Gentle Pain Release Center Therapist Biographies
Eileen P. Riehman, P.T.
B.A., Behavioral Neuroscience, Lehigh University, 1991
M.Ed., College Counseling, University of Delaware, 1993
MS, Physical Therapy, Nova Southeastern University, 1997
Eileen grew up in New Jersey with her parents and three brothers. During her first week of college at Lehigh University, she began a work-study job in the physical therapy department and knew it would be a “dream come true” to work hands-on in the healing professions.
After graduation she received a masters degree in college counseling from the University of Delaware, and worked for a year in New York, taking prerequisite classes for physical therapy school. She then received her masters in Physical Therapy at NSU in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and completed her clinical training in Chicago, IL.
She worked in acute care and then rehabilitation in Birmingham, AL, then in outpatient rehabilitation in Huntsville, AL. Bitten by the “travel bug”, she became a traveling physical therapist in such settings as Florence, SC, Green Valley, AZ, Oxnard, CA, Seattle, WA, Treasure Cay, Bahamas, Asheville, NC, Beaufort, NC, and San Francisco, CA. While seeing the country she also had the opportunity to work in many different physical therapy environments, an education in itself.
Feeling both personally and professionally that she wanted to work in a therapy setting that connected the mind and body, and that would offer patients techniques such as Myofascial Release, she was excited to find The Gentle Pain Release Center when she herself needed treatment. It wasn’t a long “jump” to settle in Asheville and come to work for The Center.
Eileen still enjoys travel and experiencing new places. She also enjoys photography, running, and yoga.
