Maskey Massage
Twenty years ago, Melinda Maskey had an epiphany.
She was sitting at her office job one day and she just knew that it wasn’t where she wanted to be. By chance, a pamphlet for an introductory massage course came across her desk and she thought “You know what, I’m going to try that. I want to go and do something completely different.”
Expecting just to dabble in a weekend class, Melinda was not prepared for how the course would change her life.
She discovered that massage therapy was absolutely what she wanted to do. She immediately signed up to complete a Diploma in Remedial Massage and has been working in the industry ever since.
“I’ve always been a person who was drawn to the tactile and noticing how touch can impact people,” she explains. “But back when I left school, studying massage wasn’t really a relevant option.”
While Melinda has always enjoyed receiving massages and giving massages to family and friends, studying the diploma meant that she was able to extend her learning to anatomy and physiology. She was able to apply her affinity with the tactile into a skill that helped people.
Melinda started her business from her home but for the past four years has been practicing from a combined clinic on Melbourne Road that’s close to her home. She loves Newport for its friendly and welcoming community spirit, its coastal landscape and its architecture.
She also enjoys being a local business owner, helping people within her community to feel better.
Melinda says she sees clients seeking relief from general or chronic aches and pains, headaches, neck or back pain, joint stiffness or reduced flexibility. She practices remedial massage, cupping and dry-needling, depending on what she considers to be most beneficial therapy for the situation.
She attributes her business success to her ability to communicate with her clients effectively and to really hear what they’re saying in order to provide the service that they need.
“I enjoy the immediate feedback you get from being a massage therapist,” Melinda says. “I see clients walking in, hunched over, in pain and who have been struggling for a period of time.
Nothing gives me more satisfaction than to help people keep moving.”
