Elizabeth McBride | Embodiment Before Exercise: What Clients Need First
Show Notes:
If you work with pelvic pain, chronic pain, trauma, high-performing athletes, or clients who don’t fit the protocol, this episode will help.
In this powerful conversation, Lynn Schulte sits down with seasoned Occupational Therapist, Elizabeth McBride, of North Texas Therapy Innovations to unpack what it really means to work with neurodiverse populations in pelvic and orthopedic practice. They explore masking, sensory processing, executive function, trauma, and why many clients are profoundly disconnected from their bodies – even when they are elite performers.
Episode Highlights ✨
- Why a directive, protocol-driven approach often fails this population
- How sensory integration and pelvic health overlap more than we think
- The importance of building safety first with neurodiverse clientele
- Why embodiment and nervous system regulation must precede strengthening
- How your own grounding directly impacts clinical outcomes
This episode challenges us to blend orthopedic skill with psychological awareness – to provide therapeutic support that matches our clients’ needs.
If you’re ready to expand how you think about regulation, trauma, and embodiment in your practice, press play.
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About the Speaker:
Elizabeth McBride is an occupational therapist with nearly 40 years of clinical experience and the owner of North Texas Therapy Innovations. She specializes in sensory integration, manual therapy, and pelvic health, blending decades of hands-on experience with a deep understanding of neurodivergence and nervous system regulation. Known for her creative, whole-person approach, Elizabeth integrates craniosacral therapy, myofascial techniques, and executive function training to help clients move out of fight-or-flight and into embodiment. Her work bridges sensory processing, trauma-informed care, and pelvic health for both children and adults.
Love Dr. Rachael! She is such a gem in the Metro Detroit area. She was my pelvic floor PT during my first pregnancy and postpartum and inspired me to pursue pelvic health certification (coming from an Ortho PT clinic). I’m now working through Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant and Postpartum Body.
Thank you so much for this presentation…I am an osteopath and also trained in SER (love love Upledger!)…the piece about ‘freeze’ related to transgenerational trauma was very informative and a reminder to look further…I have had a client who lost a baby and when I treated her she felt she needed to give birth to this child…and then went back several lives and saw that she had also lost a baby many lives prior! This relieved her of some stress…so every piece of the puzzle counts…keep the nuggets coming, so appreciative! Best, Judith
Great interview, Lynn and Susanne, for pushing us beyond “hands on, hands in”, confirming our need as therapists, for wide, grounded personal presence for our clients to feel safe and then willing to bring forth those physical/emotional/transgenerational, traumas/beliefs that lead to more complete healing and return to function. Appreciate the shout out, and listened delightfully to two of my favorite teachers and mentors. All of this was gold!