20/04/2026
Can CranioSacral Therapy work alongside other treatments? The short answer is yes! Here's why it's so helpful.
I've watched osteopaths, physios, massage therapists, chiropractors and many, many others weave CST into what they already do. Even dentists, nurses and doctors realise it can offer 'something else' to help their patients (even if they don’t have the time within their regular practices to offer it).
Why? Because CST is fundamentally about treating a system or body structures that are often missed in other approaches. We refer to it as the craniosacral system: the structures that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord.
Alongside your massage work, adjustments, stretches, mobilizations… whatever your work specialises in, CST trainied hands can tune in in a different way to check if anything else is being asked for from a cransiosacral system perspective.
If you’ve already worked on muscles, joints, superficial fascia, maybe the viscera, how about giving some time to the fascial membranes in the head, the cranial bones, the structures in the mouth, or the deeper fascial layers around organs, nerves or vessels….
And when you work directly with the cranial rhythm, you're accessing a function in the body that most other approaches don't consider.
The nervous system responds and often shifts in a different way.
Students tell me about tinnitus vanishing, chronic back pain resolving, two-year plantar fasciitis pain disappearing after one session.
One client had lost her peripheral vision and couldn't empty her bladder fully - after working on her pelvis and head, her vision was normal again and her bladder released properly straight after the treatment.
Go figure!
But what I think is just so cool is that the those results came out of listening to and following what the body wanted to show. Is it that big a stretch to trust that it knows what it needs? CST just gives it the space to show you.
This is what Sam, a homeopath, said after recevieing treatment herself and integrating the techniques she learned in CST1:
“Since CST1 I have noticed a huge shift in every aspect of myself (physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually). I feel I‘m more in touch with my true essence than I have been since I was about five years old. I feel more centered, more grounded, and more at peace.
“With regards to my holistic therapy work, CST has brought in new layers and new depths to all my treatments. I feel I get to the source of patients' problems much quicker than before and have so many tools to help heal. As a homeopath, I feel that CST works in a very similar way in that it encourages the body's own healing system to recentre and rebalance without force.”
So if you’re interested in adding a new and cutting edge skillset to your practice – whatever it is you already do – get in touch.
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