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My Story

I didn't set out to become a massage therapist. In the late 1990s I was building websites and I enjoyed it. There was no Google or iPhone yet. I was good at piecing things together but I realized I was building things I didn't care deeply about. Then I found massage and bodywork. The more I learned, the more I wanted to know and in 2000 I made the pivot. Twenty-five years later, that original instinct to follow what genuinely moves me still shapes how I work with every client who comes through the door.

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Early in my career I was embedded in formal clinical settings alongside MDs, physical therapists, and chiropractors. That experience shaped everything. It taught me to think like a clinician, to look past the presenting complaint and ask what's actually happening in the tissue, the structure, the pattern of movement. The best outcomes happen when practitioners don't work in silos, and that collaborative mindset has stayed with me ever since.

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I was drawn to structural bodywork and myofascial therapy for one straightforward reason: treat the cause, not the symptom. Chasing pain is often the wrong pursuit. When you address the structural patterns, the fascial restrictions, the compensations built up over years of movement, injury, or overuse the symptoms frequently resolve on their own. This approach takes more skill and more listening. It also produces results that last.

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I was recruited to San Rafael by a former colleague, Jessica Ippoliti, a gifted therapist who built something genuinely special here. When Jessica retired, I took over her practice and her office at 1368 Lincoln Avenue. Inheriting a practice built on trust and clinical excellence set a standard I take seriously every day.