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Testimonials from my clients
Roseanne Conti - Linda-I fully applaud your skills because you have helped me immensely. When I first came to you, I was severely disabled, and on SSD(Social Security Disability). I was not able to work because of severe pain from a car accident , which happened when I was stopped at a red light. You patiently helped heal me physically and emotionally. Since the injuries are still present, I continue to see you weekly so that I can resume my work as a Counselor. Without your help, I would not be able to help other people. Thanks for all you have done.
Theresa J. Yarosh - Several years ago I made a conscious decision for my husband and I to live into a Body, Mind and Spirit lifestyle. One by one the components began to come together. First I attended to my spiritual life, then I began working on my mind. Finally, I found that there was more to addressing the body than just diet and an exercise program such as Yoga. The body needs to relieve the stress of daily living. At that time a friend highly recommended Linda Dominguez. I was feeling stress in my neck and shoulders and needed to gain relief from the ongoing tension. It was Linda Dominguez to the rescue. Soon I was a regular client and I have found that massage completes the Body, Mind and Spirit lifestyle. I highly recommend Linda Dominguez as a massage therapist!!!!!
Bill Maloney - Linda is an awesome massage therapist! I've visited other therapists, some of whom mechanically go through the motions and don't seem to have their hearts in their work. Linda Dominguez was very intuitive in that she seemed to sense what areas were causing me problems and gave those areas extra attention. When I first visited Linda I was experiencing a lot of stress due to job issues and family illness and loss. Chronic lower back pain forced me to get up from my desk every 20 minutes and walk because sitting was so uncomfortable. In our first session Linda sensed the stress built up in my neck, shoulders and focused on loosening those areas up. It wasn't easy for her to get through to me at first, but Linda kept trying and after a few sessions I had been able to let go of so much of that stress even though the circumstances remained the same. The lower back pain dissipated dramatically and I no longer had the discomfort when sitting I once did. Linda has also been a great friend. I've met several of her other clients and can honestly say she genuinely cares about all of her clients. I know she's helped me a great deal.
Pamela Gordon, Dietetics major, Montclair State University - My regular massage sessions have been an immeasurable tool in balancing the demands of work and a part-time college schedule. I can manage the stress much better with the healing therapy given by Linda Dominguez. I think of it as “continuing education for the body & soul.”
Clare Sherlock - My experience with somatic-emotional therapy has truly been a transformational experience, one that I would recommend everyone try.
My first exposure to it was an intense, surprising session. I knew I was ready for something, that I was on the verge of a breakthrough of a build up of emotional, psychological and physical stresses that had accumulated over the previous few years, along with painful and embedded memories from my childhood.
A good friend of mine recommended me to a wonderful therapist, Linda Dominguez, who I immediately felt at ease with. During the course of our session, I had 3 major breakthroughs (more like emotional meltdowns)—and this in front of a total stranger, something unheard of for me. Trust has always been an issue for me. But she made me feel safe and secure, and guided me through the process. Linda never took her hands off me—and we got a good laugh in too, a healthy diversion from the heavy work we were doing, when she tried to reach the tissue box without removing her hand from contact with my body. When she finally reached it, and handed me the lone, last tissue, we both cracked up because it was a “do you think you can spare it?” kind of moment—one tissue wasn't going to do much for the avalanche of tears pouring out of me. What a catharsis!
We had 2 more separate breakthroughs after that, and then Linda's unerring instinct told her that I had had enough, and she gently cycled me back to an inner and loving state of calm.
Prior to that session, I'd always had a pretty intense touch aversion, and certainly never let my emotional guard down, especially in front of strangers. Since then, however, my life has changed in so many positive ways, and I've been steadily progressing toward the path I need to be on. I trust myself more, I trust others more, and I'm opening up more and more to all the positive things life has to offer.
I recently had my second somatic session with Linda—between the first and second one, we've had regular energy sessions (cranial sacral), clearing my charkas, balancing my energies, removing any negative energy and entities--and often, a wonderful, soothing massage thrown in for good measure.
The somatic-emotional therapy, when done right, is more than just a series of steps or learned technique by the practitioner. It takes keen intuition, a deep and true caring for the person on the table, and a genuine desire to help and heal. In short, it takes a truly giving person like Linda to make it “happen.”
