You don’t have to be in pain

  • Do you want to build healthy habits and movement practices for increased vitality and resilience?

  • Do you have warning signs that something is "off," but your doctors don’t have a good explanation?

  • Do you have an injury, persistent pain, autoimmune disorder, or other chronic health issues?

  • Have you worked with other providers but haven’t found a real solution?

  • Are you tired of masking symptoms rather than solving the problem?

    Let’s work together to address the root causes so you can shift from surviving to thriving.

Address the root causes, not just the symptoms

The Path to Wellness

Step 1: Book a Path to Wellness Package for 1:1 personalized support that addresses the ROOT CAUSES of your symptoms and leads to lasting change.

Step 2: At the first appointment, we’ll complete a comprehensive wellness assessment and co-create a personalized roadmap to meet your goals.

Step 3: You will spend the next 4 - 6 weeks practicing your PERSONALIZED WELLNESS PLAN and shifting the conditions that are currently allowing your pain and symptoms to persist.

Step 4: We’ll follow-up every few weeks or months based on your needs for accountability and support in making lasting change in your life so that you can shift from surviving to THRIVING.

What you’ll learn

  • How to listen to what your body, mind, and spirit are telling you so you know how to give yourself the support you need to truly heal.

  • How to use food as medicine to increase your vitality and build strong, healthy tissues.

  • How to create the conditions you need in your life to thrive.

  • Practices that are specific to your constitution that will balance your nervous system and relieve pain.

  • Specific exercises and therapeutic yoga practices to address the root causes of your pain.

  • Strategies to align the rhythm of your life with the rhythms of nature so that your energy is bolstered, not depleted, and you are able to flow through the changing seasons of your life with grace.

Investment: $500

The Path to wellness Includes:

  • (For all new clients, or current clients with a new area of concern). If it has been more than four months since your last appointment, please schedule a new evaluation to reassess and develop a new treatment plan.

    To prepare for initial consultation, I will ask you to complete a comprehensive questionnaire focusing on your wellness goals, health history, lifestyle habits, nutritional pattern, sleep hygiene, stress management, and support systems. During the initial meeting, we will explore the function and balance of all of the systems of your body, with the intention of understanding the root causes of your symptoms. I will assess several key markers of wellness, including analysis of your tongue and pulse, and a discussion of how your body is digesting food, absorbing nutrients, and eliminating wastes (i.e. bowel, bladder, and sweat patterns). If you are experiencing physical pain or injury, we will also utilize physical therapy diagnostics to assess the physiology and function of the movement system.

    We will work together to develop a clear picture of your current state of health, your goals, and where there is opportunity to rebalance. Together we’ll develop a personalized plan of action. Recommendations will fall into four main categories:

    Nutrition: 

    • Using food and herbs appropriate to the season as medicine

    Lifestyle: 

    • Developing rhythm to your life supported by the intelligence of nature and creating daily self-care routines to help you remained centered

    Energy and stress management: 

    • Creating a personalized yoga (meditation, pranayama, mantra, mudra, and/or asana) practice appropriate for your constitution and energetic needs

    • Connecting to nature

    • Setting boundaries

    • Developing a morning routine to set you up for success each day

    • Developing a bedtime ritual to facilitate sound sleep.

    Pain management (if applicable): 

    • Pain neuroscience education

    • Physical therapy exercises

    • Yoga to support your nervous system

    • CranioSacral Therapy

    • Manual therapy, joint mobilization, myofascial release

    • Neuromuscular re-education

    • Self-massage and herbs for pain management

    • Ayurvedic tools to promote grounding

  • Together we will develop a personalized wellness plan incorporating nutrition, lifestyle, stress management, mindfulness, and movement to help you reach your goals.

  • Following the initial consultation, you will have time to implement the treatment plan we have co-created. Ayurveda is a wisdom tradition and is meant to be tested through direct observation, and refined over time. Follow-ups are recommended 1 - 6 weeks after initial consultation to assess the impact of the treatment plan. This is a time for us to discuss what went well, what challenges you faced, and to revise or progress your plan to continue to support you in meeting your goals. 

    *Follow-ups can be used at whatever frequency feels most supportive to you (once a week, once a month, once a season) but must be used within one year of purchase.

  • I am here to help you meet your goals by providing helpful tools, tips, and tricks for navigating your unique obstacles and making change in your life. By booking a package, you get built-in accountability and support in committing to your personalized wellness practice.

