I have spent over 40 years studying people and relationships. As the owner of Waldkinder Adventure Preschool, I worked with families of young children to help parents raise happy, self-aware humans with the skills and resilience to navigate the increasingly complex world in which we live. I love teaching, challenging, and nurturing individuals and families to reach toward their innate potential.
I don’t have a formula, a theory, or method I use with every individual. Aligned with my theoretical orientations, I am highly intuitive and can help you discover your innate energies and nature, and continue to integrate past traumatic impacts into your perfect Self; the one with which you were born. Through insight and compassion, I will help you build tolerance to future difficulties for a more easeful existence. There is no life without pain, but we can cultivate a life without suffering!
This work is not easy, nor is it fast. Meaningful change takes time and is uncomfortable. It is not something that can be attained in the occasional weekend retreat or by reading clever Instagram posts. It takes commitment to self-inquiry, knowledge, and integration. That being said, I believe in fun, joy, playfulness, and delight, and work with my clients to prioritize these things while doing the difficult work of self-discovery and healing!
Currently, I work with a variety of individuals and couples, helping them gain a deeper understanding of their "capital S" Selves and their relationships by exploring the depths of the unconscious with somatic practices, nervous system regulation, dream work, journaling, trauma healing, and more. With deep compassion and non-judgement, I feel especially drawn to my work with women transitioning out of marriages or careers or motherhood into something yet discovered as well as younger adults who are just exploring what it means to "Adult" as they begin their journey in life. And, as a practicing relationship anarchist, I love helping individuals and couples navigate polyamory and ethically non-monogamous relationships. I also provide LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy and coaching.
Through self-knowledge and self-acceptance, we work towards living a more authentic and happier life. Let’s start your journey together!
My Approach
I have always been counter-conventional. Well before I first studied psychology in the 90s, I was a pathfinder and knew that living authentically and not according to societal or familial prescriptions was my way.
Despite this, as I look back over the decades. I am keenly aware of the subtle, and sometimes not-so-subtle, social, and family pressures that caused me doubt, struggle, and painful missteps. Whether we are aware of it or not, and whether we like it or not! . . . we are each conditioned to varying degrees of living life trying to fit in to whichever group(s) we feel compelled to belong, and in doing so our authenticity gets pushed into our unconscious psyche.
Carl Jung, the founder of Depth Psychology and a guiding light of my work, said that the more unconscious a person is, the more they will conform to others' expectations.
Perhaps you also feel the internal struggle born out of the societal perspective which at once encourages individuality and frowns upon it when we don't fit into a certain normalized ideal. Maybe the struggle does not present itself to you in words but in subtle feelings of pain, discomfort, guilt, or shame. Perhaps it shows up in behaviors such as addictions, compulsions, or unsatisfying relationships and professional work. Perhaps the struggle manifests in your body through disconnection, illness, fatigue, depression, or pain.
This struggle can be brought to light through intentional work with your Shadow; the material that affects all aspects of your emotional life, your choices and behavior, and your physicality, but which lies hidden in your unconscious mind.
It is through my clinical training most recently in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, as well as my own somatic healing journey through the shadows of my unconscious psyche, that I understand the connection between consciousness and being able to live from a fully-embodied place of deep authenticity.
Working through body awareness, the signals from your nervous system become conscious and healing can occur, allowing you to move forward in your life with more authenticity and freedom. I invite you to take this journey with me. Click the link below for a complimentary consultation.