About me

I love my work. I love to hear people’s stories about what makes them feel alive and what inspires them. I love helping people to feel more connected to their environment and to their own ground of being in the body. I believe it is crucial in this time that we remember our shared humanity as we work to honor differences of our lived experiences and ancestral histories. My relatively recent ancestral lineage can be described as mixed European ethnicity - with the bulk of my roots in the lands of northern and western Europe, with several threads stemming from eastern European lands as well.

I have had many mystical experiences that have shaped my life in small and large ways - in the form of hidden struggles, invisible disabilities, and masked divergence - medical journeys into the underworld. I’m much more comfortable at this stage in my life honoring and harnessing my sensitivities and alchemizing my struggles into medicine for my community, although I consider my healing journey to be a never-ending life-ritual without a goal other than growth and expansion in general. I resonate deeply with the path of the Wounded Healer. And I’m proud of my scars and the wisdom they hold. 

I delight in the senses: preparing and eating delicious food, swimming in the open waters, drumming and dancing. I take pleasure in the smells of the seasons and in the transitions of every season and the transition of each day from dusk to night….night to dawn….dawn to day.

What fascinates me about the healing process in psychotherapy is reflecting upon the vulnerable, groundless mystery of the human journey and the endless revelations of the unguarded heart. Holding the space for people’s transformations and growth are the most satisfying moments in my work.

As a young person I was gendered as a woman and raced as white, although my pronouns are she/ her, my gender expression is fluid- and I believe that racism and gender discrimination are very real, but race and gender essentialism are not.  Rather they are social constructs to control bodies in support of extractive economics. 

Over the years I’ve put on and taken off many identity labels, all of which have served me for a time to understand myself and others better. 

However, at this point in my mid-to-late-life, I am more interested in the practice of contextual shapeshifting and harmonizing tendencies, and taking a more nuanced, complex, and evolving perspective in how I relate to myself and others.

I walk with several privileges within the current overculture - and as a result I am committed to the ongoing process of agitating and dismantling the inherited systemic power structures - both internally and externally.

For the past twenty years, I have been working with trauma and the body’s resilience in the realm of healing; physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I have forever as I can recall been interested in the creative and unfolding dance between Western medical models of healing and the contemplative methods of somatic inquiry and spiritual mystical ritual and inquiry. Western medicine has historically separated symptoms from the spirit of the person and treated the symptoms as a disease, leaving the spirit of the individual still sick, what I often feel as soul loss. My work has been focused on integrating these healing practices with deep listening to the individual and to what their bodies and personal narratives are telling me. My work is deep listening to the unique story of client’s injuries, tensions, and patterns in relationship. I want my clients to feel free to be themselves and trust the unfolding process.

I am very passionate about healing intergenerational complex trauma, both personally and collectively - so we are all able to turn more bravely towards each other as we move through this era of emerging with new gods, as the old systems collapse.

I see myself as a bridge between worlds and I mostly prefer to work steadily behind the scenes, away from the public face. I aspire to someday be a well known and much loved elder within my local community, but I feel no desire at this stage in my life to be accessible to the masses. I’m content with being a humble worker bee.