How Much Does Craniosacral Therapy Cost?

by SharonHartnett | May 31, 2025 | craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, healing, trauma

Understanding the Value and Craniosacral Therapy Cost of a Session.

Craniosacral Therapy Cost Answered

CST is offered by a range of licensed professionals, including massage therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, nurses, and physicians. Pricing can vary depending on their level of training, experience, and location.

Highly trained craniosacral therapists—especially those certified through respected schools like the Upledger Institute—often dedicate many years to mastering this work. Many bring additional expertise in manual therapy or healthcare, which deepens the quality of care they provide.

When choosing a craniosacral therapist, it’s important to consider more than just cost. You’re investing in a practitioner’s education, clinical experience, and ability to hold a safe, skilled presence. Healing is personal, and it’s worth finding someone who has taken the time to study anatomy, refine their techniques, and truly support your body’s process. In this case, experience makes a difference.

Lastly, when it comes to your health, nobody counts more than yourself. You have a choice to be proactive and live with healthy body responses, and you also have a choice to come into Integrative Holistic care when your’e not feeling as well. More often when you choose the first, you’ll probably need to come in less often-getting tune ups. If you are feeling sick or experiencing chronic pain, there is more of a chance, coming in more frequently and longer-term would be the better option. A Craniosacral Therapist can’t diagnose, but once a session is completed, they can describe and give you a better picture what they are feeling, and make suggestions how they can help you.

The Main Cost Answer

The range of prices could be anywhere from about $60.00 for a student learning to about $250.00 based on experience and location. In the Columbus, Ohio area, I have seen prices range from about $90.00 to $175.00 per hour.

Craniosacral Therapy helps you connect with your own inner healing resources. Think how great it would be to mindfully take charge of your own life!

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

614 653-8111

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

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How to Take Care of Your Toes

by SharonHartnett | May 22, 2025 | Craniosacral Therapy, grounding

Let’s Talk Toes!

Today, I want to bring a little attention to a part of the body we often ignore: your toes!

They’re easy to take for granted, aren’t they? But these little digits do so much more than we realize. Without them, standing, walking, even balancing would be far more difficult. Your toes quietly support you every single day.

Here’s just a glimpse of what they do:

Help you balance
Push off the ground with every step
Absorb shock
Adapt to different surfaces
Support the arches of your feet

When we’re younger, toes are usually flexible and mobile. But over time, especially with certain shoes (yes, high heels—I’m looking at you!), they can stiffen or even conform to unnatural shapes. I’ve seen it with many clients. One woman’s feet eventually took on the shape of her heels after years of wearing them.

The truth is, how we stand, move, and hold ourselves all starts at the ground level—your feet. And when your toes are tight or misaligned, it affects everything above them. Your ankles, knees, hips, spine, and even your neck can be impacted.

So here’s my suggestion: spend a few minutes every day moving your toes.
Point. Flex. Curl. Spread them. Move them up, down, in, out. Let them explore.

Try lying on your back and using the wall to gently stretch your toes and feet into flexion and extension. Afterwards, give your toes a little traction—gently pull each one. It can bring immediate relief to tired feet and, believe it or not, even ease tension in your neck or help with headaches.

That’s the magic of fascia—it’s all connected. When your toes feel more alive, your whole body benefits. It makes a difference in how you move, how you rest, and how grounded you feel in the world.

Just because we’re aging doesn’t mean we have to give up flexibility or stability. We can choose to stay connected—mindfully, from the ground up. Grounding is important for keeping us healthy.

P.S. I love working with the Craniosacral rhythm of the toes. It’s subtle, powerful, and deeply renewing.

Cetified Diplomate Upledger at the Highest Level of Expertise in Columbus, Ohio

Warmly,
Sharon Hartnett CST-D? 614-653-8111
? www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

How Craniosacral Therapy Helps Your Nervous System heal from Chronic Stress

by SharonHartnett | May 22, 2025 | Craniosacral Therapy, healing, healthy, Healthy Body, mind body & spirit, mindfulness, upledger institute

How Craniosacral Therapy helps the Nervous System

Your body has an innate intelligence which knows how to heal. But when stress is constant, your ability to function optimally decreases. Craniosacral Therapy can help the body get out of the fight-or-flight response that can occur after a stress overfload. By encouraging the parasympathetic system to shift louder so to speak, the body can create a space for self-repair.

My clients often report:

A noticeable release of jaw or neck and head tension
A sense of inner stillness and calm as the nervous system calms down.
Improved sleep and digestion
Fewer stress-related flare-ups
Deep relaxation throughout the whole mind and body.

