Matt Phillips is an educator, podcaster, and neurodiversity advocate specialising in communication, behaviour change, running gait analysis education, and inclusive practice within MSK healthcare. With a career that began in Strength & Conditioning and later Sports Therapy, his full focus is now on education, communication training, and community building.

A major part of Matt’s current work is in Further Education, supporting individuals who were let down by mainstream schooling due to non‑inclusive environments, unrecognised learning barriers, and missed neurodivergent traits. His role centres on helping learners develop communication confidence, recognise their strengths, and rebuild a sense of agency in environments that understand and adapt to their ways of learning. This work strongly shapes his approach to clinician education, particularly around accessibility, psychological safety, and the relational nature of communication.

Matt’s CPD course, Communication & Behaviour Change Skills for Clinical Practice, integrates evidence‑informed communication models with neurodiversity‑affirming principles. Rather than focusing on “changing” people, it supports clinicians in creating conditions where understanding can emerge, therapeutic relationships can flourish, and meaningful change becomes possible through collaboration rather than correction.

Matt is founder of the Neurodivergent MSK Clinicians Facebook community – a supportive, non‑judgemental space for clinicians who identify as neurodivergent. The group provides a place to share experiences, celebrate strengths, explore sensory and cognitive differences, and discuss strategies for navigating healthcare environments that were not always designed with neurodivergent people in mind.

He is also host of the ‘STA Clinician Podcast‘ (originally called the ‘Sports Therapy Association Podcast’), a weekly show recorded live on the Sports Therapy Association YouTube channel, created to help MSK clinicians evolve toward modern, evidence‑informed practice in a supportive, non‑hierarchical space.

Before shifting fully into education, Matt founded RunChatLive, created the Runchatlive Podcast, and helped set up the first 3D Gait Analysis Lab in Nairobi, Kenya. he continues to deliver the CPD course ‘Gait Analysis for Runners: A Modern Approach‘.

Across all his work, Matt values clarity, curiosity, inclusivity, and evidence‑informed thinking. His aim is to support clinicians and learners through education that is accessible, collaborative, and grounded in both science and lived experience.

And so much more…

There is so much more we could tell you about Matt, but space is running low. He was an integral part in the creation and delivery of our ‘Hands On Hub & STA Conference’ in Exmouth, which we thank him for immensely. He has been a hugely popular speaker at Therapy Expo since it first started, now called The Therapy Show, held annually at the NEC in Birmingham.