“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” ~Bell Hooks, Social Justice Educator and Writer

Mission

My mission is to guide people on a journey of rediscovery, inspiration, and communion with their most authentic, essential selves or Spirit—grounded in love, play, humility, diversity, compassion, creativity, deep connection with the Earth, conscious community, and vital inner wisdom of our lost parts. As a part of this, we acknowledge our interdependence with the ecosystem of the Earth or cosmos and that we flourish when all parts of the whole also thrive. In this way, we acknowledge that transformation, healing, and evolution are not outcomes or destinations of our own human making but rather a lifelong sacred journey that we must hold tenderly and fiercely in our hearts each moment of our lives and humble ourselves with the benevolent forces around us. 

“When we heal the Earth, we heal ourselves.” ~David Orr, Environmental Justice Educator and Writer

Who I Work With

Often, I find that humans have accumulated a myriad of wounds from various sources and in various stages of healing which seem to occlude access to our essential Self.  Each wound and the history of a person necessitates nuanced, personalized approaches to healing that must primarily be oriented by the  inner healer or essential Self.   Many people I work with have been in counseling and are already relatively rooted and resourced on their healing journey but are now seeking deeper integration, expression, and expansion of their life purpose.  I am called to work with people who are ready to journey beyond what is familiar and seek an extraordinary life by unlocking the creative potential of their essential Self and have a burning passion to manifest their gifts in this world as acts of service. I am often honored to guide people who identify as talented and gifted in unusual and creative ways, neurodivergent, queer, healers, visionaries, dancers, artists, and psychedelic and spiritual explorers. 

My Approach

Through a unique and potent blend of ancient perennial wisdom and modern healing practices, my work encourages both personal and collective transformation, healing, and evolution. I have had a multi-faceted career history in health and wellness as a personal trainer, wellness and life coach, emergency medicine, wilderness guide/teacher, therapist/counselor, business owner. Simultaneously, I have been on my own labyrinthine journey of transformation, healing, and evolution with a paradox between my earlier work and my health serving as the crucible which has informed and transformed my offerings into the 5 Pillars that CSC is operating with today. During my work of over 15 years as a professional psychotherapist while simultaneously tending to my own healing, I have witnessed firsthand, in myself and my clients, the limitations and sometimes even harmfulness of conventional approaches of western psychotherapy and medicine.  I have also personally experienced and witnessed the transformative power of integrating alternative modalities that nurture a reconnection to and reawakening of  our essential Self.  On my journey, I have played with a variety of somatic paths, feeling how they each have distinct expressions in my body, including assorted forms of dance and yoga to some of my favorite somatic practices such as Continuum and BodyMind Centering.  The heart of my healing is further woven into my connection with the Earth through ecotherapy and nature based meditation, art, ritual, and wilderness solos. I have studied Yoga philosophy for over 25 years and it is a life long practice for me.  CSC mission, vision, and operations has been created based on Yoga philosophy and I strive to find the elements and wisdom of Yoga in each moment of all that I do.   Dance is also a life long exploration for me and is the primary modality of my expressive arts practices but in practice I also love seeing beauty and art everywhere and seeing how the practice and symbolism can reflect insight back to me.  More recently, in the last several years, I have been exploring the value of interconnectivity in community human, nature, and others types as well as animist, archetypal, alchemical, and energetic healing as well as environmental and social justice practices in the world. 

“Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.” ~Carl Jung, Archetypal Psychologist

My Journey

My life and healing journey has taken many twists and turns, but the golden thread of healing for me has been a rediscovery of the glimmers of my essential Self.  From my early connections with the Earth, animals, and dance to my exploration of an eclectic blend of approaches to healing throughout my life. My own healing journey started at a young age has continued throughout my life as I work to understand, integrate and ultimately transmute the impact of multiple traumas, both as a child and adult, invisible chronic pain and illness, neurodivergence, and emerging queer identity to awaken the gifts buried within my wounds. My healing journey today focuses on healing my dissociation with the Divine Feminine and associated practices such as intuition and energy healing.  I have also been exploring how the deep historical shadow of my culture is impacting my health and wellbeing through spiritual estrangement from the land, plants, animals and cosmos, the wounds of privilege and soul suppression associated with my ancestral lineage connection to dissociation, violence, oppression, extraction, colonization, patriarchy, genocide, and slavery.  I acknowledge the disproportionate and deep impact of these forces on People of the Global Majority and my intention is that my offerings will humbly contribute to a larger transformative, healing, and ultimately global evolution.  At this time in the western psyche, the re-emergence of our cultural, ancestral, environmental, and spiritual healing is becoming an undeniable essential part of our personal and collective healing journey.  

I have a deep and ancient love for the intersection between the Earth, Cosmos, and Spirit and am a lifetime lover of esoteric learning, visionary entrepreneur, writer, novice musician, dancer, and Yogi. As I venture to combine my healing path with my work, I now envision my role primarily as a guide/coach and steward of healing, transformation, and evolution.  Essentially, I serve to support someone along their journey to cultivate more deeply  interconnected wise relationships between humans, the Earth, plants, animals, elements, cosmos, and the indwelling Spirit and inner healer within us all as well as wise relationships with the lost, dark, shadowy, creative, light, and inspirational parts of ourselves. Honoring interconnectivity of these wise relationships provides the potential for ALL to experience radical liberation of our unique inherent gifts and sparks of our Spirit. If you're ready to explore the depths of your inner landscape and bring your unique medicine into the world, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.

