When I was an adolescent and teen, my Mom suffered from terrible migraines.  She would beg me to rub her head and I always managed to relieve her symptoms.  She encouraged me to go to school to become a massage therapist, which is exactly what I did!  I have been a Licensed Massage Therapist since May 2006 and am a graduate of Arizona School of Massage Therapy.

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With a desire to further my education and to help people even more, I graduated from Pima Medical Institute in December 2012 as a Physical Therapist Assistant.  I worked in many settings, including hospital, outpatient, acute rehab, and skilled nursing.  While I enjoyed making a more lasting difference in the lives of my patients, I found myself dissatisfied due to constant insurance cuts, odious paperwork, and insurance companies dictating how much time I was allowed to spend with patients.  I felt stuck.  

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Then, in 2018, I suffered an injury that caused me to temporarily pause my life while I rehabbed.  I went from being a very active therapist and someone who worked out 6 days per week to a person who couldn't even manage to grocery shop alone due to the debilitating pain.  A Physical Therapist I worked with recommended incorporating John F. Barnes myofascial release as part of my healing journey.  I had never heard of this modality before but I was intrigued.  After a few sessions, the pain dissipated and my function was restored, even better than I had dared to hope!  Not only was the pain from the injury gone, but the nagging hip pain that had been plaguing me for about three years vanished as well!

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With the results I enjoyed, I knew myofascial release was the path I wanted to take in my career.  I signed up for classes in September 2019 that were to take place in Sedona in March 2020.  Unfortunately, Covid-19 upended the world, so I took the first classes I could, which were in Nashville in November 2020.  Attending classes affirmed that I was in the right place, and on the right path! I am now very eager to assist others on their own healing journey.

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In my free time, I enjoy hiking, working out, photography, reading, traveling, ancestral living, thrifting, minimalism, cat snuggling, and Nerf gun fights with my husband.