A Team-Based Approach to Healing
As the practice has grown, we've intentionally built a collaborative care model that allows more individuals and families to receive timely, individualized care while maintaining the thoughtful approach that has always been at the heart of the practice.
Most new clients begin care with Jen or Ale, who have trained closely with Susie and work alongside her through regular mentoring, case discussions, and collaborative treatment planning. This ongoing relationship allows clients to benefit from a shared clinical perspective while receiving care sooner.
Throughout your care, your therapist has access to Susie's insight and experience whenever additional collaboration is helpful. For more complex situations, or when clinically appropriate, Susie may become directly involved in your care.
Our goal is simple: to make sure every client receives the right care at the right time while maintaining continuity throughout the healing process.
In addition to Jen and Ale, we also stay connected with a small network of therapists who participate in mentoring, study groups, and collaborative learning within our practice community. These practitioners share our philosophy of care and may be recommended when additional scheduling options or specialized support are appropriate.
Meet Your Primary Care Team
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Jen Klaufer, CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release (Adults only)
With 20 years of experience as a bodyworker, Jen now specializes in CranioSacral Therapy. Jen began her career in the same physical therapy office as Susie and both are delighted that their professional paths have come back together in this new way.
Jen has additional training in John Barns Myofascial Release and Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique. All of this combined makes her a truly dynamic therapist who can work with every layer of the body.
Beginning her Upledger Training in 2020, She is Susie’s longest standing mentee. Jen has completed CranioSacral Therapy training up to level 4, which includes specific training in SomatoEmotional Release.
Jen is available for multi-hands with Susie on Mondays and Wednesdays in addition to seeing clients one on one in her private office on the west side of Lawrence Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
To contact Jen, call or text 785.393.4123
You can schedule with Jen here
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Alejandra Prusaitis, Pediatric CranioSacral Therapy, teens and Adults
Alejandra Prusaitis offers CranioSacral Therapy and bodywork with a special focus on pregnancy, infants and children. She offers thoughtful, developmentally informed care for babies and children, commonly supporting concerns such as birth tension, feeding challenges, torticollis, and overall regulation.
Alejandra also has a background as a doula, which gives her a unique perspective on holding space not just for the child, but for the entire family unit.
While pediatrics are a central part of her practice, she welcomes adolescents and adults as well, using Craniosacral Therapy and Dynamic Body Balancing to support chronic tension, pain, stress, and nervous system overwhelm.
Alejandra works in the Kinetikos Healing Collective on Tuesdays and Thursdays as well as works in Multi-hands or available for family sessions with Susie on Tuesdays. Additionally, she has a mobile practice that covers the greater Kansas City area Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. For more information visit doulajandra.com
To contact her, call/text or email 512.855.1780
You can schedule with Alejandra here.
Extended Professional Network
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Skyelore Stowman, Rolfer, CranioSacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation
As a certified Rolfer® specializing in CranioSacral and Visceral Manual Therapy. Skyelore can help you decrease chronic pain, improve grace of movement and experience more freedom in your body by getting to the root cause of your pain—not just chasing symptoms.
Skyelore discovered the benefits of Rolfing, CranioSacral Therapy, and Visceral Manipulation after a car crash left her with debilitating whiplash. These therapies helped decrease pain, restored her health, increased her energy and improved her posture. Skyelore now has a passion to help others overcome their challenges and restore function.
Susie and Skyelore team up several times a year to offer a dynamic 90 minute session rooted in CranioSacral therapy that also includes Skyelore’s skills in Rolfing, visceral and neural manipulation. Ideal for those with complex physical, physiological and emotional challenges including Post Traumatic Stress.
You may book with them here
Please note these sessions are in Parkville, MO (location details sent upon booking)
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Kathleen Elder, RDH (Retired), COM. Myofunctional Therapy and CranioSacral Therapy
Myofunctional therapy utilizes facial exercises and stretches harmonizing how the mouth, airway, and body work together. Kathleen knows first hand how to work with and correct many common ailments such as jaw pain and dysfunction, mouth breathing, speech and feeding challenges, headaches and even bedwetting.
Kathleen has ventured into CranioSacral therapy training as she has come to understand and deeply respect that total body alignment is the foundation of a well functioning mouth. This, combined with her years of experience in dentistry make her one of the area’s most experienced, multifaceted and long practicing providers.
Susie Roman commonly refers clients her way to ensure true resolution of the aforementioned issues.
Kathleen is available for multi hands work with Susie on Fridays upon request which allows for so much knowledge and experience to come together for your specific needs.
You may learn more, request a multi hands session or book with Kathleen through her website here.
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Laura Richards, Personal Training, Energy Work, CranioSacral Therapy
Laura comes to the table with her unique and long time experience as a personal trainer.
Laura has the uncanny ability to perceive imbalances in the body and can now work with her clients through stretching, strengthening, energy work and craniosacral therapy to restore balance and function. Laura has completed Level 2 training in Craniosacral Therapy with the Upledger Institute.
Susie regularly refers clients over to Laura to get skilled guidance in rebalancing their body through detailed strength training. Sessions with Laura will include gym and table time to further facilitate alignment.
Read more about Laura’s Personal Training studio, Next Level Rising that she operates with her husband, Chad Richards.
Contact Laura via call or text at
785-760-0261
Area Practitioner’s Mentoring with Susie Roman
With a background rooted in both military service and the construction industry, Kelli discovered the world of Craniosacral Therapy after an injury on a job site led her to explore holistic healing. Craniosacral Therapy didn’t just help Kelli recover physically—it became a turning point that inspired her to help others find their own paths to wellness. Kelli is a therapist at Channels of Healing and you may call or text her at 619-384-3571 to schedule.
As Owner and Practitioner at Elevate Arts and Wellness, Autumn has integrated extensive training in the healing pathways of massage, Craniosacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release, Reiki to the Karuna Masters level, Shamanism with a special emphasis in Soul Retrieval, Theta Healing, Regression Therapy, and numerous others. You may learn more and contact her here
Jeremiah is an up and coming wellness practitioner with a diverse background. In 2021, he completed his 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Gopi Sandal in Lawrence, Kansas, becoming a Yoga Alliance Certified instructor which guided him towards an interest in massage therapy and bodywork. Jeremiah graduated from Wellspring School of Allied Health in 2024, earning an 800-hour certificate in massage therapy. He is continuing training in Craniosacral Therapy with the Upledger Institute and continues to refine his skills through ongoing mentorship with Susie Roman. He offers CranioSacral therapy, relaxation massage and deep tissue massage