Hello! I am a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT) and Expressive Arts practitioner. I hold a B.A. in Body-Based Expressive Arts Therapy from Prescott College, and a master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University with an Ecopsychology emphasis.  I am a graduate of the internationally renowned Tamalpa Institute for Movement-Based Expressive Arts and have been working professionally as a Tamalpa Life/Art Practitioner since 2010. I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, having graduated from the gold-standard three-year certificate program in Somatic Experiencing, and have integrated this trauma resolution approach into the core of my practice since 2015. I have worked as an experiential therapist in eating disorder recovery settings from the inception of my career, including six years at IU Health Charis Center for Eating Disorders. In my private practice I continue to apply the principles of Health at Every Size, body-positivity, and Intuitive Eating through the lenses of embodiment and nervous-system theory.

My education also includes extensive training in multiple somatic and psychological modalities, including Authentic Movement, Body-Mind
Psychotherapy, Body-Mind Centering, Somatic Expressions, Safe and Sound
Protocol/Polyvagal Theory, Intuitive Eating, and even a full degree and clinical experience in midwifery. My work is strongly informed by Buddhist psychology, systems theory, the land in which I live and those to which I have traveled, herbal studies, energy healing inquiries, and life as a lover of dance and poetics.

My work has been profoundly shaped by my life as a mother, spouse,
ecofeminist, somanaut, gender-questioner, anti-racist in perpetual training,
healer-in-healing, and contemplative mystic living in an era of intense
environmental and societal change. My professional practice flows from a deep wellspring of personal embodiment, creative, and spiritual practice. I trust in
evolution and healing as natural processes and principles intrinsic to all life,
because I experience these forces within myself and witness them daily. I am grateful for both the humbling and the renewal that these processes bring. In
turn, my work in community and with individual clients inspires my own inquiries
and insists on my continued growth, reminding me that we are all interconnected
in a most enlivening way.

My lineages are multitudinous and inter-pollinated. Teachers close to my heart
include Daria Halprin, Anna Halprin, Jamie McHugh, Taira Restar,
Susan Aposhyan, Pema Chodron, G.H. Soto, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, Warren Grossman, Joanna Macy, David Abram, Dave Berger, and Peter Levine. To
these and all those not named here, thank you!