Integrative Pelvic Care : A Grounded, Hands-on Hands-in, Holistic Approach to Whole Body Health and Pelvic Healing
Our pelvis is not just a collection of muscles and organs. The pelvis is the confluence and meeting place where structure and softness, function and feeling, instinct and story all reside. The pelvis houses our reproductive and eliminatory organs, supports our posture and movement, and plays a central role in our sexuality, capacity for please, creativity, boundaries, and belonging.
Integrative Pelvic Care, is quite literally an integration of the last 13 years of my studies in a myriad of hands-on and hands-on pelvic bodywork modalities. With the foundation being rooted in STREAM pelvic bodywork, Holistic Pelvic care, sexological bodywork, somatic sex education, visceral manipulation, chi nei tsang, karsei nei tsang, pelvic dearmouring, craniosacral therapy, lymphatic drainage and structural integration. This is a hands-on, trauma-aware, whole-person approach to pelvic health. Recognising that pelvic symptoms rarely exist in isolation and that our pain, numbness, tension, weakness, prolapse, or sexual dysfunctions very often arise from layered influences across the body, nervous system, lived experiences, and relational history.
Rather than chasing symptom cesation, Integrative Pelvic Care listens to the pelvis as an intelligent, responsive system within the larger ecology of the body.
What is Integrative Pelvic Care?
Integrative Pelvic Care is a form of specialised bodywork that works with the internal and external structures of the pelvis through a holistic lens.
Sessions generally include full body bodywork to support release and ease throught the entire system, gentle visceral and external abdominal work, sacral work, and may include hands-in internal pelvic work (vaginal or rectal, when appropriate and consensual). Addressing the lymphatic, nervous system, fascial and connective tissues through skillful hands-on technique, breath, nervous system care, and relational pacing.
This work is not mechanical or protocol-driven. It is relational, responsive, and deeply rooted in presence. I listens with my hands, tracking your tissue tone, temperature, motility, breath, and subtle reflexive responses from the nervous system. With the intention of restoring communication and adaptability within the pelvic tissues and between the pelvis and the rest of the body.
Pelvic health IS whole body health.
Who this work serves?
Integrative Pelvic Care supports folks across many life stages, identities, and conditions. This work is not exclusionary, I work with folks across the gender spectrum. From post abortion care to postnatal to menopause and inbetween. I’ve worked with folks after gender reassisgnment surgies to support scar tissue healing and restoring pleasure/aliveness/sensation back to the tissues. As well as supporting men recovering their senstitivity after circumcision, supporting a new relationship with their sexuality post-prostatectomy and remediating scars from phimosis…
This work can be immensely beneficial for addressing :
✶ Chronic pelvic pain or tension, Vaginismus
✶ Painful sex, lack of sensation, or numbness
✶ Vulvar, vaginal, penile, or rectal discomfort and pain
✶ Endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS, and pelvic inflammatory conditions
✶ Digestive issues, bloating, constipation, or IBS patterns
✶ Pregnancy loss by miscarriage or active choice
✶ Abortion doula support and Post-abortion support
✶ Bladder urgency, frequency, or incontinence
✶ Pelvic floor hypertonicity or weakness
✶ Prolapse support and postpartum recovery
✶ Menstrual pain or irregular cycles
✶ Uterine + Cervical alignment and position
✶ Erectile or ejaculatory challenges
✶ Scar tissue from surgery, childbirth, abortion, injury, inflammation, or trauma
✶ Trauma held in the pelvis, including medical, sexual, or developmental trauma
This work isn’t just intended to serve folks who are in pain, but those feel disconnected from their body, pelvis, sensation, pleasure, or are seeking greater embodiment, presence, a restored sense of trust and inhabitation in this region of the body.
How does Integrative Pelvic Care work?
The Four Domains of Health
Rather than treating these domains separately, Scar Tissue Remedation and Integrative Pelvic Care works at their intersections to address the whole of a person. This approach is informed by the work of my incredible mentor and teacher, Ellen Heed and her whole person centric approach through STREAM Pelvic Care, which understands true holistic inclusion and health that arises from a dynamic relationship between four interrelated domains.
