About my approach

Background

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

—Tantric Principle

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If you are drawn to this work, you may already sense that what you have not fully lived or integrated does not disappear. It continues to shape your body, relationships, and emotions, quietly asking to be met.

This understanding is how my path began. I did not arrive here through a single training or sudden awakening, but through my own body.

Alongside decades of hands-on work with clients, my understanding of healing has been shaped by lived experience. From an early age, my body learned to navigate injury, medical intervention, nervous system shock, and emotional and relational rupture.

Through this, I came to understand somatically how deeply the body carries experience, and how essential safety, relationship, and timing are for true healing. These insights form the foundation of my work.

Philosophy

My approach centers on the body’s intelligence and meeting experience as it arises. If words alone have not reached what you carry, this may resonate. The body communicates beneath language through sensation, tension, emotion, impulse, imagery, and symbolic material that emerges when there is enough support.

Nothing is forced. We follow what your body is ready to reveal, at a pace it can integrate.

As layers of protection, conditioning, and unfinished experience come into awareness, healing often becomes more than resolving symptoms. What you have been holding is not separate from what is emerging.

Over time, different aspects of yourself can come into relationship.

Integration is an ongoing process of bringing all parts of yourself into greater coherence from body and nervous system to emotions, psyche, and deeper Self. It is not about becoming someone else.

It is about allowing what has been separated or held outside awareness to find its place within your wholeness.

Process

The process reflects these principles. If you are seeking a quick fix or purely cognitive approach, this may not be the right fit. My work is slow, relational, and deeply attuned.

It stays grounded in your lived experience while remaining open to deeper meaning, without bypassing pain or overriding truth. We do not leave the body to reach what matters.

Instead, we stay with it, meeting each layer with care, curiosity, and respect for its timing.

My role is not to fix, but to support. I help you cultivate inner trust, coherence, and self-contact so healing can unfold from within.

Outcomes

Over time, certain shifts may emerge. You may experience greater clarity, vitality, authenticity, meaning, and trust in your inner knowing.

Life can begin to feel less like striving and more like embodying what has always been present. You may meet relationships, challenges, and opportunities with greater presence and alignment.

Ultimately, this work invites a deeper willingness to meet yourself as you are. Lasting transformation arises when the wounded, protected, forgotten, emerging, and essential aspects of yourself come into conscious relationship.

From there, they can participate in a more fully embodied expression of your life.

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Education, Certifications & Licensure

   •   1998: Associate of Science in Advanced Soft Tissue Therapies, Florida College of Natural Health (1200 Hours)

   •   1998: Nationally Certified and Licensed in Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (State of Florida)

   •   2000-2001: Licensed Massage Therapist (Dana Point, CA)

   •   2001-2010: Certified Massage Therapist (Montana)

   •   2010-2011; 2024-Present: Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT-LIC-27209, State of Montana)

   •   2011-Present: Licensed Massage Therapist (MAT-12596, State of Hawaii)

Continued Education & Direct Experience

   •   Aromatherapy

   •   Ayurveda

   •   Meditation

   •   Prema Birthing Practitioner & Teacher Training

   •   Reiki Levels I & II Initiations

   •   Rising Star Healing System Initiation

   •   Sacred Mystery School

   •   Sai Maa Lakshmi Devi Lineage of Transformational Healing

   •   The DNA of Healing & Manifestation

   •   The Goddess Path and Yoga

Modern Modalities & Specialized Fields of Study

   •   Polarity Work

   •   De-Armouring

   •   Embodied Psychology

   •   Inner Child Healing

   •   Sacred Spaces Bodywork (Craniosacral Therapies / Visceral Therapies / NeuroSensory/Neurovascular Integration)

   •   NeuroEffective Touch

   •   Shadow Work

   •   SBSM (Smart Body Smart Mind) Nervous System Rewiring

   •   Somatic Healing

   •   Therapeutic Massage

   •   Lymphatic Drainage

   •   Trauma-Informed Healing