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I help PTA, DPT, and travel-minded healthcare students find scholarships, compare Travel PTA opportunities, and plan meaningful travel with more confidence.
Based on my personal experience as a PTA, DPT student, travel healthcare worker, and solo traveler. Always verify scholarship, licensure, contract, and travel details through official sources.Iris The Travel PT
A healthcare career.
A life big enough to hold it.
Travel, DPT school, wellness, and the things I’m building along the way.


Built to Bloom
Ideas with a little more life in them.

Four worlds
Pick the chapter that fits today.
Travel, Built to Bloom, Wellness, and TelePT are different parts of the same life—not four boxes to explain before you begin.

Travel · Where I’m going
Go somewhere worth remembering.
First-person stories, destination ideas, travel-therapy resources, and planning tools.
Explore Travel →
Built to Bloom · What I’m building
Build a life alongside school.
Planners, scholarships, study support, and gentle systems for ambitious seasons.
Open Built to Bloom →
Wellness · How I can help you move
Move toward what matters.
Explore Wellness →
TelePT · How I’m rethinking care
Keep the clinician in the loop.
Explore TelePT →
How I decide what to splurge on—and where to save.
A practical look at student travel budgeting, points, energy, and the choices that make a trip feel worth it.
Read the storyA little note for today · August 12, 2026
A hard day does not erase how hard you’ve worked. Let tonight be gentle.
— Iris
What I’m building right now
Ideas with a little more life in them.
Three real projects on Iris’s desk—each useful, playful, or thoughtfully investigational in a different way.

Rehab Rush
Run the clinic. Keep the heart.
A cozy-chaotic rehab clinic sim shaped by fictional patient stories, staff dynamics, and playtester feedback.

TelePT
Investigational. Clinician-led.
Exploring more thoughtful remote physical therapy workflows and review.

Built to Bloom
A softer way to plan.
Student tools and gentle systems for making room for the whole life around school.
Have something in mind?
Let’s make something thoughtful.
Free Travel PT Resources
Choose the free tool that fits your next step.
Popular Resources
Explore the resources built to help you plan school, funding, and travel with more ease.
Start with the resource that fits your season: funding DPT school, finding DPT student support, planning Korea, building a China itinerary, or getting a soft first-pass travel plan from Iris The Travel PT Planner.
Scholarship Resources
Search PTA, PTA-to-DPT, DPT, healthcare, first-generation, minority, women, and graduate scholarship opportunities.
Explore the resource DPTDPT Student Resources
Find scholarships, PTA-to-DPT support, study resources, clinical prep, productivity tools, and wellness routines for DPT school.
Explore the resource KoreaKorea Travel Guide
Explore Korea itineraries, Seoul and Busan planning, cafes, beauty, winter travel, and student-friendly trip notes.
Explore the resource ChinaChina Travel Guide
Plan around Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, pandas, food, photoshoots, hotels, apps, and solo travel logistics.
Explore the resourceWellness
A softer way to track food, fitness, habits, and travel wellness.
For DPT students, travel therapy clinicians, busy professionals, and travelers who want sustainable routines without all-or-nothing pressure.
Open Wellness Planner- Meal ideas and planning
- Habit tracking
- Gym program
- Travel wellness routines