Michelle (Grim) Archer, PA
Physician Assistant and Somatic Coach
Michelle is a Physician Assistant specializing in in both Mind Body Medicine and Orthopedics and is also a Somatic Coach at Cormendi Health. She has over 2,000 hours of training in mind body practices, including yoga therapy, Pain Care Yoga, Trauma Informed Yoga, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, and body-based psychotherapy. She graduated the top of her class at both University of Colorado Boulder and Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and quickly found her training in mind-body healing was essential in her work as a Physician Assistant. Her training in Somatic Experiencing is the foundation of her approach to somatic coaching, offering an experiential body-based approach to healing mind-body symptoms.
Michelle has her own personal experience with pain, and that has been the fuel for her focused career on educating about pain neuroscience and leading patients in practices to increase their own capacity to heal pain. She has special interest in working with nervous system patterns in the body as a way to increase awareness and resiliency. At the heart of her work is the idea that creating a relationship with the body and using it as a resource can have a profound effect on mental, emotional, and physical health..
Outside of her clinical pursuits, Michelle is an outdoor adventure enthusiast. She loves road biking, hiking and backpacking, skiing, and general forest bathing.