My journey into this work started in my own body, with pain that never fully made sense.

I've lived with chronic pain for years — pain that moved around, came back after it should have resolved, and never quite matched what any single explanation could account for. That search for answers is what led me to become an osteopath. Through years of hands-on practice, I helped clients release tension, ease pain, and move more freely — and it worked. But I kept noticing the same pattern, in my clients and in myself: real relief, real progress, and still, something remaining. A layer physical treatment alone couldn't fully reach.

When I began studying with the Root Cause Institute, it named something I'd already been sensing — in my own body and in every client I'd worked with. Physical pain is so often carrying an emotional or spiritual story underneath it: stress the body absorbed and never released, experiences it learned to brace against, patterns that show up as pain because they haven't been felt or understood any other way.

That realization changed how I practice. I still believe deeply in hands-on osteopathic care — the body needs that support. But I no longer believe pain is ever just physical. And nowhere have I seen that more clearly than with cancer. Pain that shows up before a diagnosis, pain from treatment itself, pain that lingers long after scans come back clear — it's rarely random, and it's rarely simple. It's a story the body has been trying to tell, often for a long time.

That's the work I do now: combining osteopathy with coaching that goes after that deeper layer, so you're not just managing symptoms — you're finally being heard, in every sense.