I'm Alison. I’m an acupuncturist, a personal trainer, a mom of three young boys, and someone who spent years knowing exactly what was causing my own body pain, and still couldn’t fix it.

I'll share the messy part of my journey with you, because I've landed here not just through traditional education, but through learning (sometimes over and over again) what my body needed.

​

Three pregnancies in five years. One birth that broke my heart and moved my sacrum in a way nobody took seriously for fifteen months. A nervous system that learned to compensate so efficiently that I didn’t notice how hard I clenched my jaw in my sleep or how certain muscles in my hips had simply stopped showing up. Years of treating the pieces separately. Acupuncture when the pain was too loud, training when I felt strong enough, all while wondering why the gap kept closing behind me. Why it never felt like I was doing “enough” while I was exhausted from trying everything. Researching everything. Scheduling everything.

What I eventually understood, in my body and not just my brain, is that

healing and movement were never meant to be separate.

 

A nervous system that releases on the tablet and then walks back into the same compensatory patterns hasn’t actually been given the chance to change. The body needs both — release and rebuilding — in the right order, at the right time.

​

I built Rain, because it’s what I needed.

​

I’m an American. I moved my family to Maastricht in 2025, and something happened here that I didn’t expect. The pace, the beautiful bridges, O.L.V., the way this city holds space for people to actually relax. Enjoy life. My shoulders dropped a little. My jaw is still catching up. It’ll get there.

I’ve been in the fitness industry for more than twenty years. I left temporarily, because I didn’t want to participate in a field that was encouraging women to shrink. I realized (again and again) that how I work with women doesn’t have to be either/or. I can use the tools and strategized I’ve learned through athletic training and corrective exercise programming to help women take up space. Become stronger. Build bone density and confidence. And we can do that together without sacrificing your hormones or nervous system. Acupuncture supports movement. Movement shifts qi, complimenting acupuncture.

I hold a Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and trained in the United States with an intense opportunity in Vietnam. I specialize in pain, women’s health, and nervous system relief, particularly the patterns that live at the intersection of all three.

​

I work with women who carry a lot. In their bodies, their roles, their work, their families, their nervous system. Women who’ve been told their pain is manageable, their systems are just “part of being a woman”, their experience is “fine.” Women who’ve are done being handed back to themselves with paracetamol and without a real answer.

You’re not the problem. You just haven’t been seen as whole yet.

​