Marisa has over 20 years of clinical experience gained from public and private hospitals as well as private practice. For more than half of her career, she has specialised as a certified hand therapist, physiotherapist and since 2010 as a Pilates Practitioner, providing management-level contributions to team and profession across hand therapy, musculoskeletal conditions, trauma, women’s health, exercise and research practices. She has supervised undergraduate physiotherapy university students and physiotherapists, leading Hand Therapy and Fracture Clinics, and provided education and mentoring to students of government accredited Pilates training courses. Marisa has co-developed, coordinated and delivered a public hospital clinical course, and is a recognised competency assessor (CEWD Wound Management).

Marisa’s career focus has been on maximising rehabilitation following musculoskeletal trauma, and she is a strong advocate for Women’s health as an Antenatal Educator (previously at a large tertiary NSW metropolitan hospital). She has worked with various surgical specialisations – Orthopaedic, Plastics & Reconstructive, Pain Management, Gastrointestinal, Colorectal, Rheumatological, Oncology, Urology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Intensivists (ICU), at all stages of intervention.

Marisa brings an extraordinary combined knowledge of clinical practice and early rehabilitation to long term Pilates and functional exercise recovery goals.

Qualifications & Certifications

• Bachelor Applied Science (Physiotherapy, University of Sydney)
• Accredited Hand Therapist (Australian Hand Therapy Association)
• Certified Hand Therapist (Hand Therapy Certification Commission (USA))
• Diploma of Professional Pilates Instruction (91491NSW, 2014), Pilates International Training Centre (PITC)
• Lymphoedema Training & Education Group (NSW)- Level 1 Lymphoedema Therapist (2014)