Meet The Team

Ellen Humphrey, PT, DPT, Founder Dr. Humphrey is a licensed physical therapist with over 30 years experience teaching physical therapy and working clinically in outpatient orthopedics, sports medicine and women’s health. She is a highly regarded clinician known for her physical therapy expertise and caring professional manner. Dissatisfied with increasing depersonalization and fragmentation of patient…

Terri Weinberg, Medical Exercise Coach, Physical Therapy Tech Meet Stephanie Apaez, our office manager! Stephanie comes to us with many years of experience as a healthcare manager. Stephanie handles all of our billing, our scheduling, and oversees our day to day operations. Stephanie enjoys working with patients and loves to work as part of a…

Amy Shortal, PT, MS Amy Shortal comes to Physical Therapy of Lake Forest from Still Water Physical Therapy where she was fortunate to be inspired by mentors who helped her to become a skilled clinician specializing in SI dysfunction, corrective exercise, soft tissue mobilization, and functional dry needling.  She is proud of the six years she spent honing…

Paul Schmidt Paul Schmidt grew up in Arlington Heights and graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in Physical Education in minor in Sports Medicine. He worked for years an athletic trainer, certified. When he realized his passion for rehabilitation,  he then went to physical therapy school at Hogeschool Enschede (now Saxion University) in…