About Me

I’m Millie. I integrate Physiotherapy, Somatic Coaching, and Dance to heal the root cause of pain, injury, and illness, so you can love your body completely, move intuitively, and see who you truly are.

I have a First-Class degree in Physiotherapy, a Sports Massage Diploma, 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, and qualifications in spinal mobilisation and kinesiology taping.

Having worked in the NHS, musculoskeletal private practice, with mothers in prenatal movement classes, and with elite rugby professionals, I have a breadth of experience optimising bodies and supporting them back to health.

Beyond this training is my own lived experience: healing my scoliotic back pain, gut health, fertility challenges, and disordered eating patterns.

My Story: Healing Pain & Eating Disorders

For 10 years I suffered with back pain from my scoliosis. A diagnosis that defined who I was and what I believed my body could do.

From the age of 13-23 growing up in a UK drinking culture - I abused alcohol and substances... but ‘social drinking’ was the norm. Casually and regularly I would get balck out drunk, loosing myself and my ability to listen to my body leading to sexual assault at 14-16 years old.

This lack of control led to me seeking control through what I ate. I was anorexic, depressed and had suicidal thoughts. I lost my period for a year and a half. I hated my body and my scoliotic spine.

At 23 my scoliosis had progressed to a 50 degree curve. The degree specialist recommended spinal fusion. I was told this was my only option to stop the curve worsening and ‘hopefully’ help with my pain. 

At the time I was working as a Physiotherapist in the NHS, rugby team and in a musculoskeletal private practice, healing others' pain but unable to find a solution for my own. 

One thing I was always stubborn about was that I refused to be fused and let go of my biggest joy - playing in my body - tumbling from aerial silks and dancing round the pole. So I quit my job and spent the next 3 years finding out how to holistically heal my pain.

Through 2 years of extensive travel and study in Thailand and India I explored a range of holistic health modalities, including cupping therapy, acupuncture, Ayurveda, Qi Gong, yoga, dance, bodywork, intuitive movement practices and most profoundly Somatic Therapy.

I also spent 3 months in the Indian mountains studying ayurveda and doing a panchakarma detox. These therapeutic practices deepened my understanding of the interconnected nature of our emotional and physical health i.e. mind and body. However, experimenting with any and every alternative healing modality I could get my hands on began to take its toll. I was trying to ‘do everything right, heal faster and eat perfectly’.

I learnt a lot, but also found myself slipping into a ‘spiritual bubble’ and ‘never ending healing’. Yes I was sober pretty much T-total Yogi but still seeking intensity in ‘spiritual highs’.

1 year in of ‘healing’ and I ended up back to my 14 year old self, not listening to what my body needed and instead doing what I thought was ‘right’. I became very underweight and lost my period again for 9 months, and had monthly flare ups of Candida & IBS (conditions I suffered from for years before traveling). 

My pain dissipated and my gut healed when I discovered Somatic Therapy (which I recieved weekly alongside bodywork for 1.5 years). I stopped listening to what I ‘should’ do, and instead moved from how my body wanted to.

• I stopped following disciplined exercises.

• Stopped eating what I ‘thought’ was good for me.

By listening to and moving exactly how my body needed, I built self trust and a strong mobile posture. I began to trust what I was feeling completely, set clearer boundaries and I used my voice and expressed what I needed emotionally. This gave my nervous system safety so my body no longer needed to protect me from fale threat, therefore tension and pain began to disapate.

Physically I went back to the gym, did more acro yoga, calistenics,walking and dancing & self massage but this time not with intensity instead with gentleness,presence and as my body intuitively needed.

This is the result of combining physiotherapy, somatics, self expression and rooting into a supportive community. My body is no longer in a pattern of tension trying to keep me ‘safe’. Now I can hear my inner voice (my intuition) clearly and respond accordingly. This is the kind of ‘self care’ I live by. 

I will never have spinal surgery despite ‘specialist’s’ opinions. I get so much joy & pleasure living in my body. I bleieve I am we all can be the specialists of our own body.

So this is why my mission is to help others:

• Live pain free

• Move & eat intuitively

• Trust themselves completely

• Express their needs

• Express themsleves authentically and creatively

• Eperience more whole & fullfiled

• See what they are truly capable of