Trauma Informed Fitness

Bringing clinical-level mental health services to life, directly from fitness spaces.
Trauma-Informed Boxing™
Trauma-Informed Strength Training™
Strength training designed for trauma recovery.

We know that trauma is stored in the body, and I specialize in ‘bodywork’ to address this. Physical exercise, such as trauma-informed yoga, has long been presented as an adjunct therapy. I present trauma-informed boxing™ and small-group strength training as clinical groups that serve as primary therapies—just as important as talk therapy, if not more. Inspired by my personal success with such therapies as a gender-based violence survivor, I am focused on the ethical branding and research of somatic interventions, utilizing participatory research techniques that are survivor-designed. As a scholar-practitioner, I am working on ethically branding the field of somatic therapy by collecting quantitative data to answer difficult questions and develop evidence-based practices. Hair cortisol levels (HCL) offer a non-invasive way to measure long-term stress. With almost 15 years of clinical experience, I honed the recording of stress responses from my work in ICU units and Emergency departments.