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WELCOME!
I believe everyone has existing potential. I believe that healing is done alongside others. I believe that the body is always moving towards balance and that happens with more ease with a guide by your side. I believe that the best physical therapy brings more fluidity, by addressing restrictions, by improving coordination and strength, by bringing back options and by acknowledging and shifting patterns that are no longer useful.
If what you learn on this site intrigues you, reach out to me. I'd love to help you with your goals!
About Me.
My core beliefs include that every person has existing potential to heal and that the body is always striving to move toward health, accelerated by better knowledge of the way it works, the right conditions and activities, and a belief that things can improve. As a life long learner and eternal optimist, I believe that we can move you forward in your healing process by working together.
I started in this profession as a massage therapist in 2006, inspired by the bodywork of visceral and cranial therapy I stumbled upon when I was studying to be a botanist. I was so impressed by the power of these techniques that I changed my career path after my Masters in Botany in 2003 and went back to school for massage.
In 2011, I pursued further learning and tools by returning to school for physical therapy with the same goal of deepening my knowledge. During school, I was so fortunate to cross paths with the Institute of Physical Art and I studied their paradigm for five years intensively after school and am honored to continue to learn from this community and my mentors. In 2019, I earned my CFMT (Certified Functional Manual Therapist), which included a rigorous testing program to deepen my understanding of a holistic way of seeing the healing process. This paradigm acknowledges the importance of release of restrictions in the body, the interconnectedness of many different parts of the body and different types of tissues, and the power of using the body's developmental patterns to return core activation and coordination (PNF), as well as to train the body to perform tasks in the most efficient way possible. This method, along with osteopathic techniques learned from the Barral Institute to release restrictions in the viscera, vascular and neural tissues that I have been studying since 2008, allows me to help you find the sources of your challenges and see a path forward for us to return you to your full potential.
Let’s broaden our vision of therapy together!
TOOLS IN MY TOOLBOX
Visceral manipulation is osteopathic light touch manual therapy to improve mobility and function of all organs in the body, such as digestive organs, lungs, heart, and brain. It is gentle and effective and really fun to see how everything connects in the body!
Sound therapy can be used to bring deeper mobilization to the tissues of the body using singing bowls and tuning forks. In addition, the vibration is helpful for autonomic nervous system regulation and helps bring better circulation to the nerves.
Functional Manual Therapy is a beautiful system of manual therapy that acknowledges and works with the connections in the body to use movement and mobilization to improve joints, fascia and full body function. I trained extensively with Gregg and Vicky Johnson, leaders in physical therapy for 50+ years to achieve the level of Certified Functional Manual Therapist (CFMT).
Neurological reeducation helps the body learn and relearn the most efficient ways to perform movements and exercises. It can help after pain and after neurological challenges such as strokes and ongoing processes like Parkinson's Disease, by retraining the system to work as it was designed.
Cranial mobilization is a type of visceral work that focuses on addressing the nervous system of the brain, dura (covering over the brain) and other tissues in the brain and into the nerves of the body. It is so helpful with anyone having issues with nerves, post concussion, chronic headaches, facial pain and autonomic nervous system issues.
Exercises for strengthening can be so much more powerful when done in a system where the body's efficiency is being maximized by the other methods listed here. We can work to free up tissues, teach the body efficiency and then use that to improve balance, strengthen core and extremities and train the body to react to the world automatically, the way it was designed to thrive so that you can return to the joys in your life!
As a somatic experiencing student (set to finish my certification in 2026), I am learning to use sensation tracking to help retrain the autonomic nervous system. This is our nervous system of survival and it evaluates our safety. When the body gets stuck in flight, fight or freeze, it changes our physiology and keeps us contracted in our muscles. Working with this therapy style helps the body regain a sense of safety and begin to reset so that the system works as it was designed.
AT THIS TIME, I DON'T ACCEPT INSURANCE...
Why would you choose to go to a cash practice that doesn't accept your insurance?
There are benefits to working outside of the insurance system:
i believe in deep healing, the kind that changes a life and ripples out to that person’s community. the system wants a quick cure that can be packaged into a couple goals met in as few visits as possible. i believe in patience. the system gets bored if improvement is anything but immediate. i believe in helping to take layers off that have been laid down across decades. the system wants a simple diagnosis that can be taken care of quick. i believe in helping people see their full potential. the system wants to compartmentalize issues to save money. i am here for people who have been cast aside by the medical world and for those who are just beginning their journey to understand their body and their experience and for those who want to help their body work more smoothly. i see the effects of trauma and i am ready to help with patience and shared humanity. the system is a conveyer belt, no time for anyone who is lagging behind unrealistic expectations of healing. i believe all humans need care throughout their lives to support health and vibrancy. the system would break and is breaking under the weight of even the few who come forward for help. i reject that i have to fit into the mold that the system expects. i don’t have to shrink to fit into a box. i have value because i have bigger, more expansive vision than the box that is trying to contain me.
One thing to note is that I can still give you a superbill that you can submit directly to your insurance company.