Holistic Healing Center of Michigan

What makes us different?

About Andrea Plewka

Andrea Plewka, Physical Therapist with Feldenkrais® practioner training, musician, artist, loving mother “Mother Earth Movement, Music, Native Art & Drums” Healthcare, Physical Therapy, Holistic Health. “Our bodies are like symphonies – the world, our audience.” If we fine tune & play with them … we’ll be living more harmoniously, connecting ourselves to the world. The role I play in my professional organization is helping people become aware of our healthy connectedness to ourselves & this planet Earth … respecting, honoring, cherishing, take care of her as well as ourselves and relatives – each other.

My physical therapy skills have been utilized in the Michigan Southeast metro area as a holistic neurosensory movement re-educator and also as a contracting physical therapist. Having progressed in additional certified movement integration training after graduating from Wayne State University’s Physical Therapy program and working in hospitals primarily, I branched out into the private practice setting with a team of dedicated holistic rehab professionals in 1989 for the start of a career using more specialized treatment approaches. This type of patrient care has been my passion for over 30 years.

Many clients have benefitted from the specialized “hands on” & verbal guidance approaches that teach people to learn basics of comfortable or easier mobility & modify if necessary their traditional exercises. Many of my physical therapy sessions integrate these learning methods with PR modalities and manual therapies including: soft tissue mobilization, myofascial release, craniosacral therapy, joint mobilization, lymphatic or therapeutic massage related to specialized diagnoses. My assistance in program development with this innovative manually based rehabilitation center, “Holistic Healing Centers of Michigan”, started in 2008 until 2011.

I was invited back in 2017 to assist in more program development including relocating the office to Madison Heights from Warren, MI and the start of another center offering additional self-pay services or insurance based physical therapy, “Holistic Therapy Institute or HTI” Physical Therapy. Since 2017, my skills have been utilized managing or overseeing physical therapy clients’ PT programs of traditional PT methods – often integrating specialized manual therapies, craniosacral and Sensori-motor movement retraining. The prior experiences I had as a physical therapist helped numerous businesses continue to operate at a decent speed and afford therapists the time off needed for vacations, continuing education, maternity leave or personal healing. It’s an often underrated specialty to assist companies from losing continuity of care with clients when therapists need time off or companies require another PT for whatever reason. Diverse experiences practicing in the profession have included 15+ years of out patient & private practice settings & the rest in hospitals, rehab centers, skilled nursing facilities, home health & some school special needs programs.