A homegrown, born and bred Alaskan, Mel joins Healing Motion Physical Therapy after relocating to Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Mel graduated with honors from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a general degree in psychology and later earned, with distinction, her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Northern Arizona University in 2011. Mel then returned home to Alaska and served the Matanuska Susitna Valley in the outpatient orthopedic setting for the following seven and a half years. She