Keli joined Healing Hands as a Physical Therapist with 27 years of experience in outpatient physical therapy. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1992 and began her career at St. Joseph Hospital before moving to Portland, Oregon. While living in Portland for 10 years, she began her journey into alternative Physical Therapy with an emphasis on indirect methods such as Strain-Counterstrain, Myofascial Release, Craniosacral, Integrative Manual Therapy and Bowenwork. She returned to Ann Arbor in 2004 and worked at Chelsea Community Hospital for 15 years. She also has a private practice as a Certified Bowen Practitioner and Watsu (water shiatsu) practitioner working to maximize wellness. When she is not seeing clients, she enjoys biking (mountain, gravel, road, and winter fat-bike), swimming, kayaking and hiking.
Keli has been an outpatient therapist working with spine and extremities but she especially enjoys working with:
Elite athletes to maximize their athletic potential and help with pre- and post-competition. She has worked with elite swimmers and divers, rowers, runners, triathletes, cyclists as well as dedicated recreational athletes to ensure that they can continue their sport.
Musicians with repetitive motion and postural dysfunction related to their instruments
Breast Health and women post-cancer and reconstruction (lumpectomies, mastectomies, implants, TRAM flaps)
Aquatic therapy clients – Bad Ragaz, Watsu, therapeutic exercise
Headaches, post-concussion syndrome, whiplash, temporo-mandibular joint treatment
University of Michigan – Flint, Masters in Physical Therapy
University of Michigan – Flint, Bachelor of Science in Health Science
Barral institute – Visceral Mobilization
Bowen Technique, Certified
Craniosacral
Jones Strain-Counterstrain
Integrative Manual Therapy:
Muscle Energy, McConnell Taping, David Butler Neuro-tissue Tension, John Barnes Myofascial Release
Watsu, practitioner
Aquatic therapist
Frank Lowen’s Biovalent Systems