About Me

I am a teacher. I believe that pain is the felt symptom of strain within the organism, whether tissue-based, emotiogenic, or energetic (spoiler alert: it’s often all three). Over time, strain itself can cause or contribute to somatic (body-based) dysfunction, which only increases the felt intensity of the mechanisms at work. At this point, life starts to seem pretty tough, and we can start to feel pretty stuck.

The Brightside is that I can help :) At Brightside Integrative Physical Therapy, I teach integrative embodiment and somatic self-development, which means looking to your body as our guide to your better health. My clients are individuals who are learning how to step into relationship with their own healing journey by tending intelligently to the body-mind-energy mechanisms that drive our felt experience. Your pain is real, and your history is important, but it does not define who you are or where you are going. No matter where you are now, you are in the perfect place to begin telling a new story about who you are becoming. 

I have a bachelor's degree in English literature and writing and a clinical doctorate in physical therapy, and I have cultivated specific expertise in pelvic health, pain science, polyvagal theory, and narrative psychology. When you’re ready, I am here.