A Personalized Solution that works for you

  • Treat the whole person

    The Western medical system treats the physical body in isolation. But your physical body does not exist in isolation. Your being is a complex web containing your body, your vital energy, your mind, deep inner wisdom, and cosmic intelligence, and you exist within an ecosystem. You are influenced by, and you influence, your environment, your community, and the world around you. It simply doesn’t work well to treat one part of your body without considering the relationships between all the layers of your being and the realities of your daily life. Rather than taking a cookie cutter approach, let’s develop a personalized healing framework unique to you. This foundation empowers you to choose practices, tools, foods, and routines that align and support your specific needs.

  • Use food as medicine

    The metabolism plays a huge role in healing. In Ayurveda, we describe the digestive fire or metabolism as agni. Agni has a reciprocal relationship with stress, anxiety, and pain. When we are in a pain state, the nervous system is mobilized for fight or flight and energy is shunted to the periphery (our arms and legs). This impacts our ability to digest our food properly and to eliminate wastes. We need a balanced nervous system and a healthy digestive system in order to transform the food we eat into healthy tissues and heal from injury.

  • Balance the Nervous system

    Pain is the nervous system’s reaction to a perceived threat. Anxiety, stress, being overscheduled and overstimulated, and burnout all impact the body's ability to heal by promoting inflammation and increasing the perception of threat. In order to reduce pain, it is essential to treat the nervous system. Ayurveda, yoga, PT, CranioSacral therapy, and pain neuroscience directly support a healthy nervous system and calm inflammation and reactivity.

  • Rewire and regulate

    Health is not something you have, it is something you practice. When there is pain, illness, or imbalance, there is an opportunity to assess what in your life is allowing those conditions to thrive. To create lasting change, we need to create a life that supports our health. I believe that wellness is a practice, and the practice is the path to health and wholeness. Developing daily routines and habits that enhance prana and support a healthy nervous system gives you control over your symptoms and the power to self-heal.

  • Become your own best healer

    When you understand your constitution and how you are affected by your environment, your lifestyle, and your food, you will develop self-awareness, the ability to assess what you need, and the wisdom to implement practices that will be helpful to your unique needs. A mindful approach to health includes observing the effects of our daily routines, nutrition, and self-care practices, and using the information about the impacts of our choices to shift our behavior.

Book an Appointment

Your sessions will be

  • Personalized

    Healing sessions will be dedicated to assessing your current wellness and creating a personalized, tailor-made plan to fit your unique needs and goals.

  • Integrative

    I use an integrative, holistic, and ecological approach that prioritizes prevention and early intervention and addresses the root causes instead of masking the symptoms.

  • Effective

    This isn’t a cookie-cutter approach. We’ll work together to develop a plan that truly works for you, and you’ll build the skills you need to help you maintain balance.

The right fit

    • You have been to other providers, but it hasn’t solved your problem.

    • You are looking for a holistic, mind-body-spirit approach to your care.

    • You want to address the root causes, not just the symptoms.

    • You believe your treatment should address the mental, emotional, energetic, and subtle layers of your body in addition to your physical body.

    • You are ready to balance your life.

    • You want to care for your nervous system. 

    • You understand the importance of nutrition in maintaining healthy organs and tissues and want to learn to use food as medicine.

    • You recognize that changing outcomes requires your active participation. You want to be a partner in your healing. 

    • You want to build a relationship with your provider in which you feel seen and heard.

    • You want to feel better.

    • You want to gain control over your symptoms and understand how to solve your problem.

    • You want to take an ecological approach to health and healing the addresses the root causes in the context of the environment.

    • You are looking for a quick fix

    • You want a magic pill that will solve the problem

    • You aren’t in a place in your life where you are willing/able to make some changes to your daily routines and/or nutrition

    • You are looking for passive treatments and don’t want to be an active partner in your healthcare

How you’ll feel

balanced and centered with increased energy and deeper sleep

FAQs

  • I have made an intentional decision not to bill insurance so that I can concentrate my time and energy towards supporting your health and healing, and provide an integrative treatment approach tailor made for each client. In this private pay model, I have the freedom to meet you where you are, and to incorporate prevention, early intervention, and holistic treatment that includes a variety of modalities and approaches, and is not isolated to one body part or tool. While working within a traditional medical model, I often felt limited in what I could offer based on what insurance would cover. Using a cash model enables me to address your concerns and goals without restrictions based on what an insurance company considers medically necessary.

    Many clients find that having a personal investment in their health facilitates engagement. We can develop a treatment plan that is realistic and sustainable, and takes into consideration your goals, priorities, available time, and resources.

    You may be able to use your HSA or FSA funds to pay for treatment. In some cases, you may also be able to submit your bill directly to your insurance company for reimbursement at the out-of-network rate.

