a little about me

Over years of accompanying people in hospitals, at bedsides, in crisis, and in stressful work environments, I began to see something clearly: there is a wholeness to being human that we have not necessarily been taught! We are physical. We are vulnerable. We have bodies, histories, needs, desires, responsibilities. We are vast, non-physical beings. We carry intuition, wisdom, mystery, and sovereignty. We are all these things, body and spirit.

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Learning to integrate and express this union in my own life has reshaped the way I see life and live in relationship to it. And as a woman, it was especially vital to honor my embodied self while also honoring the beauty and power of my soul. This journey has required me to release inherited ideas about expectation, duty, purity, transcendence, and escape. I learned to stop denying some parts of me, or elevating others. And at the same time, my path demanded an honest reckoning with the religious and spiritual ideas I carried, such as images of "achievement" or expectations regarding awakening. These subtle and sometimes overt human tendencies toward hierarchy have sat within my consciousness.

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As my reverence for physical life--this life--deepened, so did my surrender into mystery.
Both movements unfolded together.

And from this, a deeper presence became more available to life and to others others on the path.

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Formation & Experience

I hold a Master of Religious Studies and a Master of Divinity, and have worked professionally for over two decades as a hospital chaplain and behavioral health therapist. Since 2020, I have also maintained a private practice.

Accompanying individuals and families through trauma, mental illness, grief, loss, and profound life transitions, I learned how inseparable the physical and the sacred truly are.

My contemplative path has included direct study in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with its founder, Jon Kabat-Zinn, as well as long-term engagement with Andean shamanic traditions and Tibetan Buddhism. This study took me to Peru, India, and Nepal, where I spent extended periods in practice and instruction.

These experiences were not about spiritual accumulation or achievement — a realization I could feel my teachers continually returning me to. For me, they were developmental. They invited me to question inherited beliefs and subtle hierarchies, to face shadow and internal roadblocks, and to integrate body and spirit in my own life and in my relationship to a greater whole.

In recent years, my own prolonged illness and walking with my parents through their dying further deepened my understanding of vulnerability, embodiment, and surrender.

None of this made me more certain. Every moment invited the mystery. Every turn, strengthened my integrity.