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Robert W. Smith

LMT

"My story begins back in 1988 when I attended school at the Connecticut Center For Massage Therapy.  I knew I needed to attend massage school because I was called to work with people as a minister is called to serve. I didn’t know what I would be doing...I just knew I had to do it.
I first thought I would work with athletes because I was highly involved with weight training and promoting good nutrition, so I thought that would be a natural fit.  I graduated in December of 1989 thinking 'here I go.'  I was already working in Connecticut with two chiropractors and both they and their patients loved the work I did. It wasn’t full body massage, but instead was utilizing deep tissue manipulation and what was called Athletic Massage at the time.
I moved back to NY and set up a practice.  I still felt something was missing- athletes weren’t getting any bodywork because they, at that time, didn’t see the value in it.  There was a pattern of clients showing up at my practice and these were people who were in pain, either acute from some fairly recent injury or with a chronic condition of several years. I had success in treating most afflictions that showed up with what I knew.  However, I had this strong feeling that something was missing.  Not too long after, I received a brochure in the mail regarding John F. Barnes Myofascial Release Seminars. I knew as soon as I attended the class and saw the immediate change in patients being demonstrated on, that I was in the right place. I proceeded to take all of the classes and repeated many of them to understand the content on a deeper level.  I became an Assistant Instructor for many of the classes, too. After about 16 years of that, I discovered that I wanted to do more. A friend of mine had decided to take his training and create a different approach using his experiences, as many of us therapist do, and decided to teach them- thus creating the Body Memory Recall approach by Jonathon Tripodi.  I decided to take all of the classes and become certified and a teaching assistant. I really loved doing the Sedona Journey, which I’ll talk more about later.
After all of these experiences, you have a therapist that has been practicing 29+ yrs who has had all sorts of chronic pain issues myself, starting off with severe lower back pain. It was through this process of taking classes and receiving a  lot of treatment that has allowed me to become the successful therapist that I am today.
I would be honored to serve you on your journey and know that each of us has our own journey to complete. Sometimes, it can be helpful to have a tour guide while navigating bodywork and the release from chronic or acute pain. I can confidently say that I would love to be the 'tour guide' for you."