About Stephen O'Dwyer

Stephen O’Dwyer, CNMT, has been helping individuals find significant and often permanent relief for chronic and recurrent musculoskeletal pain since 1990.

Trained in a wide variety of therapies including Neuromuscular Therapy, Myofascial Release, Deep Tissue Bodywork, Somatic Movement Education, Craniosacral Therapy, and Active Isolated Stretching, he has spent many years developing an integrated methodology of pain relief.

After practicing in San Francisco for ten years he returned to his college hometown, Burlington, Vermont to found Neuromuscular Therapy of Vermont where he's practiced since 2000. In 2015 he opened a second location in Norwich, Vermont.

He has served as an assistant instructor for the St. John Neuromuscular Therapy Seminars and as associate faculty at the Touchstone Healing Arts School of Massage in Burlington, Vermont. In addition, Stephen has taught advanced technique classes for massage therapists and other health practitioners interested in increasing their clinical skill in treating chronic pain.

In 2004 he created Lower Back Pain Answers, an information website about lower back pain causes and remedies, and for the last several years he has been invited to speak about his work to the first-year medical students at the University of Vermont Medical School as part of their Complementary and Alternative Medicine curriculum.

With the shutdown of his private practice due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 he shifted all his energy to the development of a new learning platform, Relieving That Pain Online Courses where he creates self-paced learning for individuals suffering from chronic pain.

A longtime practitioner of meditation, Stephen teaches a six-week course through The OSHER Institute at Dartmouth called Mindfulness Meditation: Establishing or Deepening a Daily Practice (spring and fall terms) and is currently completing the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.

Stephen is a skier, former triathlete, marathon runner, and yoga practitioner. He lives in Norwich, Vermont with his sweet wife, Robin, his awesome stepson, Tray, their beloved Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, Danny, and their looney cat, Chai.