Becka Parker, LMT

Becka is a Licensed Massage Therapist having graduated from the Boulder College of Massage Therapy (BCMT), a prestigious center for massage therapy education. Her client-centered approach focuses on educating clients about the anatomy, physiology, and self-care of their entire being to reach an ideal state of wellness. Through understanding the human anatomy and each individual's needs, Becka is dedicated to helping clients reach their ultimate health goals with education, encouragement and compassion.

Shortly after graduating, Becka moved to live in the mountains of Alaska where she developed her own practice as well as working at a high-end spa in Girdwood. Although her time in Alaska was spectacular, her desire to return to the Gorge brought her back four years ago when she opened her own practice in White Salmon. Prior to attending massage school, she worked as the Snowboard Training Director for Mt. Hood Meadows Ski School and spent her summers as a rafting guide. Her love for the outdoors and traveling the world has led her to her passion in massage therapy having experienced, first hand, the impact it has on people who like to play hard. 

Becka has spent the last three years working with a team of massage therapist at Holistic Massage of Hood River where she was really able to grow as a therapist, learning so much more about the human body from the wide range of clientele she worked with during her time there. 

While in Boulder she interned with the University of Colorado Sports Department where she worked with the schools football and track teams. She has worked with a PTSD therapy program, the Wounded Warriors project as well as a rehabilitation group for substance addiction. She also specializes in prenatal massage, Kinesio Taping and focuses her continuing education with Til Luchau and his Advanced MayoFascial trainings. She has an intuitive and nurturing massage style that is customized for each individuals needs. 

Becka is Nationally Certified with the NCBTMB (National Certification Board and Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork) as well as a member of AMTA (American Massage Therapy Association).

When not working hard for her community, she is usually out playing with her family in the snow, river, ocean or wherever the sun may go. 

Angela Gross

Angela has been a licensed massage therapist for twelve years after graduating from Oregon School of Massage in Portland. She sees each client as having a body, soul and mind that work together to bring true healing.

Angela worked for four years at Club Sport, a high end gym, in the Portland area where her focus was on athletes and weekend warriors helping them to recover and stay at the top of their game. In order to bring balance to her work she became certified in teaching Infant Massage through the International Association of Infant Massage.

Eight years ago the call to a simpler life led Angela and her family to Hood River where she worked at Holistic Massage of Hood River for several years before reducing the amount of massage clients she saw to focus on functional nutrition and health coaching.

During the past twelve years as a massage therapist she has had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients, helping to gain understanding of how the body, mind and spirit are connected: how sore muscles can contribute to negative thoughts and vice versa. She has learned the importance of good nutrition when healing the body. Angela is excited to jump back into massage and assisting others to heal on a deeper level. Each massage is customized to meet the needs of each client.

She has been married for twenty-two years and is mom to two teenagers. When she is not giving massages she can be found practicing functional nutrition and health coaching, working at Daniel’s Health and Nutrition, driving children to activities, hiking, cooking nutritious meals or snuggling up with a good book.

Angela is a member of Association for Massage and Bodywork Professionals and International Association of Infant Massage.

Functional Diagnostic Nutrition

As a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner Angela inspires people to restore vitality and lifelong health by focusing on foundational principles. These principles focus on root cause health. Angela wants to dig deeper into why you may not be living your ideal life and not just put a bandaid on it. For the last two years she has helped people restore their health, regain energy, decrease anxiety and permanently reduce stress. Each partnership is unique to you as there is no one size fits all. She would be honored to help you incorporate foundational principles that make a meaningful impact on your life.

Angela jumped feet first into the natural health world over fifteen years ago after her second child was born and she found it impossible to function in the daily tasks of taking care of a busy toddler and newborn. Life consisted of trying to keep up a home and two children and going to doctors appointments to see what was happening with my body.

Over and over she was told by doctors that it was postpartum depression and offered SSRIs but she knew it was not depression. Finally, after several years, she found a doctor that ran some tests and it was discovered she had an imbalance of bacteria and candida in the gut. This made sense considering that growing up she was constantly sick with sinus infections and urinary tract infections. In college she took antibiotics daily for over a year for acne and then in her early 20s she took daily antibiotics for over a year for chronic urinary tract infections. Looking back she wishes someone had told her that taking all of the antibiotics would wipe out all the bacteria in her gut and create a perfect environment for gut dysfunction and an even weaker immune system.

Through some good doctors as well as hours of research on her own she learned she had Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Several more years and more testing she found herself in an Endocrinologist office and learned she had Sjogren’s Syndrome. Sjogren’s Syndrome is an autoimmune disorder that causes the mucus membranes to dry out; think dry eyes and dry mouth. By the time of her diagnosis she had stopped eating gluten and dairy and was starting to see positive changes. But that day when the doctor told her that food did not and would not have anything to do with her healing, she walked out and vowed to learn anything and everything she could about healing naturally.

She became a massage therapist in 2010 and learned how the body is connected, works together and how one part of the body not working correctly can affect the whole body. Did you know that we can have emotions that are stored in the fascia of the muscle? The most important piece she learned was that when we get the body into a parasympathetic state we begin to heal.

In the fall of 2018 she started a certification in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. As a Functional Diagnostic Practitioner she learned what healing looks like beyond the right supplements and the perfect test results. She learned about root cause healing and how to create a very personalized program for each individual, after all no two people have the same DNA. The most important idea that she was taught was how to really listen and pay more attention to symptoms and what the client is telling her than results on a piece of paper.

She put the things she learned into practice and really saw her health take off towards a state of constant vitality. Her goal is to lead you to finding any root cause dysfunctions and walk besides you offering knowledge and guidance as you restore your body to the way it was designed to be. It would be her honor to partner with you as we create a life of vitality.

Angela has been married over twenty years and is a mom to two teenagers. When she is not studying and helping others regain their true health she can be found helping others restore their parasympathetic nervous system through massage, working at Daniel’s Health and Nutrition, in the kitchen cooking up nutritious meals, hiking out in nature or snuggled up with a good book. She is a member of the Association of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioners and Westin A Price Foundation.

Her focus is on working with those with autoimmunity and/or anxiety but she has helped a variety of clients retain and regain their full health.