Angela Ferri, MA, LMT, ATMAT®, RCST®, PE
ABDOMINAL THERAPY ~ SOMATIC THERAPY ~ HERBALIST ~ EDUCATOR
Holistic Health Care in the Wisdom Traditions
for Women & their Families
Licensed in Virginia
ABOUT ANGELA
After earning a master’s in fine arts, a decade providing graphic design services, I changed course. After a divorce, to help me heal, I began receiving spiritually oriented psychotherapy, dream analysis, and receiving lots of bodywork. My life path changed by becoming a massage therapist, herbalist, and practitIoner who specializes in abdominal therapy and somatic therapy.
Consequently, that decision provided a rich journey through the study of plant spirit medicine, the musculoskeletal, reproductive, digestive, & nervous systems, and perinatal trauma resolution.
- Learn more on my Trainings & Certifications page.
- Explore the ebooks I’ve written on self-care guidance through healing of many different reproductive health challenges women experience. These can be found here.
MEETING YOU WHERE YOU ARE
- I work with prenates, newborns, infants, children, families, and individuals of all ages providing somatic process work, prenatal & postpartum care, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, attachment & bonding support, and birth education.
- I work with people of all ages who have experienced surgeries, accidents, difficult births or trauma,
- and those who have pelvic, reproductive, digestive, musculoskeletal challenges, and/or an activated nervous system, creating difficulties interpersonally.
- A nurturing environment provided is conducive to entering deep healing states.
- It’s important to me that you feel safe here, so please explore this site and ask me any questions you have.
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As each person is unique, each session integrates my education and life experiences in unique ways to support my patients present situation.
VALUES
I find deep satisfaction in working with you to achieve your goals, and can best help you by understanding your feelings, goals, fears and dreams. I’ll be straightforward with you about what I can and cannot do.
My intention always is to be dependable and ethical. As such I value honesty and quality.
We are interconnected; I believe in the unity of humankind and in building bridges between cultures. One of my strengths is helping people understand how we are linked across time, distance, race, ethnicity, religion, economic levels, languages and cultures.
My intention is to support working together, while breaking down barriers of separation. Misusing the environment has consequences for all. This perspective influences my thoughts, actions, decisions and choices.
One of my strengths is instinctively understanding unvoiced questions and anticipating need. I am able sit with people with their full range of emotions. This intuitively helps me tune into what others need, and then provide education and therapies that will help them grow and heal.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
My experiences all include years of social dance, belly dance, pilates, yoga and kriya yoga, and gyrotonics. I enjoy regenerative gardening, yoga, cycling, hiking, paddling, and integrating all aspects of my life so that each part nurtures the other.
My life journey has led me to provide the services I offer: Having experienced a traumatic birth with my mother, who had a personality disorder and brain damage, I spent much of my life learning how to manage my nervous system. I’ve experienced child abuse, rape, abortion, domestic violence, divorce and ostracism during my life. Yet, I have been fortunate to be able to find the right resources to heal when I needed them.
