Devon Detweiler, LMT

Devon has been a licensed manual therapist since 2004. She has spent more than two decades studying and working with the body through deep tissue, structural integration and acupuncture, in addition to her career as a dance, movement and yoga instructor. But it was discovering Counterstrain in 2022 that changed everything. For the first time, she found a method that follows the body's own innate intelligence, resolving pain at its source instead of chasing symptoms and freeing the body to move through life with ease. Counterstrain showed her that her own chronic neck and shoulder tension had nothing to do with her neck and shoulders, and that her anxiety was not a separate symptom. This work taught her, both clinically and somatically, that the core issue was a severely dysregulated nervous system, and that lasting relief was only possible once the nervous system was calmed and the whole body was recalibrated. As both a patient and practitioner, she's seen that dysregulation and dis-ease show up differently in everyone: chronic pain, migraines, digestive issues, anxiety, immune dysfunction. The root is often the same, and it's the root that she now specializes in treating, gently and without force. She believes that every body is different, and each requires its own path to healing. She is based in Ojai, bringing this rare, highly specialized work to Ventura County, where she's devoted to offering that same root-level healing to every client who finds her table.