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My Story

I've often been asked, "How did you come to do this work?"

The answer isn't found in a single degree or certification. It is the story of a life devoted to understanding what it truly means to be human.

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For more than 30 years, I have walked alongside children, parents, educators, birth professionals, and communities through every stage of life's journey. My greatest teachers have been becoming a mother, stewarding two children, creating outdoor learning programs, building ecovillage communities, supporting thousands of families through birth and childhood, and now embracing one of life's greatest gifts, being a grandmother.

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Each season has revealed another layer of human development and deepened my understanding that we are shaped not only by our experiences, but by the relationships and environments that hold us. This realization led me to explore the earliest beginnings of life from conception and pregnancy to birth, postpartum, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and elderhood and to discover that every stage of life is connected and continually influences the next.

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Today, my private practice reflects this lifelong journey. I support couples preparing for conception, families during pregnancy and the postpartum period, infants through somatic movement and developmental support, children through nervous system coherence and family dynamics, teenagers exploring identity and belonging, and adults and elders navigating life's ongoing process of becoming. Regardless of age or stage, my work is rooted in assisting humans feel safe within their bodies, deepen their relationships, and reconnect with their innate capacity for growth.

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Alongside this lived experience, I pursued an interdisciplinary education in public health, Waldorf education, pre- and perinatal birth psychology, somatic therapies, Jungian psychology, attachment, embryosophy, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, nutrition, ecology, and consciousness studies. Over time, these fields naturally wove together into what is now known as the Awakened Method, a living framework built upon the relationship between our Inner World, Environment, and Inquiry of Knowledge.

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More than anything, my work is about remembering that human development does not happen in isolation. We are shaped through relationship with ourselves, with one another, with the natural world, and with the communities that surround us.

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Whether I am supporting a couple preparing to welcome a child, a parent navigating the early years, a teenager discovering their place in the world, or an elder reflecting on a lifetime of experiences, my intention remains the same: To create spaces where people remember who they are, feel at home within themselves, and rediscover the art of being human.