Hicks Intensive Massage

We specialize in focused, therapeutic bodywork tailored to your needs — whether for injury recovery, chronic pain, or deep structural reset. Evidence-informed, results-driven, and grounded in care.

Hicks Intensive Massage is a bespoke bodywork practice rooted in pressure, permission, and presence. Whether you are carrying physical discomfort, emotional stress, or simply too much — there’s room here for all of it.

Come as you are. Leave more connected to the wholeness that was never missing.

Our Services

  • Focused Reset

    60min — $125

    A focused session for specific pain, acute tension, or a deep breath in the middle of your week. We’ll move with intention, working where your body calls — without rushing, without pushing.
    Perfect if you’re short on time but ready to drop in.

    ”Come back to yourself, even if only for an hour.”

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  • The Work

    90min — $180

    Our most popular session. Enough space to explore the full body and return to what’s been held or hidden. Whether we sink into deeper tissue work or follow emotional/somatic cues, this is where integration begins.

    Great for first-time clients or those in a cycle of healing.

    ”Your body has a story. This is time to listen.”

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  • Immersion

    120min — $245

    In two spacious hours, we follow sensation like a thread — through fascia, through breath, through the quiet architecture of your holding patterns. There is no map, only presence. This is bespoke bodywork: guided by clinical insight, but led by what unfolds.


    Whether you're carrying tension, old habits, or the weight of having to hold it all together — there's room here for it. You don’t need to be fixed. You may simply need time. Time to soften, reorganize, and return.

    “Let it take as long as it takes.”

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  • "Brian is an exquisite therapist. His technique anatomically is only surpassed by his amazing intuitive talents. He has the capacity to help heal whatever you have going on physically, or energetically. Having sessions with Brian is one of the best ways of exercising self care, I know of! You will be so glad you booked with him."

    D. K.

  • ”It’s more than a massage-it’s muscle therapy. Brian really gets in there, and you leave feeling completely renewed.”

    J. S.

  • “Excellent massage therapist. Brian is especially skilled in working with chronic neck and hip pain. Running and yoga are now much more enjoyable, as my mobility has greatly increased under his care. Highly recommend!”

    K. S.

  • “I've struggled with chronic shoulder pain and headaches for years, and working with Brian has made a huge difference. When I feel a migraine starting to creep in, a session with him often helps me stop it in its tracks. His work is incredibly intuitive and effective—easily the best massage therapist I've ever been to. "

    G. S.

A man with a beard and long hair, wearing a white polo shirt and beige pants, standing in a sunlit wooden room with large windows, a white sofa, and a bed with colorful sheets, smiling with arms crossed.

About Brian

Serving Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and the greater Wilmington area, Brian brings over eight years of experience in massage therapy with a specialized focus on deep tissue massage and the fascial connections that support the body’s structure and movement.
A second-generation massage therapist, he was introduced to the work by his mother, whose practice helped shape his own. A graduate of the Body Therapy Institute—renowned for its holistic and integrative approach—Brian’s work is grounded in both anatomical precision and presence. His sessions are known for their intensity and effectiveness-designed not just to relax, but to restore.

A native of Wrightsville Beach, Brian has recently returned to his coastal roots and now splits time between Wilmington and Chapel Hill. When he’s not in the studio, you might find him hydrofoiling over the ocean or lending a hand in a friend’s garden.

He offers targeted, therapeutic bodywork for those seeking meaningful results.

NC LMBT #16226