THE BIOCHEMICAL ✶ THE BIOMECHANICAL ✶ THE UNSEEN (EMOTIONAL/EXISTENTIAL) ✶ SCARS + SCAR TISSUE
SCAR AND SCAR TISSUE
Scar tissue, whether from surgery, childbirth, injury, endometriosis, medical procedures, chronic inflammation, can significantly impact our pelvic health. Scars are not inert. They can restrict our movement, alter nerve signaling, disrupt fluid flow, and create tension patterns that radiate far from their original site. Gentle, skilled scar work helps restore mobility, sensation, and communication within affected tissues and the broader pelvic landscape. I am the only STREAM / Scar Tissue Remediation Practitioner in all of Ireland, this is a wholly unique approach to whole-bodied, whole-person pelvic care and sexual wellness.
THE BIOMECHANICAL
Pelvic symptoms often involve asymmetry, overuse, compensation, or restriction in connective tissues that span far beyond the pelvic floor itself. Working within this domain includes assessing the health of the muscles, fascia, ligaments, joints, posture, and movement patterns with movement practices, ACP (active core practice), gyrotonics, and hands-on/hands-in bodywork to address tissue tone, elasticity, hydration, and coordination.
THE BIOCHEMICAL
Our pelvic tissue is profoundly influenced by our blood chemistry, endocrine health, and the viscosity and flow of bodily fluids. This domain looks at how what we ingest, absorb, and apply to the body impacts our tissue suppleness, inflammation, healing capacity, and organ function. Nutrition, hydration, topical substances, hormonal signaling, and supportive protocols for the lymphatic system all play a role in our capacity for pelvic resilience. When our blood and lymph move well and our tissues are well-nourished, they are more responsive, adaptable, and capable of repair.
THE UNSEEN
This domain includes the emotional, psychosomatic, relational, and existential dimensions of pelvic health. The pelvis often carries imprints of stress, shame, grief, pleasure, trauma, and cultural conditioning. Without forcing emotional processing, Integrative Pelvic Care creates conditions where these layers can soften and reorganise. Presence, consent, and attuned pacing allow the body to update old protective strategies and restore a sense of safety, agency, and belonging.
THE NEUROLOGICAL
The pelvis is richly innervated by our autonomic nervous system, meaning that chronic pain, sexual dysfunction, and patterns of tension and guarding often can reflect nervous system dysregulation rather than tissue damage. These sessions nervous system flexibility, nervous system literacy, vagal tone, easing protective reflexes, and re-establishing a felt sense of safety and choice in the body.
What does a session look like?
These sessions begin with a thorough intake and health assessment through the lens of the four domains. We take our time time to really understand your health history, current symptoms, goals, intentions, connect, build trust and explore any concerns or curiosities you bring. This work is collaborative and you are always an active participant in the process.
Treatment can be adapted to be be done fully clothed or with undergarments on for external work, with optional internal pelvic work ALWAYS discussed in advance. Internal work is never assumed or required. You can be drapped with sheets to ensure privacy and gloves are always worn. Consent is ongoing, specific, and can be withdrawn at any time.
A session often includes :
✶ External abdominal, hip, sacral, or pelvic work
✶ Full-body structural bodywork
✶ Breath support + pacing and co-regulatory practices to regulate the nervous system
✶ Scar tissue remediation
✶ Education about your pelvic anatomy and patterns
✶ Gentle internal pelvic techniques when appropriate
✶ Rest and integration time
This work is slow and respectful. Sensation is followed, not forced. Your body sets the pace.
Why this work is different . . .
Integrative Pelvic Care and Scar Tissue Remediation is not a quick fix, nor is it purely clinical. It bridges therapeutic precision with embodied listening. It acknowledges that pelvic health is influenced by posture and hormones, yes, but also by stories, stress, sexuality, experiences and survival strategies.
Many people have never been touched in the pelvis with slowness, presence, clarity, permission, and care. For some, this work is the first time their pelvis has experienced as something other than a problem to fix, a site of endurance or being poked, probed and podded.
These sessions support :
✶ Reduced pain and improved functionality
✶ Increased sensation and pleasure
✶ Greater trust in your bodily signals and responses
✶ Building embodied resilience and capacity to be with pain, pleasure and everything in between
✶ A felt sense of support and containment
✶ Forge new neural pathways, shifting from habits of tension and disconnection to pleasure, ease and presence.
✶ Reclaiming choice, boundaries, and embodied agency
