The In-Clinic 90 minute one-on-one initial evaluation is $250

The In-clinic 60 minute one-on-one follow ups are $225

At SB Mindful Momentum Physical Therapy Co., our mission is to make high-quality physical therapy accessible to everyone in the Santa Barbara community. We understand that financial challenges can sometimes stand in the way of getting the support you need, which is why we offer discounted rates to a select number of low-income patients each month.

Yes! After the evaluation, the physical therapist will discuss how many appointments may best suit your needs in order to reach your overall goals. If multiple visits are recommended, we offer packages of 5 and 10 session at a discounted rate.

My clinic is at Montecito Fitness, located at 1250 Coast Village Rd, Suite D, Montecito, CA 93108. We’re directly across the street from Jeannine's Bakery.

Parking is available behind the building—please park in spots labeled "Montecito Fitness." Street parking is also available. When you enter the gym, you'll find a couch with a waiting area near the entrance. I’ll meet you there to bring you back to my space.

I offer flexible physical therapy and wellness sessions in Santa Barbara, accommodating clients in their homes, offices, gyms, pools, or outdoor settings that best align with our session objectives. For gym-based sessions, any applicable rental fees are passed directly to the client.

In an earnest effort to ensure that each patient receives the dedicated time and attention they deserve, I have transitioned to a cash-pay physical therapy model in Santa Barbara. This decision was prompted by the realization that the insurance-based practice model, which necessitates seeing two patients per hour, often compromises the quality of care I wish to offer. By moving away from insurance-based physical therapy, I am granting myself the autonomy needed to deliver high-quality, personalized care without the time constraints imposed by traditional insurance models.

Enjoy the convenience of in-home physical therapy or gym-based therapy sessions in the Santa Barbara area. This allows treatment in your own familiar surroundings, promoting comfort and creating an ideal healing environment. I can usually accommodate patients within a week of initial contact, offering a much faster turnaround compared to insurance-based physical therapy models, which are often booked months in advance.

Continuity of Care: Benefit from consistent, personalized treatment delivered by your dedicated, licensed physical therapist in Santa Barbara. This approach strengthens the therapeutic alliance, a crucial factor in achieving positive treatment outcomes.

Freedom from Insurance Constraints: Experience high-quality care without the limitations or time constraints imposed by insurance companies. My cash-pay physical therapy model prioritizes patient outcomes over productivity, allowing for unrestricted care.

Direct Access: Access physical therapy services promptly, without the need for a physician referral. You can expect to begin treatment within a week of reaching out, ensuring timely care tailored to your needs.

No, you don't need a referral to see a physical therapist in California. Thanks to direct access laws, you can receive physical therapy in Santa Barbara for up to 12 visits or 45 days, whichever comes first, without a physician’s referral. If further treatment is needed beyond this period, a signature from your physician is required. I can facilitate this process by sending a detailed report to your primary care physician for their approval.

In California, direct access laws allow you to see a physical therapist without a referral for up to 12 visits or 45 days, whichever comes first.

I do not charge a travel fee for physical therapy or wellness sessions within 15 miles of my Santa Barbara location. For locations beyond 15 miles, I charge an additional dollar per mile.

After scheduling your initial home physical therapy evaluation in Santa Barbara, you will receive a link to complete your intake forms online. Please fill out and submit these forms before our first session. In addition to the paperwork, please wear comfortable, flexible clothing for ease of movement during your session.

Yes, I offer customizable group yoga classes in Santa Barbara upon request. My sessions start with a baseline fee, with an additional charge of $20 per participant for a personalized group experience. Additionally, I teach two weekly community Yoga classes at the CorePower Yoga studio in Santa Barbara, where we focus on integrating strength training with traditional yoga postures. Join us to enhance your physical and mental well-being through yoga in a community-focused environment.

Yes, I have extensive experience instructing both yoga and personal training sessions virtually via Zoom. Many clients appreciate the convenience and flexibility these remote sessions offer and have reported excellent results. Whether you’re looking to maintain your fitness routine from home or enhance your physical health with expert guidance, our virtual sessions are tailored to effectively meet your individual needs.

Chronic pain is persistent discomfort that extends beyond the usual healing period of an injury or illness, often persisting for months or even years. Unlike acute pain, which is a direct response to tissue damage, chronic pain involves complex interactions among physical sensations, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. These psychological and emotional components greatly influence how we perceive and manage pain, impacting overall well-being.

