2024-2025 Chapter Board

President, Robin Faux

It has been an honor to serve as chapter delegate, board member. I’m ready to now represent our members as president of the New Mexico Chapter. As an AMTA member since 2007 and a massage therapist since 2003, I have watched our industry evolve. Each year, more and more New Mexicans seek out massage therapy for stress and pain relief. It is my goal to help massage therapists across the state develop their practices with quality education and professional development to meet the needs of massage enthusiasts in our state.

I am a native of Dayton, Ohio where I earned a degree in Integrative Medical Massage Therapy from Self Health Institute and Sinclair Community College. My travels across the country have offered me the privilege of learning diverse techniques such as Thai massage, neuromuscular therapy, Kinesio taping and manual lymphatic drainage. I also had the opportunity to teach anatomy and physiology to massage therapy students for 10 years. Through these experiences, I learned pathways to healing are as unique as one’s fingerprints. It is no surprise to find massage therapists in New Mexico present a variety of modalities to help their clients and I look forward to representing the interests of this diverse group of professionals.

Financial Administrator, Carl Hime III

I have been an LMT in NM for the last 20 years and I am still excited to go to work! I am blessed to be a graduate of Crystal Mountain, Apprenticeship in the Healing Arts 1997. I was able to return that blessing as an instructor for the school the past 15 years, until the school closed in 2018. As many LMTs, I was drawn to a massage therapy career as an opportunity to work with individual people and their soft tissue issues. Over the many years of practice and teaching, I have discovered that it is not always that simple of a fix. The body, the mind, the heart, and the spirit all must be attended  to for proper “fixing”, healing.  As an AMTA member since 2010, I believe in the organization, its mission, its CEUs, and the desire to support its members. That is why I felt it was time for me to support where I could. I was accepted as Financial Admin in 2019, re-elected in 2021, and will continue those duties into 2025.  Blessings.

 

Secretary, Lisa Spirit Matteson

Lisa is a skills-collector and lifelong learner who has accumulated a vast medical knowledge gaining massage skills and certificates in Medical Massage, Lymphedema Therapy,  Pre/Post-surgical Massage, Prenatal and Postpartum Massage, Sports Massage, Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, Swedish Massage and Cupping. As a 2007 graduate of Universal Therapeutic Massage School in Albuquerque wanted to understand more about pathology, medications, and the deeper intricacies of her craft as it applies to patients in sensitive medical situations. So she returned to school to learn medical massage. Lisa also earned her medical coding certificate from CNM in 2020 and her Bachelor Degree in Health Science from Grand Canyon University with a scholarship from Lovelace hospital. 

Lisa understands pain management. Personal experiences and observing family gifted her with a sensitivity that allows her to find the root of pain and to relieve it. For Lisa it is like detective work, reading the body and learning a client’s history are roadmaps that guide her to the source of pain. She unravels the layers of the physical body, the emotional body, and the trauma body. She is able to get to the root of her client’s unique pain and offer specific, targeted relief. 

 

Board Member, Jamie Heady

Board Member, Lorelei Baxter

 

Delegate, Theresa Urias