Stress Less
The beginning.
Sterling moved to College Station in 2005. Two years later, he helped open a national massage therapy chain in both College Station and Bryan. In 2009, he went to work with Dr. Marcy Halterman, a local Chiropractor where he learned the benefits of massage therapy combined with chiropractic care.
In 2011, an old client that used to see him from the national chain found him and asked when he was going to open his own business. After some discussion about having found a small office but not having the funding (he had two small babies to support at this point, he was broke!) she walked out of the therapy room with a check for $1,000 to purchase a package of 20 massage therapy sessions. He opened Sterling Therapeutic Massage that very same week.
In 2019, Sterling was forced to move to a new, bigger location in Bryan - right before the quarantine happened. In 2020, Sterling had a huge problem, he was forced to shut down like everyone else. It was through the tremendous grace and loyalty from his clients he was able to maintain the business and after the quarantine was lifted business was back to normal relatively quickly.
2021 saw the addition of Randa Stephens, LMT as Sterling’s second therapist to join the ranks of Sterling Therapeutic Massage. Growing was slow and natural thanks to word of mouth referrals and wonderful Google reviews.
Also in 2024, Sterling realized the need for something new to grow the business and so decided to rebrand. Stress Less was born out of that realization - a clinic that will emphasize massage as a method of stress management instead of just being another massage place in College Station and Bryan.
We are not a spa.
Stress Less
How to find us.
Stress Less
1920 W. Villa Maria
#201-01
Bryan, TX 77807
(click here to go to Google Maps)
From the 2818 (Harvey Mitchell Parkway) / Villa Maria Road intersection, head West toward the Wal-Mart shopping center for about 1/2 mile.
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The Galindo Building is a black glass mirrored building on the right.
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It looks like a bank, but it is not a bank. It is also right next to Tru Fit Gym.
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Go down the hallway to the left just before the elevator.
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Your therapy room is all the way down the hallway and to the left.
We Are not a spa
What does that mean?
I admit it took me way too long to come up with “We are not a spa.” I had tried for years to come up with a decent phrase or slogan for the business. One day I had gotten three phone calls back-to-back asking about spa services. I immediately went to the website to put “We are not a spa.” on the main page. It turns out people resonated with the concept.
Sometimes, people don’t know what they’re wanting but sometimes, they know very well what they don’t want.