Rachel Katz

Rachel Katz is a licensed Physical Therapist with over 28 years experience treating patients with chronic pain and complex pain situations. She has over 1500 hours of post-graduate study in a variety of treatment methods, including a 3-year program certifying her as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner tm. Rachel is 1 of 6 Physical Therapists in the United States to have graduated from this program. This educational framework provides her clients with a unique opportunity to benefit from mind and body therapies. Entrenched muscle spasm and pain are often responsive to treatment within the broader context of stress-associated conditions. She is acknowledged by Robert Scaer, M.D. in his latest book, The Trauma Spectrum.

In 1996 Rachel faced significant pain challenges herself from car accidents, PTSD, and joint pain. In the process of managing and overcoming these major life and health conditions, she gained new insights and answers to the question, “What limits healing?”

If your muscles are over-tense, you may tire easily, have pain, sleep less soundly, have trouble finding a way to relax, and have problems with activities that require staying in one place, such as sitting at a keyboard. Help your body to re-establish fluid, supple, adaptive and elastic qualities in your muscles and joints. Using gentle touch, movement, humor, curiosity, and creativity and in the process of healing, Rachel helps you lower or eliminate your pain.