I met Christie back in August of 2011 when I first started to accumulate job shadowing hours for applying to Physical Therapy school. At that time, I had only shadowed 7 other therapists and only accumulated around 50 hours. At the time that I started to apply to schools and my job shadowing hours were over, I had shadowed 15 different therapists for a total of 146 hours. Of those total hours, 48 were spent with Christie in an outpatient rehabilitation setting. I learned more about the physical therapy profession, skills, and techniques used as a physical therapist more with her than any other therapist that I shadowed with. She made it her job to not only provide excellent primary care to her patients but to explain and teach me everything that she was doing for each patient. Afterwards, she would always ask me if I had questions or if I wanted something more explained. She, also, went out of her way to help me with my application process for school when she was busy with her own practice and while preparing for a symposium presentation that she was scheduled to present. She was an excellent teacher and I cannot thank her enough for all of the help and wisdom she provided me over the few years I spent shadowing her.