Liz Royce, Licensed Professional Massage Therapist (MT133667)
Liz received her Massage Therapy Certification (CAMTC #20456) in 1998 and California State Certification in 2011. (California only requires Certification, not licensing for Massage Therapy.)
Business License for office in Lakewood, CA from 2011-2018.
Texas Massage Therapy License obtained in July, 2020.
Liz's Massage Therapy initial education includes:
Continuing Education:
Massage Work Experience: (in CA up to 2019, in TX 2020-Present)
Liz began doing massages in 1993 just for friends. It all began with a boyfriend she had at the time who had been in an accident and had been going through physical therapy for 3 years. He could only raise his left arm about 10 degrees before he had pain. Since Liz was in a minor accident in 1990, she had been going to a chiropractor and had received massages from the massage therapist and remembered what it felt like. Liz decided to offer her then-boyfriend a massage just on the left shoulder area. After 3 months of massaging his left shoulder area about 2-3 times a week, he was able to raise his left arm about 90 degrees before he felt any pain. She thought to herself "maybe I have a niche with this massage stuff." So she somehow started giving massages to friends. Many of them asked the question "when did you go to massage school?" Of course she replied "I haven't gone yet." Then she thought "maybe I should go so I get properly trained." And it worked out that after she was laid off from GTE (now Verizon) in 1997, she decided to go to massage school. Before getting laid off, she did some research on massage schools and found a school that felt like home to her. Liz spent the whole year of 1998 at Mesa Institute in Orange completing 1000 hours. She was asked to instruct the Massage Technician class at another school in El Monte that was affiliated with Mesa Institute for about a year. She also took the opportunity to go to Hawaii in October (1998) for the Ironman Triathlon. There, she was a member of the World's Largest Massage Team in which she had the honor of massaging 16 participants, from all over the world, after they finished the triathlon. After completing the 1000 hours, she was asked to work with one of her instructors who was also a chiropractor. After a couple months of working with that chiropractor, she was referred to a fellow chiropractor (in Huntington Beach) and worked in that office from February 1999 till March 2014 (15 years). Liz has worked for a number of other chiropractors along the way.
Recently, Liz has been learning more about meditation, specifically on the healing properties that it can have. She has been to a number of workshops that focused on meditations as well as the education about what goes on in your brain and body during and after the meditations. Scientific research and studies have been done to prove the benefits of certain meditations for certain lengths of time. Liz is able to incorporate meditation with her massage to give even MORE benefit to clients' pain relief and healing. It has proven very effective with a few of her 'test' clients. This added enhancement to Liz's services can be added to a session of 90 minutes or longer. There is a limited choice of the best meditations to choose from. The secret of Liz's massages with a meditation is consistency. Just like any 'treatment', it takes more than 1 or 2 sessions to get the healing process rolling. So, BOOK NOW, and be consistent with AT LEAST weekly sessions.
Favorite Books I've read and like to refer to often:
Interests: (No particular order)