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Meet Our Team!

Kathryn Cieniewicz, PT, MSPT, CAPS, CEAC

Kathryn graduated from Northeastern University in Boston, MA in 2003 with her Masters Degree in Science of Physical Therapy. She is also certiﬁed as an Aging in Place Specialist and an Environmental Access Consultant. Kathryn has been a practicing Physical Therapist for fifteenyears, starting her career in New Jersey at one of the best sub-acute rehab hospitals in the country in 2003- Kessler Institute (now Select Medical). She moved to Delaware in 2006 with her husband Mark and then in 2014, decided to follow her passion for helping seniors and started Aging in Place Specialists. Currently, through her company, Aging in Place Specialists, Kathryn has dedicated her career to helping individuals strategize and achieve the ability to stay in their homes as they get older, through in-home Physical Therapy, consulting, service coordination, and home modiﬁcations. Aging in Place Specialists is best known in the community for their stellar treatment of balance and low back pain conditions, as well as a reliable service for home environment changes that enhance the quality of life for their clients. Kathryn lives in Lewes, Delaware with her husband Mark and two young boys, Landon and Noah. She enjoys photography walks with her husband, reading, bike riding, and traveling.

Mary Ann Gargano PT, MSPT, CAPS

With over 19 years of experience, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from Long Island University in New York in 1999. She has worked in 3 different states, and in various settings, including in-patient acute care, respiratory and cardiac rehab, out-patient orthopedics, assisted living, nursing homes, and home care P.T. Her experience treating back pain and other orthopedic diagnoses is extensive, including Continuing Education classes that broadened her knowledge base in this area. Mary Ann has also taken many courses specializing in manual therapy techniques treating the upper, mid, and low back. Her interest in this field started in her 20’s, when she injured her left knee playing volleyball and was sent for Physical Therapy to avoid surgery. In 6 weeks, she was up and running, literally. Impressed with her success, and already having an interest in medicine and sports, she went back to school and started training to become a Physical Therapist. Her career in Physical Therapy has been a very rewarding one- she gets to help people feel better, function better, and have an improved quality of life.

Dr. Yvonne Cipressi DPT, LSVT (BIG), CEES

Yvonne has 24 years of experience in the field of Physical Therapy. After working as a Physical Therapist Assistant and an educator in the field, she decided to further her career and received her Master’s Degree in Health Education at Arcadia University and her Doctorate Degree in Physical Therapy in 2011 from Neumann University. She is passionate about teaching and helping people recover from injury. She has worked in most rehab medicine clinical settings which lends to her positive outcomes with each patient’s goals. She has worked extensively with back pain as well as Parkinson’s Disease. She is certified in the Parkinson’s Disease Protocol, and is a Lee Silverman Voice Training (LSVT) BIG clinician- trained to deliver research protocol exercises targeting persons with neurologic disability. Parkinson’s Disease is the original population to receive benefits from “recalibration” in quantity, quality and velocity of movement necessary to remain safe in their surroundings. Dr. Cipressi has applied this protocol to other conditions of mobility dysfunction with positive outcomes including family training.

Joy Kidd is our Administrative Assistant.

She keeps our office running smoothly and is a wonderful resource to our clinical staff. She is often the first point of contact for our patients and came to us from the Rehoboth Beach Chamber of Commerce.

We are happy to have her and her extensive administrative knowledge!