I know what it feels like
to be living a life that looks right
and feels like it’s missing something.
I have been in the hustle. I built a business, managed a team, showed up for clients, and raised small children — all at once, all the time. On the surface I had it all together. Underneath, I was falling apart.
I was deeply engaged with life — just not with my life’s deeper current. I was living almost entirely in my head — producing, proving, performing — while something quieter in me had been trying to get my attention for a long time. I didn’t pause long enough to hear it. And eventually, my body made sure I did.
I got sick. Not dramatically. Just the way a body tells the truth when you’ve stopped listening to it. And in the slowdown that followed, I began the most important work of my life — not the work I had been doing for others, but the work I had been prescribing without fully doing myself.
Nervous system regulation. Learning to feel safe in my body. Learning to trust what I sense. Letting myself be held in circles of people doing honest work. Following the whispers I had been overriding for years.
I may always drift from regulation and my own knowing and need to find my way back. That is not a flaw in the journey — it is the journey. And this work — helping others find and follow their own current — is not separate from mine. It is an expression of it. The more deeply I am connected to my own current, the more I am able to help you find yours. This is not something I do from a distance. I am in it, right alongside you.
I know what it costs to keep overriding your own knowing. I know the particular exhaustion of a life lived disconnected from a deeper truth — out of alignment with the current that was there all along. And I know what becomes possible when you finally pause long enough to feel what has been waiting underneath everything.
And sometimes it isn't that something is missing. Sometimes you have built something real and beautiful — and you are moving through it too fast to feel it. For me it was both: the burnout and the disconnection were happening inside a life I actually loved. I wasn't missing what mattered. I was missing the presence to receive it. This work is as much about that — about learning to be here, fully and finally, for the life that is already yours.
Where science meets spirit
I am a trauma psychologist by training and a spirit-led guide by nature. These two things have never felt in conflict to me — they have always felt like two halves of the same whole.
I want you to have the science. I want you to understand what is happening in your nervous system, why your body responds the way it does, what the research actually says about how humans change. That knowledge gives you footing. It makes the work feel trustworthy and real.
And I also want to go where the science points but can’t fully contain. The intelligence in your body that doesn’t speak in logic. The guidance system that has been trying to get your attention. The connection to something larger than yourself that you have been quietly curious about — maybe even hungry for — and haven’t known how to approach without feeling like you’ve left your rational self behind.
You don’t have to choose between knowing and feeling. Between the rigorous and the sacred. I hold both — because I believe both are necessary.
I am not standing at the front of the room as someone who has arrived. I am someone who is in it — who has done the hard work of coming home to herself, and who knows intimately what it costs not to. I bring that alongside clinical training, sharp instincts, and a deep commitment to holding you with both gentleness and clarity.
I will hold the container for your process steady while you find out what’s waiting for you inside.
Background and Training
My path to this work has never been a straight line.
I began my career as a humanitarian aid worker in Africa, drawn to the places where human resilience was most visible and most needed. That work led me to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where I earned my MA — and where I met my husband. We moved to the Dominican Republic, where I worked with the United Nations Refugee Agency, before eventually making our home in Denver, Colorado.
In Denver I became a trauma psychologist, earning my Psy.D in clinical psychology. I spent years doing deep clinical work — understanding the nervous system, the body’s memory of experience, and what it actually takes for a human being to change. That foundation lives in everything I do, even as the containers have evolved.
After years of clinical work, I built my own private practice and grew a consulting and coaching business — working with executives, teams, and families alongside individual clients. I was doing meaningful work. And I was also, without fully realizing it, building the exact conditions that would eventually bring me to my knees and back to myself.
I am also trained in trauma-informed psychedelic-assisted therapy, certified in breathwork facilitation, and have spent years studying somatic practices, nervous system regulation, and the intersection of psychology and spiritual inquiry. I bring all of it — the clinical and the intuitive, the proven and the emergent — into every piece of this work.