About

Creative Healing is independent, locally owned and operated by Elizabeth Shumaker, NCTMB, CD(DONA). She is a nationally certified massage therapist and bodyworker, Reiki Master/Teacher, certified birth doula (DONA), as well as a professional artist.

Here are a few words from Elizabeth Herself:

“I have always been fascinated with healing work of all kinds. As a child, I always wanted to be an artist. After graduating from high school in 2003 in Billings, MT, I moved to Portland, Oregon to attend Pacific Northwest College of Art, to study painting and pursue my dream of becoming an artist.

After one year there, I moved back to Billings and took a Reiki 1 class. This sparked my curiously with bodywork and massage. I then enrolled in the Montana Institute of Massage Therapy. I graduated in 2006, and shortly after, passed the National Certification (NCTMB) exam.

I then began my career as a massage therapist at Sandalwood Health Spa in Billings, MT. Here I learned to give many kinds of spa therapies in addition to massage therapy. I really feel like working here, under Nelly Carlson (the creator and owner at the time), was where I really began to learn, take off and feel confident in my skills as a therapist.

During this time, I also studied to be a birth doula, shortly after the birth of my own son. I was inspired to become a birth doula after having one attend my birth. Knowing that there were very few birth doulas in Billings, I wanted to create that as more of an option to the community.

In addition, I studied craniosacral therapy through the Upledger Institute. I am trained in levels one and two.

I also studied Reiki and eventually became a master/teacher through my good friend and teacher, Sharon Winnett of Billings, MT.

Since coming into the massage world, I always dreamed of having my own massage practice, where I could integrate all that I had learned from the spa, reiki classes, craniosacral therapy classes, massage school, doula studies and even my art studies. So, after about 6 months of working at the spa, I made the move into starting my own practice.

And so I began Creative Healing. I like to think of “Creative Healing” as en ever-evolving practice, as I continue to learn more and expand into it. I am honored to have the opportunity to work with all of the unique individuals that I have in the past, present and future.”

~Elizabeth Shumaker, NCMTB, CD(DONA), AMTA, Reiki Master