I am grateful to have received my Masters degree from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado in Clinical Mental Health with a concentration in Mindfulness- Based Transpersonal Counseling Psychology. I have received additional counseling training at the Gestalt Institute of the Rockies and Appalachian State University. My education has shown me the beauty of turning toward what is right there, with curiosity and compassion. I am continuously humbled by the teachings that encourage us to kindly stay with ourselves and our experience, opposed to doing everything in our power to abandon ourselves or avoid our pain. Many individuals are suffering from the shame that something is “wrong” with them and that they need to be “fixed.” My approach supports clients in returning to their innate wholeness.

The process of coming home to oneself can be tender, and I hold this work with care. Within the therapeutic relationship, core beliefs and patterns can be explored and refined. Through attuned listening, I assist clients in making the unconscious material of their psyches and lives, conscious. Our work will celebrate your instincts and strengthen your self trust. I use an integrative and client-centered approach, which takes different shapes depending on what content arises for the client. You can read more about the modalities I may draw from, below.

MINDFULNESS-BASED & BODY-CENTERED THERAPY Tracking one’s internal world is a practice that can inspire clear-seeing, which can be especially helpful when navigating discomfort. I am inspired by the discovery that is possible when individuals get curious about their felt experience. As a lifelong embodiment student and teacher, I am passionate about the information we can access in the body. I also believe the body reveals in its own timing, and I work with a trauma-informed lens. We work together to attune to the intelligence of the animal body and the nervous system.

GESTALT THERAPY Gestalt therapy interventions allow individuals to get to know and consciously interact with the many parts of the self that are housed within. Integration is the process of finding healthy ways for these parts to work together in one’s system. This work is experiential and dynamic.

ECOTHERAPY Remembering one’s innate wildness can be relieving. I trust the relationship we each hold with the natural world as a resource for healing. When appropriate, one’s relationship with nature can be used in the therapeutic process.

Influences + Inspirations

I care about supporting thriving human life. I am grateful to the teachers and practices that guide and inspire my walk.

• Physiologic Baby Care Course with Rachelle Seliga of Innate Traditions 

   Attachment based understanding of the physiological design of human babies and their needs for care as well as postpartum physiology of mothers 

• The Matrona Holistic Birth Doula program with Whapio Bartlett

• Member of Core Teaching Faculty at Embodied Youth 360 Teacher Training

• Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: An Experiential Introduction Training

• 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Certification- Yoga Alliance

• Student of Naropa University Graduate program

• Student of Gestalt Institute of the Rockies

• Student of post graduate certificate level Eco Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy coursework- Appalachian State University

• Rewilding Your Work: Ecotherapy Applications for Helping Professionals : Gestalt + Nature based training with Kimberly Rose

• Student of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms

• Student of The 360 Emergence with Amber Ryan and Kate Shela

• Non Violent Communication Training