My Clients

My clients have ranged in age and back­ground from a teenage bal­le­ri­na seek­ing relief from intense back tight­ness after hours of rehearsals to a 94-year-old man work­ing to restore abdom­i­nal tis­sue mobil­i­ty and bod­i­ly ease. The com­mon thread unit­ing every­one I see is a desire to ease phys­i­cal strain, restore move­ment, and pro-active­ly enhance their qual­i­ty of life.

My Approach

I view my work with peo­ple – whether pro­vid­ing man­u­al ther­a­py or move­ment instruc­tion – as a col­lab­o­ra­tion that builds upon open com­mu­ni­ca­tion and active lis­ten­ing. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion hap­pens on two lev­els: first, I lis­ten as clients describe their phys­i­cal goals and dai­ly chal­lenges; then, I lis­ten to what their tis­sues express dur­ing eval­u­a­tion.  Based on this con­tin­u­ous dia­logue, I tai­lor each ses­sion to meet the indi­vid­u­al’s imme­di­ate and long-term needs.

Ultimately, my clients want to improve their quality of life and, as much as possible, take charge of their own well-being. My goal is to empower them to do that.

Ulti­mate­ly, my goal is to empow­er clients to take charge of their own well-being. Whether we begin with reg­u­lar man­u­al ther­a­py ses­sions or move­ment train­ing, the objec­tive is always to help clients build resilience and min­i­mize reliance on ongo­ing care, even­tu­al­ly tran­si­tion­ing to occa­sion­al main­te­nance as needed.

My Background and Skills

Twen­ty years ago, I was a wreck. Work­ing 40+ hours a week at a seden­tary job in a high-stress envi­ron­ment left me deal­ing with severe back stiff­ness, poor pos­ture, per­sis­tent mus­cu­lar ten­sion and an all-per­va­sive sense of exhaus­tion. After numer­ous stop-and-start attempts to work out at the gym on my own, I dis­cov­ered a Gyro­ton­ic train­er who helped me devel­op true core sta­bil­i­ty, body aware­ness, coor­di­na­tion and bal­ance. I, who had nev­er enjoyed tra­di­tion­al exer­cise, found myself gen­uine­ly lov­ing mov­ing! After a few years, I became a cer­ti­fied train­er in both the Gyro­ton­ic and Gyroki­ne­sis move­ment systems.

Over the years, I’ve helped many clients ease long-standing discomfort and work through physical setbacks–helping them unwind structural restrictions that movement alone couldn’t release.

Over the years, I have helped many clients ease long-stand­ing dis­com­fort and work through phys­i­cal set­backs. How­ev­er, I also real­ized that many peo­ple held struc­tur­al restric­tions in their tis­sues that move­ment alone could­n’t eas­i­ly unwind. To bet­ter sup­port them, I began study­ing man­u­al ther­a­py and body­work, even­tu­al­ly spe­cial­iz­ing in Cran­ioSacral Ther­a­py, Soma­toe­mo­tion­al Release, Vis­cer­al Mobi­liza­tion, and Neur­al Mobilization.

Move­ment train­ing and man­u­al ther­a­py are nat­ur­al com­pan­ion prac­tices.  Some­times, exer­cise alone is not enough if the body is caught in a per­sis­tent pat­tern of ten­sion — whether held in the fas­cia, mus­cles, or ner­vous sys­tem. Like­wise, man­u­al ther­a­py alone may not ful­ly rewrite the dai­ly pos­tur­al habits that con­tribute to phys­i­cal strain. By syn­the­siz­ing man­u­al ther­a­py and move­ment instruc­tion, I tai­lor our work togeth­er to help each client unwind deep ten­sion, restore flu­id motion, and build last­ing resilience.