Hi, I’m Kristen.

I’m a Doctor of Physical Therapy, former dance teacher, and founder of Delaware Dance Physical Therapy. But more than anything, I’m someone who deeply understands the world dancers grow up in because I’ve lived it from multiple sides.

Before becoming a physical therapist, I was a dancer and teacher. Like most teachers, I learned by doing. I picked things up through my own training and the guidance of the people around me. I cared about my students and wanted to help them succeed. But I was never formally taught how to support their bodies. Now, years later, working as a physical therapist specializing in dance medicine, I see the same patterns over and over again. Injuries that could have been prevented. Dancers pushing through pain. Studios doing their best but missing key pieces of the puzzle.

That realization is what shaped the work I do today.