Modern Physio

Modern Physio The Modern Physio is a cash-based physical therapy, Pilates, and wellness clinic in Columbus, Ohio.

Most people who come to me have already done a lot of the right things.They’ve seen the specialists. They’ve had the ima...
04/23/2026

Most people who come to me have already done a lot of the right things.

They’ve seen the specialists. They’ve had the imaging. They’ve tried the protocols. They’ve been compliant, patient, and persistent in ways that deserve more than they got back.

What they haven’t had — usually — is someone who had enough time to actually hold the whole picture.

That’s what this practice is built around. Not a faster version of what you’ve already tried.

Something structurally different — where the first session typically runs two hours because your history matters, where nothing is pulled from a standard protocol because your body isn’t standard, and where understanding what’s happening is part of the treatment itself.

Swipe through to see what that actually looks like in practice.

And if you’ve been waiting for a reason to come in — this is it. Free 30-minute in-person consultations are available this month. Book through the link in my bio.

I was never the good patient. No matter how hard I tried.I asked too many questions. I pushed back. I brought my own res...
04/16/2026

I was never the good patient. No matter how hard I tried.

I asked too many questions. I pushed back. I brought my own research. I said "that doesn't match what I'm experiencing" when it didn't — which was often.

And every single time, it cost me something.

More dismissal.
More doubt cast on what I knew to be true about my own body.
More of what I now recognize as medical trauma, accumulated appointment by appointment, year by year.

The cruel irony is that the harder I tried to be believed, the less I was.

It took me a long time to understand that the problem was never my behavior in that room. The problem was a system that mistakes compliance for cooperation — and punishes the patients who know too much.

The day I stopped trying to be the patient they wanted me to be was the day I started actually getting somewhere.

Not because I became difficult. Because I stopped shrinking my experience to fit the time someone else had allocated for it.

I built The Modern Physio for the woman who has never been the good patient either.
Who has been penalized for knowing her own body.
Who has left appointments with more self-doubt than she walked in with.

You were never the problem. You were just in the wrong room.

If you've never had a provider who treated your lived experience as data worth listening to — I'd love to be the first.

Discovery call link in bio. Or DM me ROOTED.

She didn't think she had a pain problem.She was functioning. Working, mothering, moving- even working out.The back pain ...
04/10/2026

She didn't think she had a pain problem.

She was functioning. Working, mothering, moving- even working out.
The back pain was there but it wasn't stopping her — she'd learned to work around it so automatically she'd forgotten that's what she was doing.

What she thought she had was an energy problem.

Exhausted in a way sleep didn't fix. Nothing left by evening. She blamed her age, her schedule, the season of life.

What nobody had told her — what almost nobody tells you — is that managing pain takes a lot of energy.

Every time your body guards, braces, and compensates around something that hurts, your brain and body are working to get the job done AND keep you from hurting more. Quietly. Constantly. In the background of everything else you're carrying.\

Like running an app you forgot was open.

After working together and her back pain finally went away — she didn't focus on the pain as much as how much energy she had regained.

She said she felt like herself again.

It was never just the pain.

It was everything the pain had been quietly stealing.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Link in bio — complimentary 30-minute in-person consultation, available all of April.

Something I've been testing this month —Every time I've brought someone into the studio in person before we've officiall...
04/09/2026

Something I've been testing this month —
Every time I've brought someone into the studio in person before we've officially started working together, something shifts.

The conversation goes deeper.
They understand the work differently.
They leave with something real, not just information.

So April is my experiment.

Instead of my usual 15-minute virtual call, I'm offering a complimentary 30-minute in-person consultation — in my studio, face to face — for anyone who's been curious about working together.

Come see the space. Tell me what's going on. Let's figure out together whether we're a fit.

I have a feeling this is how I want to do this going forward. But first — let's see how it feels.

New clients only. Available all of April. Link in bio to book.

The goal of my work has never been for you to need me forever.It's to give you a toolbox — built specifically for your b...
04/08/2026

The goal of my work has never been for you to need me forever.

It's to give you a toolbox — built specifically for your body, your patterns, your history — and teach you how to use it so well that you don't have to keep starting over.

That's what lasting results actually look like.

