About Huan

My grandmother's name was Vui. In our Vietnamese family she was the closest thing we had to a doctor. She practiced manual therapy, acupuncture and massage. We were an immigrant family starting a new life in Florida, and she took care of everyone.

She was slow. She would rest her hands on someone and feel for a while before she pressed. Then she would press one place, the person would make a sound, and she would say something in Vietnamese that meant roughly, there it is. There were a lot of grandchildren. I was the only one who learned it.

My mother worked two jobs for more than twenty years, mostly standing ones. Most evenings, for years, I worked on her, with no training beyond what I had absorbed watching. You stop guessing when you have had your hands on the same body a thousand times.

I studied biology on the path to a doctorate in physical therapy. But I wanted to be hands on, to be present with the pain. I trained at Cortiva Institute, was licensed in Florida in 2020, and began massage therapy in a chiropractic office, where I spent 2 years learning the anatomy under everything my grandmother taught me to feel. In April 2023 I opened my own studio here in Westchase.