09/30/2025
For the "About Me" section:
I want to learn more. I want to help more. Yet I cannot do any more — and therein lies the dilemma. There is so much information and so little time to deeply understand and integrate it all.
I immerse myself in neuroscience, trauma theory, and therapeutic approaches that bridge the mind, body, and spirit. As a full-time psychotherapist in private practice, I spend more than 24 hours each week in direct client contact — connecting, listening, and supporting people in their healing from trauma. I apply what I learn with my clients and hold the honor and privilege of walking alongside them in their life-changing journeys back to their authentic Self.
Over the years, I have studied and practiced experiential methods that foster safety, embodiment, and freedom, often through creative and action-based techniques. I integrate approaches that emphasize social engagement, self-leadership, and awareness of the autonomic nervous system, helping clients reconnect with their inherent capacity for healing.
In addition to my clinical practice, I run weekly therapy groups, alternating between several different series throughout the year. Teaching has become another avenue for growth: what began with training students in action methods has expanded into teaching graduate-level courses in counseling theories, techniques, and mindfulness. Each opportunity deepens my own understanding of the mind-body connection and strengthens my ability to support others.
At the same time, I balance many personal responsibilities, including the ongoing journey of parenting young adult children. One of my children navigates a world that often struggles to embrace neurodiversity. Supporting him as he learns to thrive on his own terms is both a challenge and a profound lesson in compassion, resilience, and acceptance.
Mindfulness, trail running, creativity, time in nature, animals, and continued learning have been my anchors. I yearn to continue researching, to one day pursue a doctoral degree, and to write about the extraordinary healing I witness in my trauma recovery groups — sharing what I have learned about the brain, the mind, the body’s response to stress, and the spiritual dimension of recovery.
At present, I cannot work less or learn more under my current circumstances. Still, I will continue to share my “field research” with others and trust that the larger plan for my work and life will unfold exactly as it is meant to. I am ready for it.
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