My philosophy

Modern medicine divides the body into systems. Your body has never worked that way.

Your heart talks to your gut, your gut talks to your brain, your brain talks to your skin, your hormones talk to all of it. Every system is in constant conversation with every other system, and what shows up as a symptom in one place is often a message being sent from somewhere else entirely. Modern healthcare is built around treating each of those systems separately, a cardiologist for your heart, a dermatologist for your skin, a gastroenterologist for your gut. That model has its place. But it can miss the bigger picture of what's actually going on with you as a whole person.

I've spent nearly two decades working with the body directly, hands-on, feeling the way tension settles into tissue, the way stress shows up in the shoulders before it ever shows up in a conversation, the way one part of the body quietly compensates for another until it can't anymore. Bodywork teaches you things about a person that no intake form can. And what I've learned, session after session, is that nothing in the body exists in isolation. The tight hip has a story. The chronic headache has a source. The exhaustion has a root.

That's the lens I bring to everything I do, whether we're working on the table or talking through your health goals. My work is about looking at all of it together, your body, your habits, your history, your stress, your sleep, your nutrition, and finding the thread that connects what you're feeling to why you're feeling it. Because almost always, that thread runs through more than one part of you.

My Path

I've been doing this work for nearly two decades, and my path hasn't been a straight line. But every turn has taught me the same thing: nothing in the body, or in life, happens in isolation.

I became a massage therapist in 2007 and started my career at Isis Parenting, Inc., where I spent seven years wearing almost every hat the company had, including center associate, call center manager, program planning manager, massage therapist, and infant massage instructor. Most importantly, I spent those years immersed in the world of new and expecting families, which is where I specialized in prenatal and postpartum massage, a season of life where body, hormones, identity, and emotion are all shifting at once, whether anyone names it that way or not.

When Isis Parenting closed in 2014, I moved to Newton Whole Health, where I had the privilege of working alongside an outstanding chiropractor whose approach to the body deepened my own. For the next ten years, I worked with clients managing complex medical conditions, helping them relieve pain, heal from injury, recover from surgery, and manage chronic conditions in ways that helped them avoid medication or surgery, or at least delay it as long as possible.

In 2023, I moved my practice to Myotech Combined Therapies, and in 2025, I took over ownership and expanded it into something I had always envisioned: a space where highly skilled practitioners, massage therapists, physical therapists, acupuncturists, and others, work side by side, and where the wellness studio brings in classes, workshops, and community. Because the more I've learned, the more I believe that healing doesn't happen in a silo. It happens together.

My Turning Point

I knew how to take care of people. Taking care of myself was another story.

Before 2020, I was running on empty. Long hours, hard days with my kids, no exercise, no real sleep, eating whatever was fastest, and leaning on a nightly glass of wine to take the edge off. I wasn't taking care of myself. I wasn't even thinking about it. There just wasn't room.

Then the pandemic hit, and the world stopped. I know that season was devastating for so many people, and I don't take for granted that my experience was a fortunate one, but for me, it became an unexpected gift. A lifeline, even. For the first time in years, I had space to slow down, breathe, and get reacquainted with myself.

It didn't happen all at once. It happened in small, almost invisible choices: a walk outside instead of another task, an earlier bedtime, cooking something from scratch instead of grabbing something fast, picking up a book, a paintbrush, a puzzle, things that had nothing to do with productivity and everything to do with joy.

And then, without dieting, without forcing it, without really trying, I noticed I felt like myself again. I was sleeping. I wasn't reaching for that glass of wine. The bags under my eyes faded. I'd dropped 40 pounds without ever making that the goal. The goal had just been to listen, and the rest followed.

When life sped back up, I'll be honest, a lot of those habits slipped quietly to the back burner, the way they do for almost everyone. But I never forgot what I'd learned: that the body knows how to heal when you actually listen to it, and that small, sustainable shifts can change everything more than any extreme plan ever could.

I wanted to understand it more deeply, not just feel it, but be able to explain it, teach it, and bring it into my work in a real and meaningful way. That experience sent me back to school, into a graduate program in nutrition and functional medicine. I had to step away before completing it. Family came first, and I have never once regretted that choice. But I carried that learning forward and became a Certified Nutrition Coach and a Certified Sleep, Stress & Recovery Coach. I'm currently adding to that foundation through a Perimenopause Coaching certification, because I keep finding more pieces of the same puzzle.

I tell you all of this not because it's tidy or impressive. It's not a straight line, and I haven't "arrived" at some perfect state of wellness. I tell you because I know, firsthand, what it feels like to lose touch with yourself, and I know what it feels like to find your way back. That's the work I want to help you do.

How I Can Help

I help you ask better questions, so you can finally get better answers.

Right now, you're probably getting wellness advice from a dozen directions: social media trends, conflicting studies, well-meaning friends, your own body's confusing signals. It's exhausting, and most of it isn't built for you specifically.

My job is to be the calm, informed guide in the middle of that noise:

• I help you weed through the trends and the research to find what's actually true and what actually matters
• I help you listen to your body again and understand the story it's been trying to tell you
• I help you dig past the surface symptom to find what's really driving it
• I help you build a plan that's simple, doable, and built around your real life, not a generic protocol

The goal isn't to fix you. There's nothing broken. It's to help you reconnect with what your body already knows and build from there.

How We Might Work Together

A few ways to start.

Every person who walks through the door comes with a different story, a different body, and a different set of needs. Here are a few ways we might work together.

You've read my story. Now let's start writing yours. Whether you start with a session, a class, or just a conversation, there's a place for you here.