ABOUT ME...

Sacred space holder, collaboratively creating containers to traverse thresholds, navigate wild edges, and wholly, holy, heal. Bringing magic into the mundane and ritual into recovery. Re-membering with compassion and integrating with intention. Balancing depth with levity. Building strategies and capacity to show up amidst our collective collapse and daily devastation, while also being of service and dreaming into our greater yet to be. Healing as resistance, healing for generational and ancestral repair, healing to unapologetically embody sacred, rooted, sovereignty!

SOME LEARNINGS THAT HAVE CREATED MY FOUNDATION, FRAMEWORK, PERSPECTIVE AND APPROACH…

Formal Education + Training:

  • Bachelor of Social Work, 2001; Master of Social Work, 2007

  • Licensed Social Worker (LCSW) in CO

  • Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) in CO

  • Emotional Freedom Technique, 2012 & 2019

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Basic Training completed 2025

  • IFS (Internal Family Systems) Level 1 Training completed 2025

  • Brain Synchronization Therapy (BST), 2024

Teachings I am rooted in:

  • Priestess Path ~ Alisa Starkweather ~ Gen 12 (1 yr), 2011-2012

  • Oracle School ~ Colette Baron Reid ~ 2021-2022 cohort

  • Way of the Wild Witch Immersion ~ Tonja Reichley ~ 2021-2022 cohort

  • Serpent and the Veil Mystery School of Indigenous Irish Wisdom ~ Tonja Reichley ~ 2022-2023 cohort ~ dancingwiththewild.com

  • Awakening the Dark Goddess (10/2025-4/2025) and Awakening the Fire Goddess (5/2026-10/2026) ~ Gita Nicola Schneider ~ awakeningtouch.ca

  • Ancestral Lineage Repair (2024-2025) ~ Jen Hudziec ~ jenhudziec.com

A non-exhaustive list of books that have inspired, humbled and nurtured me into more wholeness, and while I will always be a work in progress, these have lended to my lens…

  • The Big Book

  • A Women’s Way Through The Twelve Steps ~ Stephanie Covington

  • Decolonizing Therapy ~ Dr. Jenn Mullan

  • Women Who Run With Wolves ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  • The Red Tent ~ Anita Diamante

  • The Sacred Pipe, Black Elk’s account of the seven rites of the Oglala Sioux ~ Joseph Epes Brown

  • The Wound Makes the Medicine ~ Pixie Lighthouse

  • See No Strangers ~ Valerie Kaur

  • Me and White Supremacy ~ Layla Saad

  • The 13 Original Clan Mothers ~ Jamie Sams

  • The Mist-Filled Path and The Celtic Way of Seeing ~ Frank MacEown

  • Rest IS Resistance ~ Tricia Hersey

  • Ancestral Medicine ~ Daniel Foor

  • We Should All Be Feminists ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie