I come to this work not because it was an easy path, but because I’ve had a very personal experience of what it feels like to heal as a human.
My childhood was shaped by pain, isolation and a deep absence of emotional connection. I learned early to seek refuge outdoors from the emotional chaos in my home, and so I’d escape to the sun-dappled magic of the woods, to my animal friends, and to the forest forts I’d create every summer.
I’ve always been exquisitely sensitive, a deep-feeling and empathic soul trying to make sense of a world that often felt too harsh. That sensitivity has been a mixed bag. It took me years, and many painful detours, to see that my pain and depression and my longing for connection was not because I was broken—but the very thing that would bring me to healing and shape my life’s work.
ABOUT ME
I identify as a mostly able-bodied, cis-gendered woman of European white ancestry, living on unceeded native land. I am neuro-atypical, with traits of a synesthete, HSP with sensory processing challenges and complex, developmental PTSD. I am peri-menopausal, a single-mother to 3 young adult daughters, and partnered with a beautiful man. I’m a writer, a poet at heart, and lover of all things nature (especially fragrant flowers, birdsong, the night sky and thimbleberries).
My healing journey has taken me through hellscapes—both in life and in expanded states—territories I could never have imagined surviving. I became, by necessity, a hell-walker: learning how to meet and transmute pain, release what felt impossible to release, and somehow keep walking.
I know the experience of carrying immense, ancient grief in my bones. I know what it means to walk the dark night of the soul and wonder if I’d ever feel okay again. But somewhere along the way, through the deepest initiations, I stumbled into moments of impossible beauty—brief touches of the divine—sometimes from unexpected sources (like my feline goddess, Fluffy) — when Love broke through. And slowly, I began to meet myself. Not as someone broken, but as someone becoming whole.
Now, when I sit with others, I listen for that quiet, courageous part of their soul that still believes healing is possible. The part that is tired of carrying the weight alone. I hold sacred the relational field because I know — in my bones — the beauty we can discover when we go there together.
My work is about creating spaces where people can be truly seen—deeply, honestly, without judgment. Where the body can begin to unclench, the heart can risk opening, and something new—something deeply human—can emerge.
TESTIMONIALS
TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
— MA in Transpersonal Psychology: 2010 — Sofia University
— Clinical Pastoral Education: 2013 — post-graduate year of chaplain residency at Emanuel Hospital and Randall Children's Hospital in Portland, Oregon
— M.E.T.A. Institute: 2014-2020 — Hakomi, RCS parts work & Relational Attachment tranining
— Compassionate Bereavement Care provider: 2016 — The MISS Foundation
— Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1: 2020 — Somatic trauma training
— Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP): 2021 — Psychedelic assisted trauma training
— The Sovereignty Way: 2019 - 2025 —Relational somatic psychedelic therapy training, apprenticeship and ongoing supervision.
— InnerTrek: 2024 — Psilocybin facilitation training
— OHA: 2025 - Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator
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PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
— Clinical Interfaith Chaplain: 2013-2016, Legacy Emanuel Hospital
— Pediatric Palliative Care Chaplain: 2016-2020, The Bridges team at OHSU
— Private Practice: 2016- present — grief counseling and somatic mindfulness work
— End-of-life Doula: family and individual support since 2018
— Personal healing through expanded states: ongoing work since 2008
— Professional experience with Psychedelic assisted therapy: Facilitating since 2019
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