Why Chronic Stress Needs a gentle approach

Stress is not taking space only in your head, but it affects the whole body as well. The tissues, the organs and all those miraculous things that keep you alive and well do better when they come into balance. Craniosacral Therapy is considerate, welcoming and the techniques are very supportive to good health. The nervous system has the chance to optimize and create harmony in the whole body.

Find Relief in Columbus, Ohio

At Lighten Up Therapies in Columbus, craniosacral therapy is offered with skill and care. Whether you’re living with long-term anxiety or just feel like your body needs a reset, CST can help restore your nervous system to feel a deeper sense of safety and ease.

Ready to reconnect with calm?

Contact Sharon Hartnett CST-D at 614 653-8111.

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

To find a Craniosacral Therapist anywhere in the world, check out the Upledger Institute.

Nothing Exists Alone: Embracing Connection as a Path to Wholeness

by SharonHartnett | May 19, 2025 | change, craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, healing, healthy, Healthy Body, mindfulness

Through mindfulness and the recognition that everything exists with connection, we begin to heal. Not just ourselves. But also our relationships in the world around us.

When we become mindful of how everything lives in connection, the universe shifts into a deeper mutual place of compassion. Truly discovering that we are not isolated objects is a powerful realization. That’s something we could all use just about now.

It’s not so simple that we are just individuals moving through separate experiences. From the breath we take to the words we speak, our lives are constantly woven into a larger web of interdependence. From the quantum level to how the butterfly effects of one choice changes everything.

I bring this up because as a Craniosacral Therapist, working in Columbus, Ohio, I find that awakening to the bigger picture brings about deep healing, growth and evolution.

Because we are so ingrained to believe in separatness and individuality, we forget that there is more richness in inter-dependence and mutual help and support. Yes, we have a sense of independence, but we are also here in mutuality and connection.

When I work with clients, often I feel that there seems to be a “part” that is dysfunctional. yet as my hands listen, and notice- the other fluids, tissues and systems come into play in the healing process. Nothing can heal in separation or parts. What seems like a problem is actually an expression of something waiting to change and move toward connection, Mostly, I manually wait for the deeper inner intelligence of the body to reconnect and remember the innate wholensss that lives in everything. Other times, the client may speak about past experiences of trauma that are ripe enough to heal. I trust whatever happens to bring the “pieces” back together into the present.

There is always more to us than we ever imagined. To self-realize and discover the value of reaching beyond is a compassionate and wise way to live and grow. Not only for our own personal journeys, but also knowing that each choice we make ripples across the Universe. We all matter. Everything we do counts. Being mindful changes everything.

To learn more about Mindfulness and Connection, check out: www.hakomi.com

To find out more about Craniosacral Therapy, check out: www.upledger.com

Sharon Hartnett CST-d

703 509-1792

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

Relearning how to Feel Warm and Cozy in Your Body

by SharonHartnett | May 8, 2025 | craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy

Columbus Craniosacral Therapy: Finding Comfort

Each of Us Can find Comfort in ourselves through listening to the internal stirring of Life inside.

With an open mind and a direct connection to our bodies, we can focus on comfort and pleasure. However, sometimes the complexity of our composition and life experiences can close gateways to discovering our authentic Self.

Working with a Craniosacral Therapist can help to re-build trust and develop better Dialogue with SomanoEmtional Release techniques. We do this by connecting and melding with the Craniosacral System, and inviting the present moment to upwell and bring awareness to the body gently and with compassion. There is no pushing or going for solutions, but rather an invitation to exploration of Self through the Nervous System and how it relates to our very unqiue and human experience.

One Way to look a this:

You might be surprised how much your breath can help you heal.
Gentle touch can invite subtle movement inside your body.
Quiet conversation can bring new clarity.
In craniosacral therapy, we weave these three gifts together.
We follow your breath.
We listen to your inner motion.
We honor what you want to say.
This gentle focus can ease tension and invite deep calm.
If you’re open to exploring, let’s set up a time to try it together.

Finding the meaning in your life purpose and inner landscape is up to you. It’s about remember that everything is interconnected, and that the fullness of the whole Universe is accessible to you. Sometimes we must pull off all the masks and the repressing beliefs to meet the Love We Are, but it is possible. The body is the doorway to transformation. At Lighten Up Therapies in Columbus Ohio, we use the techniques of the Upledger Institute to awaken the access to your Inner Sense of Self.

In the meantime, bringing love, comfort, and welcoming intention to a Craniosacral Therapy Session can open the doors again to every shade with warmth and comfort.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

703 509-1792

Find Me Craniosacral Therapist Columbus Ohio

www.craniosacraltherapistcolubmus.com