My Approach

Escaping the nightmare

Your soul torn, you toss and turn each night – clashing elements of your inner world depriving you from the peace of sleep. Increased sensitivity has left you perplexed – and afraid.

Gripped by fear, you know there’s something better out there, and you desperately want it.

But you don’t know what it is or how to get there. As you drift on the edge of consciousness, you know this is a nightmare – it’s not really living – and you’re trying to wake up, but how?

Awakening to Life

There’s a clear sign of your awakening – you’re starting to ask questions that you never really cared about before. Questions that seemed foolish, even stupid to you, yet they’ve taken over your mind, deprived you of peace.

You have a sense of something new arising, but it’s still unclear. Stepping into unchartered territory is uncomfortable. Heightened emotions, anxiety, and feeling overwhelmed keep you un-grounded – but be encouraged! A deeper truth is calling to emerge.

An awakening does not arrive “at the perfect moment,” when the stars align, the weather is flawless, and everything is in its right place. You could spend a lifetime waiting for a moment like that, and the truth is it might never come.

More exquisite. More sublime. More profound.

A REAL awakening is a much quieter, subtler event.

Rather than something that happens TO you, it is something that happens DEEP WITHIN.

It involves the ability to see wonder and wholeness in any weather, whatever chaos or disorder may be taking place around you.

To feel fulfilled and inspired, empowered and complete, day in and day out.

The key to cultivating this state of being is taking charge of your emotional life and learning to feel at home with yourself.

This inviolable peace requires serenity, grace, and the self-knowledge of discernment. Discernment that dispels inner messages driven by trauma, fear, anger, or fear and welcomes those grounded in confidence, power, and strength.

Living beyond fear

Our brains are programmed to see the negative. In our history as human animals, this proclivity was a genetic adaptation necessary for our survival. Fear the predator; don’t let the food supply run low.

In our modern lives, we have become obsessed with doing, doing, doing. We act out of fear, rather than love. We can’t seem to find time or space for experiencing the sacredness of the world.

And yet – nearly every religion calls for a practice of prayer, meditation, or ceremony. This can take many forms; but essentially, it requires taking a moment to see how unbelievably magical and fundamentally amazing things are, as they are.

It means reconnecting with the sacred. It means diving into the divine.

With training and grounding in both psychology and ancient spiritual practice, you can learn to see your beauty within, to awaken to your inner landscape, and to discover the dynamics keeping you from reaching your full potential – in your career, your relationships, YOUR LIFE.

Diving into the DIVINE

Most people are preoccupied with the outer world – very few people take the time to explore, discover, and understand the inner world.

But like an iceberg whose mass is mostly underwater, or a desert plant whose roots reach deep into the earth, your inner world is significantly more vast than your outer world.

Open up to your inner landscape. Connect with the sacred – engage it.

I invite you to begin that journey with me.

I’ll help you use nature as a vehicle to understand your own inner self.

Our goal? To ignite the inner fire, the spark, the sun – that individual essence you were born with, along with all your unique gifts.

Deep spiritual ecology

When I was in my forties, I left the competitive lifestyle of high-stakes marketing. I walked out of a male-dominated environment and set out to reclaim my inner world, my divine feminine, and my relationship to nature.

I sought the wisdom of a variety of traditions from around the world, including shamanism and Buddhism. In the process, I lost all interest in a life ruled by unnecessary drama over mundane things.

I wanted to learn how to become more aware of my own behavior, to become more conscious of things before I acted. I set out to deepen my understanding of mindfulness.

This spiritual journey eventually led me to Greenland, where I underwent formal training in the teachings of the Kallalit Eskimo tradition.

Life-changing epiphanies

During this process, I realized several essential things:

There’s nothing more important in this world than learning the tools and skills for shifting your inner world and deepening your connection to the earth, to nature, to life itself.

Connection to the inner world is ESSENTIAL in order to be able to attend to the outer world.

If you can’t love yourself, you can’t love all your relations – not just your human family, but all cultures and peoples, plants, the mineral world, animal world, all the different worlds on this planet and beyond it.

Bridging science and spirituality

Equipped with this deep sense of mindfulness and ecological awareness, I set out to match my spiritual teachings with an understanding of science by earning a master’s degree in somatic psychology and a Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology.

This mixture of science and spirituality, Eastern and Western traditions, is a hallmark of my work with individuals, families, children, and teens.

The question that leads and inspires me is this – How can I get people to be in their light, in their beauty, their essence, and to share that beauty with those around them, rather than be stuck living in and reacting from a place of fear?

I help you cultivate behaviors that come from the place of the heart by asking, “Who are you when you are not in fear, and who can you become?”

Cultivating happiness through consciousness

Happiness is a state of being that we cultivate from within. And EVERYONE has the capacity to achieve it.

What would the world be like if every person on the planet understood how to use these tools and practices to create lasting, unshakeable happiness?

That vision drives my practice and inspires me to work toward it, step-by-step, workshop-by-workshop, client-by-client.

Are you ready to dive into the divine? I would love to help you on your journey.

My professional background

As a therapist, facilitator, and educator, my work lies at the nexus of Eastern and Western traditions, science and spirituality.

I hold an MA in somatic psychology, a PhD in transpersonal psychology, and am formally trained in the shamanic teachings of the Kalaallit Eskimo people in Greenland.

Somatic psychology focuses on understanding how certain stimuli, such as stress or trauma, affect your nervous system, moods, and emotions, as well as how your thoughts can create states of mind, and how you can change your state of mind by actively cultivating different thoughts.

For my Ph.D., I studied Buddhism and ancient contemplative practices from various traditions to build my understanding of how each of these practices can cultivate well-being.

My work with individuals, couples, and families is grounded in deeply understanding family dynamic, mindfulness techniques, earth-based spirituality, and inspired by the belief that every individual has the capacity to awaken to their inherent beauty within.

Through the revival of family constellation and the integration of shamanic practices into daily life, I assist people in overcoming various forms of trauma, transforming fear- and anger-based behaviors into those that spring from a place of power, strength, and love.

My therapeutic approach encompasses the mind, body, and spirit, empowering individuals to take charge of their emotional lives and to discover the dynamics that keep them from reaching their full potential – in their career, their relationships, IN LIFE.