Hello, pelvic health professionals!
My is Claire Dunn and I’m an integrative women’s health pelvic physiotherapist.
Female-bodied people really need your skills, and it takes a special person to do this intimate and life-changing work - and do it well.
If you’re looking for individualised online mentoring with a senior pelvic health therapist, and/or if you want support to become more integrative in your practice, maybe I can help you.
Why am I offering mentoring?
When I was a new, full-of-excitement young physio, I really struggled to find mentoring in pelvic and integrative health. Not just professional development courses - which I did, and plenty of them! - but someone with whom I could workshop client case studies, share my ideas, and feel truly supported to grow in my practice. Someone I could trust to give me that super helpful little prompt to follow up, a new angle on a client’s problem, guidance about how to be well and thriving within a potentially stressful industry… and reassurance that I was doing ok!
I think it’s SO important that more pelvic and women’s health practitioners become confident, artful, holistic and skilled in their methods. I also feel passionately that healthcare as a whole needs to become more integrative - AND I recognise the difficulties, at the level of the individual practitioner, of doing this.
So I want to help! Over 10 years doing this job, as the non-conformist, determined thinker and learner that I am, I’ve reached for a wide variety of tools and skillsets to help me evolve and continue to truly serve my clients. This has so far included training as a Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga Teacher, studying Tantra and breathwork, mindfulness therapies, natural or primal movement, clinical pilates, dry needling, myofascial cupping, energy medicine, ancestral medicine, nature connection, nutrition, herbalism, lifestyle and wellness coaching… And in my ‘hands on’ therapy I’m using skills like holistic pelvic care, pessary fitting, neuromuscular electrical stimulation, visceral manipulation, muscle energy techniques, Integrated Systems Model/Connect Therapy… and so the list goes on!
In my private practice and hospital roles, I have loved the chance to support younger physios to learn more about women’s health, pelvic health, and integrative ways of working with the ‘whole human’.
I love talking and listening about pretty much anything related to women’s health, integrative health, pelvic health, postpartum and pregnancy, menopause, pelvic pain, incontinence, musculoskeletal pain, and movement as medicine.
I’ve also worked in rural health, so I understand how difficult it is to make crucial decisions about your treatment planning when you don’t always have a senior or specialised practitioner to speak with.
Click here to read more about me or check out the LUNA Services menu for an idea of how I think and express myself.
I am currently taking bookings for 60-minute individual or group mentoring calls. These are by appointment via Zoom (or phone if you have dodgy internet) on Mondays, Thursdays or Fridays.
Whether or not you take up the opportunity for online mentoring with me, I wish you the very best in your growth as a women’s and pelvic health practitioner. We need your kind of light in this world.
x Claire
