I have been licensed and practicing as a Massage Therapist since 2004 (OBMT# 11203). I received my primary bodywork education at East West College of the Healing Arts here in Portland, Oregon where I am honored to have served as part of the  faculty since 2006.

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

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

I teach continuing education classes for LMTs and the bodywork professionals and maintain a private practice in N. Portland at The Skanner Building where I have been since September 2024.

I’ve practiced massage, bodywork, and Structural Integration in a wide range of settings, and I continue to feel deeply honored to work with people from all walks of life.

For over two decades, I’ve supported a wide variety of clients. From those who are fundamentally healthy and simply want to maintain their well-being or who are working toward more strength or embodiment, to people whose systems have been disrupted by childbirth, accidents, injuries or medical interventions. I work with athletes looking to improve performance or rehabilitate, and with musicians, bodyworkers and office professionals whose work involves repetitive movement patterns over time.

I especially love supporting people who are returning home to their bodies. Injuries, trauma, long periods of caring for others, and major life transitions can leave us feeling disconnected from our lived experience. Reconnecting (coming “home”) can be profoundly restorative and the work I do with folks can help support this return.

In all of this work, I practice through a holistic, trauma-informed lens; helping clients connect more fully with their bodies and explore greater ease in their lives.

I’ve evolved my career around the study of anatomy, movement, and somatic experience. Seeking to understand what helps people feel more at home in their bodies. 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