Clinical massage in the Inner Sunset

Neuromuscular therapy, deep tissue and Swedish. One therapist, one table, and ninety minutes when the problem needs ninety minutes.

Therapist Felice Daniella Acevedo
Hours By appointment only. Tuesdays and Sundays, 10am – 6pm

Start here

Where does it hurt?

Pick the area that bothers you. You will get a plain explanation of what usually causes it, which session suits it, and what it costs — before you book anything.

Neck

Hours at a screen or holding a phone puts your head forward of your shoulders. The muscles running up the back of the neck hold it there all day, and they get tender, short, and slow to let go. Sleep position and jaw clenching stack on top of that.

Neck pain usually traces back to a few specific tight spots that send pain somewhere else — into the head, behind an eye, down an arm. Finding those takes assessment. General kneading feels good for an hour and changes nothing.

Session
Neuromuscular therapy
Length
90 min
Price
$150

First visit is the 90 minute session. Li needs time to assess before she can treat. Ninety minutes is what that takes — it is not an upsell, it is the appointment actually working. After the first visit you can book shorter.

See a doctor first if you have numbness or weakness in an arm or hand, or if the pain started with a fall or a collision.

Book 90 minutes

Shoulder

The shoulder is held in place by muscle rather than bone, so it absorbs whatever your day asks of it. A bag on one side, sleeping on one side, overhead work, or a desk setup that pulls one arm forward will all show up here first.

If it is one shoulder and it has been months, that is a pattern, and patterns need assessment before treatment. If both shoulders are just tight from training or lifting, deep tissue is the faster, cheaper answer — say so when you book and Li will move you.

Session
Neuromuscular therapy
Length
90 min
Price
$150

First visit is the 90 minute session. Li needs time to assess before she can treat. Ninety minutes is what that takes — it is not an upsell, it is the appointment actually working. After the first visit you can book shorter.

See a doctor first if you cannot raise the arm, or if the pain wakes you at night.

Book 90 minutes

Upper back

The muscles between your shoulder blades spend the whole day resisting a rounded-forward posture. They rarely tear or strain. They fatigue. That is why the ache is dull and constant instead of sharp, and why it is back a day after a light massage.

This responds well to sustained pressure and time, which is what deep tissue is. If it has been there for six months or more, book neuromuscular instead — at that point it is usually being held by something further down.

Session
Deep tissue
Length
50 min
Price
$100
Book 50 minutes

Low back

Low back pain often is not coming from the low back. Sitting shortens the hip flexors and quiets the glutes, the pelvis tips forward, and the low back muscles work overtime to keep you upright. They are the ones that hurt, but they are not the ones causing it.

Treating only where it hurts is the reason it keeps returning. This one needs the hips and glutes worked as well as the lumbar area, and that does not fit in fifty minutes.

Session
Neuromuscular therapy
Length
90 min
Price
$150

First visit is the 90 minute session. Li needs time to assess before she can treat. Ninety minutes is what that takes — it is not an upsell, it is the appointment actually working. After the first visit you can book shorter.

See a doctor first if you have pain, numbness, or tingling running down a leg, weakness in a foot, or any change in bladder or bowel control.

Book 90 minutes

Hip and glute

Sitting all day shortens the front of the hip and switches the glutes off. Running and cycling do the opposite — a lot of repeated load through a small range. Either route ends in the same place: an ache on the outside of the hip or deep in the glute.

The glutes are deep and layered, and the spot that hurts is frequently not the spot that needs work. Assessment first, then treatment, then a couple of things to do at home.

Session
Neuromuscular therapy
Length
90 min
Price
$150

First visit is the 90 minute session. Li needs time to assess before she can treat. Ninety minutes is what that takes — it is not an upsell, it is the appointment actually working. After the first visit you can book shorter.

See a doctor first if the hip catches, clicks painfully, or gives way under you.

Book 90 minutes

Legs

Calves, hamstrings, quads, and the outside of the thigh, from running, cycling, a standing shift, or simply living on these hills. Load without enough recovery between it.

There is a lot of surface area down here. Fifty minutes covers one problem well. Ninety covers both legs properly and leaves room for the hips, which is usually where the leg tightness is actually coming from.

Session
Deep tissue
Length
50 min
Price
$100

See a doctor first for swelling, warmth, or pain in one calf that came on without a clear cause.

Book 50 minutes

No one spot — general tension

Nothing you can put a finger on. Just a body that has been carrying stress for a while and has not put it down.

This is the one thing a relaxation massage is genuinely good at, and there is no reason to sell you a clinical session you do not need. Start here. If something specific surfaces on the table, Li will tell you and you can book the right session next time.

Session
Swedish relaxation
Length
50 min
Price
$100
Book 50 minutes

The clinical work

Neuromuscular therapy

For pain that keeps coming back to the same place.

Most recurring pain is not coming from the spot that hurts. A tight hip pulls on a low back. A forward head loads a neck. Neuromuscular therapy is the work of finding the thing that is actually driving it and treating that, which means the first appointment is mostly assessment.

That is why a first neuromuscular visit is booked as ninety minutes. Fifty minutes is enough to assess or enough to treat, not both. Once Li knows your pattern, follow-up sessions fit comfortably in fifty.

How the first session works

Deep tissue

For load, not for a pattern

Training, lifting, cycling, or a job spent standing. Sustained pressure through the layers that are carrying it, with no assessment protocol in front of it.

50 min $100 · 90 min $150

Book deep tissue

Swedish relaxation

For a body carrying stress

No single spot to point at. This is the one thing a relaxation massage is genuinely good at, and there is no reason to sell you a clinical session you do not need.

50 min $100 · 90 min $150

Book Swedish

Price

The same three lengths for every session

Every modality is available at every length. The session you book is the length, not the technique.
LengthPrice
30 minutes $65
50 minutes $100
90 minutes $150

New clients

20% off your first 50 and 90 minute session

That puts a first ninety minute session at $120 instead of $150.

One per person, first visit only. Applies to 50 and 90 minute sessions. Cannot be combined with gift certificates. Offer ends November 30, 2026.


The therapist

Felice Daniella Acevedo

Li is a California certified massage therapist working solo out of a single room in the Inner Sunset. One therapist, one table, no rotating staff — the person who assessed you at the first appointment is the person treating you at the fourth.

By appointment only. Tuesdays and Sundays, 10am – 6pm. Availability is genuinely limited, so if nothing on the calendar works, text and Li will tell you what is actually open.

Certification CAMTC Certified #99589
Serving Inner Sunset · N-Judah at 9th & Judah

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