About Us

Welcome! I hope this site provides you with a good understanding of what it is Grit City Health can do for you. If you have any additional questions about the clinic, the services that I provide, or concerns about your specific issues/circumstances, please contact us. Below are some frequently asked questions about Grit City Health. 

  • Grit City Health is a fitness and massage clinic that focuses on helping you find a way to achieve your goals. Sessions include movement, treatment, and relaxation techniques to create a personalized experience that targets alleviating your current issues and help bring awareness to potential future imbalances. In addition to in-person bodywork, I also offer health and performance coaching. Right now the business consists of me, Patrick McCabe, as the business owner and sole licensed Massage Therapist. Grit City, is a nickname/moniker for Tacoma, Washington where I live with my wife, kids, and dogs. GCH is a place where I can combine and utilize all of my personal and professional experience to help people move through the world with ease and a zest for life.

  • Some clinics offer different types of massage like “Sports Massage” or “Deep Tissue Massage” and charge different amounts of money for the “different” sessions. In my mind/clinic, you are paying me for my time, experience, and expertise. This means that no matter what we do in our session, it won’t effect the price. A 30 minute health coaching session, is the same as a 30 minute body work session.

    In my body work sessions, I start with some movement to assess how your body is moving, and get some blood flowing. From there, depending on your goals, and what I find, we will move towards some form of treatment based massage. This could include:
    -Swedish/relaxation focused massage
    - Deep tissue/treatment focused massage
    - Trigger point/myofascial release body work
    - Prenatal massage
    - Sports massage for pre-event prep or post-event recovery
    Or... It could mean a combination of a few different types of these methods. It just depends on your current goals, issues, current mental/emotional/physical status, event timeline, and more. I will work with you to find a good pace and set expectations for our sessions.

  • Your initial New Client Assessment is about 80 minutes. I block out 90 minutes of my time for you so I can ensure nothing is rushed. After completing the assessment, if you are looking to continue, you can get in touch with me at least 24 hours after our session to reschedule. I do not take second appointments on the first day. I want you to process and ensure that this is a good fit for you and that you want to move forward with sessions. It also allows me to make sure I too think we are a good fit and can continue with sessions since my time and energy are limited. After the assessment, sessions are either 25, 50, 80, or 110 minutes long. I block out a full 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes for each session respectively, so we are not rushed during our session. It also allows us to schedule future sessions, take care of any payments needed, and gives me time to clean and disinfect the clinic between clients. How long and how frequent your sessions are depends on your goals, schedule, and budget. We will work together to create a plan that works for you. 

Health Coaching Certification

"Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young"  
                              -Joseph Pilates

Patrick McCabe, LMt/Owner

WA State Massage License #MA60596045

After taking my first Pilates session, I did not want to leave the studio. I was hooked due to the fact that I had more range of motion and better control of my body than ever before. In 2007 I received my first Pilates certification. For the next few years, I enjoyed adding new certifications and workshops to my repertoire and integrating them into and developing my teaching style. In 2015 I completed a 705+ hour course in massage, body work, spa treatments, hydrotherapy, and more from Alexandar School of Natural Therapeutics. This culminated in receiving my Massage Therapist License from the Washington State Department of Health. As a licensed health care professional, my services and business have a renewed focus on client care.

Through my years teaching fitness, I found that the more you pause and listen to the body, the more the body will tell you what it needs. If you just focus on specific fitness methods and impart them upon your clients/students, you limit yourself from truly hearing their needs. The body is not in pain or discomfort from a deficit of yoga, Pilates, bootcamp, or cross-fit. It is in discomfort from a disfunction, and movement may help. To achieve these client focused goals and results, I utilize aspects of Pilates, yoga, functional strength training, trigger point therapy, deep tissue massage, sauna/hydrotherapy, and more. As time goes on, the array of tools just builds as continuing education is a large part of GCH's future and continued success. 

I have taken my experience and have developed Grit City Health into a business that is almost completely referral driven. This word of mouth system is a testament to my attentiveness and overall love for what I do. 

On a personal level, when I am not seeing clients, I am a “stay-at-home-dad” (or as I like to put it, a "stay-outside-dad"). I also love to spend my free time outdoors with my wife and family. I am an avid cyclist finding joy in being on a bike with friends and even somehow started a cycling team. Team Grit City Health.