In 1990, Gigi traded software engineering for "human engineering". Now with 36 years of clinical experience, she blends compassion, science, and skilled touch to ease pain and restore function across your whole body.
MANUAL THERAPIST
GIGI DEGERLUND WILLETT
DMI LMT ACBT NMT AAT
COPYRIGHT 2026 GIGI DEGERLUND WILLETT INC
ABOUT
In her private practice, Gigi teaches clients the importance of self-care and body awareness for preventing injury, managing stress, and fostering a self-supportive lifestyle.
In the classroom, she has taught one-year curriculum in anatomy, physiology and pathology. She enjoyed sharing her enthusiasm in occupational school settings with students as they explored the amazing human body.
As a certified practitioner and instructor of Lowen Systems DMI Fascial Fluid Dynamics, she has taught and assisted in Lowen Systems continuing education seminars.
Gigi is a qualified IAHE teaching assistant for the Barral Institute Visceral Manipulation - Abdomen 1 course through the International Alliance of Healthcare Educators.
EDUCATOR
Gigi specializes in how the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and the brain drive chronic pain and healing. Since 2011, she's studied the vagus nerve, trauma-informed manual therapies, and ANS neurobiology to address root causes of pain and teach clients how to support their own recovery.
ANS-PAIN-BRAIN CONNECTION
MODALITIES: Precise fascial release for muscles, visceral (organs), nerves, joints, and lymphatics, DMI Fascial Fluid Dynamics, myofascial release, cranial, acupressure, trauma-informed manual therapies & autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation.
She's dedicated to lifelong learning and believes in collaborative care with clients and healthcare providers alike to deliver optimal outcomes.
"It is important to remember that the human body is a unity, and we should observe the client/patient not as a series of disconnected segments - but as multiple and different elements that work in unison.
A dysfunction of tissue will adversely affect neighboring and distant tissues."
- Bruno Burdoni DO PhD
Lowen Systems Dynamic Manual Interface - Fascial Fluid Dynamics - DMI Certified Practitioner and Instructor
Barral Institute - Visceral, Brain & Neural Manipulation curriculums
Therapeutic Horizons - Cranial, Circulation, Heart, Brain, Pelvis curriculum
Integrative Manual Therapy - Dialogues in Contemporary Rehabilitation IMT
Advanced Bodywork Seminars - Advanced Neuromuscular Therapy
Fischer Seminars for Advanced Manual Medicine
Polyvagal Trauma-Informed Manual Therapies, Autonomic Nervous System Therapies, Associative Awareness Technique
Cognitive Coaching - Thinking Collaborative
C3 Collaborative Care Collective Annual Summit - Denver - 2024, 2025
International Association of Healthcare Practitioners IAHP - Medallion Member
International Alliance of Healthcare Educators IAHE - Teaching Assistant
Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado - Certificate of Honors
Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals - Certified Member
Colorado Department of Higher Education - Division of Private and Occupational Schools, Instructor Credential, Health Occupations, 1995-2000, 2005-2010
License Number
MT.0006106
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
This form of manual therapy is not meant to replace necessary medical treatment, nor does it diagnose or imply a cure for any diseases. It works in conjunction with allopathic care.
