I have been licensed and practicing as a Massage Therapist since 2004. I received my primary bodywork education at East West College of the Healing Arts here in Portland, Oregon and I am honored to have served as part of the  faculty since 2006.

In 2013 I completed a year long SI program with Anatomy Trains (ATSI, formerly KMI) and am currently a Board Certified Structural Integrator ^CM.

I currently serve as faculty in several programs. At East West College of the Healing Arts, I am teaching a Structural Bodywork Class – this is an excellent introduction to some of the concepts, tools and techniques evolved from the world of SI. I’m also a lead faculty in both the University of New Mexico Structural Integration program located in Taos, NM as well as the Inner Dynamics Academy of Structural Integration (IDA-SI) located here in Portland Oregon.

Over the years, I have practiced massage, bodywork and Structural Integration in a variety of settings. I am deeply honored to work with people from all walks of life. For over two decades, I have worked with people who are fundamentally healthy and simply seeking to maintain their well-being as well as folks recovering from motor vehicle accidents and joint replacements. I’ve worked with athletes in order to improve performance or recover from specific injuries as well as musicians and office folk who have particular movment patterns embedded in the work they do. I see folks who are seeking to return home to their bodies after time spent away or who are seeking more ease and familiarity with bodies in the midst of a life change. In all of these cases, I work holistically and with a trauma-informed lens to help clients achieve improved ease and function in their lives.

I teach continuing education classes and maintain a private practice in N Portland at The Skanner Building where I have been since September 2024. I have focused my career on deepening my understanding of the human body. Working with my own system and with clients; exploring how to become more embodied, more fully “here”. Seeking in myself and with others, avenues toward more ease, more movement and function in our daily, lived experience. I believe that movement is medicine, that everything is connected (humans are complex systems intertwined with the larger complex systems that hold us) and that my role as a somatic practitioner is to facilitate embodiment, movement, function and integration for as many folks as possible.

“We should strive to maximize the inherent potential of a system that is available for change, since that potential determines the range of future options possible.” – from Subtract by Leidy Klotz