Restore your body. Restore your life.
Integrative Manual Physical Therapy and Functional Medicine — for people whose symptoms have never been fully explained.
Jennifer Shepherd, PT, CFMT, FFMT, FAAOMPT, FMCP
You CAN overcome your health concerns and return to a life of vitality and resilience. There is hope for a better future.
If you’ve seen everyone and still have symptoms, you’re in the right place.
Your body adapts to everything life puts on it — until it can’t. Then symptoms appear that don’t seem connected to anything.
Most providers look at one system at a time. One joint. One lab value. One diagnosis. When the pieces never get put together, the real driver goes untreated.
I look for the multiple whys behind your symptoms — with my hands and with your history.
Integrative Manual Physical Therapy: Unburdening the body and reconnecting pathways
The trained human hand can precisely identify and restore structures in the body that have lost their healthy functioning due to past and present impacts, old injuries, surgeries, inflammatory conditions, and birth trauma.
By precisely improving the mobility of a structure, be it a joint, a fascial interface, membrane, a nerve, vessel, or organ, we are able to improve the function of the that structure and how it works within the whole interconnected body.
But it starts with assessment and identification of your body’s priority list. Often there are other areas of the body and factors that are driving your symptoms.
Listen to Jennifer Explain the Integrative Manual Therapy Process:
Your journey to better health begins with you.
Even the best treatment plan can fall short if your daily habits at home aren’t supporting your healing. I’ve seen many patients plateau in the clinic — not because the treatment wasn’t working, but because underlying inflammation, structural imbalances, or nervous system stress kept pulling them back.
Many people believe they’re healthy, until their bodies say otherwise. And once something feels off, most people respond by doing more — another supplement, another diet, another program — without ever learning which of it actually helps.
That’s the piece I teach differently. I created the Foundations for Functional Health program to address these basic needs of our human bodies to keep them working optimally and efficiently. I don’t just tell you what to do. I help you understand how your body was designed to function and how you how to read your own body’s response, so you know what’s actually working for you — not just what’s working in general…or not.
Through our growing understanding of disease through the lens of Functional Medicine, along with my 26 years of working with patients with complex health issues and orthopedic issues, here are the areas that I find consistently in my patients that negatively impact a their health and opportunity for healing:
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- mindset and nervous system imbalance
- inflammation and toxicity
- structural imbalances from sitting and inefficient exercise
This is the work that finally moves the needle for so many of my patients.
Listen to Jennifer explain the Importance of The Foundations for Functional Health Program in conjunction with in-clinic work:
What you need depends on how your symptoms started.
Restorative Care
For long-standing, unresolved symptoms
Your symptoms aren’t one problem. They’re the result of inflammation, nervous system strain, and old structural patterns that built up over years.
I find what’s driving them. You do the daily work that keeps them from coming back.
Includes Foundations for Functional Health · 90-minute evaluation · 12 sessions over six months · Full reassessment
This work requires participation outside the clinic. If you’re looking for someone to fix this for you, I’m not the right provider.
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Recovery Care
For concussion, injury, birth trauma, and post-surgical recovery
The imaging was clean. The injury healed on paper. But function didn’t come back.
A single event changes how your body carries load, and those changes don’t always show up on a scan. My hands are trained to find what imaging misses.
Includes 90-minute evaluation · Focused Foundations program · 8 sessions · Reassessment
Payment plans available
Some recovery cases have more underneath. If I find that at your evaluation, we’ll talk about it before going further.
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Not sure which fits? Start with a Discovery Call — 30 minutes, $100, credited toward your care
Our Philosophy
LISTEN
Your story matters. Understanding your history helps us understand your body.
IDENTIFY
We quickly pinpoint which structures and systems aren’t functioning at their best.
PROBLEM SOLVE
We connect those findings to your history to understand the deeper relationships of your symptoms.
RESTORE
We restore mobility and function of your structures and pathways, integrating them into your whole body.
EQUIP & EMPOWER
We build on the awareness you’ve developed in Foundations with self-care that keeps adapting as your body — and your needs — change.
Why patients come to me after trying everyone else
Most physical therapists treat one joint, one muscle, one diagnosis at a time. Most functional medicine providers focus on labs and supplements. Doctors offer medications, surgery, injections.
My education, skillset, experience, and gifts equip me to assess ad treat the whole body as one integrated system: musculoskeletal, visceral, neural, vascular, and functional medicine — together, in one visit.
There are very few Physical Therapists with advanced manual therapy training and only one in the country with the added certification in Functional Medicine.
That means I can find connections between your symptoms, history, lifestyle, and structure that other providers miss entirely.
Jennifer Shepherd, PT, CFMT, FFMT, FAAOMPT, FMCP
- Integrative Manual Physical Therapist
- Certified Functional Manual Therapist
- Fellowship Trained in Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy
- Advanced Training in Visceral, Vascular and Neural Manipulation
- Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner
- Two time Ironman Finisher
- D1 Tennis Player
REAL RESULTS
“By taking the time to do a very thorough history, Jen helped me work through traumatic events — figuring out how to support my whole body so I can heal and get back to living. She has changed my life.” — Krista Kyle
In January, with Jen’s support, Krista lost weight, cleared up skin issues, significantly reduced IBS symptoms, reduced headaches and allergy symptoms, and reduced pain in muscles and joints. Her hematologist noted her best autoimmune lab results in over 10 years.
I would recommend Jenn to anyone looking for a holistic and welcoming approach to healing the body.
Has been treating my husband every week since last fall! Highly recommend ….
Are you a Physical Therapist ready to do more for your patients?
Many Physical Therapists have untapped skills and passion to help people overcome health issues — but lack the training to go deeper. When you have the knowledge of whole-body anatomy, the relationships between systems, and the freedom to think outside the box, both you and your patients thrive.
