Hello, Friend.

I am so glad you’re here.

You’re in the right place if you’re looking for ways to deepen your connection with your body and find resolution from trauma patterns, so you can move through your life with an expansive nature.

Here, we go deep with a light heart, so you can continue to access your own wisdom on how to move forward long after our work together.

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The world of health and wellness is wild.

  • I’m sure you’ve experienced the media constantly telling you about a new thing that you need to “fix” to heal as a “people pleaser” (“underwhelmed vagus nerve? great, I’ll add it to the list”)

  • Maybe you’ve experienced bodywork or massage that has left you feeling the same (or worse) as when you first walked in, so you keep trying new practitioners and modalities each month with hopes of relief

  • It’s also likely that you’ve worked really hard in talk therapy or take inner work very seriously, but you aren’t sure how to integrate this into your day-to-day.

  • Perhaps you’ve noticed how closely your bodywork practice aligns with your own relationship with your body, which makes boundaries all the more important and challenging at the same time.

  • Or you crave deeply attuned personalized support and attention, that doesn’t shy away from the political nightmare we are living in (and how it affects us), but still you continue to receive general, bypassing advice that doesn’t work for you at all - leaving you feeling unseen, unheard, and honestly a little bit shamed (ugh 😒)

This is where a body-centered integration comes in.

As a veteran, caregiver, seasoned health & wellness professional, I know how hard it is to find a way/modality/provider that offers lasting solutions to our problems.

I have learned that depending on outside answers only leads to something that feels like an endless walk around the woods without trail markers - which is only sometimes fun 💁🏻.

There was a point in my life where I expected other health and wellness peers to tell me what could be “fixed” and how to remedy my “discrepancies” (ouch), which left me even more exhausted and disconnected.

I researched and tried so many tools, techniques, and methods (I, too, attempted to stimulate my vagus nerve back online).

Not to mention, I’m a health and wellness professional myself, so why couldn’t I figure myself out?

It wasn’t until I worked with practitioners who centered my own intuition and connection to body that I finally realized I had MY answers with me, the whole time.

Don’t get me wrong, my “healing journey” didn’t end after my newfound clarity (I’m not even sure that’s a thing in the world we live in), but it did lead me to the understanding that I was abandoning myself to find connection and feel whole.

Oof.

So, who am I to help you?

  • I am a trauma-informed somatic practitioner, licensed bodyworker, and therapeutic movement guide with a master’s degree in psychology and nearly 20 years of experience in health care💫

  • I have supported hundreds of people by helping them build a deeper relationship with their bodies and intuition that inevitably leads them back to their own magic 🌀

    • my clients are mostly trauma survivors who experience chronic pain/illness, including CPTSD, EDS/hyper-mobility, and sensory processing disorders

  • I bring a down-to-earth approach to body-centered integration that really supports looking at the big and scary feelings we hide from ourselves, like shame

  • I want every individual I work with to find resolution and accommodations around trauma response patterns, build practices that foster connection with body, and live life knowing a sense of ease and belonging 🫂

Let me tell you what IS possible with a body-based practice.

  • I am now a resourced partner/community member/practitioner who has the capacity to hold people in their integrity without shying away from big emotional experiences that might have previously been mutually activating

  • I have access to my own clear intuition and a method of communication that supports deeper attunement with others

  • I feel a stronger sense of self-agency that empowers not only myself but the people I surround myself with, in the interest of integrity

Qualifications

    • Studied and practiced Interdisciplinary Movement and Somatic Groundwork with Kaila June

    • Over 20 years of anatomy and physiology education, including formal courses

    • Numerous formal kinesiology courses based in health and exercise science

    • Certificate for 900 hours of massage therapy training from National Holistic Institute

    • Certificate for 200 hours of Yoga teacher training from Circle Yoga Shala

    • Certificate for joint mobility specialization from Functional Range Conditioning

    Countless hours of continuing education, including the following topics:

    • Functional neuroscience and rehabilitation methods

    • Anatomy Trains & Structural Integration informed courses

    • Somatic coaching

    • Neuro Affective Touch

    • Polyvagal Theory

    • Pain science

    • Plant medicine

    • Functional breathwork

  • I am grateful for my community, teachers, and resources that have and continue to support my path of purpose.

    Along with ongoing education and training I am mentored by many practitioners in various fields.

    I believe mentorship is very important for a practitioner's development and accountability in their craft.

    I am open to sharing my mentors names upon request.

On a personal note…

  • I am a Virgo rising, Leo moon, and Gemini sun. I provide care through counsel, comedy, and considerate affirmation -which I think helps a lot when talking about deep and heavy topics like trauma.

  • I am the oldest of 5 children, aka: a seasoned helper and pseudo-parent primed for overachieving-eldest antics! 🙃

  • In the not-so-distant past, I spent 6 years in the desert of Las Vegas, Nevada, while serving in the U.S. Air Force as a dental technician (wow, what a life it’s been).

  • I am a homebody. I much prefer a barefoot porch hang over a crowded space, any day, and am most comfy at home with my wife and fur babes.

  • I found my spirit in the garden, and I *need to get my hands dirty regularly to connect with my inner wild parts.

A few of my favorite things:

  • burrata cheese, basil, roses, oracle decks, watercolors, the beach (all of em), any movie made by Taika Waititi, nearly any custard-based dessert, rainbows, stories about how the body and nature are interconnected, art by Chelsea Granger, dahlias, herbal body products, mysticism, astrology, Dolly Parton radio, handmade brooms, altar creation, lavish baths (candles, herbs, salts, etc.), poetry that reads like spell-casting, curry, herbalism, homegrown anything, handcrafted medicine, ceramics, toasted marshmallow lattes, shoes with a wide toe box and flexibility, a good pen, the house my mother grew up in, peonies, small town myths and cryptid stories, Erykah Badu radio, oddly shaped rocks, pinecones, snapping peas on the porch with my loved ones, clothes that allow my body to move, potlucks, redwood incense, slow mornings, comedy, dumplings, the smokey mountains…

If you’re ready to reconnect with your body and attune in your relationships, book a session today.

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I believe the core of why I do this work is to develop supportive connections with others, the earth, and myself. Stemming from my value in relationship, there is a great curiosity and interest in how our bodies function and form our spiritual experience on this planet.

Through my ever evolving practice, I strive to consistently develop and provide quality offerings for those I have the privilege of communing with.

I stand behind anti-oppressive care practices that prioritize the experience and empowerment of the individual within the systems, with the acknowledgment that we are products of and affected by the well-being of our environment.

Here, we acknowledge the cyclical nature of the changing seasons and adapt actions accordingly with the interest of living in harmony.

As we are not made of segmented parts, I consider all aspects of the individual, including mind, heart, body, and spirit.

My offerings are trauma-informed and focused through a biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual lens.

When we work together, all of who you are is welcome.