Our Santa Barbara-based mobile physical therapy service takes a holistic approach to chronic pain management, recognizing the interconnectedness of mind and body. We provide comprehensive support right at your doorstep, integrating therapies that enhance physical, emotional, and cognitive health. Our aim is to reduce your dependence on medications, injections, or surgeries, and to improve your quality of life by bringing therapeutic services directly to you. Explore how our mobile physical therapy can revolutionize your approach to managing chronic pain, helping you regain control over your health in the comfort of your own environment.

Experiencing trauma—from physical injuries, emotional stress, or challenging life events—significantly impacts how our bodies perceive and react to threats, including pain. Trauma modifies the brain’s pain processing pathways, enhancing the activation of our fight-or-flight response and the amygdala, the center that signals fear and threat. This increased sensitivity to perceived threats can result in persistent pain, persisting long after the original injury has healed.

Our understanding of the neuroscience of pain reveals that this knowledge is pivotal in diminishing its impact. At SB Mindful Momentum Physical Therapy Co., serving the Santa Barbara area, we integrate mindfulness techniques with traditional physical therapy practices to manage chronic pain effectively. This combined approach helps regulate an oversensitive nervous system and promotes overall well-being.

At SB Mindful Momentum Physical Therapy Co., we are committed to making a positive impact in our Santa Barbara community by offering pro bono care to those most in need. We provide specialized physical therapy services to individuals who are homeless, recovering from addiction, or facing significant financial hardships, where pain and functional limitations are major obstacles to re-entering the workforce.

We believe in the power of community support and the role of compassionate care in recovery and rehabilitation. To sustain and expand our pro bono services, we warmly accept donations from clients who are interested in sponsoring a patient. Each contribution helps us continue offering vital care to those without the means to afford it.

If you are inspired to support our mission or know someone in need of pro bono physical therapy, please reach out. Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of our community members facing the toughest challenges.

Effective date 7/5/2024

SB Mindful Momentum Physical Therapy Co. Notice of Privacy Practices

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY.

If you have any questions about this notice, please contact our privacy officer:

Dr. Shannon Barrett, PT, DPT, RYT, Shannon@sbmindfulmomentum.com, 916-410-6150

1. Summary of Rights and Obligations Concerning Health Information. SB Mindful Momentum Physical Therapy Co. is committed to preserving the privacy and confidentiality of your health information, which is required both by federal and state law. We are required by law to provide you with this notice of our legal duties, your rights, and our privacy practices, with respect to using and disclosing your health information that is created or retained by SB Mindful Momentum Physical Therapy Co. Each time you visit us, we make a record of your visit. Typically, this record contains your symptoms, examination and test results, our assessment of your condition, a record of your treatment interventions, and a plan for future care or treatment. We have an ethical and legal obligation to protect the privacy of your health information, and we will only use or disclose this information in limited circumstances. In general, we may use and disclose your health information to:

• plan your care and treatment

• provide treatment by us or others;

• communicate with other providers such as referring physicians;

• receive payment from you, your health plan, or your health insurer;

• make quality assessments and work to improve the care we render and the outcomes we achieve, known as health care operations;

• make you aware of services and treatments that may be of interest to you;

• comply with state and federal laws that require us to disclose your health information.

We may also use or disclose your health information where you have authorized us to do so.

Although your health record belongs to SB Mindful Momentum Physical Therapy Co. the information in your record belongs to you. You have the right to:

• ensure the accuracy of your health record;

• request confidential communications between you and your physician and request limits on the use and disclosure of your health information;

• request an accounting of certain uses and disclosures of health information we have made about you. 

We are required to:

• maintain the privacy of your health information;

• provide you with notice, such as this Notice of Privacy Practices, as to our legal duties and privacy practices withrespect to information we collect and maintain about you;

• abide by the terms of our most current Notice of Privacy Practices;

• notify you if we are unable to agree to a requested restriction; 

• accommodate reasonable requests you may have to communicate health information by alternative means or at alternative locations.

We reserve the right to change our practices and to make the new provisions effective for all your health information that we maintain.

Should our information practices change, a revised Notice of Privacy Practices will be available upon request. If there is a material change, a revised Notice of Privacy Practices will be distributed to the extent required by law. We will not use or disclose your health information without your authorization, except as described in our most current Notice of Privacy Practices. In the following pages, we explain our privacy practices and your rights to your health information in more detail.

