About

Tina has been a licensed physical therapist for over 15 years. She graduated with a Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree from Central Michigan University in 2008 and has since continued down the path of learning to identify and help treat the root cause of conditions. Tina is a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner who is passionate about assessing dysfunction long before it manifests as a medical condition. She enjoys spending time discussing ways to help her patients prevent diseases.

She has experience in all areas and settings of PT, but her passion for healing using ORIGINAL and natural therapies, modalities and remedies has been her driving force over the years. She and her family use these ways of healing as their primary way of health on a daily basis.

‘I had considered myself *mostly* healthy all of my life. The occasional stomach virus, cold or bloated abdomen was normal, right? Being tired between 1-2 pm every day was standard for the average hard working American, correct?

A nonchalant yearly visit to my primary physician turned into testing my thyroid levels, which revealed a thyroid reading that was off the charts. The standard ‘western medicine’ solution was to immediately put me on a thyroid medicine to lower these thyroid levels to ‘normal’. I knew I would rather be placed on one of the more “natural” medicines for this and my physician obliged. Fast forward 6 months later and nearly half of the hair on my head fell out within 2 weeks. I knew something wasn’t right, this wasn’t the way for me to restore my thyroid. My thirst for finding another, truly more natural, way to health needed to be quenched.

On the journey to healing my thyroid, my husband and I were blessed to have become pregnant with our first child. I had a healthy pregnancy, ate ‘well’ (as far as I knew at the time) and was grateful to have had an amazing home birth. Our beautiful daughter was born nearly 3 weeks early, but healthy. 5 month old baby girl had begun to have sickness after sickness, week after week. At the peak of these illnesses, I knew there HAD to be another way. A way to not only stop the perpetual cycle of illness but to allow baby’s body to heal so when she did become exposed again throughout her life, her symptoms would be mild to none, and certainly not debilitating. I dove head first into educating myself and opening my intuition.

As hard as it was to admit, during the time I was finding a way to help baby girl I came head to head with the ugly realization that I was fighting postpartum depression within myself. It was time for some true healing. Through multiple healing practices, whole food nutrition, building and maintaining a high electrical frequency and PRAYER, I was able to follow through my journey to heal myself and baby girl. That baby girl is now a thriving, amazing and HEALTHY little girl. Those thyroid levels? Exactly where they should be!

Through God’s guidance and light our family was blessed 2 years later with another baby girl and another beautiful home birth. Using these natural healing therapies, I was able to avoid postpartum depression, had adequate amounts of energy, was able to restore my physical strength within 10 days of giving birth and have been able to keep baby girl #2 healthy and happy since!

My passion and excitement for natural healing allows me to help not only my family but also others who want to change their lives and restore optimum health.’