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We Begin With What Brings you Here

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We look closely at what brought you here while staying curious about the larger context of your experience. I observe, listen, ask questions, and look for patterns, moving between the particular thing asking for attention and the whole person without losing sight of either.

Depending on what brings you in and what we discover together, our work may include physical therapy assessment and treatment, hands-on work, Manual Lymph Drainage, movement, Pilates, breath, awareness, education, conversation, or other approaches drawn from my clinical experience and training.

Sometimes our work is very specifically clinical. Sometimes movement is the doorway. Sometimes hands-on work is what is needed. Sometimes noticing something that has gone unnoticed changes how we understand what is happening.

There is no single technique or predetermined path that I use with everyone.

The work responds to the person rather than requiring the person to fit the method.

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In Person and Virtual

I offer both in-person and virtual individual sessions.

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In-person sessions allow us to work together through clinical assessment, hands-on care, Manual Lymph Drainage, movement, Pilates, breath, awareness, and other approaches that may be useful for what brings you in.

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Virtual sessions create a different kind of space for individual work. Without hands-on care, we can still explore movement, breath, awareness, patterns, questions, and what you are noticing in your own experience. Virtual work can also offer a way to continue our work when you are traveling, live outside Maui, or when meeting in person is not practical.

The form of the session may be different, but the starting place remains the same: we begin with you, what is happening now, and what is asking for attention.

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Clinical and Hands-On Care

I am a Hawaii-licensed physical therapist with more than 30 years of clinical experience. Physical therapy is one of the professional capacities I bring to my work, and when clinical evaluation and treatment are appropriate, I bring that training fully to our time together.

Hands-on work has also been part of my practice for decades. Some people come to me specifically for Manual Lymph Drainage, myofascial work, craniosacral work, or other forms of hands-on care. For others, hands-on work becomes one part of a broader process.

Movement and Pilates may also be part of our work, whether for rehabilitation, strength, mobility, coordination, exploration, or simply developing a different relationship with movement.

These are different ways we can work together. None of them has to define the whole of the work.

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Your Experience Matters

I bring my clinical knowledge, experience, observation, and curiosity.

You bring something I can never have access to from the outside: your lived experience of being you.

You are the only one inside your body.

What you notice matters.

We can bring what I know and what you experience into relationship with one another, beginning not only with What do we need to fix? but with:

What is happening?

What is asking for attention?

And from where you are, we discover what becomes possible.

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Is Individual Work Right for You?

You do not need to know which technique, modality, or kind of session you need before contacting me.

You may already have a very specific reason for reaching out. You may have been referred to me. Or you may simply know that something is asking for attention.

Tell me a little about what brings you here.

We can begin with where you are and decide together what kind of work, if any, makes sense from there.

Reach out to me for a consultation.

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