Daniel Parker

Hi, I’m Daniel Parker, a Massage Therapist here at Better Health. I was born and raised in Alaska which has greatly inspired my passions and sense of adventure.

I feel honored to get to work alongside our excellent staff, and it’s a joy to get to know our great patients. As an LMT, I deeply enjoy the role I get to play in helping our clients along their healing journey. I also get the opportunity to work alongside our Physical Therapists helping to ensure proper body mechanics through exercise, getting to know each client on a more personal level.

Outside of work, I often train in conscious movement and martial arts such as Tai Chi, QiGong, Fire Spinning, and Kung-Fu.  I’m always ready for a new challenge or adventure exploring the great outdoors, climbing, fishing, and camping. I’m also passionate about meditation, breathwork, making music, doing alternative therapy, and weight lifting. When I’m not training in martial arts or hiking, what means the most to me is spending quality time with my loved ones.

In my massage practice I specialize in Swedish massage, both deep tissue and light touch, Thai massage, acupressure, Reiki, tuning fork therapy, cupping, and gua’sha. I aim to create a massage experience that’s relaxing and, simultaneously deeply therapeutic. I use my intuitive energy healing to complement manual therapy and stretching techniques that create lasting change.

I was led to massage therapy through a series of life-changing events starting with my career as a union ironworker. In 2018 I experienced a 25 ft fall through a roof hands and face first while on the job. After extensive therapy, a newfound love of meditation, and physical and spiritual healing, I began to shift my focus more seriously from construction to the healing arts. In 2021 my now fiancé, Genevieve, and I traveled to Hawaii to become reiki certified. In the following year, I began to pursue massage therapy to expand my healing skills.

Long term, my goals are to create a healing center with my partner out in nature, centered around loving kindness, martial movement, alternative healing modalities and sustainable living with the land. In the meantime, I work with compassion and integrity to be the change I want to see in the world.