Taylor Graham
PT, DPT
Physical Therapist
Western Washington University University of Washington
LWPT Kirkland
Taylor is from Burlington, WA and grew up playing a variety of sports including soccer, track, cross country, and wrestling throughout high school and into her college years. She completed her undergraduate degree at Western Washington University and earned her Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics in 2016. During her time at Western, she competed on the Cross Country and Indoor & Outdoor Track team all four years and qualified for NW Conference her senior year in the 800m. While training in Bellingham, she fell in love with trail running and experienced various running-related injuries, which brought her into physical therapy.
Her physical therapy experiences inspired her to pursue a career to help others return to their active lifestyles as well. She then pivoted her education by adding prerequisites for physical therapy school and gained observation hours in the Bellingham area in anticipation for graduate school.
Following her graduation, she moved south and worked for 1.5 years as a physical therapy aide in Bellevue. While working as an aide, she also coached High School Girls’ Wrestling for the Burlington program for two seasons where she also designed and led workouts for conditioning and injury prevention. Taylor continued her education in the PNW and received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of Washington.
Taylor is already familiar with the Downtown Kirkland clinic and met the team during one of her clinical rotations with Megan O’Connell and Ben Wobker while she was in PT school. During her education, she also worked in other outpatient orthopedic clinics with a special interest in gait analysis and in an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Idaho where she treated patients with diagnoses ranging from advanced Parkinson’s to post-amputation.
Taylor hopes to continue to see a variety of people (with a special interest in athletes, running-related injuries, and vestibular pathologies) to help return them to a more functional, pain-free lifestyle whatever that may be.
Outside of work, Taylor enjoys spending time with her dog, distance trail running, mountaineering, climbing, camping, concerts, and baking.