About Tidal Work
Body mechanics matter. Neurology matters more.
Tidal Work is built on the idea that your nervous system is the bedrock of your physical wellness — because it is.
Many folks approach rehabilitation through a “fix it” lens: do the exercises, exactly as written, expect to get better. Except bodies are more than muscle. Your nervous system is always sensing for safety or threat. When we feel vulnerable — postpartum, in chronic pain, or living in a body that doesn't feel totally ours — our bodies respond by making it harder to connect and recover.
That's why rigid rehabilitation doesn't work for folks with complex bodies and stories. Let's try something different. Movement is an opportunity to build one of the most valuable, durable skills we have: the ability to listen and respond to ourselves.
At Tidal Work you'll find precise, innovative movement for pelvic-health rehabilitation with a whole-body lens — and an approach that centers body trust and autonomy, not strict adherence to an external voice. A space to come to for healing and stay for spaciousness, joy, and growth — approached with curiosity and care.
Welcome. I'm so glad you're here.
— Cait
About Cait
Dr. Cait Van Damm, OTD, OT/L — pelvic floor occupational therapist
Dr. Cait Van Damm, OTD, OT/L, is a pelvic floor occupational therapist specializing in supporting complex chronic pelvic pain. She believes fiercely in supporting body autonomy through movement.
Cait began her career as a yoga teacher fifteen years ago and has always been interested in using movement as a modality to engage with the body on a physical, energetic, and emotional plane. Her original movement training focused on precision “alignment”, giving her an eagle eye for movement patterns and honing her use of language to help others better understand their own movement abilities.
After completing a clinical doctorate in occupational therapy, Cait ran a successful solo private pelvic health practice in Boston, MA. She was privileged to support hundreds of clients through their experiences of pelvic pain, pregnancy and postpartum, gender affirmation care, and chronic illness care.
During this time, Cait gave birth to twins, navigated a slew of autoimmune diagnoses, and changed her relationship with movement many times. She trained in pilates, functional fitness, and weight lifting, taking the time to learn in order to better understand the anatomy and physiology of different movement styles. Her experience with her own hypermobility led her to focus on joint stabilization while continuing to utilize the freedom and joy she initially felt from yoga.
But something was missing. In 2023, Cait began building the Embodied Resilience Framework – a coaching methodology that incorporates modern pain neuroscience with movement and biomechanics.
Embodied Resilience is an autonomy-focused framework that seeks to establish a communicative and responsive relationship with the body, while also finding “foundations of safety” – usually positions or movements – that create the conditions for the nervous system to experience long term change.
Unlike her previous “alignment”-based work, this new way of moving integrates a precision-based biomechanical knowledge and cues, then leaves it to the person moving to take that information and adapt it to their own body. You get to explore the range of movement and load that feels safe, interesting, or challenging to you.
The work is highly individualized and encourages participants to begin to listen to and trust their own unique signals.
Tidal Work brings Embodied Resilience to everyone. It is Cait's deepest offering, the culmination of decades of professional and self-study.
Cait now lives in Baltimore with her partner, delightfully neurodivergent twins, and highly energetic chocolate lab. Her biggest joys include walking her kids to school, alone time while swimming laps, DIY beauty experiments, and long mornings at the farmers' market.