Strength Within Physical Therapy & Wellness

Michelle at Strength Within is clearly doing the work she was meant to do in the world. She has developed comprehensive services for underserved populations and works in a way that offers agency, recovery and a safe environment to her clients which is so important in therapeutic care. Whether you are seeking strengthening, support with pelvic floor issues or disordered eating or are looking for a renewed connection with your body, Michelle can hold supportive space for you. I can’t recommend her enough!

Meeting Michelle was one of the best medical experiences of my life. I’ve struggled with an eating disorder most of my life, and I was finally at the point where I was ready to start integrating movement and strength training back into my routines. When I met with her, she handled all of my questions and concerns with grace, kindness and humility. She didn’t act like she knew something if she didn’t and she also went above and beyond in trying to understand. As you can imagine, reaching out and talking to someone about something so vulnerable and trusting them with my body was difficult.. but Michelle made it so easy to talk with her and again.. handled everything with so much kindness, grace, gentility, and competence. I’ve gotten to know her a little more as a person over the past couple of months and I can tell you she is incredibly passionate about what she does. I highly, highly, highly recommend!!!!

Fantastic! An absolute delight to work with. Michelle is extremely compassionate and nonjudgmental. I’m at the point in my eating disorder recovery that I want to exercise, but I wanted guidance. Michelle is extremely understanding and gentle with this issue. I feel her guidance is the perfect next step in my recovery.

Michelle utterly transformed my relationship with my body and movement. I worked with her as part of eating disorder recovery, and soon realized the way I thought about movement and REST was at the core of my issues with fatigue, injuries and more. She helped me finally kick the cycle of crash and burn extreme exercise mentality which led to so many injuries and damage. Now movement and conditioning have a balanced and healthy place in my life. I don't worry I'm not doing enough or I'm not doing it right. She was able to put to bed all the fear-mongering stories I'd been taught and gently, compassionately led me back to listening to myself. And I say this at 49 years old. At 49, she was able to help me learn to trust my body, rest, heal my body and my whole relationship with movement. She will transform your life.

Michelle is highly knowledgeable, friendly, and fun to work with. I came to her with intense heel pain after a fibula fracture had healed and with her PT skills and dry needling she was able to completely address all of my pain. I can walk bare foot now with no issue. I highly recommend her for any and all PT needs.

You will never find a more empathetic, welcoming, compassionate, warm, funny, and caring human than Michelle. She is nonjudgmental, creative, and so passionate about serving her patients. Being her patient has been an absolutely transformative experience. I truly cannot sing her praises loudly enough!!!

I highly recommend Michelle at Strength Within! I sought out physical therapy because of back and neck pain I was experiencing postpartum. I felt relief after the first session and rarely have pain now after only three sessions with Michelle. She gave me easy to understand movements and exercises to work on between sessions. She also made me feel super comfortable and welcome during each session. I looked forward to going each time and enjoyed the conversations. I am so happy I found her!!

Michelle provides compassionate and knowledgeable care for all of my patients. She is amazing