You have a few options! My main office is a lovely, private treatment room with private gym access at Acorn and Oak, located at 4410 Hollister Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. I treat from here on Tuesdays and Thursdays only at this time.

I also provide mobile care when I'm not in the office, offering the same high quality treatment in the comfort of your own home.

Lastly, telehealth is absolutely an option. We can discuss whether or not this is right for you on a complimentary consultation call.

• Initial evaluation in office - 90 minutes - $250

• Follow up in office - 60 minutes - $225

• Initial evaluation in home - 90 minutes - $350

• Follow up in home - 60 minutes - $325

• Yoga follows the above fees

• Ergonomics - 60 minutes - $250

I am not contracted with any insurance company and am fully unenrolled with Medicare. That said, I do offer superbills for non-Medicare patients.

With superbills, the patient pays the provider directly and then the patient requests reimbursement from their insurance company. The provider includes some added details on the receipt that your insurance company will ask for when you go to submit your claim. I always suggest you call your insurance company first to make sure they accept superbills!

The short story is that I can offer you much higher quality of care and give you more of my time when we work outside of the insurance world.

Now here is the long story. No therapist you know got into this field for the money. As one of my mentors put it, physical therapists have the peace corps gene. Doctoral programs have become more and more expensive, often adding up to the price tag of a medical degree. Meanwhile, the amount we get reimbursed from insurance companies has continued to decrease. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) tends to set the trend for this reimbursement and they are constantly threatening additional cuts. Furthermore, reimbursements are dictated by geographical lines and in Santa Barbara we are in the same reimbursement bracket as Bakersfield, CA. With the cost of living in our area, physical therapists can’t always afford to make life here work, leading to a shortage which translates to long waits for your initial visit and often decreased frequency of visits. On top of that, this low reimbursement forces clinics to make financial decisions in order to keep their doors open to serve our community that may lead to lower quality of care (ie shorter visits, use of accessory staff). To an extent, insurance companies also dictate the care I deliver, cutting patients off from therapy even when I can make an evidence-based argument for continued care, requiring us to focus on one body region even if the data says it’s best to treat holistically, not allowing certain treatments to be provided in the same visit without any evidence to explain why. Working in a clinic to me was like working in a microcosm of everything that is wrong with our medical system. I want to treat my clients in a way that will get them to their goals as efficiently as possible without worrying about the outdated structure of the insurance system. It saddens me greatly that I felt compelled to break free from the system in order to accomplish this, but I would much rather have the autonomy needed to be the best I can be at what I do.

Generally you can anticipate an initial visit within 24-28 hours of reaching out, depending on whether we will see each other in office or in your home.

If your location of treatment is more than 15 miles from my office, I charge $1 per mile each way.

In California, we have something called direct access. This means you can see a therapist without a referral for 12 visits or 45 days, whatever comes first. Unfortunately, even cash-pay practices are held to this law. If you have a referral, great. If not, I do recommend starting the process as soon as possible in case we need one.

OCS stands for Orthopedic Clinical Specialist. If someone has OCS behind their name, it means they have passed a national board exam focused on orthopedic physical therapy. Often times, therapists undergo residency training in order to become eligible to sit for the exam, though they can also become eligible by working for a few thousand hours and studying independently. A residency is generally a one year post-doctoral program geared toward cultivating clinical excellence and preparing residents to pass the OCS exam.

FAAOMPT stands for Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy. Similarly to a residency, a fellowship is a post-doctoral program. However, fellowship training lasts between 2 and 5 years generally and therapists either need to have their OCS in order to apply or need to acquire their OCS during their fellowship training depending on the program. These programs are designed to help therapists further develop clinical excellence in their subspeciality, but also to help prepare them to contribute to research and education. In my personal experience, the OCS primed me to be able to recite the evidence that helps us make clinical decisions, but fellowship helped me learn how to integrate this evidence best for the individual in front of me. It has trained me to question every choice I make in patient care, from the words I use to the treatments I select, ensuring that good reasoning is behind every decision.

You can expect to receive a link to intake forms shortly after your initial visit is scheduled. These forms need to be filled out completely prior to the start of our initial visit. Aside from paperwork, all you need to do is make sure you are wearing clothing that you can move freely in.

If I have the capacity to add occasional small group classes, I am happy to do so. That being said, it is very important for me to stay true to what makes me enthusiastic in my work. I find great joy in helping individuals reach their specific goals and this is challenging to do in a group setting. Lessons involving more than one client at a time will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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