& MASSAGE
MAKEPEACE
CLINICAL & SPORTS MASSAGE | PREGNANCY MASSAGE | HOT STONE MASSAGE CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY | FASCIAL UNWINDING | MINDFULNESS | SOUND BATHS
"Helping people in chronic pain ease their symptoms, feel more in control of their recovery, and enjoy daily life again — through thoughtful hands-on care and online support that meets both body and mind."
About Me
Carmen Makepeace: hands-on therapist, lifelong learner, and someone who knows what it is to start again.
My journey into Bodywork
I didn’t come to bodywork through a straight line.
My background is in science: I spent years studying nuclear fusion reactor materials during a PhD.
But after burning out, and during a conversation with my mum about her chronic pain, I realised I wanted to learn something that could make a difference to real people, in real time.
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What started as curiosity became a calling.
I trained in massage, thinking it might be a break.
Instead, I found something that brought me joy, not just intellectually, but practically.
Helping someone out of pain.
Reconnecting them with their body.
Offering space to breathe, rest, and recover.
That’s what kept me going.
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I’ve since gone on to hold the UK’s highest qualifications in massage & soft tissue therapy, and I continue to learn every single day.
But it’s not just professional training that shapes how I work.
After a skull fracture & 18 months later, a car accident, my own rehab taught me what textbooks never could.
I know what it is to feel like your body’s not cooperating.
I know the fear of not knowing if you’ll get back to doing what you love.
I also know that recovery isn’t just physical, it’s emotional, mental, and deeply personal.
What I offer now
Today, my work brings together clinical skill, nervous system awareness, and a deep respect for the whole person.
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Whether you come to me for chronic pain, post-injury recovery, pregnancy support, or a place to rest, my aim is always the same: to meet you where you are, and help your body move toward ease.
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Craniosacral therapy and mindfulness were the only things that helped me out of pain when nothing else did.
What they taught me is this:
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Healing begins with listening.
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Not fixing, not overriding, but listening.
The body holds everything:
Physical tension, emotional history, stress, & trauma, sometimes all at once.
The scariest, most powerful thing you can do is learn to listen to your body & stay with it, even when it’s in pain.
That’s the heart of my work.
To create a space where you can feel heard, in your tissues, your nervous system, your whole being.
Where your body can be met with presence, compassion, and care.
And where healing can begin not through force, but through relationship.
This has become my life’s work.
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This past summer, I spent time learning from a teacher whose gift is to embody every layer of the body; bone, muscle, ligament, nerve, through energy and feel.
It confirmed something I’ve always believed: that healing is a felt experience, not just a clinical one.
I’m also currently training in osteopathy.
Because as important as heart, presence, & embodied awareness are, I also believe in keeping people medically safe.
Osteopathy will one day allow me to refer you back to your GP or the NHS when needed, whether I notice signs of disease, serious illness, or something beyond my current scope.
That ability to bridge both worlds, intuitive care and medical insight, is part of the future I’m building in my work.
And I’ll keep learning.
I’ll keep bringing everything I discover back into my practice, so that you and others like you, can go out into the world more whole, more grounded, and more able to bring the empathy we all so sorely need.
Because healing only really begins when we have the courage to be fully ourselves, however that may be.
