We were lucky to catch up with Lisa Foster recently and have shared our conversation below.

Lisa, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’re complete cheeseballs and so we love asking folks to share the most heartwarming moment from their career – do you have a touching moment you can share with us?

In my practice, I often see clients that have seen many other doctors/practitioners and tried a variety of treatments to help them heal. By the time they walk into my practice, they are exhausted and oftentimes feel hopeless and alone on their healing journey.
Recently, I had a client come to see me who had been struggling to heal from a work-related injury – she had suffered a severe concussion. After our treatment session, I discussed my findings with her. I will never forget the relieved look on her face – she then proceeded to share with me that this was the first time that someone could validate what she was feeling. She started to think that she was losing her mind because traditional imaging and testing were all inconclusive, but she was still suffering from severe yet undiagnosed symptoms.

This patient returned a week later for her follow-up session; she said she had fewer symptoms, more energy, and for the first time, felt hopeful about her recovery. She said the biggest gift I had given her was that at her first session, I simply listened to her – and this small gesture made her feel heard for the first time since her injury, and that alone changed everything for her.

It is such an important reminder no matter what techniques and strategies we use to help our clients; sometimes we just need to offer humanistic basics – to listen and allow them to feel seen and heard.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am the owner of Mapleton CranioSacral Therapy in Lafayette, Colorado. I’m a licensed Physical Therapist and certified CranioSacral Therapist. In my private practice, I use CranioSacral Therapy as my primary modality. As a certified CranioSacral Therapist, I am trained not only to treat the condition of the body, but I am sensitive to the needs of emotional balance and well-being of my clients – and this is what I integrate into their treatment sessions. Every client is different, and each person comes with their own story that influences their recovery. Witnessing these stories as they unfold is truly an honor. I feel that using CranioSacral Therapy allows the body to tell its own story. Seeing my clients heal from the inside out is why I come to work each day.
I specialize in treating both adults and children with a number of conditions, including; migraines and headaches, depression, anxiety, stress disorders, post-concussive symptoms, infant torticollis, ankyloglossia (tongue-tie), developmental delay, and autism.

If you could go back, would you choose the same profession, specialty, etc.?

Definitely, I absolutely love what I do. Becoming a physical therapist gave me so many life choices. Not only did it fill the love I have for working with and helping people, but within the field, my career evolved as I grew as a person. Through on-the-job training and continuing education, I was able to easily transition into multiple settings from working in New York City at the prestigious NYU Medical Center where I was able to rotate through many departments, including acute care, outpatient rehabilitation, inpatient rehabilitation, and pediatrics to working at The Children’s Hospital in Denver CO and Boulder Community Health outpatient pediatric rehabilitation which eventually lead me to open my own private practice, Mapleton CranioSacral Therapy.
This career also allows me to have flexibility in the work hours that best suits my family’s needs, especially when I became a working mother. It allowed me to maintain a career that I love, and still feel I could be a present parent.

I am truly grateful for the career path I have chosen; it has filled me as a professional, a mother, and a person.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

I treat each client as an individual, not as their symptoms or diagnosis. When someone comes to my office, I listen. Our bodies want to heal; we want to get better, and I feel that the client and therapist share equal parts in this journey.
If we cut ourselves, our bodies already know how to heal; a day or two later, the cut is already healed. But why is it that our bodies can heal from this but not other injuries? Sometimes the body needs more support, kind of like stitches when the wound is too big. Once your body has the support it needs, it can now heal.

As a therapist, I have the tools and the knowledge to give the body that support, and the client has the power to use that support to heal. I believe it is a team effort when it comes to healing, and the client is a very important part of that team.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.mapletoncst.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisafostercst/
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