Groove Pelvic Health & Wellness
About
Laura is a queer-identified Pelvic Health Physical Therapist and AASECT Certified Sexuality Counselor. She is passionate about helping everyone with a pelvis. Her special interests are gender affirming care, queer health, pelvic pain, sexual health, cisgender men’s health and the intersection of pelvic health and athletic performance. Laura earned a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Northwestern University and the Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certificate (PRPC) through the Herman and Wallace Institute. She has additional training in PT for concerns specific to trans and gender expansive folks including gender affirming surgeries. Laura is a member of the APTA, WPATH, GLMA, ISSWSH, ISSM and AASECT. She is a frequent conference speaker and lecturer on topics ranging from gender affirming care, sexual health, inclusive care and Pelvic PT treatment of common urologic and sexual health conditions across the gender spectrum. Laura is the owner of Groove Pelvic Health & Wellness in Chicago. Laura has significant experience in working with hypermobile folks and folks with hEDS (including POTS and MCAS), particularly in the overlap of gender diversity and neurodivergence. Pelvic health difficulties like pelvic pain, pain with sex, bowel and bladder challenges are common in folks with hEDS. Groove Pelvic Health & Wellness is a unique practice offering in person sessions and wraparound asynchronous support for client between sessions. Meeting clients where they are and giving clients a sense of autonomy and self-efficacy is a cornerstone of Laura’s treatment philosophy.