We may use or disclose your medical information in the following ways:

• Treatment. We may use and disclose your protected health information to provide, coordinate and manage your rehab care. That may include consulting with other health care providers about your health care or referring you to another health care provider for treatment including physicians, nurses, and other health care providers involved in your care. For example, we may we will release your protected health information to a specialist to whom you have been referred to ensure that the specialist has the necessary information he or she needs to diagnose and/or treat you.

• Payment. We may use and disclose your health information so that we may bill and collect payment for the services that we provided to you. For example, we may contact your health insurer to verify your eligibility for benefits, and may need to disclose to it some details of your medical condition or expected course of treatment. We may use or disclose your information so that a bill may be sent to you, your health insurer, or a family member. The information on or accompanying the bill may include information that identifies you and your diagnosis, as well as services rendered, any procedures performed, and supplies used. If, however, you pay cash at the time of service, we will not disclose your protected health information to your health plan or any other responsible payer unless you sign an authorization for us to do so. If we agree to await payment from your health plan or put you on a payment plan, we may provide health information to a collection agency, small claims court or other court of competent jurisdiction in the event your claims for our services are not paid within 90 days and you have not made alternative payment arrangements with us.

• Health Care Operations. We may use and disclose your health information to assist in the operation of our practice. For example, we may use information in your health record to assess the care and outcomes in your case and others like it as part of a continuous effort to improve the quality and effectiveness of the healthcare and services we provide. We may use and disclose your health information to conduct cost-management and business planning activities for our practice.

• Students. Student/interns in rehabilitation or health service related programs work in our facility from time to time to meet their educational requirements or to get health care experience. These students may observe or participate in your treatment or use your health information to assist in their training. You have the right to refuse to be examined, observed, or treated by any student or intern. If you do not want a student or intern to observe or participate in your care, please notify your provider.

• Business. SB Mindful Momentum Physical Therapy Co. sometimes contracts with third-party business associates for services. Examples include answering services, transcriptionists, billing services, consultants, and legal counsel. We may disclose your health information to our business associates so that they can perform the job we have asked them to do. To protect your health information, however, we require our business associates to appropriately safeguard your information.

• Appointment Reminders. We may use and disclose Information in your medical record to contact you as a reminder that you have an appointment. We usually will call you at home the day before your appointment and leave a message for you on your answering machine or with an individual who responds to our telephone call. However, you may request that we call you only at a certain number or that we refrain from leaving messages and we will endeavor to accommodate all reasonable requests.

• Treatment Options. We may use and disclose your health information in order to inform you of alternative treatments.

• Release to Family/Friends. Our staff, using their professional judgment, may disclose to a family member, other relative, close personal friend or any other person you identify, your health information to the extent it is relevant to that person’s involvement in your care or for payment related to your care. We will provide you with an opportunity to object to such a disclosure whenever we practicably can do so. We may disclose the health information of minor children to their parents or guardians unless such disclosure is otherwise prohibited by law. However, please note that state law may prohibit us from disclosing medical information to a parent or guardian at the child’s request if the child is of a certain age.

• Health-Related Benefits and Services. We may use and disclose health information to tell you about health-related benefits or services that may be of interest to you. In face- to-face communications, such as appointments with your provider, we may tell you about other products and services that may be of interest you.

• Newsletters and Other Communications. We may use your personal information in order to communicate to you via newsletters (including electronic newsletters – subject to applicable anti-spam laws), mailings, or other means regarding treatment options, health related information, disease management programs, wellness programs, or other community based initiatives or activities in which our practice is participating.

• Disaster Relief. We may disclose your health information in disaster relief situations where disaster relief organizations seek your health information to coordinate your care, or notify family and friends of your location and condition. We will provide you with an opportunity to agree or object to such a disclosure whenever we practicably can do so.

• Marketing. In most circumstances, we are required by law to receive your written authorization before we use or disclose your health information for marketing purposes. However, we may provide you with promotional gifts of nominal value and market services or products to you in face-to-face communications. Under no circumstances will we sell our patient lists or your health information to a third party without your written authorization.

• Fundraising. We may use certain information (name only, address, telephone number, date of service, age and gender) to contact you as part of fundraising efforts our practice participates in. If you do not wish to be contacted about our fundraising activities, please notify us or our privacy officer.

