As a healer, I have a strong background in and passion for personal growth and development.  After many years of engagement in personal growth field, as well as being a practitioner of various healing and personal-growth modalities, it became clear to me that physiological wellbeing--or lack thereof--influences all of our perceptions as human beings.  

Anxiety, depression, pain, irritability, hypersensitivity, problems connecting with others--these are not things that are often easily "fixed" by efforting to think about things differently or having new cognitive insights about our behavior. All of these felt experiences take root in our physiology. I work with clients to rework their body's ability to navigate easily between both challenging and pleasurable states of being, supporting them in gaining greater range of expression and tolerance for their felt experience.  

Through my personal journey with SE, I have established an abiding sense of inner peace, resilience to stress and sensory stimulation, expansiveness, wellbeing, aliveness and  confidence that I never thought possible.  Prior to my own healing journey with SE I had chronic anxiety and hypersensitivity to sensory stimulation.  I had to wear ear plugs every time I left the house because I was so easily overstimulated by simple activities such as going to the grocery store, walking on a busy street, or going to a restaurant.  Such expeditions would leave me shaky and exhausted. My blood sugar was easily destabilized, where I would become groggy and irritable  minutes after eating something sweet.  When people around me had strong emotions, I would indiscriminately feel their emotions as if they were my own.  My immune system was compromised.  The overall experience was one of of walking around in the world with very "thin skin."  

After my own healing journey with SE, I can now eat whatever I want and I actually enjoy going out of the house...dancing, dining out, house parties...all without my ear plugs.  I bounce back quickly from events that challenge me emotionally. I do not get sick. I am able to sense and tend to the emotions of others without taking them on.  I no longer feel overwhelmed by the world on a daily level. 

It is because SE has been so revolutionary in my own life that I can provide it to others with such confidence.  I know that it works.  I know what is like to suffer, and I know that healing is possible.

I truly love being an SE Practitioner,  and I look forward to helping you along your journey to unforeseen levels of wellbeing, peace, resilience, and joy in your life.

Education  

• SE Master Class: Advanced Work with Complex Syndromes (2014)
• Musing from the Womb (Pre- and Perinatal Trauma Workshop) (2013)
• Somatic Experiencing® Professional Training (2011-2013)
• Reiki Practitioner Training: Levels I and II (2012)
• Psychic Intuitive Training with Simple Spirit (2011)
• Psychic training with Psychic Horizons (2009)
• Life Coach training with Judith Ansara (2008)
• Watsu I training (2008)
• Barbara Brennan Hands of Light Introductory Training (2007)
• Landmark Education--Curriculum for Living, Introduction Leaders Program, and the 3-year Wisdom course series (2001-2010)
• Wesleyan University (CT) - Pre-Med, Music (1998-2000)