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The foam roller under your bed is not going to fix this. I can, though.
Massage therapy for the person who has been meaning to do something about the "I just carry tension" thing - for, if we're being honest, a pretty embarrassing amount of time now.
La Crosse, Wisconsin · hello@deepwithcaileerae.com
It's under your bed right now, next to the resistance bands and the book about sleep you read forty pages of in January and meant to finish.
You've googled "how to release upper trap tension" and followed along for about four days before the week got heavy and you went back to just managing it.
You mentioned the shoulder thing to your doctor once, they said something about posture, you said "yeah, that makes sense" and you both moved on and nobody brought it up again.
You describe yourself as "someone who carries tension" the same way you describe yourself as someone who's bad at drinking enough water. Just a fact about you, not something that's going to change.
Except it's not a personality trait.
It's months of a body that's been asking for something and getting ibuprofen and "I'll deal with it when things slow down" in return.
Things didn't slow down.
You bought the foam roller.
This is sixty minutes where someone who actually knows what they're doing puts their full attention on you and does something real about it, not a generic rub-down.
Sixty minutes where I ask what's going on, where you're carrying it, what you need, and then I do exactly that for the whole hour.
I read your history, your check-ins, the pain you're carrying that hasn't made it into words yet, and build a treatment plan around what your body's actually asking for, not just what sounds relaxing on paper.
Prioritization is my job, not yours. We know exactly what comes first and why, so every minute on the table is working for you, not just passing the time.
You show up exactly as you are, tired, tense, unsure how to explain what hurts, and you're met without judgment, every time. That's not a courtesy. It's how I approach this work: as sacred, done with care every single time.
"Cannot say enough good things about Cailee and her massages. I'm the most relaxed I've been in a long time. She works wonders!"
Most people show up to their first massage having already spent three days in their head about it:
What to wear, whether to talk, how undressed they're actually supposed to get.
Whether their body is going to be a problem somehow, whether they're going to do something wrong and make it weird...
So here's exactly what happens when you come in, so your brain can stop rehearsing it:
(Think of me as the friend who already did this and is giving you the full rundown)
You sit down and tell me what's going on, where it hurts, what you want me to focus on, what you want me to leave completely alone, anything I should know about your history, your allergies, anything that matters. Nothing you tell me will make things awkward.
If there's anything you'd rather not get into, that's okay too, just the essentials: places you don't want touched, anything relevant in your medical history.
We talk first.
Fully, underwear on, or somewhere in between, your call, always. You get under the sheet. I knock before I come back in.
You will be covered the entire time. The only area showing is whatever I'm actively working on, and I'll always tell you before I move somewhere new.
Then I step out and you undress to whatever level feels comfortable.
Which ones you like, whether you have any allergies, whether you want candles. Because I want the room to actually feel right for you specifically, not just generically spa-like.
I'll ask about oils and scents.
You can talk to me, go quiet, or fall asleep (which I take as a compliment) all equally fine. If the pressure isn't right, tell me. If you want me to stay on your upper back for the entire hour, say so. If you want to stop at any point for any reason, you stop. I mean that the way someone means it when they've actually thought about it, not as a disclaimer I have to say.
if this is your first session or you haven't been in a while, I'll suggest starting lighter. We can always go deeper.
The session.
You don’t need to worry about the hair, the cellulite, the not-having-shaved, whatever you've been anxious about since you started reading this. The thing you've been catastrophizing about on the drive over will feel completely irrelevant once you're in the room. :)
About your body:
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After: drink a lot of water.
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Put your hair up loose before you come in so I can still get to your scalp but the oil doesn't completely wreck it.
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If you're sore the next day, that's normal, same as after a workout you'd been putting off. It’s temporary.
After:
The things I hear over and over:
"It only lasts a couple days and then everything comes back."
One session is a reset. Monthly sessions are maintenance. The people who come back regularly aren't coming back because it wore off, they stopped waiting until the tension is unbearable before they do something about it. The goal was never to fix everything in sixty minutes. It was to stop treating your body like something you only attend to at breaking point.
"It's relaxing but it's not actually treating anything."
Your nervous system running on high alert for months at a time is treatment territory. That has a real solution and it's not another YouTube video.
"I don't have time."
You're spending significant chunks of your week managing the symptoms of not having done this. You have the hour.
Also, we can always book in the time that it’s best for you.
"I feel guilty spending money on myself."
You've spent money on everyone else this month. The guilt is inherited, it was never actually yours.
"I just want to be touched. Not because I have an injury. Is that weird?"
It's not weird. It's honest, and more common than you think. Safe, platonic, warm physical touchis a real human need and you don't have to manufacture a problem to justify wanting it. You can tell me or not tell me. Either way, you're allowed - as long as it's not sexual, there's nothing to explain.
What people are saying outside there
"It is truly difficult to put into words how transformational my time with Cailee has been. Her gifts are unmatched, the fact that she combines massage, Reiki, and coaching into one beautiful session is just the ritual I've needed. It's not just the physical bodywork. My soul feels lighter, my mind more clear, my energy less scattered. Scheduling a session with Cailee should be top of your self-care list ASAP."
"She lights up a room with her bright bubbly personality and makes you feel at ease with her calm and easy going manner. I've had quite a few massage therapists but I found it hard to connect with them and really get the deep tissue massage I was seeking. I began seeing Cailee and couldn't be happier. After each appointment I feel like a brand new person."
Hi, I’m Cailee
I've been doing this for over a decade and I'm still a little surprised by that number sometimes.
I started with massage therapy in 2015, then Reiki, then relationship coaching.
I went through my own hard things: the divorce, the starting over, the realization that all the self-awareness in the world doesn't move what lives in the body until you actually go there.
So that's what I do.
I'm not running eight clients back to back with one eye on the schedule. I show up for your whole session, actually present, having actually thought about you. I listen to what yours is telling me and I work with that.
When I'm not in session you'll find me making the paraffin-free candles I use with clients, the ones I also burn in my own space because I genuinely care about what goes into the air in a room that's meant for rest,
waking up at 4:40am on Tuesdays not to be productive but because that's the practice that keeps my own nervous system settled before the day starts asking things of it. Wearing patchouli. Dancing at every opportunity.
The way I do small things is the way I do everything, and I won't build anything - a session, a candle - that isn't rooted in actual care.
I'm really glad you ended up here.
Here’s what I won’t do. Ever.
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I will never touch anywhere you've told me not to.
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I will never push through something you've said hurts.
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I will never make you feel like you've asked for too much, disclosed too much, or taken up too much space.
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Anything near sexual or harassing, not a chance. Not ever.
The sustainability thing
(Because one session won’t fix years of this, and you know that)
One session is a reset.
The shoulder might actually let go for the first time in months and you'll be surprised by what not tense actually feels like.
But the biggest shift, and mainly, the one that actually lasts, happens between sessions.
Your body starts to remember what it feels like to not be in constant holding mode.
Monthly is where most people land and there's a reason for that: frequent enough that your body stops fully reverting in between, not so frequent it becomes a whole budget conversation.
And if we're being honest, there are no cons to monthly massages.
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