Household Accounting and Tax Record Organization
Technology Tutoring
Therapeutic Touch and Mobility Coaching

In 2018 I downsized my massage and bodywork practice in order to make room for my own next step. As I have done from the beginning of my working days in the late 1980s, I am working one on one with clients helping where my skills are most valuable. The recognition of my own aging and transition towards my own golden years is the imperative to make strenuous physical work a smaller part of what I do.

The clients I serve are mainly those born in the 1920s through the 1950s, and I offer services in three main areas:

Household Accounting and Tax Record Organzation

After a break of nearly 30 years, in 2019, I returned to seasonal tax work with H & R Block. But I've found that there is a need for assistance in gathering records and summarizing ahead of handing them off to a tax pro.

Even more stressful are the cases where the person who used to handle all of this has developed health or cognitive issues, and can't do it anymore... leaving the other person to try to figure out where everything is and how to start handling it. I can help with this, finding and resetting passwords, figuring out how things had been filed in the past and where things stand now, dealing with banking sites, and working together to set up a new process to handle these tasks going forwards.

Technology Tutoring

Things that the younger set find very easy can be very frustrating to handle for those who have been out of the workforce for some time. Classes and online videos go too fast, are hard to hear and see, and simply can't compare to having someone patient willing to sit side by side and tutor on the use of smartphone and tablet apps, computer applications, directory structures and the like.

Therapeutic Touch and Mobility Coaching

Having been a massage therapist since 2006, I still want to keep my hands in the field, but for my home-based services I am specializing in services that don't require me hauling a table or making people rearrange their furniture or get undressed. I work with my clients right at the living room recliner or kitchen table, hospital bed or wheelchair. I am skilled in gentle techniques that work with the nervous system to relieve pain and help with better sleep.

I can also work with clients doing gentle movement practices for better mobility such as chair yoga, taiji standing practice and qigong exercises such as eight pieces of brocade.

I look forward to helping in any way I can.

Wild is the music of autumnal winds. Amongst the faded woods. ― William Wordsworth

Autumnal Wind In-Home Services - Joan Cole Massage LLC

Mobility Coaching