SERVICES
COUNSELING & THERAPY
My counseling work is collaborative, strengths-based, compassion-focused, humanistic, transpersonal, somatic, and existential. My role as a trauma-aware holistic counselor blends all that I have learned over time in service to safe integration and resolution. I employ a biopsychosocial spiritual orientation and am honored to work with people of all orientations and from every region of the world. If I am not able to offer effective counseling for an individual, I am happy to help find practitioners who can. I recognize my identities and work to keep them neutral in therapeutic spaces. My approach is ecological and holistic, meaning I work with the whole system even as we focus on a goal. My background in bodywork has taught me that where the pain manifests is often not where it is from. We are all vastly complex. We are also very embedded with patterns, some useful and others not as much. Counseling is a perfect place to explore our complexity and patterns and to choose how to cultivate ongoing meaning and authentic expression in a non-judgmental environment.
Heart Centered Hypnotherapy is a synthesis of a variety of evidence based therapy modalities combined with the best of hypnotherapy to access and resolve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual issues. Life-long patterns rooted in core beliefs, subconscious programming and memory are brought into consciousness and healed in a safe and structured environment. HCH is a way to support and heal parts of ourselves that are not normally accessible with traditional therapy. We build internal resources as part of each session so the client can continue to work between sessions in a useful and productive way. I teach clients how to stay connected to their internal resources to create healthy new beliefs.
Somatic-based trauma healing modality rooted in the latest in neuroscience for trauma and attachment healing, Hikomi & mindfulness.
Pat Ogden, the creator of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is, like me, a structural integrator and psychotherapist and weaves in the latest in polyvagal theory and trauma aware process work and finally her Buddhist spiritual path to offer a truly holisitc modality in service of healing and development.
Support for navigating a diagnosis, planning the last chapter of life, legacy projects, pain relief processes, forgiveness work and all other aspects of this sacred transition. Healthy aging. Ceremonial and memorial services.
TRANSPERSONAL PROCESSES
The transpersonal has been defined as experiences in which the sense of identity or self extends beyond (trans) the individual or personal to encompass wider aspects of humankind, life, psyche or cosmos. So, Transpersonal processing includes working with the infinitely diverse experiences of life and includes those that are not easily measured.
During transpersonal sessions, we resource and attend to energetic patterns both conscious and unconscious, past lives, womb work, blood and womb cleansing, ancestorial work, attachments, soul retrieval, lineage/ancestral work, soul level commitments, vows, amendments and many other aspects of spiritual work. This work is a unique and original experience each time. I draw from the vast resources brought forward by all human culture, subtle modalities and the social and biological sciences. I track and guide each session firmly rooted in ethical communication and consent. We journey to find resources specific to your needs, to meet allies committed to supporting you and of course, to heal and expand consciousness. Journeying is a very rich practice that opens worlds that many other processes cannot access. Guided journeying is an empowering way to do much needed healing work as you learn deeper ways to support yourself. Working with personal records/beliefs, compassionate deposession, soul retrieval, womb and blood cleansing, lineage patterns/ancestral work, collective healing and more…
Guided journeying is a blend of many modalities and my own evolution as a provider. it has developed in vivo, meaning in my work with clients over years. A journey differs from a process-based session in that a journey is not planned. Instead, a journey starts with an intention and I guide us where we need to go to find our way. We journey on behalf of the client so I am just a guide and attendant of the energic hygiene and climate. It is one of the most profound expressions of healing work I have ever practiced.
Guided Journeying is a wonderful maintenance self-care practice but is especially helpful when deeper healing is needed.
- When feeling fragmented/scattered or like something is missing from your wholeness
- When feeling unsupported/alone in life/abandoned
- When feeling foggy/ungrounded/spacey/disconnected
- When feeling lost/non-committal/accident prone
- When feeling exhausted/drained
- When feeling bound/limited/trapped
SOMATIC & MANUAL THERAPIES
SOMA Neuromuscular Integration is transformative bodywork based on the inseparability of body, mind, emotions and environment. It is a system of manual and movement therapy that optimizes neuromuscular patterning for systemic balance. SOMA is an International Association of Structural Integrators approved school of Structural Integration. Dr. Ida P. Rolf pioneered structural integration and her work demonstrated the central role of fascia in structural health. Since fascia is our organ of form it is integral to how we experience movement, posture and our environment. Fascia can thicken, harden and adhere to adjacent tissue in areas that are injured, bound by repetitive stress or are being pulled out of alignment by compensation patterns. SOMA Structural Integrators work hands on with the body and engage clients in gentle movements to help loosen and rehydrate the tissue that has become sticky and bound. Through the SOMA process, clients receive somatic re-education and movement tools on sitting, standing and locomotion. Every SOMA session brings the body into a higher level of organization so one can move through life with more ease, grace and freedom.
There are two main schools of craniosacral therapy. Biomechanical craniosacral is rooted in the physiological reality that living systems move and that is the sign of life. So, this approach works with tissue and fluid dynamics to support healing and regulation. The way that life moves is in patterns and rhythms and those rhythms and patterns are impacted my our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual lives. This model approaches the work via optimizing these patterns.