• Public Health Activities. We may disclose medical information about you for public health activities. These activities generally include the following:

  • licensing and certification carried out by public health authorities;

  • prevention or control of disease, injury, or disability;

  • reports of births and deaths;

  • reports of child abuse or neglect;

  • notifications to people who may have been exposed to a disease or may be at risk for contracting or spreading a disease or condition;

  • organ or tissue donation; and

  • notifications to appropriate government authorities if we believe a patient has
    been the victim of abuse, neglect, or domestic violence. We will make this disclosure when required by law, or if you agree to the disclosure, or when authorized by law and in our professional judgment disclosure is required to prevent serious harm.

• Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We may disclose to the FDA and other regulatory agencies of the federal and state government health information relating to adverse events with respect to food, supplements, products and product defects, or post-marketing monitoring information to enable product recalls, repairs, or replacement.

• Research. We may disclose your health information to researchers when the information does not directly identify you as the source of the information or when a waiver has been issued by an institutional review board or a privacy board that has reviewed the research proposal and protocols for compliance with standards to ensure the privacy of your health information.

• Workers Compensation. We may disclose your health information to the extent authorized by and to the extent necessary to comply with laws relating to workers’ compensation or other similar programs established by law.

• Law Enforcement. We may release your health information:

  •  in response to a court order, subpoena, warrant, summons, or similar process of authorized under state or federal law

  •  to identify or locate a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or similar person; about the victim of a crime if, under certain limited circumstances, we are unable to obtain the person’s
    Agreement;

  • about a death we believe may be the result of criminal conduct;

  • about criminal conduct at SB Mindful Momentum Physical Therapy Co.

  •  to coroners or medical examiners;

  •  in emergency circumstances to report a crime, the location of the crime or victims, or the identity, description, or location of the person who committed the crime;

  •  to authorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, and other national security authorized by law; and

  •  to authorized federal officials so they may conduct special investigations or provide protection to the President, other authorized persons, or foreign heads of state.

• De-identified Information. We may use your health information to create "de-identified" information or we may disclose your information to a business associate so that the business associate can create de-identified information on our behalf. When we "de-identify" health information, we remove information that identifies you as the source of the information. Health information is considered "de-identified" only if there is no reasonable basis to believe that the health information could be used to identify you.

• Personal Representative. If you have a personal representative, such as a legal guardian, we will treat that person as if that person is you with respect to disclosures of your health information. If you become deceased, we may disclose health information to an executor or administrator of your estate to the extent that person is acting as your personal representative.

• Limited Data Set. We may use and disclose a limited data set that does not contain specific readily identifiable information about you for research, public health, and health care operations. We may not disseminate the limited data set unless we enter into a data use agreement with the recipient in which the recipient agrees to limit the use of that data set to the purposes for which it was provided, ensure the security of the data, and not identify the information or use it to contact any individual.

Authorization for Other Uses of Medical Information. Uses of medical information not covered by our most current Notice of Privacy Practices or the laws that apply to us will be made only with your written authorization. You should be aware that we are not responsible for any further disclosures made by the party you authorize us to release information to. If you provide us with authorization to use or disclose medical information about you, you may revoke that authorization, in writing, at any time. If you revoke your authorization, we will no longer use or disclose medical information about you for the reasons covered by your written authorization, except to the extent that we have already taken action in reliance on your authorization or, if the authorization was obtained as a condition of obtaining insurance coverage and the insurer has the right to contest a claim or the insurance coverage itself. We are unable to take back any disclosures we have already made with your authorization, and we are required to retain our records of the care that we provided to you.

Your Health Information Rights. You have the following rights regarding medical information we gather about you:

A. Right to Obtain a Paper Copy of This Notice. You have the right to a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time. Even if you have agreed to receive this notice electronically, you are still entitled to a paper copy.
B. Right to Inspect and Copy. You have the right to inspect and copy medical information that may be used to make decisions about your care. This includes medical and billing records.

To inspect and copy medical information, you must submit a written request to our privacy officer. We will supply you with a form for such a request. If you request a copy of your medical information, we may charge a reasonable fee for the costs of labor, postage, and supplies associated with your request. We may not charge you a fee if you require your medical information for a claim for benefits under the Social Security Act (such as claims for Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, and any other state or federal needs- based benefit program.

If your medical information is maintained in an electronic health record, you also have the right to request that an electronic copy of your record be sent to you or to another individual or entity. We may charge you a reasonable cost based fee limited to the labor costs associated with transmitting the electronic health record.

C. Right to Amend. If you feel that medical information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, you may ask us to amend the information. You have the right to request an amendment for as long as we retain the information.

