About
I am solutions focused, with my chief interest being to guide you to your goals in the most effective and efficient manner. I don't sell products and I don't do upselling. I simply focus on approaching the barriers to pain, function, fitness and health that each of my clients or patients are facing, using the most advanced techniques and skill sets available.
At the end of the day, I truly love what I do. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd still be doing what I'm doing. This isn't a job, but a pursuit of passion. I'm constantly researching and studying new techniques and approaches for the pure love of wanting to Know and be able to do better for the people I work with. Between the pure enjoyment of my work and never being satisfied with what I know, always wanting to be better at what I do, I offer unparalleled results with a synergistic integrated skill set.
Most rehab patients see me 3-5 times and that's it forever, including cases that are generally held to be permanent, hopeless, or that nothing can generally be done for them, with fantastic results. No one has seen me for rehab care without getting amazing improvements, as long as they do their part. On the fitness side, I don't do cookie cutter workouts. I strategically design a constantly evolving plan to help each client achieve their goals in functionality and performance, while layering in improvements in stability, mobility, hormone balance, injury prevention and general health. I also seek to educate and empower my clients to do this work on their own whenever they're ready so that they can keep this up for life, not just while we do this together.
My overall goal is the be the best, but not out of some sense of competitiveness or profit driving, but because I want you to thrive, and I have the knowledge and skills to make it happen.
Credentials And Experience
Bachelors of Science from Portland State University.
500 hour Certificate in personal training from The National Personal Training Institute of Portland.
Certified personal trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
Certified Neurokinetic Therapy practitioner.
Neurokinetic Therapy assistant instructor.
Certificate in massage therapy from The University of Western States clinical massage therapy program.
Massage therapy and chiropractic assistant intern Health Centers of UWS 2015-16.
Massage therapy intern Compass Oncology 2016
Massage therapy intern Warner Pacific athletics program 2016
Oregon Licensed Massage Therapist: #22299.
University of Western States guest lecturer in rehabilitation topics.
Certified Rock Tape Fascial Movement (1&2) Taping practitioner.
Integrated cranial therapy training with Jordan Shane Terry.
Previously contracted therapist at Skyline Integrative Medicine, focusing on acute injury care.
Previously contracted therapist at Matthew House, a constant care facility for the medically fragile.
My focus of research is in a range of functional neurology skills and the pure research behind it, including manual, movement, and more pure neurological applications. I also study a range of pure manual and movement therapy/exercise topics.
My goal is to offer the very best treatment, education, and guidance for prehab/rehab, pain and dysfunction management, fitness and general health possible.
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Frequently asked questions
What is your typical process for working with a new student?
This will depend on what they're looking to accomplish, but generally I prefer meeting with anyone wanting to work with me in person so we can talk over what their goals are, any questions they have, what they need from their practitioner, and go over how I operate and will help them with their health goals. These meetings are always no-charge and no-obligation.
For rehab goals, we go through this conversation and go through some of their medical history, do some initial assessments make sure I am the practitioner they should be seeing (very rarely is this not the case, but sometimes getting imaging or other red flags checked, or working on collaborative care is appropriate).
After these initial conversations and checks, we simply get started.
What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
- I have currently been in private practice for 5 years.
- Bachelors of Science from Portland State University.
- 500 hour Certificate in personal training from The National Personal Training Institute of Portland.
- Certified personal trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
- Certified Neurokinetic Therapy practitioner.
- Neurokinetic Therapy assistant instructor.
- Certificate in massage therapy from The University of Western States clinical massage therapy program.
- Massage therapy and chiropractic assistant intern Health Centers of UWS 2015-16.
- Massage therapy intern Compass Oncology 2016
- Massage therapy intern Warner Pacific athletics program 2016
- Oregon Licensed Massage Therapist: #22299.
- University of Western States guest lecturer in rehabilitation topics.
- Certified Rock Tape Fascial Movement (1&2) Taping practitioner.
- Integrated cranial therapy training with Jordan Shane Terry.
- Previously contracted therapist at Skyline Integrative Medicine, focusing on acute injury care.
- Previously contracted therapist at Matthew House, a constant care facility for the medically fragile.
- My focus of research is in a range of functional neurology skills and the pure research behind it, including manual, movement, and more pure neurological applications. I also study a range of pure manual and movement therapy/exercise topics.
- My goal is to offer the very best treatment, education, and guidance for prehab/rehab, pain and dysfunction management, fitness and general health possible.
What types of students have you worked with?
I have worked with a very wide range of fitness, rehab/prehab and generall wellness clients and patients. On the fitness side I work on general hormone balance and health, general fitness to weight loss, specific sports performance, and bodybuilding. I typically have a client or two, or several, for each of these goal sets at any given time. Runners, golfers, tennis players are pretty common. I also work with many people with systemic health issues, such as diabetes, heart disease, fibromyalgia (a lot of this one, there's so much we can do!), cerebral palsy, and others.
On the rehab/prehab side it's really a mixed bag. Car accidents and other acute injuries, avoiding joint replacements and dealing with general joint pain, dealing with hernias, urinary incontinence, headaches, migraines, sense based issues (visual, hearing, chemical sensitivity at times), TMJD and other jaw issues including tinnitus and dizziness, common sports injuries (like plantair fasciitis, IT band pains, 'patellar tracking disorder,' etc.), among a lot more common issues, but also more rare or specialized neurological or autoimmune issues such as Guillain Barre, parkinsons, cerebral palsy, post stroke and traumatic brain injury care, and others.
What advice would you give a student looking to hire a teacher in your area of expertise?
Find a trainer or practitioner who has done more than their basic requirements for certification or licensure. So many people just buy a book and a test as a trainer, and so many practitioners only take their required continuing ed courses, most of which are essentially useless. Find someone who is not satisfied with what they know.