Real Recovery from Leaking, Pain, and Pelvic Issues
Incontinence & Leaking
Bladder or bowel leakage can feel frustrating, isolating, and even embarrassing — but it’s more common than you think, and pelvic floor physical therapy can help.
I provide non-surgical treatment for incontinence in Berkeley, Albany, and the East Bay to help you regain control and confidence. Find the issue you want to resolve here:
Stress Incontinence & Leaking Urine
Urge Incontinence & Overactive Bladder
Stress Incontinence & Leaking Urine
Leaking urine with sneezing, coughing, laughing, jumping
This is extremely common in women and also in men — but it’s also very treatable.
We’ll use targeted exercises, breath retraining, and pressure management to reduce leaking and support your active life.
Do you leak when you run, sneeze, laugh, or lift weights? This is known as stress urinary incontinence, and it happens when your pelvic floor muscles aren't able to support your bladder or bowels against pressure.
Urge Incontinence & Overactive Bladder
Sudden urgency, frequent urination, leaking before the bathroom
Do you always feel like you need to pee — even when you just went? Does urgency or leaking control your day? These are symptoms of urge incontinence or overactive bladder, which are often tied to bladder signaling, stress, or tight pelvic floor muscles.
Symptoms may include:
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Peeing more than 8 times a day
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Leaking before reaching the bathroom
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overactive bladder symptoms after pregnancy
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Nighttime urination (nocturia)
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bladder urgency with leaking
Treatment combines habit retraining, retraining the pelvic floor, and calming the nervous system's "gotta go" signal. You can take control over your bladder instead of it having control of you!
Bowel and Fecal Leakage
Leaking stool or gas, postpartum rectal urgency, accidental bowel leakage
If you struggle with bowel control, urgency, or leakage of stool or gas, you’re not alone. These symptoms often occur after childbirth, surgery, or trauma — and they respond well to pelvic floor therapy for fecal incontinence.
This type of incontinence may show up as:
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fecal incontinence after vaginal delivery
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anal sphincter dysfunction postpartum
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accidental bowel leakage in women and men
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gas or stool leakage with exercise or coughing
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difficulty controlling or quieting passing gas
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rectal urgency and leakage after childbirth
I use gentle techniques to improve pelvic floor coordination, strengthen the anal sphincter, reduce rectal urgency, and calm the nervous system. I know it can cause embarrassment, frustration, and shame -- but I can help.