Who am I
I have been working as a physiotherapist since 2011 and I have a special interest in all things fascia and the nervous system. I love learning and teaching, and I have developed my own mind-body approach to help people move beyond their mental and physical limitations and live deeper and richer lives. I am passionate about helping people reconnect to themselves and their body’s inner wisdom through manual and movement practices, and let this wisdom guide their healing journey. I believe self-help tools are important to return us to a sense of empowerment and resilience, and this is what helps lift us out of chronic cycles of pain and disability. My personal experience gives me a deeper understanding of how having a highly sensitive nervous system can affect our mental and physical health, and how to learn to live in alignment with our bodies and inner selves. It is my mission to teach patients, healers, trainers and health professionals about these concepts, because I believe that knowledge and understanding helps us help ourselves and each other better, uplifting the entire human community.
What I do
Human touch has always felt magical to me. Whether it is given or received, touch affects so much more than just the physical senses. Its effects are felt on all levels of being human – the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. In its depth, there is great potential for hurting, and so, even greater potential for healing.
Helping people heal through sensitive mindful touch has been a passion for me since I started training as a physiotherapist in 2008. Learning about the body’s physical structure and function has triggered my continuous exploration into how the body’s inner workings are related to the human experience. I have discovered the profound effects that touch and movement therapy can have for all physical conditions and problems, and through my work in this field I have seen people heal in ways that go well beyond their physical health.
Fascia
Since I discovered the wonderful world of fascia in 2015, my work has expanded in all directions. Knowledge and clinical experience in working with fascia has filled in so many gaps and led to a much deeper understanding of how the human body is able to maintain its own balance, and what may block it from healing itself. This has opened up new avenues in my work, allowing me to have much more profound treatment effects on the physical level, and helping people progress on mental and emotional levels as well. Especially when it comes to scar tissue and visceral adhesions – the scar tissue between organs after abdominal surgery – the framework of a fascial approach allows me to have much more profound impacts on my patients’ wellbeing. It has also given me the freedom to work more effectively with highly sensitive patients, bringing change and relief in a part of the population that is often marginalized and for whom conventional medicine is failing. FasciaWork is gentler on bodies (and minds) that have been through a lot, and creates a lot more space for me to work intuitively, following my patients’ own body wisdom. FasciaWork also allows deeper access to the nervous system, which provides opportunities for releasing trauma and unprocessed emotions that, in most cases, form the underlying drivers for many chronic conditions.
Through continuous exploration in the fields of yoga, Qi gong, Tai Chi, somatics and trauma-informed therapy, I am expanding my vision and efforts to help people in more holistic ways. It is very important to me that my patients understand how their health is being affected by their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual states, as well as the environment in which they live, and how all these aspects are related to each other. This approach led me to describe my work as integrative bodywork and rehabilitation. An integrative approach makes use of interventions on all levels of being, weaving these levels together, and creating balance between them to improve the overall health of the individual. The body heals itself when it moves closer to its own optimal balance, and I find that practices like bodywork, breathing re-education and movement therapy are some of the most valuable tools to help people find their balance.
Curious perspectives
Having been born neurodivergent (autistic & ADHD), I see the world in ways that are different than most. Though many would describe these as disorders, the alternative perspectives a neurodivergent brain gives have helped me hugely to progress and grow in my work. I have found they help me see a bigger picture, think more expansively, find more details and connections, and express them in ways that are easy for my patients to understand. My neurodivergent brain has allowed me to see the subtle ways in which existing systems are limited, and drives me toward creating more expansive and inclusive systems that help everyone.
My own personal sensitivity, although challenging for most of my life, has been a great gift in my work. Through my own experience of pain and dysregulation, I have gained a deeper understanding of how these states affect the body, and how they can challenge one’s journey toward healing. My sensitivity has also allowed me to better attune my touch and treatment approaches to what my patients need on a physical and emotional level. There is a rising need for people to be treated in ways that are trauma-informed and sensitive to their inner experiences, and to value their perspectives and intuitions about what treatments work best for them. All this has inspired me to develop new methods that take these things into consideration and help people heal on much deeper levels than I could have accomplished with my medical training alone.
Why FlowForm
In the same way that fascia moves as a dynamic interplay between its structural and its fluid aspects, human health is a dynamic interplay between all things that give us form and all things that help us flow. When I evaluate a patient’s needs, I consider how this balance could have been disturbed, and what they would need to restore it. Both the strengthening and structural aspects of the Form, and the circulating and fluid aspects of the Flow are essential and equal contributors to health, and this metaphor applies to all layers of what health means to us – the physical, the mental, the emotional, the social and the spiritual. We need a balance between the structure and the fluid circulation of the body, between the analytical and the intuitive aspects of our minds, between the strength and the gentleness in our hearts, and between asserting our individual power and feeling interconnected with the world at large. Just like the concept of Yin and Yang, holistic health is created by a passionate and creative interplay between Flow and Form.
Expansion
I love teaching and helping people understand their bodies and experiences. I believe that healing is more profound and effective when a person understands themselves. This website is a space from which I can share my understanding and widen the field of healing I want to bring into this world. With the information provided here, you can learn about your own health and add new tools and perspectives to support your healing journey. If you are a professional interested in helping people heal in any way, I invite you to explore the courses I offer.
Learning and growing has always been exciting to me, and I love that we can share our experiences across the globe with online tools. I continue to learn with and from my patients and teachers, and the material offered here will continue to change and grow as I do. I believe we learn best through sharing with others, and I invite you to share your perspectives and insights with me, so we can learn and grow together.
Where to start
On the Resources page, you will find my blog and some freebies to get you started. If you are interested in working with me directly, have a look at the Work with me page Follow me on social media or subscribe to my newsletter to stay updated on all my offerings as I develop them. Thank you for being here, and welcome!