Intuitive Therapeutic Massage Practitioner
Mariah Barr, LMT, RYT200
“The natural healing force
within each of us is the
greatest force in getting well”
- Hippocrates
Welcome Friends
It’s a pleasure to have you here. I’m Mariah Barr, a fully insured Licensed Massage Therapist based in Crestwood, KY. I’m happily married and a mother to a 10-year-old boy, a fluffy hypoallergenic orange cat, and a sweet Dalmatian.
After leaving a 9–5 healthcare career and focusing on my own healing, I’ve learned the value of slowing down to restore the mind, body, and spirit. Therapeutic massage has helped me manage anxiety, depression, PTSD, chronic pain, and release trapped emotions.
I graduated from Advanced Massage Therapeutics in Louisville, KY, in April 2025, receiving training in therapeutic massage. My training is well-rounded and diverse, covering Swedish, stretching, deep tissue, injury assessment, trigger point therapy, and myofascial release. I’ve worked part-time with a Crestwood chiropractor and spent a season with Racing Louisville, women’s professional soccer team. I’m currently running my own practice.
I’m certified in Ashiatsu Barefoot Bar Therapy through DeepFeet Bar Therapy in Minnesota, training under a leading Sports Ashiatsu therapist. This flowing, dance-like massage is both gentle and powerful, releasing deep tension and truly ignites my passion for massage.
My offering to you is intuitive therapeutic massage. I tune into your energy & needs, to curate the divine experience that your body asks for. Identifying areas of tension, pain or restriction, your massage is tailored accordingly. I’m eager to help facilitate healing and melt your tensions away, as you surrender in the flow of therapeutic massage.
My Services
Ashiatsu Bar Barefoot Massage
Ashiatsu is a barefoot massage technique in which the therapist delivers deep, broad, consistent pressure while utilizing their bare feet and body weight. Working with gravity instead of against it, Ashiatsu therapists are able to provide an effective therapeutic massage without causing discomfort to themselves or the client. Ashiatsu is not painful and is the best, most effective form of deep tissue work. Our feet have more nerve endings per square centimeter than any other part on the body, allowing the therapist to feel and connect with the client in a deeper way than pressure.
Therapeutic Massage
Therapeutic Massage is an integrative, results oriented approach that blends several proven techniques to address both chronic tension and acute discomfort. It combines slow, sustained pressure of myofascial release to ease restrictions in connective tissue, with deep tissue work that targets deeper muscle layers to reduce long standing knots and problem areas.
Flowing Swedish effleurage strokes are used throughout the session to warm the tissues, promote circulation, and encourage relaxation, allowing the body to better receive deeper work. Trigger point release focuses on specific areas of tightness or referred pain, applying precise pressure to help reset overactive muscles and relieve pain patterns. Gentle, assisted stretching is incorporated to improve range of motion, restore flexibility and support functional movement.
Together, these techniques create a balanced therapeutic massage that is both deeply effective and restorative - tailored to the client’s needs to reduce pain, improve mobility and support overall physical well-being.
Therapeutic massage is extremely beneficial for helping to heal from injuries. Injury massage works by breaking down scar tissue, improving blood flow, reducing inflammation and enhancing flexibility. Repetitive strain issues are the most common, and can show up as shoulder pain, low back pain, hip pain, hamstring pulls, sciatica, carpal tunnel syndrome, thoracic outlet syndrome, rotator cuff pain, frozen shoulder, patella tendonitis, whiplash, tennis elbow, golfer's (climber's) elbow and ankle sprain. I also perform side-lying pregnancy massage for expecting mothers in their second and third trimester.
Add Ons: Basalt Hot Stones, Muscle Scraping, Theragun and Silicone Cupping can be added to appointments at no additional charge. CBD massage oil upgrade is $10.
