Claira Young (they/she) is an interdisciplinary bodyworker with a focus on evidence based integrative care, chronic pain management, and post surgical soft tissue repair.
As a person who lives with chronic pain and has experienced their share of the medical system as a patient. They have a keen focus on how to navigate helping people manage the complexity of a chronic condition and supporting a person’s natural healing process through post surgical care. They address pain management and post surgical care through a bio-psycho-social perspective of wellbeing while absorbing professional discussions around pain philosophy and medical ethics. They have focused their technical education around scar tissue studies, the lymphatic system, body-based therapies for nervous system regulation, and fascial anatomy.
People and bodies do not live in a vacuum. Claira wants to help address the many aspects of one’s life that will play a part in how “well” a person feels in their body. Their work focuses on providing a comprehensive look at a person’s habits, beliefs around their pain, self care, health history, and goals for their health or recovery.
A Note From Claira
I believe your pain exists. In a health system where medical gaslighting of peoples pain and symptoms is common, I am here to say Your pain is real. your pain is valid, and there are resources, treatments, and education centers that can help with management.
Different way to access Care With Claira
Embodied Movement and meditation practice
Accessible movement, breathe work, and meditation centered around chronic pain education, symptom management, and rehabilitation.
Classes are a mixture of foundational core/spinal strengthening, circulating different fluid systems, balancing postural tension, and regulating the nervous system.
Private Bodywork Practice
Each in-person session is unique to the current state of the person. Claira will provide a clear treatment plan based on the indicated needs of the client. For the session, that includes a different ratio of soft tissue work, manual lymphatic drainage, and nervous system down regulation. Claira will provide at-home exercises and self care ideas to help with pain management and rehabilitation post operation.
resources
There is not a one size fits all method for managing chronic pain. Throughout the years Claira has collected a wide array of resources and education tools from foundational health resources, disability empowerment, community platforms, and like-minded practitioners.
Daily Tools
Claira is active on social media to advocate and educate people on chronic pain, mindfulness/awareness practices, and daily self care tips through their lived experience. They strive to build a community of support, advice, and realistic health management tools.
A note on the economic exchange
As a health care provider we bill as an out of network provider and set prices according to the cost of living in the given area. We can help by providing a guide on how an individual can ask for medical reimbursements from their private health insurance. We also provide sliding scale pricing. Please reach out if finances are a burden. We are working on divesting from the non-equitable economic healthcare system. We set aside multiple reduced priced private sessions a month. We do not require an application process and go by an honor system.
With that, we have very intentionally created some offerings as freely given. The disabled community is constantly being exploited by the medical and wellness industrial system for basic rights and care. Accessing education around wellness and pain management needs to be more accessible. We are forever working on unlearning and relearning better ways to show up and support the community of sick people that can fall through the cracks of our healthcare system.
Acknowledging that we reside on the ancestral lands and waters of the Coast Salish people who have called this place home since time immemorial. We Honor the inherent, aboriginal rights and knowledge that has been passed down from generation to generation of the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group that includes the S’Klallam, Tulalip, Samish, Lhaq’temish (Lummi), Á,LEṈENEȻ ȽTE (W̱SÁNEĆ), Semiahmoo, Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla.