My specialties in advocacy involve working at the margins where answers are not yet clear—where peer-reviewed solutions haven’t yet come along, yet life needs to be protected, supported, and resourced with all tools at hand.

My main goal is to get clients to practitioners and to information that are philosophically mature, technically grounded, and ambitious of advancing the margins of medicine. They respect the inclusive, big-picture scope essential to treating complex chronic illness, and practitioners bring along their innate, practiced, protected sense of humanity which acknowledges complexity even when doing so invites the very hard work of problem-solving.

I’m also here to help bridge certain gaps inherent in this area of care. Effective navigation often requires a great deal of patient expertise. I help with:
—Navigation in the early stages of discovering what might be going on
—Working with or without diagnoses to find practitioners with proven skills and willingness to explore all likely aids
—Facilitating medically supervised n-of-one research exploring ideas of clinical promise for their personal potential

All in all, I help clients to explore what their bodies might be telling them and share the bird's eye, ecological view of all the clustered conditions that arrive with hEDS, POTS, and hypermobility. Observing the body and beginning to understand how each each condition connects to the rest, better data and better questions emerge. Optimized care often means simplified care—lower-effort, higher-impact ideas that synergistically restore function and allow deeper healing the room, the energy, and the clarity to occur.

Knowledge Areas:
—MCAS (mast cell activation syndrome) via Consensus-2
—hEDS (hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)
—dysautonomia/POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome)
—Neurovascular compression syndromes (nutcracker syndrome, MALS/median arcuate ligament syndrome, thoracic outlet syndrome, pelvic venous congestion syndrome, etc.)
—Gastroparesis
—Fundal accommodation insufficiency
—Vagal insufficiency
—Brain fog
—Fatigue
—Post-exertional malaise
—Myalgic encephomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
—Mold hypertoxicity
—Small-fiber neuropathy
—Craniocervical instability/upper cervical instability
—Chiari malformation
—Tethered cord
—cerebrospinal fluid/dural leaks
—Finding manual care and medical providers who are more likely than average to be able to appropriately handle complex cases
—Low histamine diet
—Many other therapeutic diets
—Functional, holistic, and alternative care options
—Local resources for Santa Fe and New Mexico residents
—Sourcing high-quality information on all of the above & packaging it for any audience you need it for
—basic connections with tick-borne illnesses and where to find capable resources

Populations:
—Present/past athletes
—PTSD/CPTSD
—Neurodiverse
—Parents of young children
—Youth
—Financially underresourced
—Rural
—Change of faith
—Academic

I also offer bodywork for local clients:
—Palpation & Observation Session: We’ll gently work with your body to observe and adjust subtle soft-tissue mechanics, watch their responses, guess at possible system interactions, collect questions that may be useful to ask your care providers, and record any findings that may support your navigation.
—Manual Therapy: Weaving together what suits your body of numerous bodywork modalities, we’ll work to ease chronic pain and other symptoms of hypermobility and immune dysfunction. Techniques often include trigger point work, myofascial release, neurovascular decompression, positional and position of ease techniques, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, circulatory work, postural adjustments, cupping, and craniosacral basics.