Katrina Kneeskern grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She originally pursued her BFA at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, but after sustaining injury requiring hospitalization and being witness to9/11, Katrina decided to move back to Minnesota and devote her life to serving, helping and healing other people. Katrina completed her BS in Psychology and her Doctorate in Physical Therapy at St. Catherine University in 2008. She spent her first 7 years as a physical therapist in Tucson, Arizona. Katrina moved back to the Twin Cities in 2015 to be closer to her family. God has now brought her to CA to pursue her passion of helping people heal more holistically.

Katrina’s primary expertise is in orthopedic outpatient settings. Her skills include being a FAAOMPT, she has a focus on manual therapy as she uses cupping, dry needling, osteopathic joint mobilizations and myofascial release to gain necessary mobility before stabilizing with postural re-education, Pilates, and yoga based exercises to increase stability. She loves to finalize a treatment plan into the strength phase with functional lifting and loading the tissue to allow the endurance of those muscles to sustain injury free optimal wellness.

Her goals are to increase body awareness and incorporate preventative care to help maintain healing for patients. Katrina is well versed in treating and diagnoses ranging across the spectrum of pelvic floor, acute, post-op, neuro, overuse injuries and other sports and orthopedic conditions.

Katrina is committed to spreading the knowledge of wellness tools as well as delivering treatments and education for the overall health and well-being of patients. She is the owner and founder of Wellness Warriors, LLC. She is creator of the Wellness Warriors podcast and Facebook community. She is in the process of writing her book: Guide to Being a Human A-Z as well as creating the Resiliency Method, an online resource to help those overcome depression and anxiety without medications or expensive medical bills using her Health Coach Certification as a resource.

Katrina is a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and uses breath, meditation and functional nutrition/medicine to heal the body naturally as well as personal training at LifeTime Fitness.

Katrina continues to enjoy dancing in her free time as well as running, cycling, lifting heavy weights, hiking and yoga. She enjoys spending time at the lakes with her nieces, friends and family.