I help people who are healing from existing trauma improve their relationship with movement and reach their fitness goals. By listening to you and understanding your individual needs, we can work together to turn exercise into a safe, sustainable, and joyful experience.
Over and over again, we ignore important signals our bodies send us by overtraining and enduring pain – often leading to injury, difficulty keeping up a routine, shame cycles, and even trauma responses like dissociation and fear.
With trauma-informed personal training, you can unlock so much more potential by doing so much less. As your guide, I will provide you with the tools to heighten your body awareness, learn to self-regulate, understand what your body actually needs to reach your desired fitness goals safely, and most importantly, reframe exercise to feel GOOD!
We’ll connect in person or over Zoom to talk about your fitness goals, barriers you’d like to overcome, movements you enjoy, and don’t, your relevant medical history to keep our sessions safe, and what you need from me to elevate your experience. If we’re a good fit, we’ll meet again to create your personalized training program.
This is where we’ll evaluate together how your body moves naturally to find opportunities for improvement. I’ll ask you to try a few basic exercises to better understand your body mechanics, bone structure, mobility, and flexibility. With this information, I’ll create your personalized training program. However, we don’t have to stick to it, and we can always adjust on-the-go if it doesn’t feel right.
Rather than offering a one-time 10-week program, I believe in a fluid and personalized process. Our needs evolve over time, especially when it comes to the impact that trauma has on our bodies. That’s why I’ll provide you with resources like personalized weekly or biweekly programs that are flexible and never mandatory, and, with your consent, video recordings and pictures of our sessions for you to reference anytime.