Therapeutic Massage

Racheal Cogan

I am a registered massage therapist with a Diploma from the Australian Shiatsu College in Shiatsu and Oriental Therapies, as well as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. My client led, trauma informed work invites deep listening to the innate wisdom of your body to allow a process of unwinding into greater mobility and wholeness.During a massage session, we might be working with:* The relationship between your body, emotions, armouring, tension, and living in survival mode.* How to feel comfortable in your own skin, move with ease, and find relief from pain and injuries.* The possibility of identifying and releasing numbness, shielding, and armouring to create a safe space for increased sensation and connection within your body.Payment
1 hour sessions are $110 (not including tax)90 minute sessions are $150 (not including tax)*I give receipts from RMPQ.


I am based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, on the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk Nation.

What is Somatic Experiencing and how do I integrate it in my massage practice?
Somatic Experiencing (SE), developed by Peter Levine, is a body oriented approach to healing trauma and chronic stress held within the nervous system. This slow, careful work engages the soma (the living body) to restore regulation and greater coherence.How we work together in a session
*I do this work with touch using the touch framework in the Somatic Experiencing training. In a session this looks like mostly still touch structured around the diaphragmatic systems of osteopathy and biodynamic craniosacral therapy.*Inquiry: You speak to your experience in the moment, and my touch is guided by your feedback.*Consent: in that I ask before placing my hands, and I ask where you would like my hands to be.*Presence: As much as possible, I invite you to remain present with the experience of remaining in your body while being supported by touch.What You Might Experience
Because this approach works across physical, nervous system, and energetic levels, shifts happen gently and look different for everyone. Over time, clients often notice:*Physical & Energetic Release: A softening of chronic muscular holding, alongside a clearer, more aligned sense of the body’s natural structural lines.*A Wider Window of Resilience: Moving beyond simply "tolerating" stress toward feeling genuinely settled, grounded, and coherent inside yourself.The core intention of our work is to explore the possibility that your body is a good place to inhabit—one capable of holding your life experiences with greater ease.Somatic Experiencing is intentionally unhurried. It typically takes one or two sessions to get familiar with this collaborative rhythm, and several sessions to settle into deeper layers.

Racheal has been my massage therapist for 3 years and if possible, I’d want her massages for my life. The massages are very slow, tender, and the feeling of being taken care of is extremely nourishing. I love how Racheal leads me to understand my body more and more, and she’s very attentive and respectful to bodies. Seldom do I feel there’s any outside service that’s so “ME/MINE”, and Racheal’s massage is one of them — they make me feel like home. I've also recommended Racheal to a lot of my friends and they all loved it.Yue, T.

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I deeply believe massage therapists make the world a better place. People come to you thinking that you will fix them, and you do, but it's not the way they think. You're being with them in the process of them honouring their bodies' needs and pains and healing themselves. And I think it's something that is unique to the way you do massage therapy. I've never experienced someone who will make the client participate so much in their own massage. Saying what they want. Giving you feedback about how things feel.Marie-Claude

Racheal is a unique expert with multiple styles of bodywork and somatic modalities, helping clients heal both physically and emotionally. She's highly attentive, sensitive and kind. Working with her is an experience, an education, and can be deeply transformative. Highly recommended!Z