About

Healing the body to improve performance, resilience, and quality of life

Meet Amy Slabaugh, PT, DPT, CMPT, CIDN, RYT, Founder of Integrative Motion PT

"My passion for helping others heal grew out of my own experiences — from the frustration of recurring injury, to teaching myself how to rehabilitate, heal, and thrive. I've always loved being active in the outdoors, and my personal injuries taught me how to manage my pain, heal my injuries, and listen to my body, so that I can get out there and do the things that feed my soul.
I've combined high-level training in a diversity of therapies to gain the best possible perspective on how to support the body's innate healing abilities, strength, and resilience — because **the more we understand, the more clearly we can see the problem and find the solution.**"

"My approach is holistic — comprehensive, widely informed, and highly individualized. I love working with individuals to support their outdoor pursuits and active lifestyles in ways that work for them."

Growing up, I rode horses in the Three Day Eventing discipline, a physically and technically demanding combination of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. Competing at a high level, I spent all my available time riding horses and training. I moved from my hometown of Whidbey Island, Washington to begin my undergraduate at Colorado State University in Fort Collins as part of their Equine Science program. However, my horse sustained an injury, and my riding career was put on hold.
With this pause, I decided to try something completely new. Taking a semester off school, I traveled to Patagonia for a three-month NOLS expedition. The experience changed my perspective tremendously. Everything I loved about riding — developing the focused presence, self-awareness, and mutual skills that are the foundation of growing a trust-based relationship with the horse as a partner — expanded to include the relationships between people as partners in the wild backcountry and rugged alpine, and my connection with the landscape and natural world. My time in Patagonia became a meaningful pivot point in my life.
I transferred to Prescott College in Arizona, where I completed my undergraduate studies in Wilderness Leadership, Adventure Education, and Human Development. I then started working for a small mountaineering and ski guiding expedition company in Colorado.
Within two years, I sustained the first of many orthopedic injuries, with surgeries and physical therapy to follow. I worked with some excellent physical therapists and began to understand and appreciate the value of their work. Eventually, I needed a revision hip surgery. Determined to learn as much as possible in order to help myself rehabilitate from surgery, I decided to pursue further education that would lead me to my career as a PT. I returned to school at Montana State University in Bozeman for the prerequisite coursework and completed my Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Eastern Washington University.
I worked at a large outpatient sports medicine clinic in Bozeman and then joined a smaller clinic in town before eventually transitioning into my own practice and founding Integrative Motion PT.