Rachel works from Copperdot as a Dance Artist and Physiotherapist. She works with acute, chronic and elite dancers with musculoskeletal conditions, working with functional training principles, uses her dance medicine practice to form the basis of many rehabilitation methods that supplement her company development and the dancers involved.  She is now beginning working at company level on specific choreographic practice to support the creation and performance of choreographic process for companies on an individual level.  Ensuring that dancers can meet the choreographic requirement of the company and reduce injury for performances.

Recent work has also included youth work and with older participants.  Other aspects of her work involve working with women dancers, pre and post natally, pre and post menopause, considering the musculoskeletal demands on the body and the changes that present over a dancers career. 

Rachel also works at Dance East Centre of Advanced Training, optimising fitness, pre-habilitation and rehabilitation supporting dancers in training programs. Rachel is a Certified Level 3 APPI Clinical Pilates instructor with over 13 years of clinical Pilates experience, she has a special interest in dance.  She uses her gymnasics training to supplement her work.  She is qualified in, Pilates for dancers, Barre, Standing Pilates and Therapeutic Yoga and creates programs that vary in intensity and purpose.  As a physiotherapist Rachel works with injury prevention and rehabilitation, her clients include those with acute injuries or longstanding musculoskeletal pain as well as dancers.