My mission is to empower my clients to heal and prevent injury so they may live active, pain-free lives.

Through 25 years working in the unique specialization of Pilates-based Physical Therapy (PBPT), I have developed extensive clinical skills and expertise in injury rehabilitation and managing complex orthopedic conditions through movement. 

Discovering my professional path was the silver lining after an accident that resulted in serious injury and chronic back pain. After a year of doctors, tests, conventional physical therapy, and no improvement in my condition, I became deeply frustrated. 

I was fortunate to find long-lasting relief with a unique combination of factors - skilled manual therapy, therapeutic Pilates, and energetic and supportive practitioners working together in a beautiful and calm healing space. I then decided to change my career from acute-care and took on the role of physical therapist in that healing center. I spent a year there healing, strengthening and learning skills from those who had helped me. Out of this came passionate inspiration and a drive to help others with healing using a similar holistic approach.

Born and raised in Malibu, I then graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Biology from UC Santa Barbara, followed by a master’s degree in physical therapy from Duke University in 1997 and completed the Polestar Pilates for Rehabilitation certification in 1999. I was an original founder and owner of The Cypress Center in Pacific Palisades in 2000, one of the first facilities in Los Angeles to effectively integrate Pilates into a physical therapy clinic. After making the move to Marin with my husband to raise our family, I founded Ebb and Flow in San Rafael in 2006. I relocated the practice to Ross in 2017 to a beautiful calm and bright studio overlooking the trees and Mt Tam. In my free time, I enjoy exploring and exercising on the trails and beaches in Marin, cooking, gardening, and spending time with my husband, two teens and labradoodle in our soon-to-be empty nest.

— Daniella Tress, founder of Ebb and Flow; licensed physical therapist and Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher

EDUCATION:

• Masters of Science in Physical Therapy, Duke University

• Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara

PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATIONS:

• Licensed Physical Therapist in the state of California (PT)

• National Certified Pilates Teacher (NCPT)

• Polestar ® Pilates for Rehabilitation Certified

• CPR Certified

• BoneFit Trained™ (BHOF)

TREATMENT TECHNIQUES:

• Functional Manual Therapy® (Institute of Physical Art)

• Movement System Impairment Syndromes (Shirley Sahrmann)

• Polestar® Pilates for Rehabilitation Comprehensive Training

• Stott Pilates® for Rehabilitation Training

• CoreAlign® Instructor Training

• TheraPilates® for Osteoporosis

• PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation)

• The Janda Approach to chronic pain syndromes

• The Gokhale® Method

• NMT (NeuroMuscular Therapy)