Massage Therapy, Health Coaching, and Transformative Imagery in Huntington Beach, CA
with integrative health practitioner and scholar Shawn Maier, MA, CMT, NBC-HWC.
Integrative care begins with the whole person. I offer individualized massage therapy, health coaching, and transformative imagery to support people in relating differently to their bodies, health, and lives.
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This work bends away from the narrow paths we've been given about what health, intimacy, and professionalism should look like. It makes room for grief, ambivalence, pleasure, fatigue, rage, and curiosity.
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We honor the complexity of working with bodies in a world shaped by misogyny, queerphobia, racism, ableism, fatphobia, medical trauma, and capitalism. We do not pretend to be neutral.
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Education and healing are not something done to you; they are something we build together, as peers, from multiple forms of knowledge—research, lived experience, body-based wisdom, and cultural memory.
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Healing happens in the space between where you were and where you're going. We honor both the fluidity of becoming and the stability of arrival. Sessions are containers where you can be in transition, where anything is possible, and where you're also held. The journey and the destination are equally important.
Transformative Imagery
Guided experiential work using imagery, sensation, metaphor, and imagination to explore your inner experience, access new perspectives, and support change.
Massage Therapy
Individualized hands-on care drawing from a broad range of therapeutic approaches to support pain, tension, mobility, relaxation, and embodied well-being.
Health Coaching
A collaborative process for exploring your health, identifying what matters to you, and creating meaningful, sustainable changes that fit your life.
This Practice May Be For You If You Are…
✓ Looking for care that considers more than a symptom, diagnosis, or single part of your life
✓ Living with chronic pain, health changes, or a complicated relationship with your body
✓ A queer person who can't bring your body into therapy or your feelings into the clinic
✓ A caregiver or helper whose own needs have spent too much time on the back burner
✓ Navigating the effects of difficult medical, relational, or healthcare experiences and looking for care that honors your boundaries and agency
✓ Interested in exploring your health and well-being through the body, conversation, imagery—or some combination of the three
✓ Tired of compartmentalizing and ready to let your identity, relationships, health, and healing be in the same room
Client Reviews - From Massagebook.com & Google
Shawn is incredibly knowledgeable about the body and is an amazing masseuse AND can give advice and exercises to take home and help strengthen and maintain a healthy body! Thank you! I Send my whole family here!
— Anonymous (Jan 2026)Shawn’s understanding of therapeutic massage work is unparalleled. As someone with chronic pain it is hard to find someone as skilled as he is in massage work that provides relief in the long term. I cannot recommend him enough. He is professional, skilled, and accommodating to a degree that is increasingly harder to find in todays world, you could not find yourself in better hands.
— Cai (Apr 2025)Shawn is the absolute best!!! This is no ordinary massage but instead a therapeutic therapy to decrease pain, relax very tight muscles, tendons and ligaments and restore use of injured or overused body parts. He listens to what is going on, discusses with you the type of massage he recommends and talks to you about what the goal is.
I have had some excellent massages before, but Shawn definitely is even better than those! His technique is spot on. He gets muscles to cooperate without hurting you. He is very well versed in anatomy and physiology. This is so much more than just feeling relaxed! I had horrid pain radiating down both of my arms that was gone, just gone, after one massage!!! I cannot thank him enough for his healing touch! Thanks Shawn!
— Cindy J (Dec 2023)Shawn is amazing. I have been to a handful of massage therapists in the Orange County area and Shawn's approach is the best. He takes his time and makes sure to never cross the line of "good hurt" and "bad hurt" and constantly checks in with level of pressure. He really cares about his patients.
— Kiera D (Nov 2023)Shawn's professional attitude was captivating, which made my 11-year-old daughter feel very comfortable. We are coming to see a therapist after the conventional medicine gave up on healing my daughter's pain in her leg and jaws. Shawn was knowledgeable and treated my daughter with much finesse and a gentle touch. She came out asking to meet with him again next week, which is a huge win for me.
—Michal L (June 2024)
Not sure where to start?
Feel free to reach out by filling out the form below with any questions or goals you have in mind, and we can explore your options with Maier Integrative.
We can also meet for a complimentary 15-minute discovery call on Zoom to get to know each other, talk about what you're looking for, and explore whether my approach and services feel like a good fit for you.
Whether you're interested in massage therapy, health coaching, transformative imagery, or aren't quite sure yet, you don't need to have it all figured out before reaching out.
