Equilibrium Pain Management Coaching & Massage Therapy

The website getting a spring clean!

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Many of the clients I see with persistent pain, have not been listened to by most of the other health professionals they've already seen.
They've been talked at. They haven't had a space held so they can tell their story.
That's the place we need to begin.

Compassionate care starts with listening.

Looking forward to presenting at this year's MANZ Conference with fellow painiacs and all round awesome wāhine Bronnie Lennox Thompson and Rachel Ah Kit

📣 FIRST PRESENTER DROP!

We have such a massive, incredible lineup of presenters for the MANZ Conference 2026 that we couldn’t possibly fit everyone onto a single image!

📍 Where: Ara Institute of Canterbury (Central City), Ōtautahi | Christchurch
📅 When: 18–20 September 2026
🔗 Full Lineup & Details: Head over to the website to read the full presenter briefs and check out the Hotel Give accommodation discounts: https://www.massageanz.org.nz/Site/conference/2026/

This year’s theme is Pain Management for Self & Others, and we are packing the weekend with practical tools, hands-on clinical therapy, and vital self-care.

What you need to know right now:
1️⃣ The Full Lineup is Live: Head to the website to see the complete list of speakers and the Friday Pre-Conference Workshop ("Backs to the Future")
2️⃣ Bookings Open Soon: Tickets are launching in the coming weeks (fingers crossed, even sooner!). Check out the website now to view the Early Bird pricing.
3️⃣ Sort Your Travel: We’ve secured a 10% discount at Hotel Give, or you can contact admin to look into our member billeting options!

Some cool stuff going down in the clinic...I so love being able to use the breadth of my skills with clients.

Getting neurosciencey geeky with a mirror and a step. It's all about desensitising an injured part, re-wiring the brain, restoring movement capacity and rebuilding confidence with movements.

What's been happening outside the clinic lately? Some interesting stuff.

Working on the Massage Aotearoa New Zealand Scoping Group investigating a potential amalgamation with MMA (Australia).

Presented to Southland Institute of Technology Massage Therapy students on working with clients with chronic pain. This is the 7th year that myself and Rachel Ah Kit have done this series of presentations to year 2 and 3 students. Always good mahi to do and we are encouraged by the standard of therapists coming out of SIT.

Collaborating with friends and pain colleagues Rachel Ah Kit and Bronnie Lennox Thompson to present at the Massage Aotearoa New Zealand conference we've been invited to speak at in September.

Contributing in these ways to the profession that gives so much to me both developmentally and personally means I can give back to it.

This! Busting myths about back pain.

It's been a wee while in the making, but I'm excited to announce two new services I'm now offering, which blend therapeutic approaches I use. I'm dedicated to using all of these strategies to help my clients in my clinic. I've been using them all in various ways and combinations over the years. Now I've created services that specifically combine massage therapy with pain management coaching, and with movement, to provide other options for clients.

Massage Therapy & Pain Management Coaching

Movement & Massage

Click on the images to read more about each one.

Do get in touch if you would like more information about either of these services.

💯 this! Christine is on to it.

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