Areeya Fakthong
Areeya has over eight years of experience in private clinics in Australia and works across remedial, deep tissue, sports, pregnancy and relaxation massage, along with reflexology. She sees a mix of people, from those training hard and needing to recover between sessions, through to office workers carrying tension through the neck and shoulders, and people who simply need an hour where they can stop thinking.
She works to whatever pressure suits you. Some people want firm, sustained deep tissue work through the glutes, hamstrings and back, and Areeya is comfortable working at that depth for a full session. Others want something lighter. She’ll ask before she starts and check as she goes, so you don’t spend an hour bracing against something you didn’t want.
Sports and remedial work
If you train regularly, Areeya works through the tight spots that build up across a training block. That means calves and hamstrings for runners, shoulders and lats for anyone lifting overhead, hips and glutes for cyclists, and forearms for people whose grip takes a hammering. She works alongside the physiotherapists here, so if something isn’t settling with massage and starts looking like an injury rather than tightness, it gets flagged rather than worked on indefinitely.
Pregnancy massage
Pregnancy massage is a particular interest of Areeya’s. She uses side-lying positioning with pillow support, so there’s no lying face down and no pressure through the abdomen, and she works through the low back, hips and legs where most of the load ends up in the second and third trimesters. She’s happy to treat through all stages of pregnancy and afterwards, and she’ll adjust position and pressure as things change.
What to expect
Areeya will ask what’s been bothering you, what you’re doing day to day, and what you want out of the session, then work accordingly. She combines styles within a treatment rather than sticking to one, so a session might move from broad relaxation work into firmer remedial work over the areas that need it.
Areeya works Wednesdays and Fridays