To request an amendment, your request must be made in writing and submitted to our privacy officer. In addition, you must provide a reason that supports your request. We may deny your request for an amendment if it is not in writing or does not include a reason to support the request. In addition, we may deny your request if you ask us to amend information that:

• was not created by us, unless the person or entity that created the information is no longer available to make the amendment

• is not part of the medical information kept by or for SB Mindful Momentum Physical Therapy Co. is not part of the information which you would be permitted to inspect and copy; or

•  is accurate and complete.

If we deny your request for amendment, you may submit a statement of disagreement. We may reasonably limit the length of this statement. Your letter of disagreement will be included in your medical record, but we may also include a rebuttal statement.

D. Right to an Accounting of Disclosures. You have the right to request an accounting of disclosures of your health information made by us. In your accounting, we are not required to list certain disclosures, including:

• disclosures made for treatment, payment, and health care operations purposes or disclosures made incidental to treatment, payment, and health care operations, however, if the disclosures were made through an electronic health record, you have the right to request an accounting for such disclosures that were made during the previous 3 years;

•  disclosures made pursuant to your authorization; • disclosures made to create a limited data set;

•  disclosures made directly to you.

To request an accounting of disclosures, you must submit your request in writing to our privacy officer. Your request must state a time period which may not be longer than six years and may not include dates before April 14, 2003. Your request should indicate in what form you would like the accounting of disclosures (for example, on paper or electronically by e-mail). The first accounting of disclosures you request within any 12-month period will be free. For additional requests within the same period, we may charge you for the reasonable costs of providing the accounting of disclosures. We will notify you of the costs involved and you may choose to withdraw or modify your request at that time, before any costs are incurred. Under limited circumstances mandated by federal and state law, we may temporarily deny your request for an accounting of disclosures.

E. Right to Request Restrictions. You have the right to request a restriction or limitation on the medical information we use or disclose about you for treatment, payment, or health care operations. If you paid out-of- pocket for a specific item or service, you have the right to request that medical information with respect to that item or service not be disclosed to a health plan for purposes of payment or health care operations, and we are required to honor that request. You also have the right to request a limit on the medical information we communicate about you to someone who is involved in your care or the payment for your care.

Except as noted above, we are not required to agree to your request. If we do agree, we will comply with your request unless the restricted information is needed to provide you with emergency treatment. To request restrictions, you must make your request in writing to our privacy officer. In your request, you must tell us:

• what information you want to limit;

• whether you want to limit our use, disclosure, or both; and • to whom you want the limits to apply.

F. Right to Request Confidential Communications. You have the right to request that we communicate with you about medical matters in a certain way or at a certain location. For example, you can ask that we only contact you at work or by e-mail. To request confidential communications, you must make your request in writing to your provider or our privacy officer. We will not ask you the reason for your request. We will accommodate all reasonable requests. Your request must specify how or where you wish to be contacted.

G. Right to Receive Notice of a Breach. We are required to notify you by first class mail or by e-mail (if you have indicated a preference to receive information by e-mail), of any breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information as soon as possible, but in any event, no later than 60 days following the discovery of the breach. “Unsecured Protected Health Information” is information that is not secured through the use of a technology or methodology identified by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to render the Protected Health Information unusable, unreadable, and undecipherable to unauthorized users. The notice is required to include the following information:

• a brief description of the breach, including the date of the breach and the date of its discovery, if known; • a description of the type of Unsecured Protected Health Information involved in the breach;

• steps you should take to protect yourself from potential harm resulting from the breach;

• a brief description of actions we are taking to investigate the breach, mitigate losses, and protect against further breaches;

• contact information, including a toll-free telephone number, e-mail address, Web site or postal address to permit you to ask questions or obtain additional information. In the event the breach involves 10 or more patients whose contact information is out of date we will post a notice of the breach on the home page of our Website or in a major print or broadcast media. If the breach involves more than 500 patients in the state or jurisdiction, we will send notices to prominent media outlets. If the breach involves more than 500 patients, we are required to immediately notify the Secretary. We also are required to submit an annual report to the Secretary of a breach that involved less than 500 patients during the year and will maintain a written log of breaches involving less than 500 patients.

5. Complaints. If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with us or with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Ave, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201. To file a complaint with us, contact our privacy officer at the address listed above. All complaints must be submitted in writing and should be submitted within 180 days of when you knew or should have known that the alleged violation occurred. See the Office for Civil Rights website, www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ for more information. You will not be penalized for filing a complaint.