Karen L. Hilliard & Associates

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Brookline Massage Therapy. http://www.karenhilliardassociates.com/

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Our goal at Karen Hilliard Associates is to give you the highest level of treatment, whether it's soothing your everyday aches, providing relief from pain or helping you rehabilitate from injury.

Karen Hilliard (founder)
Has been in practice as a Muscular Therapist for over 30 years. Her first and most influential training in bodywork was through modern dance. Movement therapies in general have deeply influenced the way she approaches each session.

Her goal is to help each person obtain a kinesthetic awareness of their specific postural and movement patterns that may be restrictive and contribute to soft tissue pain and injury. She works with many levels of manual therapy, from deep structural work, neuromuscular and trigger point therapies, active isolated stretching and myofascial release work.

She works effectively with many manual therapists such as Physical Therapists, Strength Coaches, Movement Therapists, Chiropractors as well as Orthopedic specialists.


John Koran
Has worked at Karen Hilliard Associates since January 2006 and is a graduate of The Salter School in Malden, MA where he presently is on staff as a senior Massage Therapy Instructor. In his massage treatments, he incorporates Swedish Massage with deep tissue manual therapy, incorporating the studied application of Trigger Point Therapy, Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques, and assisted passive stretching.

John believes that through Massage Therapy, people can lead their lives with less pain and lessen their chances of injuring themselves. He uses the above techniques to help his clients alleviate muscle tension and feel less pain, and, if the client has an injury, to help them recover faster. He brings to his sessions a thoughtful assessment and focus of what is needed at the time.

John loves hearing his clients say that they feel better and more relaxed after their treatments. His clients have told him that through his work, they have been able to lead more active lives with less pain and less stress.


Jennifer Koh
Joins Karen Hilliard Associates after working in Boston for the past five years. She has been a practicing therapist since 2004 and graduated from the Muscular Therapy Institute, now known as Cortiva.

Her bodywork practice focuses on the structural consequences of repetitive movement and the multi-faceted demands involved in the daily lives of working professionals, athletes-in-training and expecting mothers alike. Her goal is to identify the patterns that bring about pain and injury, creating a strategy to return people to their daily lives.

Jennifer's specialties include orthopedic, sports and pregnancy massage, utilizing aspects of myofascial, trigger point and assisted stretching techniques. She also brings additional training in Reiki and Clients with Cancer as well as her knowledge of yoga alignment through her training as a Baptiste Power Yoga Assistant.