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At Nuance Therapeutic Interventions we approach treatment as a collaboration between the practitioner, the client and the body, with the goal of empowering clients to participate in their own healing. As the catalyst in this relationship, our role is to shine a new light on current conditions, remove obstacles as we are able, offer tools and interventions for healing, and train clients (and caregivers) in the use of those tools where appropriate.
Practitioners
NIKKI SMITH, PTA
Nikki is a board-certified Physical Therapist Assistant with a background in neuro-rehabilitation, orthopedic physical therapy and therapeutic yoga. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Sociology from Whitman College and spent nine years doing social work with youth before transitioning her career to the field of health and wellness. In 2008 she completed two 200-hour yoga teacher-trainings and a year-long yoga teaching apprenticeship to become a therapeutic yoga instructor. Nikki taught private and group therapeutic yoga lessons full time for four years before returning to school and earning her Associates of Applied Science as a Physical Therapist Assistant in 2014. During this time she began working in community-based neuro-rehabilitation and became fascinated by the complex ways in which the brain and body influence each other in healing.
Nikki is a Reiki healer in the Usui lineage (Reiki I-III) and has pursued extensive training with the Postural Restoration Institute® (PRI), the Upledger Institute for Craniosacral Therapy, and the Barral Institute for Visceral and Neural Manipulation. These techniques serve as the basis for most of Nikki's treatments. She has a passion for combining subtle energetic and manual therapies with movement training techniques to educate clients about body awareness, breath, postural alignment and stability.
NICOLE STEVENS, DPT
Nicole graduated with a Doctorate degree in Physical Therapy from Eastern Washington University in 2007 and earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in 2003. Her career and life path have led her to specialize in Visceral Manipulation, Craniosacral Therapy and Reiki. She has completed Reiki I-II, Visceral and Neural Manipulation courses through the Barral Institute (VM1-6, LT1&2, VVMU, VVML, & NM1-2), and Craniosacral Therapy training through the Upledger Institute (CST1&2).
Nicole believes that to truly experience good health we must start from the inside out. In her own experience, she has found that creating and maintaining health is an ongoing process. A person has to be ready to take the journey, and having a qualified team of health practitioners to guide them makes it a whole lot easier. Nicole encourages clients to laugh a lot, go easy on themselves, treat their bodies as the gifts that they are, and discover their inner light.
HEATHER JENNY PT, MA, PRC, EYT200
Heather has been curious about the body and health her entire career. She graduated with a BS in physical therapy from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1990 and her Masters in Gerontology from Wichita State University in 1995. She has been board certification in both women’s and geriatric physical therapy.
In 2013, she earned the designation of Postural Restoration Certified™(PRC) as a result of advanced training, extraordinary interest and devotion to the science of postural adaptations, asymmetrical patterns, and the influence of polyarticular chains of muscles on the human body as defined by the Postural Restoration Institute®. This type of treatment can involve collaboration with specialized dentists, optometrists, and orthotists to assist the body in healing.
Heather has been a practitioner of yoga for years and became a 200hr yoga teacher in the spring of 2021 at Parallel 45. Further trainings have focused on breathing, trauma informed yoga, yoga for pain diagnosis and in 2023, completed certification in Somatic Healing.
Heather enjoys and treats all types of neuromuscular problems but has a unique passion for how the mind and body interact for movement and breathing. She loves complex problems including scoliosis, chronic pain concerns, women particular concerns including pelvic floor, pregnancy and cancers, and problems that occur as we age.
EMILY CALDWELL PT, DPT, PRPC, CMPT, PCES
Emily graduated with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Northwestern University in 2010 after earning her Bachelor's degree in biology and art history from Loyola University Chicago. Emily then moved to Portland to pursue an Orthopedic Residency Program through the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) which she completed along with a board certification in Orthopedics (OCS) and to become a Certified Manual Physical Therapist (CMPT) through the North American Institute of Orthopaedic Manual Therapy (NAIOMT).
Through her residency training, Emily was exposed to pelvic health and fell in love. This is now Emily's area of focus with patients because she deeply enjoys helping people with their most intimate concerns of urinary dysfunction and incontinence, pain with intimacy, and digestive and bowel concerns. Emily sees patients of all genders and earned a Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification (PRPC) from Herman & Wallace after taking all levels of their coursework on pelvic health. She loves to integrate her orthopedic and pelvic health skills to treat the body as a whole and help people get back to their ideal life. Emily also has a particular love for treating people through pregnancy and postpartum and is a Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist (PCES).
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