Meet the staff

Samantha KIRK, LMT

Samantha Kirk began her practice in December 2008 working with Dr. Salomone’s patients in Atlanta, GA. Samantha is a licensed & insured massage therapist from the Academy of Somatic Healing Arts School of Massage & Wellness Center in Norcross, GA, graduating with a certificate in Neuromuscular Therapy, Clinical Sports massage & Swedish massage from ASHA in June 2008. With her passion being in Neuromuscular Therapy, she enjoys helping patients to relieve pain and restore their natural posture. 

She also participates in volunteering events through ASHA and previously has been assistant teacher in the Neuromuscular Therapy department. With her kind and warm energy, she’s very supportive and accepting of people with all types of muscular imbalances. Samantha has learned through the holistic approach with introductory courses such as Asian Theory, Aromatherapy, Polarity Therapy, Mind/Body Integration, and Reflexology. She has also taken seminars such as Pregnancy Workshop and how to help Spinal Cord Injury Patients and Continuing Education courses in Deep Structural Release & Assisted Yoga thru Thai Massage.

Other than helping people, Samantha gets her fulfillment through being in nature; doing things such as hiking, gardening, relaxing, traveling. Enjoying arts of all mediums, she dabbles in drawing, painting & photography. She loves to learn new things and stay current in her field by reading and going to seminars & classes. Samantha is also an alumnus of Chattahoochee Technical College, graduating in December 2009 with a Business Associate Degree in Administrative Office Technology.

In the future, she has ideas to be certified in Cranial-Sacral Therapy as well as Deep Structural Release of the body. Her next goals are to pursue her interests in hiking and yoga while helping her clients to maintain their optimal health and well-being. Her radiant spirit is gentle, encouraging and unpretentious and she invites clients of all shapes, sizes, colors, ethnicities and religions to come join her in their journey to feeling whole again!

Trisha BUTLER, LMT

Trisha Butler started receiving Chiropractic care at age 11, due to a spinal injury from tennis and diving. She received adjustments, which helped tremendously, and wore a back brace for about 6 months to help stabilize and correct her posture. Since then, she has been a strong believer in chiropractics.

Trisha was free of back pain until she was involved in a major car accident after graduating high school in 1999. She had severely pulled muscles in her low back and shoulder, which caused her spine to, again, become misaligned. She began chiropractics for the second time, but not with the same, quick results she had experienced in the past. Soon after starting a new serving job, she made a friend who was a Massage Therapist that worked with her several times, and was amazed at the relief she felt. Trisha started to pay close attention to the techniques the Therapist was using in the sessions, and how it made her feel during and after. The more the “knots” were worked out, which are known as trigger points, the more effective her adjustments became. This is what intrigued her to get into the field of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy.

She attended the Rising Spirit School of Massage through GwinnettCollege in 2009, and graduated with honors in 2010. She is proud to say that she is a Nationally Certified Therapist of Massage and Body Works, a Licensed Massage Therapist, and a Certified Neuromuscular Therapist. She has since started her own LLC, Right On Point, making house calls and working out of a Personal Training gym in Buckhead, Eclipse One on One, since September of 2010. She was delighted to join the Back to Basics group in January of 2011, since she had heard only good things about them, and had a strong desire to work hand in hand with Chiropractics. She loves being able to help give people relief from pain and discomfort, especially because she has experienced the feeling first hand. She incorporates a few different modalities in her sessions, but mainly focuses on the Neuromuscular aspect to be able achieve the most therapy in the time allotted. Trisha looks forward to expanding her education and modalities by attending workshops and continuing education classes. She plans on going back to school in the near future to become a Certified Personal Trainer, and to work on getting her Bachelors Degree in Massage Therapy. She would like to pursue the goal of becoming a Physical Therapist.

  In Trisha’s spare time she enjoys exercising, meditating and stretching, yoga, Pilates, gardening, walking her dogs, hanging out with her husband and family, and going to the beach, lake, or pool to relax.

Lindsey BURLESON