Hello, Friend.

I am so glad you’re here, even if you are feeling a bit burnt out.

You’re in the right place if you’re a care professional feeling disconnected from your purpose or just plain exhausted from giving.

Maybe you’re starting to feel like your work is a misfit, which affects your self-trust and ability to support others.

Either way, if you’re looking to reconnect to the magic you bring to the world, I’d love to help.

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.

The world of health and wellness is wild.

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

  • it’s also likely that you’ve worked really hard in talk therapy and you know you’re close to a shift, but you aren’t sure how to integrate this into your role as a healer

  • or you crave deeply attuned personalized care and attention, but continue to receive general advice that doesn’t work for you at all - leaving you feeling unseen and unheard

This is where intuitive body-centered work comes in.

As a veteran, caregiver, seasoned health & wellness professional, and someone who generally feels like a misfit in modern healing spaces, I know how hard it is to find a groove that feels easy.

I have learned that depending on outside answers to finding belonging 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 professionals to tell me what could be “fixed” and how to remedy my “discrepencies” (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 my-self, so why couldn’t I figure me out?? (don’t you wish we came with a users manual?)

It wasn’t until I worked with a practitioner that centered my own intuition and connection to body did I finally realize I had MY answers with me, the whole time (re: users manual).

Don’t get me wrong, my healing journey didn’t end after my new found 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 my-self to find connection and feel whole.

Oof.

I had some re-orienting to do, to say the least.

So, who am I to help you?

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

  • I have supported hundreds of helpers in their healing process by supporting them in building deeper relationship to their bodies and intuition

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

  • I want every individual I work with to find resolution from 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 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 can recover connection to myself and others by FEELING what is present in the moment without getting overwhelmed, noticing what my needs are, and resourcing accordingly - instead of avoiding discomfort with self-abandonment

  • I feel a stronger sense of self-agency that empowers not only myself but other socially marginalized people to set boundaries when it comes to how our bodies are cared for in traditional health care environments

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

  • and best for last - I have finally gained access to my inner creative self that was once just an out of reach dream

On a personal note…

  • I am a virgo rising, leo moon, and gemini sun. I give 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 caregiver burnout! 🙃

  • 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.

  • 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 on a regular basis to connect with my inner wild parts.

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 courses including:

    • Functional neuroscience and rehabilitation methods

    • Anatomy Trains & Structural Integration informed courses

    • Somatic coaching

    • Neuro Affective Touch

    • Polyvagal Theory

    • Pain science

    • Plant medicine

    • Functional Breath-work

  • 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.

I believe the core of why I do this work is to develop supportive connections with others, earth, and myself. Stemming from my value in relationship, 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.

People I work with often identify as:

  • survivors of religious trauma (or raised in an evangelical christian environment, like myself)

  • therapists, bodyworkers, and allied health care professionals

  • veterans, teachers, and caregivers

  • LGBTQIA+ identified folks

  • people who experience chronic mental illness and/or neuro-divergence

  • folks with EDS, hyper mobility, chronic pain, and autoimmune conditions

If you’re ready to reconnect with your magic and attune to the people you care for, book a call today.

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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.

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.