Pediatric Physical Therapy

A 60-minute, in-depth assessment designed around your child’s unique needs During our first visit, I’ll take a close look at your child’s posture, muscle tension, midline control, posture symmetry, muscle strength, flexibility, endurance and motor skills. This helps us understand where they are developmentally and where they might need support. From there, we’ll create a personalized plan wi... Read More

A 60-minute, in-depth assessment designed around your child’s unique needs

During our first visit, I’ll take a close look at your child’s posture, muscle tension, midline control, posture symmetry, muscle strength, flexibility, endurance and motor skills. This helps us understand where they are developmentally and where they might need support. From there, we’ll create a personalized plan with clear, achievable goals.

What’s included:
Full movement + posture assessment
Feeding abilities + challenges
Strength & flexibility testing
Gross motor skills evaluation
Personalized treatment plan
At-home strategies & exercises
Goal-setting for progress


Pelvic Health Physical Therapy

60-minute individualized evaluation focused on your specific concerns and goals. Your pelvic health evaluation is a comprehensive, one-on-one 60-minute session designed to understand you as a whole person—not just a set of symptoms. We begin with a thorough subjective assessment, where we discuss your health history, current concerns, lifestyle, goals, and how your symptoms are impacting dai... Read More

60-minute individualized evaluation focused on your specific concerns and goals.

Your pelvic health evaluation is a comprehensive, one-on-one 60-minute session designed to understand you as a whole person—not just a set of symptoms. We begin with a thorough subjective assessment, where we discuss your health history, current concerns, lifestyle, goals, and how your symptoms are impacting daily life.

The objective assessment looks at how your body is moving, functioning, and coordinating as a system. This includes evaluation of spinal, hip, and pelvic mobility; muscle flexibility; ribcage position; breathing patterns; and management of intra-abdominal pressure. We also assess pelvic floor coordination, strength, endurance, and its ability to appropriately respond to physical and emotional “stress” (such as exercise, coughing, lifting, pregnancy, or postpartum demands).

By the end of your session, you’ll have a clear understanding of what’s contributing to your symptoms, how your body is working (or compensating), and a personalized plan of care to help you feel stronger, more confident, and more supported in your body


Birth Doula

Experience continuous, personalized support designed to help you feel informed, confident and empowered from pregnancy through postpartum. With doula care, you’ll have a trusted partner by your side to answer questions, provide guidance, and advocate for your wishes so you can focus on your birth experience without stress or uncertainty. I work directly through QC Doula Connect, which helps us ... Read More

Experience continuous, personalized support designed to help you feel informed, confident and empowered from pregnancy through postpartum. With doula care, you’ll have a trusted partner by your side to answer questions, provide guidance, and advocate for your wishes so you can focus on your birth experience without stress or uncertainty. I work directly through QC Doula Connect, which helps us give more support to more families!

From early pregnancy to the first weeks after your baby arrives, your birth doula comprehensive package offers education, hands-on support and emotional encouragement every step of the way. Together, we’ll create a birth plan that reflects your values and goals, explore comfort techniques for labor and provide reassurance during postpartum recovery.

Owner of Empowered by Birth PLLC, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Board Certified in Pediatrics with specialty training in Prenatal and Postpartum Pelvic Floor therapy & Birth Doula

Tess has 9 years of pediatric experience as a physical therapist. After becoming a mom herself, she added birth doula and pelvic floor therapy into her career repertoire and started her business, Empowered by Birth in 2022.

Her passion is to empower women through their pregnancy, birth experience and throughout their motherhood journey. She specializes in manual therapy in addition to exercise and movement, individualizing care for each mom and baby she works with.

Outside of work, she spends her time reading RomCom’s or with her own three littles and husband, preferably outside in the sunshine and fresh air.

Owner of Empowered by Birth PLLC, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Board Certified in Pediatrics with ... Read More

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