About

I am a previous Pelvic Physical Therapist and hold additional certifications in Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Holistic Pelvic Care™, Therapeutic Yoga and Breathwork, Women’s Health Coaching, and many forms of manual therapy.

I am greatly influenced by the spiritual and physical healing of shamanic work and plant medicines, energetic medicine, neuroscience, and healing touch.

I offer a bridge to the physical, the emotional and the spiritual world within you through your pain.

My story and certifications ⇣

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Dr. Miriam Bouvé, PT, DPT

I help women heal their chronic physical and emotional pain to access new states of being.

When I was a Pelvic Physical Therapist, I noticed just how much the body carries that couldn’t be addressed through a structural medical approach alone.

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◡ When I witnessed a woman too afraid to see or touch her very own body.

◡ When she became tense at the thought of sex.

◡ When she could  barely speak about her own birth.

◡ When she was anxious and lost, living in fear of her symptoms or fertility.

◡ When she teared at the grief surrounding her misscarriage or abortion.

◡ When she just felt lost.

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My Story

I started my career as a pelvic and orthopedic physical therapist.

I saw women and men suffer from incredibly hard conditions. These pelvic conditions that often had an added layer of shame, due to the stigma and trauma that laid beneath them.

I took as many training and sought as much knowledge as possible in order to help reduce their pain and symptoms. I knew that with many of them, they had tried everything the medical system had to often. Often, several other physical therapist.

I helped many.

And many I didn’t.

I thought at the time, if I just had more information about the body. Better hands on skills, more knowledge about movement dysfunction. I began to recognize my own anxiety and depression. Never feeling good enough as a provider. But the truth is, I would learn—none of it would fully help because the issues weren’t structural for many people.

The greatest paradigm shift in my world, was learning this. As a physical therapist, that many peoples issues, weren’t physical? It’s mind-blowing really.

Initially, I became trained in yoga, yoga therapy. I went back to school for marriage and family therapy. Received my own therapy. I explored shamanism and plant medicines. I got trained in Holistic Pelvic Care, by Tami Lynn Kent. All of these incredible healing modalities that influence my work today.

AND then I took my first breathwork class! And for the first time, I thought wow—I can shift my state of mind, process my emotions and have incredible insights through my breath alone. I could places and access insight where in the past I thought I could only access through plant medicines, psychedelics, or other practitioners.

Incredible as all these healing tools are emotionally and spiritually. I found they often wouldn’t entirely resolve chronic pain.

I then had a baby, after a pregnancy loss. It not only changed my entire world, of course. But it also highlighted the power of my mind. To create or relieve suffering.

During my postpartum period I was shown Pain Reprocessing Therapy…It was the most incredible research I had ever read on many chronic pain issues, of all physical Therapy treatments and modalities I had read.

I now treat chronic pain with Pain Reprocessing Therapy, help people process their emotions and access new states of being with breathwork, and provide Pelvic Medicine and Womb healing to clear stagnant energy from the pelvic bowl in order to experience the power and magic of our feminine bodies.

If you feel I could help you, I’d love to chat with you more.

 
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My offerings now weave together my knowledge and intuitive gifts as a Pelvic Physical Therapist, a Holistic Pelvic Care Provider™, Breathwork Practitioner, Pain Reprocessing Therapist and deep empathy from my own pain and healing path.

Education, Trainings, and Certifications

Doctorate of Physical Therapy, Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Science Kinesiology, The University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Karolinska Institutet Clinical Program

Stockholm, Sweden

Holistic Pelvic Care™, Tami Lynn Kent

Monterey, California

Marriage and Family Therapy (1 year), LaSalle University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Pain Reprocessing Therapy Institute

Online

Somatic Therapy Level 1 (in progress), The Somatic Therapy Center

Philadelphia, PA

Women's Health Coaching and Functional Nutrition, The Integrative Women's Health Institute

The Optimal Fertility Program, The Integrative Women's Health Institute

Yoga Therapy I (500 Hour), The Yoga Life Institute

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Breathwork Level 1-4, David Elliot and Erin Telford

Online

Somatic Release Breathwork, Soma+IQ

Online

+ additional trainings in manual and neuromuscular therapies

 I hold space to:

⇢ Rewire your brains neural pathways

⇢ Reduce fear and pain in your body

⇢ Process and clear stuck or stagnant energy

⇢Explore your body's sensations with curiosity--the opposite of being poked and prodded to find something wrong with you. 

⇢Alchemize pain into deeper understanding, creativity, fertility, and peace

Ready to come home to yourself? Let’s open up the path ahead.