MY STORY

After 7 years in New York, I moved to the outskirts of Seattle, where nature became a great balancer and harmonizer for my mind, body, and soul. I maintained a small holistic private practice and worked as a health coach for an insurance company.  Life became more aligned to my unique being.

I joined a two-year ministry program at The Center for Sacred Studies, created by Elder Jyoti Ma, who founded the Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. This was called, The Ministry of Her Walking Prayer, where I became an ordained minister.  This was the jumping off point for me to start integrating earth-based ways of living, ceremony, energy healing, shamanism, social work, and my own spiritual initiations. This included having dark nights of the soul, intensive personal healings, going through a divorce, and closing my practice because I was burnt out with the magnitude of healing that was required of me.  I knew I was being prepared to be a more whole and embodied healer.  I was also asked to let go of how I thought things should be and surrender more to a bigger plan I couldn’t see.

From here, I felt a deep call to study with Elder Malidoma Some, a medicine man from Burkina Faso, West Africa. He was teaching the art of cowry shell divinations and ancestral healing technologies.  I entered his yearlong study of working with the elements, ancestors, and using cowry shell divination to help humans on their evolutionary journey.  This medicine took me through many healings, sheddings, shape shiftings and rebirths.  This cultivated a deeper understanding and relationship with Spirit and my Ancestors. I was being taught how to accurately diagnosis a problem or challenge beyond the medical world’s description and prescriptions.  What the western world may have labeled as wrong or disordered, was often one’s gifts suppressed under cultural programming.

Learning cowry shell divination allowed me to see myself and others through this indigenous and mystical lens, which in turn, let my own gifts of clairaudience, clairvoyance, and clairsentience become more fully honed and sophisticated. Elder Malidoma taught that all the wisdom and life’s answers was sitting in your own bones. 

Soul Retrieval, EMDR, Masculine/Feminine Integration work, Sacred dance, Space Clearings, Compassionate Depossession, Egyptian Reiki, and other energy healing modalities have been woven into the fabric of my soul’s journey.    

It's been about 13 years now of a deep alchemical process of integrating everything I’ve learned and experienced, which could never fit nicely under a one page bio. I am still a practicing therapist for those who want to do deeper dives in trauma work, but many of my offerings are now more aligned with those looking to step into their empowerment, develop core values, rewild themselves, dance, breathe, creatively express, and come back home to their most authentic expression.   

I currently live in Southern California and in a Sacred Dance Training for women, to become a dance facilitator for rewilding and creating sacred dance journeys. I also enjoy the personal art of pushing boundaries and cultural limitations through a feminine artist’s lens, using visual images, photography, and writing.