Santa Fe Hypermobility Resource Group and associated classes allow me and other practitioners in our local hypermobility & MCAS-serving community to offer free & lower cost options to connect and to learn:

• Resource Group: monthly meetups (free; local only in Santa Fe, NM, USA). Sign up (via a quick email message) to participate in our local group affiliated with The Ehlers-Danlos Society: Santa Fe Hypermobility Resources Group. Feel free to join with MCAS, immune, and mystery health concerns as well as hypermobility--many events and conversations cross over in reach, and since this group is made up of people with oddball health issues, you may find helpful recommendations among members regardless of what is going on.

• Private and Group Manual Self-Care Classes: manual care strategies for pain, neurovascular compression syndromes, and other concomitants of hypermobility and immune dysfunction. Let me know of any interest in classes listed here. I and collaborators start planning and advertising anytime we have a few interested people on the list.

• Low-Histamine Diet Workshop: donation-based until we have the professional support to know that it's a top-notch offering. Current expertise is experiential, peer-support and advocacy founded. Workshops are organized whenever sufficient demand arises and capacity is available, so let us know if you're interested.

• Practitioner Education: I cannot yet provide CEUs, but am glad to share what I’ve come to understand about working with MCAS and hypermobility clients on the table

Practitioner Groups

• Local Journal Club: Join the local journal club for healthcare providers and practitioners of any modality--contact katie@lahoyahealth.com or sarah@lightspiritstudio.com. You will not be spammed; we're still working on making this active and you're welcome to leave at any time.

• International Society for Mast Cell Activation Syndromes: I couldn't more highly recommend a resource for practitioners who need to know more about MCAS. Monthly CE's included in membership, active listserv for engaging over hard cases and questions. www.ismcas.org (501c3)

• The Ehlers Danlos Society: Top quality training in all topics related to hypermobility. www.ehlers-danlos.com 

More info here. Meetings are usually digital via Google Meet.

Discord channel also available. In-person locations announced in advance of events.

—Where-to-Start Series—

Series One options take us through a series of conversations and projects often helpful in getting you to the best practitioners available given your current health, known needs, unanswered questions, insurance, travel and financial capacity, and so on. We'll likely omit or reorder some sessions depending on your needs.

• Palpation Session (for local clients), generally 1.5-2 hours: Hypermobility is often missed outside of specialist care. There's a lot we can understand about your body from a purely mechanical basis just by touch, observation, and talking about what you've been experiencing. This information will help us to identify both possible self-care angles and which kinds of therapy and specialists are likely to be helpful.

• Deep History, generally 1-3 hours: Chronic complex illness often hits every system; you know that many evidentiary motifs of your story haven’t even been heard. Tell your story in detail this once. We’ll survey all the potential minor features that could help your care team to successfully identify what’s going on. I’ll highlight anything you’re saying that I know to be important in this niche, and I’ll help root out any possible evidence that might otherwise be missed.

• The Trifecta: hEDS, POTS, & MCAS 101, 1 hour: You’ll learn to understand the basic systems-relationships, mechanics, and physiology relating various typical comorbidities. We’ll also discuss treatment pathways. Learning technical, non-diagnostic language and frameworks allows for stronger healthcare communication. Family and other supporters are welcome to join.

• Assessments Walk-Through, time allotment varies depending on your needs: Validated assessments make your case more clear by providing concrete measures accompanied by a framework for the conditions they support. I can provide guidance and support in finding, interpreting, and completing those that may likely be relevant.

• Advocacy-Triage, 1 hour: Develop an advocacy plan based on current unmet needs: navigational capacity, diagnoses, social support, medical team adequacy, and more.

• Health Summary Composition, generally 1-3 hours: We’ll reframe and concisely summarize your history to lift clarity out of complexity with respect to the particular concerns that need to be highlighted, aiding your healthcare team in fully seeing you.

• Personalized Referral List, generally 1-3 hours: I’ll create a list of referrals to meet your health, financial/insurance, and location/travel/accessibility needs, drawing from my various local, national, and international networks of highly specialized, functionally-oriented healthcare practitioners and from trustworthy directories.

