Meet The Team

Susie Townsend is a life long resident of the Santa Ynez Valley. Having been raised here and raising her 3 children here - this is home.
Susie has over 35 years experience as a nail technician. For her, taking care of her clients nails is not an assembly line job. It's important to her that her clients leave with their hands, feet and nails being as beautiful and well cared for as possible.
Her interest in alternative modalities to care for body, mind and soul was the inspiration to open Heart & Soles in 2015. With the perfect "off the main street" location, she and Tracy Burnett (refloxologist) moved into the space that continued to grow and welcome new practitioners to compliment the vision.
For Susie, it is most certainly a labor of love.

Meet Yvette Gomez, a licensed cosmetologist and certified makeup artist. Born and raised in the Santa Ynez Valley, Yvette always knew that she wanted to be in the beauty industry. After high school she moved to Los Angeles where she attended Makeup Designory school and became certified as a makeup artist.Missing her hometown she moved back and started doing makeup for weddings. She decided she wanted to do more in the beauty industry and went back to school to become a licensed cosmetologist. She decided to focus on nail care, waxing and event hairstyling and makeup. She has 10+ years in the industry and loves providing these services.

Eleanor’s journey as a bodyworker began in 1994. In that time, she has worked alongside chiropractors and physical therapists to help clients relieve pain and recover from injuries and surgeries so that they can be their best, pain free selves. There are so many paths toward healing, and as an integrative therapeutic bodyworker, Eleanor utilizes various techniques individually customized to you and your massage goals.

Christina pulls from her vast experience and robust array of tools to detect, uncover and release the non-serving patterns and blocked energy at the route of any symptoms, ailment or dis-ease restoring harmony to the whole being in a way that is gentle and easeful.

Originally from the East Coast, Nicole has called the Santa Ynez Valley her home since 2003. She has been a skincare therapist for 17 years and is always working on continuing education to keep up with the latest technologies and cutting edge ingredients in skincare. All of her treatments are geared so that you see results.
Healthy skin is Happy skin, let me help you to get Glowing!

Tracey Burnett discovered her gift as a Reflexologist through her own personal tragedy. After losing both of her parents within a matter of months she was on a path to heal a re-define her life. After a career as an esthetician/make-up artist she began managing businesses as a personal assistant and book keeper. She decided to move in a different direction and never looked back. Tracey joined Susie in 2013 to assist with her small business. It was then that she decided to become certified as a reflexologist and work along side her. Tracey's gift of touch became very apparent very quickly. She now resides in Arizona but returns here to Heart & Soles for monthly visits.