ABOUT ME

I am a daughter, a sister, a cousin, an aunt, a friend, a lover, a teacher, a student. In my natal chart, my sun is in Capricorn in the 12th house, my moon is in Gemini in the 5th and my ascendant is in Aquarius. I love learning and creating experiences that move us towards new ways of knowing and being. That to me is the essence of healing.

I am a settler on unceded Shawanaki lands, of Indo-European (Irish & Italian) ancestry. I’ve practiced healing arts for over twenty years. I began introducing energetic healing into my work with companion animals before “woo” was a word, and before I knew it’s history. Now I offer a feminist, globally and historically contextualized lens on healing and transformation, from a social work education that sought to center the knowledge of those who endured the most with the least. 

In other words, I believe we are all our own best experts and with witnessing, support, and community we are capable of incredible things.

I pay close attention to the nervous system, including the specificities of the female nervous system. It helps us understand our own patterns and find a new connection to ourselves and our emotional experiences, that aren’t ruled by habits, patterns or survival instincts. 

EDUCATION

After a rich undergraduate education in women’s studies, including work at the Kinsey Institute for Sex and Reproduction, my next teachers were illness and addiction, to both prescribed and illegal medicines. I have run the gamut of healing modalities in search of comfort in my body and peace in my mind. I finally found both when I became a better steward of my own vessel, listening to the story it was telling of personal, intergenerational and collective trauma and resilience, learning the rhythms of my hormonal cycles and my unique needs and desires.

Since then the world has been my school, and the people and lands of Croatia, South Africa, and Mexico, where I have lived, studied, and worked, have been my teachers. After earning a social work degree, my clients in community mental health care further taught me to invite in more truth about the world than my formal education did. So I went in search of the scholars, artists and activists that could help me support our emotional, spiritual, sociopolitical, psychosocial and educational needs. The process pushed me towards building my own practice where I now incorporate the tools that informed my own healing journey as well as others’.

APPROACH

I get to offer a space in which my formal and informal education, training, witnessing, studying and experiencing are in service to helping folks see and know themselves beyond who they’ve believed or been told they had to be, beyond the imprints that trauma and oppression have left on their body and soul. 

I am now committed to supporting what I know is our birthright, that goes beyond basic wellness or even trauma recovery, and is often suppressed by the demands of our current systems: the right to express the gifts that are unique to us. Each one of us holds a secret knowing that is our privilege and responsibility to live into, to share and to teach from. It is my mission to support that expression.

I love what we are capable of building, being and teaching when we trust ourselves and our lived experiences.

QUALIFICATIONS

Masters degree in Social Work from Indiana University School of Social Work - Indianapolis.

Licensed Social Worker, State of Indiana

3000+ hours of supervised client support as behavioral health therapist at ECHO Community Healthcare in Evansville, Indiana, where I was the sole Spanish-speaking mental health clinician in the community

60+ hours of 1:1 instruction in evolutionary and psychological astrology with Dr. Tina Rahimi of AstroHealer

100+ hours of group instruction in female nervous system education with Kimberly Ann Johnson

6 Month training with Psychedelic Somatic Institute in psychedelic somatic interactional psychotherapy (PSIP)

SPECIALTIES

I especially enjoy supporting folks who are / find themselves in the following circumstances:

• Artists, activists and organizers

• Seeking self-discovery and growth after trauma

• Exploring any aspects of identity and/or heritage

• Feeling disconnected or stuck

• Major life transitions (including after major physical changes like hormonal shifts, surgery or weight loss or gain)

• Unlearning social conditioning

• Rebirth and adjustment after loss, including migration

• Global citizens and digital nomads

• Spiritual exploration

• Seeking to establish new boundaries

• Seeking to understand emotional responses, one’s own or others’

• New or fluid relationship dynamics

• Interested in feeling more or feeling less

• Exploring fertility