Roots & River Now Offers Massage and Wellness Services

Our Massage + Wellness Services Page is Being Updated!
Based on community feedback, we’re simplifying massage and wellness service booking by integrating appointments into Arketa, the same platform you use to register for classes/events.
Hetta Welch’s appointments are now live, with Sue and Kasey’s February schedules launching later this week. Stay tuned!


Our Massage + Wellness Team

Kasey Cecchini, LMT

Kasey is a compassionate and highly experienced integrative massage therapist with over 15 years of dedication to holistic wellness and healing. She believes deeply in the body’s innate capacity to heal and views massage therapy as a powerful modality to support and enhance that natural intelligence.

Drawing from a wide range of techniques—including neuromuscular, deep tissue, sports, and prenatal massage—Kasey creates thoughtful, personalized treatment plans tailored to each client’s unique needs. Her integrative approach helps relieve pain, reduce stress, restore balance, and support overall well-being, offering both therapeutic relief and deep relaxation.


Hetta Welch, LMT

Hetta has spent 15 years in the wellness industry, beginning as a yoga teacher and now practicing as a massage therapist. She believes deeply in body-centered practices and their ability to create lasting change in the body, mind, and spirit. After studying massage therapy at the Berkana Institute in Longmont, Colorado, Hetta continued her education in Manual Lymphatic Drainage and Craniosacral Therapy.

Her massage sessions are therapeutic and thoughtfully tailored to each client’s individual needs and wellness goals. Hetta draws from a range of techniques - including Swedish massage, passive stretching, trigger point therapy, hot stones, and craniosacral therapy - to support the body’s natural ability to release and restore balance. She is certified in Manual Lymphatic Drainage using the Vodder Technique and has trained with both Klose and The Academy of Lymphatic Studies. Hetta offers lymphatic sessions to support overall health and vitality as well as post-surgical recovery and injury healing.
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Sue Aveni, Reiki Master

Sue is a Reiki Master and founder of Radiant Light Healing offering restorative Reiki and Sound Bath sessions that support relaxation, nervous system regulation, and energetic balance. Her work blends gentle Reiki with the calming vibrations of sound bowls to quiet the mind, release tension, and support the body’s natural healing processes.

Each intuitively guided session begins with intention setting and sound healing, followed by hands-on or hands-off Reiki to encourage energetic clearing and balance. Sound bowls return at the close to support integration and grounding. Clients remain fully clothed and comfortably supported throughout the experience.

Introduced to Reiki in 2017 after a transformative yoga studio session, Sue brings a grounded, embodied presence shaped by her background as a professional horse farrier. She views healing as a gentle, non-linear process and offers compassionate support for relaxation, clarity, and reconnection.


Rebecca Dimmerling, D.Ac, L.Ac, Dipl.Ac (NCCAOM)

Rebecca’s healthcare journey began as an EMT and continued through her military service as a medic and nurse, where she witnessed the powerful effects of battlefield acupuncture. This experience inspired her to pursue a career in integrative medicine. She earned both her master’s and doctorate in acupuncture from the Maryland University of Integrative Health and also serves as an adjunct faculty member and research analyst.

Blending Western medical knowledge with the wisdom of Eastern medicine, Rebecca treats chronic pain, stress-related conditions, and emotional imbalances with a holistic approach designed to support lasting healing.

Rebecca offers acupuncture, herbal medicine, and complementary treatments at Roots & River
Monday–Friday, 10:00am–5:00pm.
To schedule a free consultation or appointment visit her website or email rebecca@mvacu.com or call/text 301-676-3459


Valerie Sibirsky, Reiki Master, QHHT Practitioner

Valerie is a certified Reiki Master and Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT®) practitioner who has worked with energy healing since 2003. Her approach is rooted in the belief that true healing arises through the gentle harmonization of energy, nature, and creativity. Inspired by the deep connection between the human spirit and the natural world, Valerie supports clients in restoring balance, clarity, and inner peace.

In her Reiki sessions, Valerie creates a soothing space for stress reduction, emotional balance, and spiritual well-being, guiding universal life force energy to promote harmony within body, mind, and spirit. Through QHHT® sessions, clients are gently guided into expanded states of awareness to connect with their Higher Self, access insight, and activate self-healing on multiple levels.

Valerie holds a calm, heart-centered presence in every session and offers services in both English and Russian. Reiki and QHHT® sessions are available by appointment.
To schedule, email mothers.cradle.healing.center@gmail.com or call/text 703-380-5232.