Amanda Finn Holmes

Therapist

Hi, my name is Amanda. My friends call me, “Finn.” I have been a practicing physical therapist for over 21 years now. I have known since the 3rd grade that I have wanted to become a physical therapist. My mother underwent a lot of physical therapy when I was a young girl and my brother’s college girlfriend was a physical therapy major who heavily influenced me and fascinated me with her studies and the stories of her patient care.

As a young girl, I always revered my Uncle Steve, who was a radiologist and his son Stephen, who is a Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine in Seattle, WA. They were both a significant inspiration to me to study in the health professions.

My inspirations to become a pelvic floor rehabilitation specialist physical therapist come from being a former pediatric bladder/bowel patient myself when and where there were no other pelvic floor physical therapists practicing, let alone a pediatric specialist pelvic floor therapist. I also had a friend who suffered through vulvodynia and I watched her attend physical therapy and endure surgery and more physical therapy. She was a success story who had 3 natural pregnancies and 3 vaginal deliveries. Her story really inspired me to pursue the specialty of continence and pelvic floor rehabilitation.

I was determined to be the best and to be known for my work within this specialty, so I went to the best researchers in our field, the Australians. I obtained my Postgraduate Certificate in Continence and Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation for Physiotherapists from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2005. My Australian friends and mentors strongly encouraged me to study and work in England, which I did from 2006-2008.

I worked in both the National Healthcare System and in the private healthcare system of the United Kingdom, where I have EU dual citizenship through my Irish grandfather. I was considered a highly skilled migrant worker. I was hired as a Clinical Leader in the Women’s Health and Pelvic Floor programs for everywhere I worked in the UK, both private and NHS hospitals. I will always cherish my English patients. They were so appreciative of the care I provided for them and they were all so respectful and kind. I am forever grateful for my time in the United Kingdom. I learned to be patient which is an unbelievable life gift.

Upon returning to the USA, I continued to work hard in a lot of different settings including outpatient, home health, SNF, acute care, and private practice. I have always been able to incorporate my pelvic floor PT skills in all of these settings.

I have really tried to fit in a lot in this short yet miraculous life each of us has been given. I eloped with my adventurous husband in Las Vegas and gave birth to our daughter in the first year of our marriage, at my ripe age of 37. I gave birth to my identical twin sons for my 40th birthday.