Transform Bodies.

Elevate Careers.

Redefine What Healing Can Be.

Whether you're a Physical Therapist seeking mastery or a Patient seeking real healing, you're in the right place.

A New Paradigm in Manual Therapy and Functional Medicine

For 25 years, I've been helping patients and Physical Therapists understand the body through a structural and functional, whole-person lens.

My Method Blends:

Advanced Manual Therapy: Orthopedic Manual Therapy, Visceral, Vascular and Neural Manipulation
Functional Medicine Principles
Movement and Alignment Systems
Trauma-Compensation Theory
Autonomic Nervous System, Trauma, PolyVagal Theory

The Result?

Clinicians who master complexity - and patients who finally get answers.

For Physical Therapists

Build Expertise.

Master Clinical Reasoning.

Lead the Future of Healing and Rehabilitation.

If you've ever felt stuck treating chronic or complex patients, this training changes everything. My programs give you the frameworks, hands-on skills, and Functional Medicine understanding that most Physical Therapy and Manual Therapy education leaves out.

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For Patients

Rebuild Your Body.

Reduce Pain.

Support True Healing.

If your body has been giving you signals - recurrent pain, injuries not healing, anxiety, fatigue, sleep issues and more inflammation, chronic fatigue - my patient programs help you understand and rebuild the foundations of your health.

Programs Include:

The Shepherd Method: Foundations in Structural and Functional Health

The Power of Food AntiInflammatory Reset Program

The Inner Wiring Workshop: Understand and Support Your Nervous System

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Meet Jennifer Shepherd, MSPT, CFMT, FAAOMPT, IFMCP

Integrative Manual Physical Therapist, Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapist, Visceral, Vascular Neural Manipulation Specialist, Functional Medicine Practitioner

My work is built on the belief that the body is beautifully interconnected - and when you understand its structure, you can restore its function.

I've trained hundreds of therapists and helped thousands of patients recover from chronic pain, inflammation, and structural and functional imbalances.

I started my career as a traditional Physical Therapist, trained in mostly exercise, massage and general joint mobilization and muscle energy technique. Quickly, I became frustrated with the results I was getting with my patients and in my own body with back pain, knee pain and plantar fasciitis. Just as I was looking to pursue a degree in teaching High School Biology, I was invited to take a Continuing Education course in which she was exposed to Functional Manual Therapy from The Institute for Physical Art, in which I learned how to use my hands and eyes to identify structures that were not working efficiently and how to restore the mechanics, resulting in immediate improvements in mobility and pain. This ignited my curiosity and passion for understanding the human body, what happens to it, and why we struggle with pain.

I pursued Certification and Fellowship in which I learned precision in manual therapy skills, organization of how to treat the whole person, and permission to think outside of the box.

My next mentorship with The Barral Institute took me into assessing and treating inside the container…how a precisely trained hand and exquisite knowledge of anatomy can identify organs that are in suboptimal health and how they relate to illnesses and other health issues, including pain throughout the body.