Anna Terry

Who this is for

Active people who want to feel good in their bodies and keep doing the things they love. That is the whole requirement.

A few of my clients are competitive athletes. Most are not. What they have in common is that they are capable, carrying a lot, getting conflicting advice from every direction, and slowly losing the thread on themselves.

• Someone in their fifties whose back went out again and cannot tell whether it is the desk, the golf swing, or the year they have been having.
• A parent who is carrying everyone else's schedule in their shoulders and has not had a plan of their own in years.
• An athlete who keeps getting hurt in the same place and has been told it is just tight, when the pattern started somewhere else entirely.
• Anyone whose body has started sending signals they do not know how to read.

If none of those is quite you and you still want to move well and feel like yourself, you are in the right place.

How I work

Good care works. What it cannot do is follow you into Tuesday afternoon. Most people spend far more hours between appointments than in them, and that gap is where I work.

There is more health information available than ever and less clarity than ever. Conflicting advice, a care team that does not talk to each other, aches that come and go, and a nervous system that has been running hot for years. Most of what gets sold to you treats one part, and none of it was built for your body, your history, or your life.

My work is reading the whole picture at once. Posture, breath, biomechanics, injury history, stress patterns, and fascia. Your body holds stress in specific places, and those places are connected. The thing that hurts is usually not the thing causing it. A jaw you clench at night shows up in a hip. A ribcage that has not moved fully in years shows up as a neck that will not settle.

I find the one or two things that actually move everything else, and help you navigate the rest so it stays manageable.

This is coaching and education. It works alongside the people already on your team. If you have a physician, physical therapist, or athletic trainer you trust, keep them. I do not manage your care or speak to your providers. I give you the questions to ask and the language to use so you walk into those rooms prepared.

Working together

• Monthly coaching Two sessions a month plus messaging in between. For people carrying a lot at once who want someone in their corner who knows the whole picture. We find where you are holding, what it is connected to, and which one or two things actually change it. We work on movement, breath, recovery, and the daily patterns that either hold you together or wear you down. When you have an appointment coming up, I help you prepare for it: what to ask your doctor, how to explain what you are feeling to your physical therapist, what to tell your pilates instructor about your back. $375 / month
• Single session, 60 minutes One hour to sort out what is actually going on. We look at how you are moving, how you are breathing, how you are sleeping, what hurts, where you are holding, what you have already tried, and what you are trying to do with your life. You leave with a clear read on what is actually driving the problem, which is often not where the pain is, and a short list of what to do next. Good for a specific question, a second opinion, or a place to start. $150 / session
• Student athlete, monthly For high school and college athletes with a real goal and a lot coming at them. Two sessions a month plus messaging. We work on training load, recovery, and injury history, and on learning to read their own signals: what tight actually means, where a recurring injury is really coming from, what their body does the week before it breaks down. Plus the part nobody teaches them, which is how to advocate for themselves with trainers, coaches, and doctors, and how to keep the sport from swallowing everything else. Parents are welcome on the first call. After that the athlete drives it, because learning to run their own care is most of the point. $300 / month

Tell me what is going on. A few sentences is plenty. I will write back with what I think is worth looking at and whether I am the right person for it.

About

Twenty four years in elite sport and performance health. I built the largest soft-tissue program in Division I athletics at Dartmouth, directed athlete care at Killington Mountain School, and led player health and performance for a women's professional soccer organization. I have worked with the US Ski Team, the Bear National Team, and US Cycling.

Before any of that I raced whitewater slalom for the USA National Team. That is where I learned to read a line: look at the whole river, find the one move that makes the rest possible, and commit.

What I do now is the same thing. I read patterns, and then I help people find the small number of things that change everything else. Most of my clients are not competitive athletes. They are people with jobs and kids and old injuries who want to keep moving well and feel like themselves.

NASM Certified Personal Trainer, NASM Nutrition Coach, NASM Behavior Change Specialist. Harvard Medical School Executive Education, Lifestyle and Wellness Coaching. Licensed massage therapist in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. E-RYT 200. Functional Movement Screen certified.