Not dependency. Ownership & Autonomy

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I want to tell you what a session with me is actually like — because I think it's different than what you're expecting.Y...
04/07/2026

I want to tell you what a session with me is actually like — because I think it's different than what you're expecting.

You're not going to get a list of exercises and be sent home.

And you're certainly not going to be asked about only the 1 body part that hurts.
Or sent across the room to do an exercise I show you one time while I hide behind my computer.

You're going to be asked questions that nobody has asked you before. About your life. About your history. About other symptoms you're managing that you don't think are at all related. About what has worked and what hasn't.

And then we're going to start connecting dots.

The pain and the fatigue.
The gut stuff and the tension.
Your specific set of stressors and how you carry that stress
The way your body has adapted to keep you moving even when it's struggling.

By the end of the session, you're going to feel heard.
You're going feel validated.
You're going to understand your body in a way you didn't when you walked in.

And you're going to have a renewed sense of hope and control over your health.

That's what I do.

"I've never had someone connect all of those things before."Not just the pain. The fatigue behind it. The patterns under...
04/06/2026

"I've never had someone connect all of those things before."

Not just the pain. The fatigue behind it. The patterns underneath it. The nervous system driving it. The history that shaped it.

This is what care looks like when nothing is treated in isolation.

If you've been managing symptoms in silos and wondering why nothing is sticking — this is a different kind of conversation.

Free 30-minute in-person consultation available all of April. Link in bio.

She had tried everything.Physical therapy. Massage. Breathwork. Energy healing. Functional medicine. Conventional medici...
04/03/2026

She had tried everything.

Physical therapy. Massage. Breathwork. Energy healing. Functional medicine. Conventional medicine.

Each one helped a little — but none of them talked to each other, and none of them talked to her the way she needed.

She came to me carrying years of chronic pain, a folder full of test results from different providers, and a question she was almost afraid to ask: is there actually someone out there who can see all of this at once?

In her first session we didn’t just talk about where it hurt. We talked about her nervous system. Her gut. Her breath. The places in her body where tension had been living so long it had started to feel normal.

We looked at what she’d already tried and talked through why the pieces hadn’t been connecting — and what it might take to bridge them.

We talked science. We talked somatics. We talked energy.

She didn’t have to choose which version of herself to bring into the room.

She left with a plan that finally made sense of everything she’d already been reaching for.

She told me she hadn’t felt hope like that in a long time.

She’s just getting started. But something already shifted — and she felt it.

If you’ve tried everything and still feel like nobody has seen the whole picture, I have 30 minutes to see if I may be able to help.

👉 Book your complimentary in-person consultation this April — link in bio.

I was talking about nervous system safety long before it was a wellness hashtag — but not in the way you might think.It ...
04/01/2026

I was talking about nervous system safety long before it was a wellness hashtag — but not in the way you might think.

It started with the science.

Early in my career, I recognized the importance of neuromuscular inhibition — what I've always called the "oh s**t, don't do that" reflex.

The way the nervous system will inhibit or alter muscle activation patterns, limit range of motion, and brace against movement the moment it perceives threat.

It's not weakness or something that's damaged or broken.

It's your system doing exactly what it's wired to do- create a feeling of safety if it can't access it on its own.

Understanding that reflex changed everything about how I practice. If your body doesn't feel safe enough to move — if it's anticipating pain, guarding against it, organizing itself around fear — no amount of manual therapy or exercise is going to hold.

Fear-avoidance behaviors are just bigger versions of this. When we become scared to move after injuring our back by simply picking up a towel from the floor, it's not much different than becoming scared to go out alone at night after we've been attacked the last time we went out by ourselves.

Unfortunately, these very real ways that our bodies try to protect and compensate can also get in the way of healing if we don't remind our brains and our bodies that we are safe. It's safe to fire that muscle. It's safe to bend over. Doing these things won't cause more pain or injury.

That's the foundation The Modern Physio was built on.

The more abstract understanding — what it means to feel safe in your body on a deeper level, beyond the neuromuscular — that's a bit of a newer layer of this work for me.

One I'm still developing, both professionally and personally.

I'm not someone who has it all figured out and is handing it down from a polished place.

I'm someone who has spent decades studying the body, who has her own complicated relationship with hers, and who keeps following the science and the lived experience wherever they lead.

That's what you get when you work with me.

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1395 Grandview Avenue, Suite 2
Columbus, OH
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