Clinical Yoga
Therapist.

It’s the thing people say when they want to be helpful and have no idea how to help. Maybe you’re fresh out of inpatient, wondering what now. Maybe grief has settled in and shows no signs of leaving. Maybe wrestling with anxiety is a full-time job, chronic pain follows you like a shadow, or you’re praying that one more cup of coffee is the thing standing between you and total burnout.

So when someone cheerfully chirps “have you tried yoga?” and, when the rage passes, you’re left with the question: what is actually useful for me?

I say this as a yoga therapist, but yoga isn’t always going to work.

I started Yoga4Everyonelse because I needed it myself. Having a diagnosis, while useful as we figure out how to care for ourselves, doesn’t solve all of our problems. The choice I kept running into was between clinically grounded practitioners who saw a broad, interrelated view of the world as a diagnosis to be managed, and deeply committed practitioners who couldn’t explain what was happening in clinical terms. I built a zipper at the seam between those two worlds. Not woo-woo, though at times it will seem that way. Not cold empiricism, though at times it will seem like that too.

I work currently inside intensive outpatient programming, alongside psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, and chaplains. Before that, the physical body, chiropractors, surgeons, physical therapists, high activity clients who couldn’t figure out why they kept getting hurt, and people who came in post-surgery and couldn’t recover for reasons nobody had thought to look for yet. The populations are wide. Recovery, neurodivergent adults, older adults, chronic illness, trauma, mens work. The presenting problem is rarely where the problem actually lives.

That insight didn’t come from a training manual. My education started with the body, how it moves, where it holds, what it’s trying to say when it stops working the way it used to. It moved into how the body digests, not just food, but experience, stress, seasons, grief. Then into crisis, addiction, the places where the mind and the nervous system stop cooperating with each other. Somewhere in there I realized that the frameworks clinicians use every day, DBT, CFT, mindfulness-based interventions, were built on the same contemplative foundations I’d been studying. They just got a rebrand and a manual.

I am not a physical therapist. I am not a mental health therapist. My scope of practice is broader than those but not as specialized. That broad view allows me to see patterns that, by necessity, the specialists can’t see.

If you are interested in discovering the broader trend of your patterns and are looking for long term solutions for how you can keep yourself healthy and regulated, check out the methodology page.

You might just try yoga.