I am passionate about the human body and how it functions from many perspectives. I attended the Swedish Institute: College of Health Sciences after my undergrad at NYU to get a License in Massage Therapy with a dual degree of Associate’s in Occupational Therapy. I’m also certified in group fitness from the American Council on Exercise. I love the hands on healing approach of clinical massage for chronic pain, postural issues, and injuries. While my approach may be clinical in the Western medicine sense, I subtly occasionally blend in my Eastern medicine training and Shiatsu I learned in school. I appreciate the beauty and value in many perspectives. I try to create a space that feels safe, loving, compassionate and energetically supports a client’s nervous system for release, reflection, and restoration, even while doing work that may seem otherwise a little intense!
I also have a history with some perplexing autoimmune symptoms that led me to learn a lot about gut health and food sensitivities that I have. This journey led me to 3 different health and wellness coaching certifications from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, and the National Board of Health & Wellness Coaches. I am endlessly curious and persistent when it comes to understanding health.
Finally, I was and am forever a dancer, having graduated from the pre-professional program and life long training I received at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School. From there I went on to Tisch School of the Arts at NYU where I received my bachelor’s in dance. I spent 13 years as a New Yorker before following the path of the Pittsburgh Boomerang, where house ownership was obtainable and grandparents don’t charge for babysitting!
In my free time, I perform in local theater companies, sing with a choir, cook for friends and family, and try to listen to the little things my body gently shows me it needs. Which is all perimenopause support all the time these days!