Meet Dr. Valerie Brown
I bring a unique integration of clinical expertise and lived, embodied understanding. With nearly two decades of experience across healthcare settings including: pelvic health, neurology, orthopedics, and chronic pain, I have worked with a wide range of bodies and presentations. At the same time, I have walked my own path of disconnection and reconnection, navigating both the scientific and the deeply intuitive aspects of healing. This allows me to meet you not just as a clinician, but as someone who understands the complexity of your experience and can translate it into something practical, precise, and meaningful for your body.
What sets my work apart is my ability to bridge structure, sensation, and nervous system regulation into a cohesive method. I don’t rely on one modality or a fixed protocol. Instead, I guide you in learning how your body actually works, so you can begin to trust and respond to it in real time. My role is to see what may not yet be visible to you, to help you feel what may not yet be accessible, and to support you in building a relationship with your body that is grounded, intelligent, and sustainable. This is not about dependency. It is about helping you become your own most accurate and reliable guide.
This isn’t about pushing harder or adding more.
It’s about learning how your body actually works and how to work with it.
When we work together…
You’re not just given exercises. You’re guided through a process of learning how to feel, organize, and retrain your system. Through breath, movement, and precise cueing, you begin to release patterns that no longer serve you and build new ones that do.
This is how tension starts to dissolve. How pain begins to shift. How your body starts to feel like a place you can actually live in.
Staying disconnected has a cost. It keeps you stuck in cycles of effort without results, always trying, never quite arriving. And over time, it creates more frustration, more tension, and less trust in your own body.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way.
Background &Training
Doctor of Physical Therapy w/ an emphasis in Integrative Medicine and Mind-Body Interventions (University of California San Francisco 2016)
Bachelor’s Degree in Integrative Physiology w/ a Neuroscience Certificate- (University of Colorado, Boulder 2012)
Integrative Pelvic Care- Dr. Kathryn Kloos Mentorship
Psychologically Informed Sexual Counseling for Pelvic Health Physical Therapists: Addressing Couple Relationships, Sexual Trauma
Professional Yoga Therapist- Living Well Institute, 2020
Certified Functional, Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner- Living Well Institute, 2020
Certified Yoga Nidra- Blooming Lotus Yoga, 2021
Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher 500 Hr- Yoga Farm, 2021
Certified Yoga Teacher 200 Hr- Blooming Lotus Yoga, Bali, Indonesia 2016
Certified Myokinematic, Pelvic and Respiratory PRI Practitioner- Postural Restoration Institute- 2015-16
Certified Physical Therapy Bike Fit- PT Bike Fit 2017
Nutritional Therapy Practitioner- Nutritional Therapy Association 2019
Certified HeartMath Provider- Stress, Anxiety, Emotional Regulation- 2022
Certified Reiki Reiki Master- Holy Fire and Usui Lineage 2023
Certified Visceral Manipulation – 2022
Certified Craniosacral & Somatic Emotional Release Therapist- 2023
Sound and Vibroacoustic Therapy – 2023
Let’s work together
If you’re ready to feel different in your body, I’ll guide you in reconnecting to it so it can support you, not fight you.