Biodynamic craniosacral work is based on a shamanistic and meditative approach as well as on physiological facts, making it profound, potent and powerful. The biodynamic approach works with tissue, fluid and field meaning practitioners cultivate abilities to support the tissue body, the fluid body and the energy body.
Craniosacral therapy is based on the understanding that the same natural forces shaping the world also influence the human body. It focuses on a concept called Primary Respiration—a subtle, rhythmic movement present in all living organisms. This movement is distinct from other natural rhythms like respiratory and heart heartbeat and plays a critical role in maintaining physiological balance.
My very first training in the healing arts and sciences was reiki in 2000. Since then I have studied with numerous teachers and multiple modalities and continue to find interesting energetic medicine courses to take. In addition to being attuned at the teacher/master level of reiki and attuned to the teacher level in transpersonal process facilitation, I draw from the vitalist tradition (vedic, TCH-nature based), polarity, sourcepoint (L1 only), subtle energy, biodynamic craniosacral & visceral, nervous system support and field work, applied kinesiology, pattern recognition employing my system as witness/observer, dreams, meditation instruction, symbols and archetypes in service of an individual and more.
Remember, when we are talking energy it is actual energy and not some esoteric concept…It is literally your bioelectrical energy, your heart field, your breath vibration, your subtle bodies and soul emanating presence! Nature!!
There two main ways that energy work happens.
The first one I usually call the open system approach. It is when the practitioner brings in energetic support on behalf of the client. This can happen in a variety of ways including attunements, transmission, channeling and more. Examples of this type of energy work are reiki and therapeutic touch.
The second way energetic work happens is what I call the closed system approach. This approach is when the practitioner works with the energy of the client only and does not bring in outside energetic support. This approach is in service of balance and hygiene. Examples of this approach are polarity therapy and pranic healing.
there are yet other energetic medicine systems like sourcepoint that are unique so I will called it a transpersonal approach to energy medicine
OTHER SERVICES
I offer custom essences for people and animals. I have been a devoted student and crafter of flower essences for over 30 years and believe that everyone can benefit from these powerful yet gentle medicines.
Essences are gentle yet profoundly powerful medicines that support the system on the consciousness level. From there, they help nudge, steer and orient the system toward balance and healing. Sometimes they are subtle and other times they are very obvious in their therapeutic support.
I work with literally hundreds and am adding to my collection all the time. My process of building a formula for a client in a layered one. I blend my understanding of plant families, their floral signature and evolutionary placement with multiple processes of discernment. Once complete the formula is charged in different ways depending on the situation, need and intention of the client.
An ordained minister is a member of clergy who has been authorized to perform spiritual services and provide guidance to a community.
I became an ordained minister in 2008 so that I could offer ceremonial and memorial services for my clients including weddings, funerals and other sacred transitions in life.
For example, when a client was diagnosed with a terminal illness my ordination made it possible for me to interact with the rest of the care team and funeral services team to support the desires of my client. This service is so important because it gives the client agency and creative license to plan their post-mortem services. This is called legacy work and it is infinitely creative.
This same process is applied with weddings, births ect…
With weddings the process work prior to the event varies greatly depending on the couple from very structured planning over 6-9 months to in-the-moment journeying. Vow writing, values work, symbolism and all the other details are attended to.
Weaving the sacred and the mundane based on the clients worldview and wishes!!
The concept of geography applies to the physical, social, spiritual, cultural, emotional ect… WHERE things happen matters and we are wise to attend to spaces. Spaces in our bodies, minds, hearts and also locations where life happens. This work is central to my work as a provider. I offer memorial and ceremonial services for places, spaces and locations like homes, offices and places where significant events have occurred or will occur. I also offer healing work for such spaces. These offerings are unique to each situation and weave together the important aspects of the situation for the client(s) and the place. Examples of this type of work is a memorial space for a loved one who has passed on or a place to cultivate spiritual practice. Healing work for spaces is part of our human heritage. Every culture has ways that they bless, clean, restore, organize and heal spaces. I have felt called to this work since I was a child and love it! 
An ordained minister is a member of clergy who has been authorized to perform spiritual services and provide guidance to a community.
I became an ordained minister in 2008 so that I could offer ceremonial and memorial services for my clients including weddings, funerals and other sacred transitions in life.
For example, when a client was diagnosed with a terminal illness my ordination made it possible for me to interact with the rest of the care team and funeral services team to support the desires of my client. This service is so important because it gives the client agency and creative license to plan their post-mortem services. This is called legacy work and it is infinitely creative.
This same process is applied with weddings, births ect…
With weddings the process work prior to the event varies greatly depending on the couple from very structured planning over 6-9 months to in-the-moment journeying. Vow writing, values work, symbolism and all the other details are attended to.
Weaving the sacred and the mundane based on the clients worldview and wishes!!