—Ongoing Support—

• Complex Care Support, schedule as needed: We’ll make sure you understand your treatment plan and strategize to manage it well despite any barriers. Systematization and tracking can make a difference and can be built around the way your mind and life work. If needed, we’ll also engage your local supporters to help put these tools into action.

• Bodywork for Bendies, schedule as needed: Many of my hypermobile clients tell me that manual therapies have never been useful before. PT, massage therapy, even really delicate work have caused pain. There is a lot to know and to do to ensure safety let alone. I'm happy to work with you on an ongoing basis and also to refer you to local EDS-literate specialists to address more specific issues than I have training to cover.

—Community Advocacy—

• Resource Finder: I’ll compile a list of trustworthy educational resources suitable for you, your kids, your workplace, your family & friends, and/or your healthcare team.

• Specialist Bridge---generally 15 minutes to one hour: you put willing collaborators in touch, my part is free. I'll connect your willing providers with national and international networks plus local and distant specialists for referral, peer-mentorship, and further education.

Free consultation via HIPAA-secure video, phone, or in-person-—call or email to schedule.

Find Other Advocates: I don't have all the answers, so if this list doesn't look like it fits your needs, consider seeking advocates in other specialties through Greater National Advocates. Advocate specialties include:

• accessing SSDI benefits

• supporting insurance approvals/overturning denials

• navigating conditions outside my experience and training,

• and many, many others.

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Initial Consultation

Please call to schedule a free consultation via phone, video, or in person. No commitment necessary--this offering is to allow us to assess what work we can expect to accomplish together.

Rates--(All Taxes Included)

Standard Rate: $120 for the first hour per session of bodywork and advocacy services.

Longer Sessions: $40 self-pay for each additional half hour per session (can be used to extend 60 minute insurance-based sessions).

Billing Rate: An extra $20/session covers administration and billing labor for sessions not paid in full at time of service.

Advocacy Packages: not yet configured--in-session advocacy work is under the standard rate; out-of-session advocacy work is still free of charge as many efforts also go toward building generic resources that can be shared with others at low cost or free.

Sliding Scale: yes--please inquire. I charge a relatively high fee so that I can afford to lower rates for those who need it--I'd rather see you moving up in the world than waiting until you can come in at full-price. Don't be shy to ask what we can work out.

Tips & Donations Policy: not at all expected, but welcome. These are used to provide lower cost care for those who need it; as I work with many chronically ill clients, available funds are applied regularly. I'm considering setting up a 501c3 to manage donations formally. Please inquire if this is of any interest--I know you're out there.

Forms of Payment

Zelle*, Venmo*, Paypal*, HSA, debit/credit, cash, check. (HIPAA disallows payment requests; you're welcome to use links here or my QR codes available on site)

Insurance Plans, Self-Directed Waivers, and Reimbursement Programs Accepted for Bodywork Sessions

Cigna: I'll just need your insurance ID, date of birth, name, and address associated with your policy. Please bring your card to your first appointment.

Mi Via: Requires prior setup.

Blue Cross Blue Shield: Not yet, but hopefully soon... I'm applying to credential with BCBS. This is a slow process but I could know by Spring 2026.

Health Savings Accounts/Reimbursements: If documentation will support you in seeking reimbursement from another insurance plan or through your HSA I'll be glad to provide it. I'll be working on having the ability to accept HSA card payments--let me know if you'd like me to speed up that effort.

VA Benefits: I look forward to beginning to work with VA funding sometime in 2026--be in touch to let me know if you'll benefit from my speeding up that effort.

Medicare: I may be able to start offering limited coverage for advocacy in 2026. Please let me know if this is relevant for your case.

Out-of-Network Billing: No guarantees, but we can inquire with my biller about your case.

Other Insurances: Most don't offer contracts to massage therapists, but optimizing for client access is of very high priority to me. Feel free to let me know what insurance you're with and I'll renew my inquiries.

Gift Certificates

Available upon request.

Fundraisers

I'll be happy to donate gift certificates for fundraisers whenever possible.