Physiotherapy | Massage | Wilmslow, Cheshire
Hands-on treatment tailored to the individual, incorporating a combination of massage, myofascial release, dry needling, manual lymphatic drainage, spinal manipulation and exercise prescription where appropriate.
Get in touchWhat I do
I trained as a physiotherapist and it's the foundation of everything I do.
Hands-on, evidence-based assessment and treatment. The clinical core of the work.
For recovery, performance, and the kind of tension that accumulates over years of working hard.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage is a slow, specific kind of physiotherapy and massage treatment that works with the lymphatic system directly. For the treatment of lymphoedema, post breast cancer surgery or people recovering from cosmetic surgery.
I'm currently embarking on a three-year training in SE, a body-based approach to nervous system regulation developed by Peter Levine. I plan to integrate it carefully and honestly with willing clients.
Women navigating menopause and its physical effects. Professionals whose stress has found its way into their body.
Qualified and practising physiotherapist. The clinical foundation everything else is built on.
Sports massage, myofascial release, Manual Lymphatic Drainage.
Three-year Somatic Experiencing training. Used carefully and honestly with willing clients.
About me
I became a physiotherapist for two reasons. I loved sport - had grown up in it, understood the body through it - and I'd seen what good physio could do firsthand. Someone had treated me and it had worked. I wanted to be that person for someone else.
Then, at 26, I found myself working in Sierra Leone when Ebola happened. In the middle of it, I met the only physiotherapist in the entire country. That encounter did something to my understanding of what this profession actually is. I'd come in thinking physio meant sport and performance. I left understanding it had a scope I'd barely touched - that it sat at the intersection of physical suffering, access, and something deeply human about wanting to move without pain.
I left for a while. I worked in climate education, which was important and exhausting in different ways. But I missed the body. I missed what happens in a room when you have the time to connect with another human being properly.
In that time I had also started exploring different modalities myself - breathwork, meditation, plant medicine. Each of them pointing at the same thing: that the body holds more than we give it credit for.
I came back and kept practising, but something had shifted. When I later moved into sports massage, I found something I hadn't expected - a quieter, longer contact with people. People would arrive needing pain relief through massage and somewhere in that contact, something else would surface. A holding pattern that predated the injury. A tension that made sense once you understood what the person had been carrying.
I became interested in where physio ends and something older begins - the body's way of storing what the mind hasn't finished processing.
That curiosity led me to Somatic Experiencing - a body-based approach to trauma and nervous system regulation developed by Peter Levine. I'm at the beginning of a three-year training. I'm not going to pretend I'm further along than I am.
What I can offer is a physiotherapist who looks at the whole person - past and present. Who works with her hands and stays curious about what the body is trying to say.
I'm based in Wilmslow at a garden studio practice. If something here resonates, I'd love to hear from you.
Get in touch
Currently working Thursdays and Fridays at a garden studio in Wilmslow. Drop me a text for an appointment.