Alexandra Kaufman is a highly trained and dedicated professional non-physician Osteopathic manual practitioner. She is adept at addressing skeletal, muscular and overall tissue pain and injuries. In private practice since 1995, she has treated hundreds of patients in the Monterey and Bay areas of California, as well as a brief time in Santa Fe, NM. She is dedicated to learning and continually improving her knowledge of the body and therapeutic skills. Alexandra earned her manual osteopathy degree at the Canadian School of Osteopathy in Vancouver, Canada. Alexandra is also an animal osteopath and earned her degree from London College of Animal Osteopathy in Toronto, Canada. In addition, she has accumulated over 3000 hours of study and certification in 23 healing modalities (listed below).
What first drew me into this kind of work was being under the tutelage of an expert, now retired, bodyworker in Berkeley California named Lynda Caesara, a Berry practitioner. Learning to build all the joints of the body out of clay with our hands, inclusive of the surrounding muscles, tendons and ligaments, was a fascinating start to being able to see into the intricacies of the body. As her assistant for eight years in her private practice, I began to evolve as a skilled manual therapist. Years of study ensued in many different modalities, with hundreds of hours of class time per year for many years on end.
The work I do is accomplished over the clothes using a gentle non-invasive touch. My goal is to fully address your health concerns by restoring function and mobility, eliminating pain and preventing disability while discovering increased body awareness and an increased quality of life and joie de vivre!
Certificates earned in the following modalities 1995 to present (in alphabetical order):
- Alexander Technique
- Berry Method®
- Lowen Systems
- Cranial Sacral Therapy
- Deep Tissue
- Evolutionary Process
- Functional Emergency Technique
- GOT (General Osteopathic Technique)
- Hydrotherapy
- Integrative Manual Therapy™
- Jin Shin Do Acupressure
- Matrix Energetics
- MET (Muscle Energy Technique)
- Myofascial Release
- OAB Osteopathic Artibular Balancing
- Pediatrics/Newborns in Osteopathy
- Reflexology
- Reiki (All levels to Master)
- Shiatsu
- Sports Massage
- Strain/Counterstrain
- Swedish Esalen
- ThetaHealing®