Our Story

Built from the inside out.

Woosha didn't start as a business idea. It started as a question: why isn't there a tool that actually addresses anxiety the way the body experiences it?

How it started

A question that wouldn't let go.


Woosha was created by Dr. Lindsay Izzo, DPT, MTC — a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Manual Therapy Certified specialist who spent over a decade in aerospace engineering before focusing on the nervous system and the body-mind connection. She is currently pursuing further certification in pain management, deepening her study of how the body holds stress — and how calm is restored.

Working with patients, she kept seeing the same pattern: anxiety isn't just a thought. It lives in the body. In the breath that won't slow down. In muscles that won't release. In a nervous system that never quite gets the message that it's safe.

The tools that existed were beautiful. But they were built by tech companies, not by people who understood the body. And they were designed for the mind alone — not the body-mind connection Dr. Izzo knew was the key.

"Anxiety lives in the body, not just the mind. I wanted to build something that actually knew that."

So she built Woosha — alongside her mother, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brought decades of counseling experience to every decision about content, tone, and approach.

But the person who built Woosha, line by line, is Alex Izzo — Dr. Izzo’s husband and co-founder. Two engineering degrees, mechanical and aerospace, and more than twenty years at Boeing gave him the discipline; teaching himself software gave him the range. He wrote the vast majority of Woosha by hand, turning a body-first vision into something fast, reliable, and quietly powerful. Alex is the kind of engineer who won’t let a problem go until it’s right — and that relentlessness is a large part of why Woosha works the way it does.

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Woosha
Your calm companion.
Always here. Always ready.
The Team

Built by people who understand.

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Alex Izzo
Co-Founder · Lead Engineer

The engineer who built Woosha. Alex holds two engineering degrees — mechanical and aerospace — and spent more than two decades at Boeing, first in stress engineering, then in software. Then he taught himself to build apps, and poured every bit of that range into Woosha, writing the vast majority of it himself. His work ethic is relentless in the best way — he doesn’t stop until it’s right. He took Dr. Izzo’s vision for body-first calm and made it real: fast when you need it, quiet when you don’t, so the technology disappears and the calm comes through.

Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Self-Taught Software Boeing · 21 Years Built Most of Woosha
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Dr. Lindsay Izzo
Founder · DPT, MTC

With a background spanning aerospace engineering and specialized practice in the nervous system and body-mind connection — with further certification in pain management underway — Dr. Izzo brings a uniquely rigorous lens to wellness. She built Woosha because she saw a gap between how anxiety is experienced in the body and how wellness apps were designed to address it.

DPT, MTC Pain Management (in progress) Nervous System Aerospace Engineering Somatic Rehab
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Dr. Catherine Stower
Advisor · PhD, LPC, LMHC

Dr. Stower is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a doctorate and a career spanning some of the most demanding counseling environments imaginable — including work with military personnel and their families. With extensive experience supporting both adults and children navigating anxiety, she brings a rare breadth of perspective to Woosha. Her guidance ensures every feature is grounded in real-world counseling experience, not just theory.

PhD LPC LMHC Military Populations Adults & Children Anxiety Specialist
Our Mission

Why Woosha exists.

"To make research-grounded anxiety support accessible to anyone — wherever they are, whenever they need it, in a form that actually meets the body where it lives."
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Evidence First

Nothing in Woosha exists without real expertise and research behind it.

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Complement, Don't Replace

We're a complement to professional care — never a substitute for it.

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Privacy Always

Your data is yours. We will never compromise that.

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Whole-Person Care

Mind and body, together. That's the only approach that works.

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