My second session with Linda was far less emotionally intense at the time. I suspect that I've been having so much work done for the past year or two that my remaining issues had “learned” to go deeper, to avoid exposure and expulsion, almost to the extent that I felt detached emotionally from the process—although all kinds of strange and symbolic images were popping into my head during the session. I was not as dazed and confused afterwards as I was after my first session, not as shell-shocked with emotional shrapnel. But, as coincidence would have it (but are there really any coincidences?), the next day my girlfriend gave me the number of a psychic she had seen before, and I called to see if I could get an appointment. We'd often talked about this, and it just so happened that this was the time.
When the woman called me back, she seemed to know about my mother, who had passed 5 years ago. I never got over the guilt and the hurt and loss of my mom. The psychic could not have known this—but she said she recommended a mediumship and not a future reading, because my mother was with her, tapping her on the shoulder, politely but persistently insisting (that's mom!) that I needed to come and she needed to talk to me. She said she'd never had the chance to say goodbye, which was true, and that I should not worry, that “I'd done everything right.” I felt galvanized—I was overcome by emotion, and all day I was on a crying jag. That evening I sat out on my deck in the cool May evening with a glass of wine and Norah Jones on the CD, and thought of mom, and her ordeal, and cried and grieved and hurt like it had all just happened yesterday. That's what somatic-emotional therapy does. It gets you in touch with emotions you thought were resolved, the ones you've buried whether intentionally or not, the ones that rule our lives behind the scenes, causing all kinds of mischief and putting up stumbling blocks to our progress.
I truly feel I needed to get back in touch with those feelings in order to help me break on through this membrane I've been struggling against for so long. It's hard work, make no mistake, but it's worth every minute of it. Sometimes it takes days to fully process what takes place. And the learning and growing continues well beyond the session itself.
And if you're lucky enough to have a caring, giving, loving soul like Linda as your guide through this journey, you will make it to the other side—better, stronger, more whole than before.
Amanda Yanuklis - My son, Zack, was born 8 weeks premature and then suffered two Group B Strep infections at 5 and then 8 weeks of life. The first infection became meningitis and the second led to septic shock. All in all, he spent 8 of his first 12 weeks of life hooked up to monitors, ventilators and IVs. Despite his circumstances, initially Zack was a very happy and good-natured baby. However, the more time he spent in the hospital, being poked and prodded too many times a day by countless (but well-meaning) strangers, my son became irritable, sometimes inconsolable, and mistrusting. It's so hard to recall the pain that Zack (and I – as his mommy) endured in the hospital. Worst of all, there were many times that I couldn't even hold him and I worried that he wouldn't know that daddy and I were there. I remember talking to other mothers with sick infants who told me they endured months of shrill cries and that their babies were withdrawn and disconnected. I was scared that Zack would end up that way too, but clung to the hope that Cranial Sacral Therapy would release him from what the other mothers described. Fortunately, we found Linda Dominguez as Zack was recovering from his first infection and we were very lucky that Zack's doctor's allowed Linda to begin treating him in the hospital as he was recovering from the second infection. Right away, after Zack's first treatment, I noticed a difference. Even though he was still connected to IVs, I could feel him relax when I held him. He was less irritable in the evenings too. After Zack came home from the hospital, we continued with treatments twice a week. Early on, he came to trust Linda and knew that she was helping him to feel better. His trust and admiration of Linda was a blessing. He smiled for her long before he smiled for the rest of the family. Today Zack is a very happy baby. He loves to be around people and has smiles for everyone, even strangers. It is such a relief and a great blessing to know that in Cranial Sacral Therapy , we had found a treatment to help Zack release the trauma of his experience. Plus, Zack really enjoys his treatments with Linda!
Nanette Beatty-McArdle - I am a long time patient of Linda's. About a year ago, my event horse Willie, after a rough go around with Lyme disease, began having some performance issues. I asked Linda to take a look at him and see if she could help – and she did. The results were visible and substantial. Our work became less forced and considerably more fluid and balanced, with an increased range of motion, and began resembling our pre-Lyme workouts.
In one especially productive and interesting session, Linda looked at both Willie and me, and then worked on our issues as one whole, not two separate entities. As one of the goals of riding is to work seamlessly with your horse partner, this particular session was as beneficial as it was fascinating.
Willie is currently on simple maintenance sessions. I consider his time with Linda as important to his overall health regime as nutrition and exercise.
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