About me
I know how exhausting it is to live with pain day after day—I’ve lived it and walked alongside many others in it.
With a PhD in medical sociology studying pain research, plus two decades of experience, I help people rebuild trust in their bodies and experience relief that lasts.
I’ve done the academic route
I have a PhD from University of California, San Francisco where I dedicated myself to uncovering how chronic pain was being mismanaged in the wake of the opioid crisis. My research took me into rooms where various brain-based pain interventions were being studied in neuroimaging labs and taken up in hospital settings. In addition to the knowledge I gained, I also gained a facility with research and the myriad of methods for treating chronic pain, as well as the physiological and psychological mechanisms underlying them.
I’ve done the bodywork route
With a 12 year practice as a clinically-trained bodyworker, over thousands of sessions I treated hundreds of patients suffering from different stages of persistent and chronic pain and facilitated a way for my clients to effectively and fully re-inhabit the bodies that they were so desperately trying to re-engage with comfortably.
…and I can relate
Like everyone, I’ve faced challenges with persistent discomfort and pain. I dealt with my own chronic condition and was forced to take a hard look at existing approaches and determine my own way of navigating the difficult and complex circumstances of persistent and chronic pain and the industry at large. I have found that with practice, the pain you are feeling now can become an opportunity—for new dialogues with parts of ourselves, for expanded awareness of our form and structure, and for deep insight into our own resilience.