My Story
I was a trained killer but decided to strike a nerve instead to help people feel rejuvenated.
My various training, life experience and knowledge certainly cannot be defined by conventional standards.
When I tell people I am a health practitioner, they often ask me to explain what that is. Instead of detailing my list of different titles, skills and qualifications, I tell them the following: "I’m in the service industry. I’m the doctor you see when no one else can relieve your pain, suffering, or enhance your wellbeing and performance". As a result of what I do, people feel an expression of freedom and peace in their bodies that they didn’t know they were missing.
My path to become a health practitioner is unique. I entered the workforce as a qualified engineer with very different career aspirations when my professional journey began. I had full intentions of becoming a military aviator after my first graduation but a decade later re-entered the workforce as a qualified Chiropractor.
As a young and innocent faced Australian naval officer, I found myself serving aboard grey painted warships. During the period that I served, I evolved as a person, and naturally, the more I was exposed to different cultures and communities, the more my interests changed and developed.
My interest in restoring body alignment and optimising brain function was sparked from curiosity as a child. Ever since I could remember I had a knack for observing people in relation to how they moved and how that was linked to what they were thinking, and feeling.
Fast forward to the decision I made to leave the Royal Australian Navy and enroll in a course to become a qualified Remedial and Sports Massage therapist. In this course I learned how astounding the muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones are to health and performance. But what about when people start to express emotions and movement on the therapy table?
This is where I discovered Myofascial Release that focused on releasing connective tissue restrictions called fascial restrictions. Often fascia is responsible for storing pain and the emotions trapped with that memory in the tissue held in the body. But what controls this in the body?
This is how I discovered neurology in the form of Chiropractic. How the health of the brain and spine influences the body's ability to function. Through specific adjustments we can alter brain connections instantly to alter pain, movement, function and health. But what about the body's energy and emotional shift that changes following adjustments?
This is where Visionary Cranial Sacral Work helped me to appreciate and understand that bones move just like the gills of a fish, moving in and out. Bones also hold stories. Here is where I learned to read bones, detecting the finest of movement with my finger tips to diagnose and treat faulty bone patterns, especially around the head. Restriction here causes issues with the flow of cerebral spinal fluid around the brain and spine. Thus affecting health and vitality. But what about the stomach and links between digestion, mood, health and the way we think?
Neural and Visceral Manipulation expanded on my knowledge to work directly on individual nerves and the organs they attach too. A whole new world opened up when I discovered the powerful results of freeing an organ that is 'stuck' in an awkward position and what phenomenal results that has on the rest of the whole body.
Combining all this knowledge and training together is how I practice today and I will continue to evolve and learn to further help patients in need of natural solutions done by hand.
I intertwine multiple methods and skills into my practice to provide a focused based treatment in neurology using manual therapy and healing arts to address the cause and not just the symptom. I see the parts but I am also able to see the whole; whereas other practitioners only focus on the point of pain.
I am both honoured and privileged to be continually invited into the homes of my patients.
From treating high-powered executives, performers, celebrities, elite athletes and health professionals to newborns, children, young adults, mid-lifers, seniors and centenarians, I deliver a personal solution so that people can find comfort and ease in their health and body. More importantly, find new heights physically, emotionally and mentally.