I’m an Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP) who graduated from a Bachelor of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation at the University of Canberra in 2024. I was born and raised in Canberra.

I have since been in the fitness industry for 8 years, where I gained experience doing personal training, gym floor work, and gym programming.

My passion for exercise physiology began in 2017. I spent up until 2023/2024 frustrated at the healthcare system from being invalidated and overlooked, and confused and exhausted because of my mystery health struggles. I was labelled as anxious and shy and misdiagnosed with fibromyalgia by a rheumatologist when I was 16.

One day, my mum took me to an Exercise Physiologist (EP). I worked with her for 3 years and she changed my life. I went from being bed ridden, to having a somewhat better quality of life that enabled me to begin my own independent gym training. The EP treated me as though I had fibromyalgia but also pointed out my hypermobility. I didn’t think much of it, until I was about to graduate year 12 and I was in Melbourne, that I visited a hypermobile-aware allied health clinic in Melbourne and they told me I likely had hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD).

That experience caused a cascade of events that helped me build a team of knowledgeable and caring healthcare professionals, and over time, I was diagnosed with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS), postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), endometriosis, and mast cell activation syndrome.

I was also diagnosed with autism level 2 and 3 and ADHD in 2023 after a lifetime of wondering why everyone else but me noticed that there something that was ‘off’ about me, why I didn’t have friends, why everything I said was misinterpreted as ‘rude’ or ‘insensitive’, but at the same time, why I was ‘oversensitive’. The list goes on, but I’m sure many of you can relate to my experience.

My EP had a significant impact on my health as someone with hEDS and co. This inspired me to become an EP, knowing the benefits that movement could have on not only symptomatic hypermobility, but many other invisible conditions.

With my personal experience with invisible illness, I wanted to become an EP to help people with complex chronic health conditions at any stage of their health journey.

After graduating, I embarked on my professional journey, but could not find a workplace that would give me the accommodations I required to not experience flare-ups and autistic burnout.

And so Visible Exercise Physiology was born, and now I can provide people-informed care to people struggling with invisible conditions.