The Founder

Juanita
Chabolla

A licensed massage therapist and the practitioner behind every Lymphyx protocol. Ten years spent inside Beverly Hills recovery rooms, working shoulder-to-shoulder with plastic and reconstructive surgeons, taught her what the textbook doesn't: recovery is not a waiting period. It is a practice.

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Juanita Chabolla, founder and licensed massage therapist
"The body already knows how to heal. My job is to clear the traffic so it can do what it's trying to do."
— Juanita Chabolla, LMT
Origin

How Lymphyx began

Juanita trained at the National Holistic Institute in Emeryville, graduating in 2014 with a focus on clinical and medical massage. She began her career in integrative wellness centers across Los Angeles before being recruited by a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon to work exclusively with post-operative clients.

For six years she was the therapist those surgeons called when a client wasn't healing the way they should — when swelling stalled, when fibrosis formed, when clients left their follow-ups in tears. Her drainage protocol, refined over thousands of sessions, became the referral standard across three practices.

Lymphyx opened in 2018 with one mission: make that level of care available to every post-operative client in Los Angeles, not just the ones whose surgeon knew to refer them.

Credentials

Trained · Licensed · Continuously Studying

Education

National Holistic Institute

Certified Massage Therapist · Clinical & Medical Massage · 2014 · 750-hour program

Licensure

CA CAMTC #82919

California Massage Therapy Council — certified and in good standing since 2014. Insured through ABMP.

Specialty

Manual Lymphatic Drainage

Vodder-method trained. Certified in post-operative lymphatic drainage and MLD for plastic surgery recovery.

Continuing Ed

Advanced Fibrosis Protocols

Ongoing coursework in scar mobilization, ultrasound-assisted drainage, and lymphedema management.

Partnership

Surgeon Referral Network

Coordinated care with 14 board-certified plastic surgeons across Beverly Hills and West Hollywood.

Community

ABMP · MLD Association

Member, Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals. Member, Manual Lymph Drainage Association of North America.

Philosophy

Three Principles That Guide Every Session

i.
Coordinated Care
We work with your surgeon, not around them. Op-notes are read. Restrictions are respected. Progress is communicated back when useful.
ii.
Honest Cadence
You'll never be up-sold into a session you don't need. We'll tell you the minimum that works — and the maximum, if you want it.
iii.
Clinical Calm
The room is quiet. The protocol is precise. Neither spa nor hospital — a third thing, designed for the real work of recovery.
iv.
Trained Hands Only
Every therapist at Lymphyx has been personally trained and signed off by Juanita. No rotating staff, no contractors.