Sophie Whitehead

Sophie is a UK-trained physiotherapist with more than ten years of clinical experience across acute hospital, community and private practice, in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. She qualified from the University of Birmingham in 2015 and began her career on acute hospital rotations in medicine, surgery, respiratory, intensive care and emergency care.

She went on to senior roles in frailty, admission avoidance, urgent community response and orthopaedic rehabilitation. That gives her a broad understanding of people with complex needs, and of how much it matters to help someone regain their independence in their own home.

Sophie has a special interest in concussion and mild traumatic brain injury, vestibular rehabilitation, dizziness, headaches and persistent symptoms. Her training includes Advanced Vestibular Training, the Complete Concussion Management Practitioner qualification and the Watson Headache® Approach. Her approach is empathetic, evidence-informed and holistic: she looks at how physical, cognitive, vestibular, visual and psychological factors affect each other.

Sophie also provides hydrotherapy. You choose and book the pool, and Sophie meets you there for the session.

She is passionate about treating the person rather than just the condition, and helping people return confidently to the activities and everyday life that matter to them.