ABOUT TIFFANY
Tiffany Caronia, PT, DPT
Physical Therapist • Pelvic Health • Movement Educator
Tiffany Caronia is a licensed physical therapist, pelvic health clinician, and longtime movement and yoga educator based in Los Angeles. Her approach to physical therapy is rooted in education, empowerment, and helping people develop a greater understanding of their bodies and confidence in their ability to move.
Tiffany’s path to physical therapy began long before she entered the clinic. After more than a decade working as a publicist in Hollywood, she discovered a consistent yoga practice during a particularly demanding period of her life. What began as a way to become physically stronger evolved into an exploration of movement, resilience, body awareness, and the relationship between physical and emotional experience.
FROM YOGA TO PHYSICAL THERAPY
That curiosity led Tiffany to leave her career in publicity and immerse herself in the study and teaching of movement. She completed more than 750 hours of yoga training, including advanced certification in Annie Carpenter’s SmartFLOW Yoga as well as training in Yoga Tune Up® and Yoga Therapy Rx at Loyola Marymount University. She went on to teach yoga full-time for several years, working with people across a wide range of ages, abilities, and health experiences.
Her work as a yoga teacher brought her into contact with people navigating chronic pain and complex conditions, including Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and hypermobility, POTS, lupus, fibromyalgia, and trauma-related pain. Those experiences deepened her interest in the science of movement and rehabilitation and ultimately inspired her to pursue physical therapy so she could better support people with complex needs through evidence-informed care.
PHYSICAL THERAPY + PELVIC HEALTH
Tiffany earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Mount Saint Mary’s University, where she developed a particular interest in pelvic health and integrative approaches to persistent pain and movement dysfunction. During her clinical training, she became increasingly aware of gaps in care surrounding women’s and pelvic health and was drawn to a specialty that brought together many of her existing interests: movement, the nervous system, pain, breath, function, and helping people feel more informed and empowered in their bodies.
Today, Tiffany works in both pelvic health and orthopedic physical therapy. Her clinical approach integrates therapeutic exercise, strength and mobility training, neuromuscular re-education, breathwork, kinesthetic awareness, and principles informed by her years of yoga study and teaching. She is particularly interested in working with people experiencing pelvic health concerns, hypermobility, POTS, persistent pain, and the changing movement and functional needs that occur throughout the lifespan.
Mindfulness continues to influence the way Tiffany practices physical therapy—not as a replacement for rehabilitation, but as a tool for developing awareness. She encourages patients to notice their own experience, understand how their bodies respond to movement and load, and use that information alongside clinical guidance to make informed decisions about their care.
Above all, Tiffany believes rehabilitation should be collaborative. Her goal is not simply to provide exercises, but to help each person develop the knowledge, capacity, and confidence to participate actively in their own care and return to the activities that matter to them.
BEYOND THE CLINIC
When she isn’t working with patients or teaching movement, Tiffany can usually be found strength training at the gym, climbing the Santa Monica stairs, or catching up on some much-needed sleep.