My initiation into somatic healing began in 2012. I was the founding director of a nonprofit when I began to experience debilitating health symptoms that evaded mainstream treatments. Through the loving assistance of two healing guides, I began to understand my symptoms as messages my body was sending to me. As I attuned to my inner voice, I realized the life I was living was incongruent with my true heart’s desires.

At first, there was an immobilizing fear of leaving behind the safety I had cultivated. But every time I listened to my inner voice, my chronic symptoms would ease and I felt a world of possibility beyond my limited perspective. I followed that voice to the deepest depths of my soul and remotest corners of the world to heal myself and learn my true purpose. Along the way, I have been the eternally-grateful recipient of many teachers’ wisdoms, combining new and old, local and global, East and West.

Fast forward many years later, I no longer experience any of my former chronic health symptoms and more importantly, I have cultivated an unwavering trust in my ability to alchemize life’s challenges.

My purpose is to help others heal the wound of disconnection from self, other and the Earth. The five points of reconnection are:

  1. The Erotic: Igniting life-force energy,

  2. The Emotional: Embracing feelings and releasing deep-seeded emotions,

  3. The Natural: Cultivating our primal and wild self through reconnection with the Earth,

  4. The Inner-Child & Ancestral: Healing primary wounds from birth, early childhood and ancestry,

  5. The Energetic: Learning our role in the cosmos and channeling our unique gifts.

My work is depathologizing, anti-hierarchical, co-creative, intuitive and trauma informed. I value safety and integration.

I am a forever student, always learning and growing from my own journey and the lessons I receive from working with my clients.

Training:

  • Masters in Social Work at University at Buffalo (in progress)

  • Somatic Experiencing International, Intermediate Level

  • Family Constellation Practitioner & Teacher at Journey to the Heart with Marilene Metzler

  • Non-Violent Communication with Lyndsey Harrington

  • Yoga Alliance 200 hr YTT with Dan Ward

  • Wellness & Breathwork, self study

  • Qigong and Taoist Tantra with Mantak Chia

  • Attachment Theory with Sue Johnson

  • Shamanism and Energetic Massage with Chi Kim

  • Herbalism and naturalism, self-taught and study with Desiree Wells

  • Shadow work, inner child healing and parts work with Emily Arin

  • School of Womanly Arts, Mastery Program with Regena Thomashauer

  • Ayurveda with Janine Ekulona

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine, Aroma Acupoint Therapy, Shiatsu with Soteria Spyridakos

  • BA in Sociology from Pomona College

Awards:

  • Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year (Maryland, 2015)

  • The Daily Record, 20 in Their Twenties (2016)

  • Global Shapers Member, World Economic Forum

  • Ignition Award (2013)

  • The Napier Award for Creative Leadership (2012)

  • Joseph Meyerhoff Memorial Scholarship (2008)

  • TEDx Speaker

  • Aspen Institute Speaker