Margaret is a Licensed Massage Therapist in the State of Maine. She earned her certification from SpaTech Institute in August of 2020 and opened Akeru Health in September of 2020.

She has twice-earned Portland’s Best Massage Therapist in the Old Port Awards (2022, 2023). Her focus is primarily on deep tissue massage and Polarity Therapy.

Margaret is a trained Traumatic Incident Reduction and Life Stress Reduction facilitator through the TIRA Association. She also holds a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Certification and Level 1 Reiki Certification from Arcana Healing Arts in 2018. She is currently working towards an all-levels Reformer & Mat Balanced Body Pilates Teacher Certification to be completed in 2025.

She earned her bachelor’s degree at St. Lawrence University where she also played NCAA soccer. Her years as a competitive athlete have informed her approach to her bodywork.

Margaret is an open heart. Her varied life experiences have contributed to a deeply developed sense of empathy and understanding of all paths in life. She has formerly worked in substance abuse recovery, with autistic adults, as a paralegal, in the hospitality industry, and even as a sternman on a lobster boat. Outside of work she can usually be found cooking up a storm, working on poetry and screenwriting, singing songs in the forest and taking photos (all images seen here are hers!).