OUR THERAPISTS
We are passionate about and specialize in Manual Lymphatic Drainage (The Vodder Technique).
Our Medical Massage Therapists are licensed, certified and insured and are here to help enhance your overall well-being and support you where you are in life.
Liat Forti, Co-Founder
Liat began her journey with working and aiding the body in the high-end fashion industry. For over 12 years of dressing her clients, she paid attention to how their bodies moved and their unique body types, tailoring and augmenting their inner beauty and appearances. While helping them in their social needs and listening to their life challenges, she felt inspired to do an internal search to find ways to work and better the body and one’s experience with and within it.
Ever since, she has acquired different licenses and certifications in massage therapy and expanded her scope of practice to the field of human and movement anatomy.
Through her ten-year experience working with post-surgical patients, whether it’s with their musculature system, their lymphatic system, or providing them with supplemental nutritional guidance and movement instruction, Liat learned that one’s individual healing process requires different unique approaches to their physical and emotional healing. With the patient in mind, she looks to tailor therapy sessions to each one’s unique immediate and long term needs.
With that philosophy in mind, and with cooperation from my talented, enthusiastic and caring co-founder and joined by a special group of therapists, we established Avenues Integrative Massage Therapy, a practice aiming to support our patients as they go through the journey of recovering from surgical or medical procedures, life-altering events or with maintaining their physical condition and overall health in the best possible way.
Liat Forti, LMT, CDT, CPT, HHC is a New York state Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Lymphedema Decongestive Therapist, Certified Personal Trainer and Holistic Health Coach.
Delia Tarlea, Co-Founder
Delia has been in love with New York City ever since moving here with her family from Romania in 1990. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science; prior to embarking on her career in massage therapy, she enjoyed a career in technology and finance spanning 17 years and during this time experienced stress of all shapes and sizes.
Her thirst for knowledge of everything related to the natural world, health and wellness started when she attended her first yoga and meditation class in 2001 and embarked on a path that was going to be both wondrous and fulfilling, with challenges great and small. This path has led her to make a conscious choice to be more mindful about her consumption, seeing the effects on the people and the world.
Delia’s interests and studies include massage therapy, manual lymphatic drainage as well as Eastern bodywork and she is passionate about sharing her knowledge and life experiences with her clients. Her work is a combination of Western bodywork (medical massage, myofascial release, Swedish massage) and Eastern bodywork (Shiatsu, Biofield Tuning, sound therapy, reiki and yoga, breathing and meditation practices).
Delia brings her experiences and her love for the city and the world to this venture.
Delia Tarlea, LMT, CDT, CRMT, CYT-200 is a New York State Licensed and board certified massage therapist, college instructor of massage therapy and co-founder of this practice. She is also a Certified Lymphedema Decongestive Therapist, certified Biofield Tuning practitioner, certified Reiki Master Teacher as well as a Certified Yoga Instructor.