Betsey Gilbert

Betsey Gilbert brings a unique mixture of healing modalities to each session. Her bodywork is effective and safe and addresses a variety symptoms in adults and children. Her gentle and intuitive touch has helped many people with stress relief, pain relief, injury rehabilitation and chronic childhood conditions.

Healing Modalities Offered:

Pure Light Blessings and Healing
Craniosacral Therapy
Visceral Manipulation
Massage Therapy- Swedish, Deep Tissue, Medical Massage
Chakra Balancing
Meditation

Conditions that may be improved Include: Headaches / Migraines, Back Pain, Neck Pain and Whiplash, TMJ Dysfunction, Autism, ADD and ADHD, Tortocollis, Colic, Babies who have difficulty feeding, Hiatal Hernia, and many others…

Craniosacral Therapy

Betsey has been using Craniosacral Therapy to treat clients for more than 20 years. Craniosacral therapy is very gentle and relaxing to receive and is extremely effective in addressing symptoms of pain and discomfort. Craniosacral Therapy uses light touch to address imbalances in the membranes and fluids that surround the brain and spinal cord. Craniosacral therapy can help to improve any number of sensory, motor or neurological symptoms.

Visceral Manipulation

Through the gentle use of Visceral Manipulation the functioning of the body’s digestive system improves. By applying specific techniques, tension in the abdomen can be released thereby improving the mobility of the digestive organs to restore healthy intestinal functioning.

About Betsey Gilbert

Betsey received her massage therapy education at the Awakening Spirit Massage School in Salt Lake City, UT in 1998. She is nationally certified by the NCBTMB, and is a member of the AMTA. She has studied Craniosacral Therapy with the Upledger Institute since 1997. Before moving to Baltimore in 2001, She practiced and taught at Healing Mountain Massage School in Salt Lake City. Relocation to Baltimore offered her the opportunity to open her own private practice and be near to her family in Pennsylvania.

Betsey studied Visceral Manipulation at the Edgar Cayce Foundation and with the Barral Institute. For the past 5 years she is has been a student of the Inspiration Community in Owings Mills which utilizes Integrative Breathework for psychospiritual healing and development. Betsey is a student of Her Holiness, Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi and has received transmission of Pure Light. She offers Pure Light Blessings and includes pure light healing in her sessions. Betsey has enjoyed adding special modalities to her body of work.

In addition to her work as a Massage Therapist Betsey is a mother and co-facilitates groups on Conscious Parenting at Evolvewell Yoga Studio, Baltimore. She is a facilitator for Keep the Connection workshops in Baltimore Public Schools.

Betsey has a B.S. in Exercise and Sports Science from Penn State University and is a Certified Yoga Instructor through the Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Organization. She also served the people of Cote d’Ivoire as a health educator for the Peace Corps, 1993-97.

Client Testimonials:

When John was about 6 months old we started to suspect that he was having neurological difficulty. He would not babble, or make eye contact. He was always in motion – it earned him the nickname “The Amazing Spinning Baby”. We dove into research to find a way to help him. One of the best decisions we made was to bring him in for Craniosacral Therapy. We met Betsey Gilbert when he was about 8 months old and started once a week therapy. A multi-faceted approach to his healing, including Craniosacral therapy really helped his brain to heal. Now at 2 years old he is a happy healthy boy with an amazing vocabulary. I highly recommend it to anyone who has a child who has struggled with abnormal brain development at an early age (or any age!).
– Jessie

Betsey is truly a miracle worker.  Eight years ago she treated my chronic sciatica in just two sessions of cranial sacral massage and it has never returned.  In eight days she changed my life.  I went from being in extreme pain every day to completely pain free.  Four doctors told me there was nothing I could do except take pain medication and hope for the best.  Betsey proved them wrong!
– Jonathan

We have sought out Craniosacral therapy from Betsey as part of our family’s health care routine over the past six years because it has demonstrated itself to be a remarkably gentle, yet powerful way of establishing equalibrium in our bodies at every stage of life.
– Jennifer and Geoffry Vaughn, Catonsville MD

Betsey Gilbert is one of the best body workers I have ever received bodywork from. I especially enjoy receiving craniosacral treatments from her. With this bodywork, I feel my habitual energetic patterns unraveling and my ability to let energy flow freely through me increasing.
– Kathryn Yarborough MFA, ADTR

Thank you, Betsey for a deeply relaxing massage. Nothing I have experienced is as relaxing as Craniosacral Therapy. I experience profound transformation with each session.
– J. B. Yoga Teacher

Our family highly recommends craniosacral therapy for any child with sensory issues. Our son at age 4 ½ had conquered sensory issues, except for oral defensiveness. This particular defensiveness manifest itself in the inability to tolerate most foods. His menu was limited to items with a soft consistency (i.e., yogurt, mashed potatoes, bananas, “squirt” cheese, ice cream). Suggestions from the medical community ranged from placing electrodes on his throat to stimulate swallowing to having his tonsils removed. Craniosacral therapy, as an alternative to the more invasive, traditional medical approaches seen in Western medicine, was our preferable course of treatment. Results were immediate with craniosacral therapy and within 3 months (9 sessions) he was eating a diet commensurate with his age. Some of the food highlights added to his roster included bread, bologna, hot dogs, tuna and chicken salad, scrambled eggs, crab cakes, apple slices, peanut butter crackers, cookies, rice, peas, and cereal with milk. Quality of life for our entire family improved. Results from craniosacral therapy were not limited to the oral sensitivity/defensiveness issue. Our son began to sleep through the night for the first time, giving us a much-needed improvement in our quality and quantity of sleep. Traveling is easier for our family without the worry of food availability, or the necessity of packing particular food for our journeys.
-Mark P. and Helen S. Vasudevan