Leading Ethics
- Perspective shifting from either/or to both/and thinking, expanding your capacity to embrace more of your life.
- Befriending the body, sensations, and feelings, so you trust in feeling and moving through what arises.
- Engaging life’s challenges in creative and embodied ways, helping you trust your inner resources and experience change.
- Working in real time, so we don’t only talk about experiences but practice doing different now.
- Taking a process-oriented approach, because how you get from here to there matters.
- Honoring complexity and paradox, cultivating resilience in the midst of the grit and mess.
- Attending to more than the thinking mind alone, and drawing on other ways of knowing and being with yourself.
- Working slowly and attentively, allowing subtle changes to be felt and integrated.
- Embracing the power of a transdisciplinary approach where more than one therapeutic modality is used, because we too contain multitudes.
- You, over time, seeing and feeling the changes you desire, so that you feel empowered to continue.
Training & Education
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MA in Embodiment Studies
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Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
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Registered Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator (RSMT/E)
- 200hr YTT 2010
- Abhyanga Massage Course 2011
- Ayurvedic Studies 2011
- Yoga 1, 2 & 3 course 2018
- Pranayam Studies 2018
- 3-month Yoga Development Course (YDC) 2019
- Hidden Language Hatha Yoga Certification 2021
- Hatha Yoga Certification 2019
- Kundalini & Dreams Certification 2021
- Thai Yoga Bodywork Level 1 & 2 2012
- Hot Stones Massage 2012
Ayurvedic Institute
- Ayurvedic Studies with Dr. Vasant Lad 2010-2011
- SEP, Professional Training Program 2020-2024
- One-to-One and Group Supervision – ongoing
- Assistant for SE Cohorts – Ongoing
- RSMT/E, Two-year Movement-based Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program 2020-2023
DARe – Dynamic Attachment Repatterning 2026
- Masters in Embodiment Studies 2020-2023
- Three-month Herbal Apprenticeship 2013
- One-year Herbal Apprenticeship 2014
- Nine-month Herbal Apprenticeship 2014
Vermont Center of Integrative Herbalism
- Three-year Clinical Training Program 2015-2018
Yasodhara Ashram
- Dream Certification Program 2021
Vermont
- One-to-One Personal Sessions and Supervision on-going
Moving from disconnection into connection takes patience, perseverance and a hearty dose of compassion; I know this journey very personally.
It is through this process that I have learned healing is not linear and is supported when we connect with forces larger than ourselves. When we remember and can feel we are not alone. That is why I work with dreams, movement, and the creative process. Each keeps one honest and in touch with the deeper layers of self. Each places us in the wisdom of something larger.
I have also learned that quick fixes can be quick, but not offer the lasting transformation so often desired. For that reason, I am interested in supporting the time in takes to nourish sustainable change, acknowledging the responsibility and effort asked of us.
I am interested in tending to what is brave in each one of us, what is willing to feel, and most of all, I am interested in doing the work together. Healing happens in relationship.
Those who have shaped me:
- My dreams, my students’ dreams, the unflinching honesty and support that comes from dreams.
- The people I work with and my on-going journey; all that continues to teach me about perseverance, vulnerability, courage and transformation.
- Somatic Experiencing and its’ tools, techniques, and principles.
- The Tamalpa Life/Art Process and teachings of Anna and Daria Halprin.
- Arnold Mindell, the dreaming body and a process-oriented framework.
- The yogic lineage of Gurudev Sivananda and the teachings of Swami Radha, founder of Yasodhara Ashram.
- Dr. Gabor Mate and his teachings on authenticity and belonging.
- Susan Raffo and the lens of healing justice.
- Bayo Akomolafe and his work and inquiry.
- The teachings of Sharon Salzberg, Pema Chodron, and the practices that keep us soft, open-hearted, strong, and discerning.
- Dance as movement through various teachers and forms.
- Dr. Stan Tatkin and his teachings on attachment theory, neuroscience, and arousal regulation.
- Plants, the natural living world, and my teachers of herbal medicine.
