I’m a physiotherapist that works with both children & adults.

I’m specialized to work with sports injuries, neurological conditions, neurodivergencies like ASD and ADHD, connective tissue disorders, as well as pelvic floor dysfunction in kids.

I uniquely apply my advanced neurofunctional acupuncture training on all of these populations & see incredible results.

During my physiotherapy Masters program, we briefly learned about Cerebral Palsy and how so much dysfunction really occurs secondary due to lack of intervention for movement patterns. I knew then I wanted to change the way individuals with cerebral palsy develop and move.

I graduated in 2017 from Queen's University with my Master's and have since always worked part-time in orthopaedics (sports injuries or typical posture, pain, movement problems) and in neuro-paediatrics since 2018.

I picked Athlete's Care for my work in orthopaedics specifically for their 2 year mentorship program and 1 on 1 care without bs modalities delegated to PTAs (physiotherapy assistants) 

There, I was lucky to receive amazing guidance from Julia Cetnar and Joelle Karam. I followed their footsteps into the McMaster Medical Contemporary Acupuncture course by Dr. Alejandro Elorriaga Claraco. This course is much longer, more in depth, and therefore much more expensive than your typical acupuncture or dry needling course that most rehab professionals take in order to use this modality. So worth it! Not only did I get faster, bigger results in the orthopaedic world for sports injuries & posture/pain, but I also started to extend my acupuncture practise into my neuro-paediatric world after a year of clinical experience with it. 

Using neurofunctional acupuncture to provide faster, bigger results for children with cerebral palsy, saving families money and time for their child to achieve a goal, has been and still is the most special part of what I do.

I went on to complete the McMaster Advanced acupuncture course and moved on to work with another amazing mentor in the orthopaedic neurofunctional acupuncture world, Dan Pringle at Endeavour Rehab.

During my time working in neuro-paediatrics at All About Kids Rehab, I trained in really important methods and modalities like the Therasuit Method & Cage and functional electrical stimulation. I worked with Rim Boulos as we trained in further important methods & modalities like primitive reflex integration and paediatric pelvic floor therapy. We also received mentorship from an amazing team at Neurowerks in the states where families with children with cerebral palsy come to from all over to complete Therasuit Method intensives.

So outside of people with sports injuries at one clinic, and kids with neurological conditions at another, there was actually a third patient population that I was seeing in both settings - hypermobile kids and/or kids diagnosed with autism or ADHD.

In the sports clinic, these kiddos were coming in because their movement patterns & posture predisposed them to sports injuries & pain.

In the kids clinic, these kiddos were coming in to address toe walking, poor coordination that prevented them from starting or doing well enough in sports, poor posture, pain with general activity, AND they were coming in with pelvic floor dysfunction (since I am a paediatric pelvic floor physio).

What was super cool was that I was once again able to take methods & modalities from one field and patient population to another to uncover results on a higher level.

Except this time it was the other way around! Taking tools from the neuro-paediatric world, over into the sports world!

This third patient population of hypermobile / neurodivergent kiddos also needed primitive reflex integration just like the kids with cerebral palsy, benefited from the Therasuit Method & Cage, AND had fast improvements with neurofunctional acupuncture! 

I then started to see that a lot of the adults that came in for sports injuries or posture/pain problems into the sports clinic, also often presented with hypermobility and similar nervous system and movement profiles to neurodivergent kids! 

Primitive reflex integration proved to be super relevant for this adult population with orthopaedic issues.

I received my own diagnoses of neurodivergent conditions late 2021 after relating to a lot of the binge research I did on ADHD and autism, for the kids I worked with.

Let me not forget to mention, that I myself am hypermobile and I dance with a lot of other hypermobile and neurodivergent people.

Excited to merge all of my specialities and to spread awareness of how much this combination of therapy can change for kids & adults, I started my business Neuro Diverge Physio. 

I want kids & adults diagnosed with ADHD and/or autism

To know what their nervous system & connective tissue disorder means for their posture, movement, injuries, & pain,

To know what can be done to prevent, manage, and treat these issues. 

I want kids predisposed to sports injuries, poor posture, coordination, pain, pelvic floor dysfunction

To have access to advanced neurofunctional acupuncture for faster, more effective and longer lasting change.

I want kids & adults with neurological conditions like cerebral palsy

To have access to neurofunctional acupuncture.

I advocate for more rehab professionals

To be aware of screening for primitive reflexes, pelvic floor dysfunction, & hypermobility.

To invest in learning Neurofunctional acupuncture to deliver more efficient neurological & structural changes alongside effective exercise therapy.