  • Payment is due at the time of booking, unless prior arrangements or payment plans have been made. When we decide to work together, we enter into a partnership. I will reserve time to work with you, and appreciate your reciprocation. Please arrive on time to appointments, and reserve 90 minutes for initial evaluations and 60 minutes for follow-ups. Refunds are not available, but appointments can be rescheduled and funds applied to rescheduled appointments if changes are made at least 48 hours in advance. Monday appointments must be rescheduled by the preceding Thursday at 8 am to give time to offer that appointment time to another client. With the exception of emergencies, if you do not provide at least 48 hours of notice to reschedule an appointment, you will be charged for your session.

  • Not at all. Ayurveda is a wisdom tradition, not a diet, and there are no set rules because it is such an individualized medicine. Recommendations will take into account your constitution, your goals, your current state of (im)balance, your interests, your time, and the season, both of your life and of your environment. You play a key role in your wellness plan. We develop the plan together, and then you experiment. You try it out for a week, month, or season, and pay attention to how it affects you. We tweak the plan as needed to support your balance, with the understanding that what you need will ebb and flow throughout the year(s).

  • My hope is that you will develop intuition around what your body and mind need to feel the most nourished and balanced. We always have flux in our lives, and I aim to help you develop tools to adjust as needed.

    In meditation practice, we are taught to establish a stable foundation. When we have enough support, physically and mentally, then we have the capacity to hold space for ourselves and to develop a mind that is vast like the sky. You’ve probably experienced in your practice that when life is good, you have more space available and are more centered, so you aren’t so easily rocked by the waves of your life. When you are in a period of challenge, you may need a little more structure and support. The same is true for your health. The goal of Ayurveda is to support balance so that you are healthy and thriving. When you are balanced, you can more easily absorb the waves of life, without being so affected by them. If you have a period when you notice signs of imbalance, then you might be more affected by the waves and need more structure and more support to help bring you back to center. The underlying thread is self-inquiry. When you learn to pay attention to what your body and mind are telling you, you’ll be able to make choices that help you to feel your best.

  • Evaluation and treatment move beyond an isolated body part, and beyond just the physical body. Your treatment plan will be comprehensive, and will include so much more than PT exercises. Because each person has a unique constitution, the Āyurvedic approach is individualized to each person’s specific needs. We will review your current psychological, emotional, and physical state through the understanding the doṣas and their corresponding qualities (gunas). We will also assess the state of all of the systems in your body, paying particular attention to prana (energy), agni (digestive fire), and the nervous system, and develop a personalized wellness plan that will include daily self-care practices so your day has rhythm, nutritional recommendations to use food as medicine so you feel nourished, and stress and energy management practices so that you feel supported and not depleted. If you also have an injury and/or pain, we will integrate Āyurveda, yoga, CranioSacral Therapy, pain neuroscience, and physical therapy for a holistic, mind, body, and spirit approach to physical therapy that supports optimum tissue healing and reduces pain.

    Working in a private pay model also allows us to focus on your specific goals. Insurance companies deem physical therapy to be medically necessary only if you have functional limitations that prevent you from doing basic activities of daily living, such as getting dressed by yourself or getting in and out of bed. The parameters are surprisingly narrowly defined to one specific body part that is injured and do not consider the relationships or root causes, or support interventions such as CranioSacral Therapy, nutrition, herbs, or other Ayurvedic tools that can help you to recover. Choosing not to accept insurance allows me to meet you where you are, and to use all the tools I have in my growing toolbox so that your goals are met and you see results.

  • Absolutely! If you don’t have any pain, injury, or health challenges, we can focus on a daily wellness practice for prevention. Developing these skills now will go a long way to reducing risk and building a solid foundation to support you as you progress through the stages of your life.

    I am a physical therapist, but I’m also an Ayurvedic Health Counselor. I work with people who have all kinds of health concerns, including digestive issues, hormone imbalance, skin challenges, anxiety, etc. When we work together, we address your individual health goals with a personalized plan.

  • Waking up in the morning without feeling refreshed

    Difficulty sleeping

    Pain

    Injuries

    Achiness

    Arthritis or osteoporosis  

    Poor digestion (constipation, gas, bloating, heartburn, diarrhea, sour burps)

    Anxiety 

    Depression

    Difficulty concentrating

    Trouble remembering things

    Low or high energy

    Low libido

    Heavy or light menstrual flow

    Dry, irritated, or lackluster skin

    Hair loss

    Not feeling like yourself

    Feeling disconnected