I fell into this work at eighteen.

I discovered Elmer Green, the pioneer of BioFeedback,whose life's purpose was proving something the medical establishment of his time did not want to hear, that people could heal their own bodies with their minds. I had the honor of being able to sit in circle with him, and with the people who hadworked him, in his earlier years in the back rooms of the Menninger Clinic. That time became the breath underneath everything I built afterward, long before I ever became a physical therapist. I have since obtained several different coaching certifications that allow me to teach beyond state lines.

When I graduated, with a minor in dietetics and psychology before going to medical school for my physical therapy degree, I was already thinking in terms of holistic body-mind therapy.

I had already seen what Elmer Green spent his life trying to show the world, that the body and mind were never separate to begin with. We just built a medical system that treats them as if they are. These days many of these techniques that I found effective are now based in science and have been proved effective through research.

I have spent my career sitting with people in persistent pain, watching what happens when the biological, the psychological, and the social aspects of a person finally gets addressed together instead of picked apart into separate specialties. That is when actual healing occurs.

My work now moves through four pillars, sleep, movement, spiritual renewal, and food as medicine, woven together into something closer to a lifestyle than a treatment plan. I believe that the skills I teach are more likely to succeed when they are woven into a lifestyle rather than a time-based intervention.

I draw on craniosacral and visceral work, Pilates-based movement, biofeedback, HeartMath coherence, and polyvagal-informed nervous system regulation, and underneath all of it, a background in theater and mime that taught me a body has so much to tell us, and often times we need to stop and listen.

I specialize in persistent pain, hypermobility and EDS, and the neuromuscular movement patterns that so often get missed when a person is evaluated one system at a time. I'm a Reiki Master, Healing Touch and Sound Healing Practitioner. All of these skills were obtained as I looked for other options for my own personal healing and pain. It's led me to having a deep tool kit and a even greater understanding of how important it is to recognize that everybody has a different pathway for healing. Meditation may work for one and cause another to be stressed it's important to find the right tool for the right person at the right time. The only way to do this is to deeply listen and that's one of the skills that I like to bring to the treatment room.

If there is one thing I have come to believe more than any other, it is this: healing was never meant to be a solo venture. When you have a body that has complexity, it takes a village to heal.

That belief is why I built shared group visits into this practice, why I structured pricing in tiers so cost is not the wall it has always been, and why I have spent real energy advocating so that people with rare diseases can be seen by someone who actually understands what they are living with, not just referred out again into a system that does not.

I am currently Co-Chair of the Minnesota Holistic Medical Association, where I get to do this work with colleagues who share the same conviction. But the center of it has never moved. It is still eighteen-year-old me, sitting in a room with Elmer Green, learning that the mind and the body were always one conversation, and that our job is simply to help people remember how to listen to it.