As a young adult, I immersed myself in the world of classical music training, and though I completed my Bachelors in Music Performance, I finished with more burnout than passion to make my way in the music world. Switching gears, I took a job with a consulting firm in San Francisco, but after 3 years of working behind a desk I found myself with debilitating chronic back pain that no doctor could help. It was in my search for something to help me with this pain that I discovered the bodywork modality of Hendrickson Method, and ultimately wound up changing my career direction again in order to study it. After my initial massage certification in Swedish and Deep Tissue work, I pursued advanced training in the Hendrickson Method of Massage and Manual Therapy (HM). Now a teacher of HM and with 25 years in private practice, I have a breadth of experience addressing and relieving musculoskeletal injury and pain. I am also certified in Prenatal Massage and as a Birth Doula with 15 years of experience attending both home and hospital births and teaching childbirth preparation. Though retired from doula work now, it informs my understanding of pain as well as deepens my work with my pregnant clients and young families.
Outside of work you can find me with my wife and two kids absorbed in the joyful work of raising of a family, reading voraciously, walking my dog, and getting into nature as often as possible.