Wife.  Mother.  Sister. Friend. Survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Everyday woman.

Hi. I’m April and I specialize in trauma-informed physical, emotional and mental health support for women rebuilding trust in their bodies.


I specialize in working with women who have difficulty accessing movement in their bodies for a variety of reasons including sexual assault or sexual trauma and body and boundary rupture/violation.

My experience and specialization is in working at the intersection of sexual trauma recovery and trauma informed sensual feminine embodiment. Through structured, body-based work, I help women rebuild connection to their bodies and over time, rebuild safety and trust in their bodies so they can live, move, and relate to the world around them and every relationship they are a part of from a place of grounded self-connection.

When I stepped into somatics two decades ago, I came to realize that almost all of the education and trainings — around anatomy, fitness, dance, breathwork, how trauma lives in the body, methods of resolution, and even nervous system work — was built on research centered on the male body. While the work was a powerful and impactful baseline there was so much about my own lived experience and also what I was actually seeing in my work with women that didn’t fit the narrative. There was something missing. So I began to explore research and education from female subject matter experts - and found something quite different.


With over 20 years of hands-on experience working directly with women’s bodies and nervous systems, I bring an experiential understanding of the female nervous system and how trauma lives, responds over time, and heals/resolves in the female body. My offerings weave together years of training and practice in S Factor movement, nervous system regulation, movement therapy, embodied regulation strategies, and trauma-informed mindfulness into a cohesive, personalized process that is unique for every woman.


Because there isn’t a mold. There is no “one-size fits all.” The female body and nervous system is a brilliant, primal being that is intuitive and resilient and very often doesn’t “fit the mold” of what we are trained on.


I believe that as a trauma informed facilitator, educator and Teacher, I have a responsibility to recognize trauma and it’s widespread impact, to actively resist re-traumatization in my work and to offer practical real world tools, practices and resources that are that are supportive to post traumatic growth and resilience.

If you’re into researching who you are working with - here’s the short version of my experience and education:

S Factor Licensed Protege Teacher, Lead Teacher Trainer - est. 2009
Certified Trauma Recovery Coach - est. 2020
Movement Therapy Practitioner (certificate pending)
Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Practitioner - Adv.
Mental Health First Aid certified
Movement for Trauma certified
Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga - Certificate of Completion
THRIVE Trauma Informed Yoga - Certificate of Completion
Polyvagal Institute - Applied PVT in Yoga - Certificate of Completion
Foundations of The Trauma Informed Approach - Certificate of Completion
Building Safety Anchors
Somatopia - Somatic Approaches to Healing Trauma - Certificate
Certificate in Somatic Embodiment & Regulation Strategies, Level 3
Jungian Somatics Foundations
Somatics of Emotion

AFAA Certified Group Fitness Instructor, focus on Women’s Fitness, Peri and Post Natal Fitness
XPole XPert Certified, XPole Flexibility Flow
Flying through Pregnancy - Antenatal & postnatal training for pole & aerial fitness
Functional Assisted Stretch Therapy certified & manual stretch therapy trained
DEFINE certified - Ball Rolling and Aerial Hammock

Experienced. Certified. Licensed. Insured.

And if you’re still reading, and curious - here’s my story behind all of the stuff above:

I don't dance to be fit, or to be strong, or to be sexy, or to get my "summer body." I don't have a style, a technique, or a category. I dance because it simultaneously soothes and ignites my soul, and connects me to my feminine body in a way that nothing else can. It's really that simple. That beautiful. That uncomplicated.

I didn’t begin with a background in dance or fitness. In fact, I was a band kid — flute, piccolo, and French horn. I took my first S Factor class in 2006 thinking I was simply learning how to pole dance and “be sexy.” What I found instead was something profoundly transformative.

In a dimly lit room, guided into my body through music and breath, I experienced an emotional awakening I never expected. What began as a workout became a deeply personal journey back to myself. Week by week, I developed a loving, grounded relationship with my body for the first time in my life. I wasn’t just someone’s wife or mother — I was a woman rediscovering her own voice, power, sensuality, and truth.

I completed Teacher Training and began teaching in 2009. In 2012, feeling called into deeper service, I left a 16-year corporate career to devote myself fully to feminine movement. Since then, I have continued to study women’s health, somatics, flexibility, pole artistry, restorative practices, and embodied expression.

With over two decades of immersive learning and teaching, my work honors the feminine body through all stages of a woman’s life. I am both devoted guide and perpetual student — continually exploring, growing, and moving alongside the women I serve.

Every woman has a story that matters. How a woman feels about herself and the relationship she has with her own body matters. How a woman feels when she is a part of a loving community of sisterhood that values and cherishes her AS SHE IS matters. It has a powerful ripple effect though not only her own life, but into the lives of everyone she touches, everything she does. 

As a woman shifts, so does the world around her. 

Your feminine movement is not something that you learn, or form, or create, or master.  It's something you discover, and then cultivate.  It's not a singular class - it's a journey.

I truly believe that every single woman who walks this Earth has an innate, raw and unapologetic beauty that belongs only to her, that's just yearning to be discovered, and breathed life into.  It's not a shape, a size, a look, or a skillset.  It's in the brilliance of her eyes, the curve of her hips, the wisdom and singular beauty of her unique body.  It is like no other -  it is stunning, fierce, brave, vulnerable, it is complex and ever-changing.  It's her soul, her truth.  If you learn to listen to your body... she'll whisper just loud enough for you to hear it.