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Dr Alex Puma, PhD

Lymph Drainage and CranioSacral Therapist

I work with people of all ages and from all walks of life.


Babies:

  • Nursing and/or latch issues

  • Digestive issues like reflux or colic

  • Sleep issues -- difficulty getting over to sleep or staying asleep

  • Difficulty with tummy time and/or not crawling

Teens and Adults:

  • Migraines

  • Chronic headaches

  • Concussion recovery

  • Sinus pain or inflammation

  • Long Covid

  • ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia

  • Anxiety

  • Sleep difficulties -- getting over or staying asleep

  • Chronic stress, exhaustion and/or depletion

  • Chronic inflammation

  • Long held trauma or injury


Sessions are bespoke and integrate a combination of Manual Lymphatic, CranioSacral and/or Visceral Therapy techniques with Swedish massage, BodyInsight NMT, Polyvagal and breathwork practices, body awareness, somatic movement and/or EFT/Tapping where appropriate.

I facilitate gentle connection and conversation with your body to access your self-healing capacity. Wellbeing throughout the whole body and health on all levels is best accessed via conscious and compassionate embodied connection -- physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, vibrational/energetic -- as and when we are able.


(See below for Alex's pronouns)

Hours of operation / Fees

Book a Session with Alex (see link below)

In-person sessions are pre-booked and located at Yoga@18 Studio in Garvagh, NI



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Skills

Trained with the Upledger Institute in the following curricula:

  • CranioSacral Therapy (CST), including Equine and Paediatric

  • Healing from the Core (HFC)

  • Lymphatic Drainage Therapy (LDT)

Also trained with:

  • Barral Institute in Visceral Manipulation (VM)

  • Healing Arts Institute in Colorado, USA for BodyInsight Neuromuscular Therapy (CMT, BI NMT)

  • Jan Watkins and EFT Universe in EFT/Tapping

  • Claire Marie Miller Seminars in PreNatal, Labour, and PostNatal Therapeutic Massage

  • Health Matters in EFT/Tapping

  • Deb Dana and PCPSI in Polyvagal therapeutic practices

  • Banyan in Mindfulness Mentoring

Current training focus includes:

  • Somatic movement and yoga-based body awareness trainings with Movement Wisdom Yoga, Lasater.Yoga and Katy Bowman's Nutritious Movement

I include Polyvagal techniques and mindful body-based movement awareness for deeper integration of your bodywork and/or wellbeing mentoring sessions.

Articles & Books Written

Anthropology PhD Thesis: Being NonBinary in Binary Worlds: The Gender Performative, Emotional and Intersubjective Lives of NonBinary People on the Island of Ireland


Professional Associations / Memberships

Certified Therapist Medallion Member of International Association of Healthcare Practitioners



Gender pronoun key:

zee/zen/zens/zen's/zenself


(What are pronouns? https://pronouns.org/what-and-why/)

Other equivalents:

(they/them/their/theirs/themself)

(she/her/her/hers/herself)

(he/him/his/his/himself)