About me

In 2018, I was engaged in some deep personal work and felt called to return to Reiki, which I had first learned as a massage therapy student 13 years earlier. I opened an energy healing practice in Vermont and quickly settled into this work, drawing primarily from shamanic traditions while also incorporating sound and Reiki. Over time, I began to recognize that the healing I was witnessing on the table could also be supported through experiential psychotherapy. I pursued a degree in clinical mental health counseling so that I could bring these approaches together and make them more broadly available.

I have since found that healing across all of these dimensions—body, heart and mind, energy, and spirit—is ultimately about opening doors to each person’s innate capacity to heal. That principle guides my work, whether I am offering EMDR, parts work, somatic mindfulness, energy healing, or sound immersions.

My path to becoming a psychotherapist is less a path than a series of landing points. I dabbled in academia, pursuing (and eventually leaving) a PhD program in Religion and Cultural Studies. I then joined Greenpeace, where I worked as a communications specialist and activist for an exciting and rewarding 10 years. While participating in a training in high-speed boat maneuvering on the Chesapeake Bay, I discovered I was pregnant, and I docked the boat at the Family Time marina, so to speak.

After having children, I shifted my focus to professional writing and nonprofit program management. Along the way, I have worked as a farmers’ market manager, massage therapist, jewelry maker, house cleaner, landscaper, writer, college writing instructor, and bookkeeper. I am perpetually engaged in trainings and will never tire of learning new things.

I am a mother of three children, now ranging from teens to young adults, and I live in the quiet woods of Shutesbury, Massachusetts. When I am not working, I meditate, walk, play my instruments, and listen to the wind.