April brings more than fifteen years of direct experience and a lifetime around the work — her mother practiced for twenty-five years, so massage was in the house long before it was her career. She has worked with endurance and ultra-endurance athletes, currently practices at a resort spa, and brings business experience from inside and outside the massage and spa world. She is also a Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), and that's where her teaching comes from: she coaches more than she lectures.

Students will hear April say two things more than anything else — everything is a choice and be intentional. How you set up your room, greet a client, hold a boundary, build your business: all of it is a choice, and not making one on purpose is still a choice.

April cares that students learn to think, not what to think, and she is passionate about evidence-informed practice across all of it — therapeutic work, relaxation, client interaction, business — because the science doesn't stop at the treatment room. Above all, she believes room presence is everything, and that every student is valuable to this profession.