About Cathy Cohen

Approved National CEU Educator
NCBTMB #450949-09

Florida Board of Massage Therapy: 50-302

Iowa Board of Massage Therapy: 109243

 

Cathy Cohen, LMT is a National and Florida approved CEU Provider and Board Certified Myofascial Trigger Point Therapist. She provides live and online massage-therapy continuing education for massage therapists. Her students include many who are new to Trigger Point Therapy, as well as experienced Trigger Point Therapists who seek out her advanced knowledge and coaching.

Cathy has practiced myofascial therapies since the 1980s and has been teaching for over 20 years. She knows how frustrated both clients and therapists can become when dealing with muscular pain. Fortunately her background as a Trigger Point Myotherapist and Structural Integration therapist has equipped her with the confidence and skills to assess and treat myofascial pain syndromes.

Cathy’s deep insight into physical balance, structural alignment, and self-care comes through her own long experience in yoga and ballroom dance, as well as through her formal education as a biologist. Cathy trained with Dr. Janet Travell, the leading pioneer in myofascial pain syndromes and former White House Physician, and with Nancy Shawand George Kousaleos (CORE Structural Integration).

In 2015 Cathy co-created an innovative online video-coaching program, CarpalTunnelCoaching.com that has helped clients (including many massage and body work therapists!) to systematically resolve their hand and wrist issues.

In her practice and her teaching, Cathy specializes in resolving chronic musculoskeletal pain and structural alignment issues. Her leading-edge educational program, is a resource used by therapists and healthcare providers nationwide. Cathy has personally trained over 2,600 therapists in advanced Trigger Point Therapy protocols.

Cathy developed the in-depth Going Beyond Trigger Points Seminars to provide therapists with the best possible advanced training. The unique Connect the Dots System makes it easier for students to integrate and apply the breadth and depth of Travell and Simons’ Myofascial Trigger Point knowledge, supported by the postural restoration protocols of Structural Integration.

In addition to giving students a firm foundation in the essentials, she provides specialized advanced training for systematically identifying and addressing the postural and behavioral conditions that perpetuate clients’ postural dysfunctions and myofascial pain.

” I thoroughly enjoyed your workshop! The material was exactly what I was hoping for and beyond. The protocol to follow and the format was precise and informative. I feel I have real tools with a genuine understanding of why they work. Wonderful! It will literally change the way I work. I truly believe it is one of the most powerful and empowering approaches to healing and pain management… for client AND practitioner! Elle Harmon, LMT

The Going Beyond Trigger Points Seminars format provides three-courses-in-one: 

  1. Students get hands-on training in Trigger Point Therapy with abundant individual attention.
  2. Students receive thorough training and practice in essential Therapist Self-Care protocols.
  3. After the workshop, students receive a six week Follow-Up & Enrichment Program with paced, comprehensive Multimedia Reinforcement for each 2 day course to ensure retention and integration of the new knowledge and skills.

With 30 years experience teaching and motivating patients and students in clinical, classroom and online settings, Cathy is deeply dedicated to helping people improve the quality of their lives, and to assisting therapists in caring for their own bodies as they treat others.

  What are the unique features & benefits of the
Going Beyond Trigger Points ?

The Going Beyond Trigger Points Connect The Dots System is an advanced continuing education program for Massage Therapists.
It teaches a comprehensive pain therapy system that Massage Therapists can apply in their daily practice. It integrates the work of Dr. Janet Travell, the originator of myofascial trigger point therapy, into a highly accessible system that Massage Therapists can easily apply to resolve their clients’ pain conditions.
It integrates four essential bodies of therapeutic knowledge into one coordinated and easy to use system:

  1. Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy to relieve pain caused by myofascial trigger points.
  2. Advanced myofascial therapeutic massage techniques, such as cross-fiber friction, longitudinal stripping, myofascial spreading, and cyro-stimulated pain-free stretching.
  3. Neuromuscular re-education protocols to re-train dysfunctional muscular and fascial systems, including related activating and perpetuating factors.
  4. Structural Integration / Postural Realignment / Kinesiological Therapies to restore overall healthy posture and structural balance.

Some form of myofascial therapy, and even a superficial introduction to trigger points, is often included in the basic curriculum at many massage schools. However, the breadth and depth of knowledge of Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy is rich and vast. It requires time, dedication, and a desire to go beyond routine massage sessions to provide genuine lasting pain relief.

Cathy received extensive training in Trigger Point therapy – over 1,000 hours simply to be qualified as an entry level Myofascial Trigger Point Therapist.

“Going Beyond Trigger Points is truly a graduate-level program. After I mastered the  technical knowledge of trigger points, I had to find my own path to incorporating this into a do-able massage session. Out of that experience I developed my Going Beyond Trigger Points Connect The Dots System so that other massage therapists could ‘fast-track’ into becoming qualified Myofascial Trigger Point Therapists.”