working with women through conscious pre-conception, pregnancy, and postpartum, as well as becoming a mother herself.
She started going back to school to become a mental health counselor after having her baby, but shifted gears through an alternative somatic therapy program so that she wouldn’t have to separate hands-on body work from therapeutic conversation — and now she weaves it all.
Your session can look more like traditional therapy, conversating in chairs, it can be fully silent on the table, or somewhere in between — each session gets to be tailored just for you.
Abby adores working with mamas and with women in all stages of life. She cherishes being with women as they dance with their unique relationship with their womb, with themselves as women, with their bodies, hearts, and lives.
Anyone who identifies as a woman, non-binary folx who identify with the feminine, and anyone with a female form is welcome. Our stories as women, and in female bodies, are complicated, and Abby is here to hold space for it all.
“I love working with the belly, pelvis, and womb, and I love to offer full body-full being treatments as well— my love is nourishing the heart, the nervous system, and one’s vast entirety.”
What women are saying about bodywork & prenatal massage in Portland, Oregon with Abby —
“Abby is eerily intuitive and has magical hands. I cannot recommend her enough (and as a bodyworker, I'm super picky about who I see).“
— Becky Higginson
I recently started doing regular prenatal massages with Abby and it has been one of the best decisions I've made for taking care of myself through this process. Abby is an incredible practitioner who has an intuitive sense of the body and emanates such care in her work.
— C.H.
“Abby is nothing short of magical. She truly beams with love and healing energy. I can barely find the words for how phenomenal her services are. 🌱🌈 ”
— Alex E.
“She’s got sunshine in her soul.”
— Talia J.