MyJourney

My story begins sitting in a city park at age 21 with an acceptance letter and offer for full tuition scholarship to the college of my choice on my lap. It was not the fact that I got into college or the money that was momentous. I graduated at the top of my high school class with little effort on my part. It was the ringing emanating from inside my body telling me that this was my path despite the fact that I had devoted the entirety of my life since age 10 to being a ballet dancer. 

It's true that I loved to dance - I still do- but my die-hard commitment that led me to becoming a professional ballet dancer and all the sacrifices that success in that field requires was mostly driven by my tendency to overachieve and people please to escape judgement. So, while all of my highschool friends were graduating with their four-year degrees and heading off to graduate school, I was retiring from the height of my career as a professional ballet dancer guided almost exclusively by this intuitive knowing that this was the right next step. 

I set off toward the life I imagined, guided by my heart telling me that there was more impact I could make in the world.  I was naturally guided toward a degree in psychology and immersed myself  in learning about the way the mind works and its relationship to our emotional and physical health and well-being. With all the competitiveness and promise of accolades that academia has to offer, however, I quickly fell back into my perfectionist, overachieving ways...completed a four-year degree in two years, got into an elite doctoral program, landed a coveted internship, and sailed off into my career complete with a pension with a husband, two beautiful children, and a Subaru. 

But the Universe always has a way of course correcting when the ego starts to lead us astray. Rewinding a little before the career, kids, and Subaru...My final year of grad school, fresh off a weekend meditation retreat, my body strong and lithe after years of a devoted yoga practice, I got into a serious car accident. My body was wrecked by the impact, my mind in shambles from a head injury and the trauma, my emotions raw and fragmented. My entire sense of who I was based on my intelligent and curious mind, my strong body, was destroyed in an instant. And what a blessing this was. 

Within the pain and difficult recovery, I learned to ask for help (something this independent woman was not very willing to do) and trust that it would come. I learned what compassion really looked like and honestly how I had been treating my body as yet another achievement or something to let me down. Along the way I also acknowledged healing happens at all levels of the body, spirit, and mind as I gained a first-hand understanding of the power of yoga, meditation, and energy healing.

This journey was the catalyst that led me to weave less conventional methods of healing into my straight-laced career as a psychologist. Straight off internship, freshly licensed, I completed a 30-day residential yoga teacher training program followed by a brief but beautiful stint as a program manager at a holistic wellness center - which continues to be a cherished and grounding experience for me. 

Throughout my career in academic and medical centers, while earning lines on my CV noting all of the latest evidence-based interventions, I I took every opportunity to gain more experience or training in anything considered “complementary” or “integrative” with allopathic medicine, including iRest Yoga Nidra, Reiki energy healing, and any CME/CEU that explored intuition or spirituality. 

For five years, I played it safe and steady in my career within a major medical system, gently pushing the boundaries of what was accepted as best practices. Until I realized that I was actually dropping a huge part of myself everytime I walked through those glass doors. It became excruciating to have to contain or justify my gifts and talents for healing, to worry about being “found out” or dismissed as being “woo-woo,” to bend my needs for self-care and rejuvenation into a structured schedule, to have to bill so many hours working in a office that drained my spirit.

My career, while heading upwards, was sinking me fast. I arrived home to my husband and two young children each day drained, irritable, distracted. This was not the life I imagined for myself. 

I traded my pension for presence. 

With a few additional not-so-subtle hints from the Universe, I acknowledged that this illustrious career in a major medical center and academia was not the right fit for me. This was no longer something I had to make work. Liberation!...but I still had my family to consider. While my heart had fully committed to leaving, my ego-mind had a few more things to sort out. It was a full 18 months later that I made the leap into a more aligned position contracting for a tele-health practice, which allowed me all of the freedom of private practice  (I could practice the way that I wanted, from my house, barefooted) without having to mess with marketing, insurance, or billing. 

It was within this safe container of private practice, a fully licensed psychologist, that I was able to truly explore what it meant to me to be a healer and how I wanted to show up in this world. Because my time and energy was not wrapped up in meetings and required trainings, in endless charting, or with clients that were not ideal for me, I had space to expand into all aspects of myself and my practice. 

For the first time in my career, I intentionally leaned into my intuition first with every client and watched in awe as magic unfolded time and again. I explored my astrology (Gemini Sun with Pisces Rising), my numerology, my Jungian archetypes, my values. I committed to going below the ego and to quiet the mind in order to connect with my intuitive self and spirit through daily yoga and meditation practices and regular reiki healing sessions to go even deeper. These practices helped me to learn about myself from the inside out, not how I was defined by my degree or CV, and honor who I already am as a healer, as a creator, as a spiritual being. 

You already know what's best for you. Your mind gets in the way.

Now, I am breaking out of my container to help you break through yours.

To help you live a life guided by your intuition as much as (if not more than) by your intellect.

To take action aligned with what truly works for you, not based on expectations defined by others people or institutions.

To honor all of the parts that make up you as a whole and the amazing being you already are.

Together, we will work to really get to know YOU, beyond your credentials, using time-tested tools for self-inquiry drawn from modern psychology, astrology, numerology, reiki, yoga, ayurveda, and meditation. 

If you are seeking transformation and gentle guidance and awakening, I can help you…

• Learn to anchor into your intuition and begin listening to your body to make choices and express yourself clearly and confidently with loved ones and in your professional life. 

• Shift your mindset through mindfulness practices to connect with your inherent worth supported by ancient wisdom traditions and eastern spiritual philosophies. 

• Engage in body-based meditations and energy healing designed to free you from negative self-talk and blocked emotions so that you can finally live a life of self-acceptance and love – which will benefit your relationships, career, health and finances.

• Clarify your personal holistic health and spiritual practices that work best for you to support and nourish your continued growth and development, while identifying and breaking through barriers to self-care.