Denise

Denise is an Occupational Therapist, pelvic floor therapist and owner of Motivate Therapy. Motivate Therapy is an outpatient rehab clinic that specializes in whole-body health approaches to pelvic health and chronic illness. She is board certified in biofeedback for pelvic floor muscle dysfunction and is also certified as an Integrative yoga therapy, and massage therapist. Her philosophy is “you can’t change anything that you are not aware of” so education is the key to change. She is committed to empowering others through education, natural pain management and self-care treatment strategies. She recently authored “Your Selfcare Matrix,” a book highlighting the top 10 principles that she has found, over her 20+ years, are most important to adapt in order to maintain an independent selfcare program to fit ones ever-changing health and wellness needs.

Her main experience has been in outpatient orthopedic settings with a specialization in holistic approaches to health and healing. She is board certified in biofeedback for pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. She is also certified as an Integrative Yoga Therapy and Massage Therapist.

Denise has been committed to educating the community. She has taught Yoga, Massage Therapy for Couples, osteoporosis education and exercise classes, pathology and body mechanics for massage therapy students, and stress management classes for local company wellness programs . She developed an isometric postural re-education class titled the Dynamic Alignment Technique and presented it at the Illinois Occupational Therapy Convention.

Denise believes in a whole health approach that is team oriented and empowers her patients to seek what works best for them.