As a physical therapist, Galen’s primary goal is to make a real difference for his patients. He spent the first 12 years treating kids and the last 9 treating both kids and adults. He values being a lifelong learner and constantly evolving and improving his skills as a clinician.

The primary focus in his practice is to find the source of the symptoms that brought his patients to him. To this end, he uses manual based therapies to address the source of problems and movement to help patients learn to use the new found range or maintain the changes gained during therapy.

He was trained in conventional therapy techniques and pursued refining his skills for the first five years of his career. Along the way he began to see the cracks in the system - places where the skill set he was trained with had no answers. It was these patients that stuck with him and drove him to seek out more options and answers. This opened opportunity to begin manual therapy based interventions that evolved his understanding of the body and the varied aspects of how sources of dysfunction can happen.

One of the unique aspects of treating infants and children is deep insight in how humans learn foundational movement patterns that they use for the rest of their lives. An important perspective he learned from his patients is that movement is a complex interplay between the neurological and musculoskeletal systems. Once structural blocks are able to be addressed movement via exercise can help patients learn to restore or re learn vital movement skills. Galen believes that this is a vital one-two combination to maximize the potential for rehabilitation for his patients.

When not working with patients, Galen enjoys cooking and eating delicious food, surfing his stand up paddle board, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, rock climbing and canyoneering.