About my approach

“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.”

—Gospel of Thomas

This speaks to a truth across Tantric, depth-psychology & contemplative traditions: What is not lived or integrated does not leave — it lives within and asks to be met.

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I didn’t come to this work through a single training, lineage, or sudden awakening.  I came to it through my own body.

Alongside decades of hands-on training and work with clients, my understanding of healing has been shaped by lived experience. From early on, my body learned what it meant to navigate physical injury, medical intervention, and nervous system shock, as well as the impact of emotional and relational rupture. These experiences taught me — not conceptually, but somatically — how deeply the body holds experience, and how essential safety and timing are for real integration.

Through both my own healing and years of working with others, I’ve learned that the body communicates beneath words — through sensation, tension, emotion, and sometimes subtle or symbolic material that arises naturally when there is enough support. Nothing is forced or induced.  We follow what the body is ready to reveal, at the pace it can integrate.

My work is slow, relational, and deeply attuned.  It is grounded in the human experience while remaining open to deeper layers of meaning, without bypassing pain or overriding truth.  We don’t leave the body to reach what’s essential — we stay with it, meeting each layer with care and respect for timing.

I don’t work to fix people.  I work to support inner trust, coherence, and contact, so healing can unfold from within.

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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