My Story
Growing up, I wept for those who hurt and got drunk on others’ joy. Highly sensitive, I was swept away in peoples’ emotions and pummeled by the intensity of my own. Debilitating anxiety and depression haunted me at nearly every turn.
I devoted a decade-and-a-half to deep inner work through somatic psychotherapy. I released trauma, learned to find safety in my body and in my environment, and to regulate my nervous system.
Chronic illnesses and inexplicable mystical experiences led me to seek counsel from a shamanic guide to whom I began to apprentice and learned to heal my body and other people’s and channel higher guidance. Now I weave the ancient wisdom and practices of these indigenous people, some of the world’s first psychologists, with the therapy modalities in which I’ve trained for many years.
During the eight years I was too sick to socialize, my sensitivity matured into a gift that served me and now others. I wandered and sat among trees, beside lakes and the ocean, watched birds, and talked to to plants.
From loneliness and seclusion, I learned to communicate with the Earth, Sun, Wind, Waters, Moon, and more, and received counsel and love like I’d never known. In return, I now guide others to reconnect to that which is powerful, sacred, and divine within Heaven and Earth and, most of all, within themselves.
You’re Not Alone
Training & Credentials
The Healer’s Path
Engaged in ongoing, years-long inner work and apprenticeship with my shamanic guide, in the lineage of the medicine peoples of the Q’ero of the high Andes of Peru and others, 2015-present.
Initiated by Joan Parisi Wilcox into the ancient Andean Waskar and Inkarri paqo (priest/priestess) lineages. Completed foundational course on Andean mystical tradition and practices passed on to Juan Nuñez del Prado from three masters of the last generation: don Benito Qoriwaman, don Andres Espinosa, and don Melchor Desa. Completed Master Course in the work of Tata Lorenzo, a master of the Kallawaya tradition of the Titicaca Lake basin of Bolivia, 2019. Completed Inner Tawantin–Shadow Work Course, Jan. 2023 - Sept 2023.
Received certification as an Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) Master Practitioner from Learn Reiki Philadelphia, 2016.
Received certification as a Reiki Master practitioner from The Reiki School of Philadelphia, 2010.
The Academic Path
Attend ongoing continuing education courses in approaches to depth work that include Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Gestalt, Quantum Psychology, The Hakomi Method, Coherence Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Family Constellations, and others.
Received certificate as an accredited master practitioner of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Thought Field Therapy (TFT) from the Priority Academy, 2021. Completed training in EFT Choices and EFT for Trauma, Summer 2023.
Listed as an HSP-Knowledgeable Therapist after completing Dr. Elaine Aron’s program on Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, 2016.
Received certificate of recognition as a Skilled Cognitive Therapist in a Community Setting from the Beck Initiative, 2014.
Received Master’s degree in Social Work (concentration in clinical practice; specialization in mental health) from Temple University, 2009.
Awarded certificate for completion of two-year training in a somatic approach called The Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy from The Hakomi Institute, 2007.