Mary Murphy, LMT, CST-D, Certified Zero Balancer, has been involved in therapeutic bodywork for 25 years as both a practitioner and advanced bodywork educator. 

Her teaching style creates a warm, creative space in which to discover new ideas and skills to inspire, nourish, and expand personal and professional growth.  She is passionate about the immense potential Zero Balancing offers in balancing and revitalizing at the deepest level of our structural and energy systems. 

Mary is a certified instructor and practitioner of Zero Balancing (ZB) and is a member of the Zero Balancing Board of Directors.  She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Chicago School of Massage Therapy with additional diplomate certification in CranioSacral Therapy, and in Neuromuscular Therapy. She currently teaches basic and advanced Zero Balancing classes including Zero Balancing I & II, Geometry of Healing, the Spirit of the Organs, and Unlocking the Secrets of the Scull. 

For the last decade, her clinical practice was based at Advocate Medical Group’s Center for Complementary Medicine at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois.  She supervised the therapeutic bodywork division in the medical residency Complementary Medicine rotation. She has also worked in pediatrics at an outpatient rehabilitation clinic for children with learning and developmental difficulties.

In fall of 2008 she opened the Zero Balancing Wellness Center of Chicago.