Rhonda grew up on a small farm in rural North Dakota. Her immediate family includes four wonderfully supportive daughters, two amazing sons-in-law, a cat, and two dogs. She has a huge extended family—such a blessing and never a dull moment! She enjoys the outdoors, swimming, reading, baking, and spending time with her family and friends.

Rhonda graduated North Dakota State College of Science in May 1990 with a degree in Dental Hygiene, practicing full-time until December 2022. Through the years she started to notice how incorrect oral structure, function, and behavior could have negative effects on the entire body—physically, mentally, and emotionally. She was able to trace her personal myofunctional issues—snoring, poor sleep and breathing, clenching, grinding, and TMJ pain—back to childhood. She also realized what signs she had been missing while raising her own daughters. Connecting these dots changed her calling—she began her journey into orofacial myofunctional therapy, which opened her eyes and mind to the whole-body connection, making it impossible to NOT see the chain of events in a person’s health. Attaining a license in massage therapy and furthering her education in various manual bodywork therapies have brought further knowledge, depth, and skill to evaluate, understand, and address these issues on a more comprehensive level.

Multiple factors contribute to myofunctional disorders, including improper breathing, stress, fascial constriction, muscle imbalance, etc. Her training in functional breathing patterns, massage, craniosacral, lymphatic drainage, and visceral manipulation therapies are a wonderful asset! Combining therapies has allowed her to design enhanced individualized programs, as well as being more convenient and economical for the patient. With her extensive background in dental health, she has a particular interest in sleep, breathing, and TMJ issues. She finds it fascinating how bringing balance to the whole body has such a dramatically positive impact on the health and well-being of her patients.

Viewing healthcare through a different lens—using a multi-disciplinary approach to treat the whole body, not just individual parts—is the key for long-lasting success. Rhonda often collaborates with other healthcare providers with that goal in mind. Having seen the benefits of this type of teamwork for her patients and experiencing how conquering her own symptoms has enhanced her life, she is devoted to helping others pursue a healthier way of life!