Lymphatic & Craniosacral Specialists
Location
Hamilton County Business Development Center INCubator
100 Cherokee Blvd. Suite 2104 Chattanooga, TN 37405
Entrance is on the corner of Cherokee Blvd and Manufactures Rd. Look for the red brick building with silver lettering reading, " Hamilton County Business Development Center. Take the stairs to level 2 and turn right, go past the Elevator and follow the signs that say LAUNCH Or Take the elevator to level two, turn left and follow the LAUNCH signs.
Parking
Three free guest parking spots are available on a first-come-first-served basis, when you turn onto Manufactures Rd from Cherokee Blvd, it is the first driveway (gravel) on your right. Bring your license plate number and sign in at the front desk. Paid parking is across the Manufactures Rd at the 10 North apartment complex/Starbucks.
Cypris Birkel
Learning is a lifelong passion of mine. When I was a child I wanted to be three things: chef, psychologist, and massage therapist. I began cooking for my family at the age of eight and entered the professional kitchen at 15. After completing culinary school in Baltimore, MD, I continued my journey as personal chef, restaurateur, event planner, caterer and healthy lifestyle coach.
My adventurous nature manifested in a life-long love of travel and in the performance world, creating fire dancing, stilt walking and adagio balancing acts for crowds as big as 50,000.
Seeking more knowledge, I earned my Psychology degree and then worked in hospitals and research laboratories managing clinical trials. I knew it was time to shift my focus after moving to California, where I chose to explore massage therapy.
Once I began my journey into the healing arts, I knew it was what I am meant to do for the rest of my life! I took all of the massage courses the college had to offer, then continued to train in prenatal, orthopedic, Thai, and shiatsu with lymphatic drainage and craniosacral as my main focus. I have since taken more then 250 hours of lymphatic education, have been a teaching assistant for The Chikly Institute, NCBMT approved CEU provider #1000880, and board certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork #2001352.
I am drawn to these gentle-touch, clothes-on therapies because of my life -long battle with chronic pain and swelling. I have not only seen their effectiveness for my own pain management but also for many other conditions such as migraines, inflammatory diseases, Lyme disease, TMD, chronic pain, injury repair cancer and pre/post operative care. I also really enjoy working with the Equine community. I believe the lymphatic system can be made approachable to all!
I am excited to support clients’ pursuits of improved well-being and seek to help each person feel empowered in their healthcare.
Kate Caldwell
Kate Caldwell, M.Div., founded Awareness Arts Collective, LLC to help clients gain relief from suffering and experience more joy and fulfillment in their lives by nurturing their personal growth. She offers an approach to spiritual care that is rooted in awareness, self-compassion, and positive embodiment.
What happens in a spiritual care session with Kate? The foundation of her therapeutic practice is to honor your innate wisdom and power to heal. She helps clients identify their spiritual needs and goals for personal growth through an ongoing process of dialogue and discernment.
She will help you address the root causes of symptoms like despair, strengthen your capacity for self-trust, and learn concrete skills required for self-care and self-integration.
Kate is here to offer you support through life’s hardest moments. She has extensive experience in accompanying individuals facing critical and chronic illness, addiction, grief and loss, divorce, career transitions, the aging process, and other forms of life change and transition. Her commitment is to provide clients with an accepting and nurturing environment where you can explore your inner world, address your needs from the inside-out, and realize your own path of personal growth and transformation. Supportive elements engaged in spiritual care sessions include meditation, breath work, yoga postures, Reiki energy work, emotional support, and spiritual dialogue. Kate works with clients from a variety of spiritual and religious backgrounds, who hold a variety of beliefs.
Kate’s rich and varied life experiences have shaped her approach to offering spiritual care to people from many walks of life, who face many different challenges. She began asking “Why?” at a young age. This question led her to Earlham College to study world religions, and then to Princeton Theological Seminary to earn a Master’s of Divinity. During seminary, Kate deepened her exploration of cultural and historical aspects of theology, the link between human belief and behavior, and interfaith dialogue. Her deep concern is to attend to how our personal beliefs co-create the world we share, and to strengthen the ability to act compassionately toward ourselves and others.
Her commitment to the care of people and land has guided her path as a spiritual caregiver. Kate has served as a hospital and hospice chaplain since 2017, earned her Rule 31 Mediation Certification in 2012, and has served as an advocate for individuals and families suffering from addiction for more than a decade. She has continued her study of spiritual philosophy by earning her 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification in 2020, and earning her Reiki II Certification in 2021. She is participating in the Trauma Center’s Trauma Sensitive Yoga 2023-2024 cohort for her 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification.
Through her studies and life experiences, Kate has come to see how spirituality, human wellbeing, and healthy ecologies are intimately linked. She has volunteered with various farms and gardens around the world, earned a Permaculture Design Certificate in 2014, and served as board member and president for a local Farmer’s Market.
In leisurely moments, Kate enjoys wandering the forest, climbing rocks, reading copiously, playing with words, and strumming her banjo. She is immensely grateful for her many loved ones who have nurtured and guided her own spiritual evolution. Kate knows that healing happens in community, and she would be honored to accompany you on your spiritual path. Her great hope is that you can learn to practice care and compassion for yourself, so that you can live joyfully and express your unique gifts in a world that needs them.