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Decrease pain and tension to increase mobility and strength.
Tips are inclusive in prices.
I used to raise millions of dollars for nonprofits, now I make you feel like a million bucks.
WHAT I DO: I help individuals decrease pain and tension to increase mobility and strength.
WHO I WORK WITH: Folks who have received great benefit from Caring Portland Massage include postal carriers, hair stylists, factory workers, lawyers, administrative staff, librarians, counselors, social workers, musicians, retail clerks, bartenders, mechanics, mountain climbers, runners, bodybuilders, and many others. My practice is body-positive, gender affirming, and welcomes Black, Indigenous and People of Color. My history includes training in power, privilege and inequity, trauma sensitivity, Safe Zone for LGBTQIAts, alternative sexualities, and anti-racism. My table supports 750 pounds. I am happy to add width to the table for your comfort.
WHY IT WORKS: However you use your body, massage is proven to improve mood, reduce anxiety and depression, boost range of motion, & regulate aches and pain.
WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT: I provide mood boosting, pain reducing, and restorative massage to folks using health insurance (PacificSource, Regence BCBS, & Providence accepted), MVA claims, worker’s comp claims, HSA/FSA, and those looking for general cash-pay treatments. BOOK NOW: www.caringportland.com
Calm and caring: that’s what I offer you.
WHAT OTHERS SAY:
“Amazingly effective – Julie has returned my much-abused neck-shoulder muscles twice now. I can tell now when I am stressing them too much. Julie’s intelligent & intuitive massage is so worth the time you take!” – MF McAuliffe
“Highlight of my week was being able bring #healing to my wrist thanks to your magical hands! Best #massage ever-I could get addicted to this routine.” – Emma Flores
“This sure-footed and deft-fingered pro knows her stuff: Just had an amazing hour of stretching and de-knotting. Make your appointments before she rightfully gets huge.” – Andy G
HOW IT WORKS: Book online at caringportland.janeapp.com or text for availability. Located inside Awakenings Wellness Center on the ground floor. Please allow about 20 minutes for the intake process to ascertain if there are any contraindications, injuries, target areas, or any other preferences specific to you. Our office is private and secure. You will be draped for privacy.
Caring Portland Massage is operated by Julie. Julie specializes in therapeutic swedish, myofascial structural, deep tissue, sarga with myofascial release focus, muscle energy technique, cancer/oncology specialization, scar tissue release, and neuromuscular trigger point therapies, and is trained in an array of traditional and eastern modalities including cupping, gua sha, hot stone, dry brush. They enjoy collaborating with clients so clients leave each session feeling great.
READY TO TALK? Book an appointment now or email caringportland @ gmail.com
Pay at time of service with Cash, Venmo, Google Pay, Square.
Review the cancellation policy here: https://www.caringportland.com/cancellation-policy/
Insurance Accepted –
Step 1: Book a FIRST VISIT Medical appointment at least 2 weeks ahead of your desired appointment date at https://caringportland.janeapp.com
Step 2. Complete the intake form and the insurance information form found in your profile at https://caringportland.janeapp.com/. If you do not see the forms, double check that you selected FIRST VISIT appointment type. Contact Julie to adjust the appointment type or have the forms emailed to you.
Step 3: Wait for confirmation of your benefits from our office. I strive to confirm insurance details within a few days, however I ask for 2 weeks just in case something blocks my ability to confirm.
Step 4: Upon positive confirmation, we can proceed with your appointment. If confirmation is not possible before 48 hours before the appointment, then your appointment will be cancelled or bumped to a later date so details can be ironed out. If you do not provide information necessary to confirm benefits within 7 days of booking your appointment, your appointment will risk termination. Please make every effort to share your information ASAP.
INSURANCE THAT IS NOT ACCEPTED INCLUDES, CHP, OHP, Kaiser, cigna, aetna, choosehealthy, healthnet, devoted, medicare ,AND HEALTHSHARE.
Out of State Insurance: please confirm the following from your insurance before booking. Insurance from States that are not Oregon may not cover massage, probably requires a medical prescription, & may require medical necessity that includes frequent medical authorization evaluations. I typically recommend people with authorization requirements seek the care of a multi-practitioner clinic (PT, OT, ST) where providers can prepare the medical evaluation for authorization in-house for you. Despite insurance saying it allows massage, typically these instances only allow massage for rehabilitation. It is targeted to a specific condition & area of the body and no other areas are to be massaged.
Using Insurance? Book a First Visit MEDICAL MASSAGE appointment. Be sure to complete the INTAKE FORM & the Insurance Intake Form at https://caringportland.janeapp.com/ & add your insurance information. Please allow 2 weeks for us to coordinate the necessary details.
Medical Massage is billed to insurance as a Delayed Payment at non-discounted ‘time of service’ rates.
Appointments that are No-Call/No-Show will be charged the full 100% regular “time of service” rates. Cancellation or reschedule within the 24 hours before the appointment will incur the late fee of the full 100% regular “time of service” rates. See our cancellation policy for more detail https://www.caringportland.com/cancellation-policy/
Please be prepared to discuss your goals.
- Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon
- Providence
- PacificSource
- MVA/ Motor Vehicle Collision
- PIP
- WORKER’S COMP
- Health Savings Accounts or Flexible Spending Accounts
Black Lives Matter! I continue to check and evaluate my biases, to recognize and call out the racist paradigm I was born into and continue to live in, and affirm the reality that racism has existed as a systemic form of resource control and abuse that benefits the few over the many; a system which benefits white people over all others. To this end, I continue to vote, volunteer, and when possible donate.
I co-founded & participate in Awakenings Wellness Center’s anti-racist study group where we study individually and come together to reflect as a group on the reality of racism. This group meets every other week and in May 2025 we begin Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Our last work was Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot which we completed in 6 months. Before that we read (Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation) by Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, with Jasmine Syedullah, White Women by Regina Jackson & Saira Rao, and previously we worked through Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands while following Menakem’s Somatic Abolitionist 12-month Practice Book – which was very impactful. Before that we learned from Layla Saad’s Me & White Supremacy. We continue to reaffirm our intention to continue learning individually and as a group.
I continue to gather resources & educational items in this linktree (scroll to find places to contribute your voice, your dollars, your time, as well as other linktrees and documents listing resources and educational material). Multnomah County Library has audio & electronic books available such as Black AF History, White Women, White Fragility, How to be an Anti Racist, Me & White Supremacy, So You Want to Talk About Race, White Awake, Stamped, The Invention of the White Race, and many others. My personal goal is to educate, be humble, stay awake, be kind, be an accomplice.
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