Laurie Andrews has opened Transformation Coaching and Wellness Center in the Abingdon Office Park in Hayes, offering massage therapy as well as health and wellness coaching. Andrews is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association.

With 22 years of experience as a life coach, she became certified through the Spencer Institute and completed her course in massage therapy at the Utah College of Massage Therapy in 1997. She has been certified to operate in Virginia by the Virginia Board of Nursing since 1999.

Andrews describes her massage specialty as “bringing a traditional West Coast relaxing therapeutic massage to the East Coast while focusing on instilling health, balance and healing.”

“I look forward to building my coaching and massage therapy practice in Gloucester County,” said Andrews, who also operates practices in Virginia Beach and Williamsburg.

“My whole aim in practicing massage therapy all these years is to literally take a person from...