Hollis Herman DPT, OCS, BCB-PMD, IF, CSC, PRPC

Hollis Herman, PT, DPT, MS, OCS, WCS, BCB-PMD, PRPC

Practice Information:

HWHM Education
Cambridge, MA
Website: www.hollyherman.com
Facebook: @HWHMeducation

Hollis Herman is a Doctor of Physical Therapy. She is board certified in the following: Physical therapy, Orthopedics, Women’s Health, Biofeedback, and Pelvic Rehabilitation. Hollis is an ISSWSH Fellow in Women’s Sexual Health and certified as a Sexual Counselor from the American Association for Sexual Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. Holly is one, of only two, certified AASECT Sexual Counselors and physical therapists in the world, and is one of three in the world to be an ISSWSH Women's Sexual Health Fellow and physical therapist.

Hollis maintains a full-time physical therapy private practice in Cambridge, MA. She works with patients throughout the lifespan that have urinary, colorectal, sexual medicine, orthopedic, and OB/Gyn disorders. Holly brings her own courses to the US, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Chile, Canada, Portugal, Brazil, UAE Saudi Arabia, and Australia through HWHMeducation.

Hollis is the author of How to Raise Children Without Breaking Your Back, has book chapters in major physical therapy textbooks and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is a reviewer for the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Urologic Nursing and the APTA Section on Women’s Health Journal.

Holly co-founded the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute in 2005 with Kathe Wallace. Though she is no longer associated with the institute, she continues to contribute as a board member with many health foundations and loves her profession.

Kathe Wallace PT, BCB-PMD

Kathe Wallace PT, BCB-PMD, is an internationally recognized clinician, author and innovative teacher in the field of pelvic floor rehabilitation. A physical therapist since 1976, Kathe has focused on the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction since 1988. She received the Washington state physical therapy association (PTWA) Clinical Excellence Award in 2006. She currently has a clinical practice in Seattle, Washington as well as serving as a Clinical Instructor, Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, at the University of Washington.

Kathe has authored chapters in Clinics in Sport Medicine, and published research on a vulvodynia functional outcome tool (known as the VQ) in the APTA Section on Women’s Health (SOWH) journal. Her most recent publication is Reviving Your Sex Life after Childbirth, written for postpartum women and the clinicians who care for them.

Kathe has developed educational materials for practitioners through Progressive Therapeutics and was a co-investigator for the development of a validated functional tool for vulvodynia.In 1990, as a pioneering practitioner with a mission to teach and train physical therapists about pelvic floor dysfunction, Kathe helped the SOWH establish their pelvic floor continuing education series and taught the courses with Holly Herman through 2005. In 2000, she developed a course for therapists seeking more information regarding external treatment of pelvic floor dysfunctions (PFPG). In 2006, as a founder of Herman and Wallace Inc., she co-developed and refined the series of pelvic floor continuing education Pelvic Floor 1, 2A and 2B with Holly Herman. Since 2016, Kathe has continued to teach and develop courses independently from Herman and Wallace, Inc. through her own company, Pelvic Resources, Kathe Wallace Physical Therapy.