“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?” ~Gabrielle Roth, Dancer, Musician, and Creator of 5 Rhythms 

I am NOT currently accepting new therapy clients. 

I AM accepting new individual clients for the following services:

Coaching

Reiki

Meditation, Breathwork, & Sound Healing

Healing Ritual

You can join me in co-facilitated community groups in the Eugene area, including meditation, breathwork, ecotherapy, and more. You can also find me on our Virtual Resources platform on Patreon, where I offer guided meditations, breathwork, ecotherapy, and somatic practices.

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.”  -Arundhati Roy

I aspire to have a revolutionary approach to therapy, an approach that supports growth towards all of our freedom. And I am still in the process of decolonizing a colonized body and mind, just as you are. I am inspired by Sonya Renee Taylor’s body-based, radical self-love as espoused in her book and social movement The Body Is Not An Apology. I honor the lens of intersectionality – the acknowledgement that bodies bear differing levels of burden according to their position within multiple oppressive systems, and do my best to be an ally in empowering all bodies to be free, with regulated nervous systems. I would like to name that I feel like I am a particularly strong ally for queer folks; I love what queerness brings into the world, some of my closest people are queer, and I have experience working with a variety of LGTBQ+ individuals as a therapist. Additionally, I have lived significant portions of my life in Latin America, speak Spanish, and would be honored to work with Spanish speaking clients.

“Pleasure is the point. Feeling good is not frivolous, it is freedom.” -Adrienne Maree Brown

Increasingly I recognize a regulated nervous system as a cornerstone of well being within our bodies. And thus I am drawn to learning about Polyvagal theory and all practices that help us maintain a regulated nervous system, including pleasure, creativity, and connection with Source/Spirit. Some of the forms of creative self-expression that have most supported me are writing, dance, and singing, and I would love to support your creative process as a part of your healing journey. Some things that bring me joy and pleasure include singing in community, dancing in community, being in nature, rock climbing, and any other backcountry adventuring that I can access, such as canyoneering or rafting. Nature was one of my strongest allies and regulating forces in my childhood and my connection to the earth is strong. Just as we co-regulate together, we can co- regulate with the earth; nature is one of the strongest and most reliable regulating forces we can access.

As a mother of two young adults, I have lived through many stages of the lifespan, which helps me support you through the many transitions of life, whether it be learning to adult, marriage, divorce, parenting, role changes, the loss of a loved one, a spiritual awakening, or any significant change really. I love to honor the depth and power of transitions and am well versed in the transformative nature of grief. I have been influenced by grief teachers such as Sobonfu Some and Francis Weller, as well as my own significant grief processes. Becoming capable of feeling our pain is one of the strongest and most revolutionary things we can do. A society cannot be healthy until it has metabolized its pain, and we have so much.

Life has presented me with a wealth of challenges, from significant childhood trauma, to relational loss, multiple head injuries, and a host of mysterious health symptoms, which has given me the opportunity to learn a lot about the nuances and many layers of healing. I have had to reach for the largess of my soul and the unconditional love of my spiritual support team to make it through the hardest times, and I am grateful for the inner sense of connection and resilience this has forged. For that reason, I am experimenting with how to bring Spirit, soul, and energy work into therapeutic sessions, for I believe these are essential resources that we should all have access to, and that make the healing process more efficient. In addition to being a trained mental health therapist, I am a budding channel and light language practitioner. Sessions may include things such as prayer, intention setting, ceremony, light language, and creative self expression, in ways that seek to align with your belief systems. My therapeutic approach draws heavily on Internal Family Systems Therapy. I find its parts work model to be an elegant representation of the fractal nature of the universe. As we learn to love and integrate all of our parts into a harmonious whole, we become more adept at loving all that we witness in humanity so that together we can become a more harmonious whole, owning and integrating its pain and darkness. 

Like any good healer, my aim is to support you in accessing your own wisdom and movement towards healing, wholeness, and empowerment. My tools, skills, perspectives, and experience are in service to you taking responsibility for yourself while leaning into the mystery of what healthy interdependence looks like. Thus I work best with those who are ready to be active in their own healing process. I am not the best person to go to if you are in active crisis – in this case you will likely be better served in a larger agency with more wrap around services. That being said, if you are in a more stabilized place, I am open to working with all trauma histories.

“Liberation is the opportunity for every human, no matter their body, to have unobstructed access to their highest self, for every human to live in radical self-love.” -Sonya Renee Taylor

If you are seeking depth, sensitivity, and compassion in a practitioner with the capacity to span the breadth from the embodied to the spiritual, the mundane to the mystical, the personal to the political, that’s me. I would be honored to help you navigate life’s greatest challenges. I hope at the very least our work together can inspire trust in you – trust in yourself and your meaningful place in the world, trust in a life force that is guiding us towards love, no matter how convoluted the path may seem.

I am currently accepting new clients with the following providers: Private Pay, PacificSource Commercial, PacificSource OHP, BCBS, and Shasta Administrative. You can also work with me in our Chronic Pain & Grief support group.

You can also find me on our Virtual Resources platform on Patreon, where I offer poetry and Light Language Transmission meditations.

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door. If you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.” – Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

My work is rooted in the wild, woven with magic, and devoted to the sacred remembering of who we are beneath our conditioning.

I approach therapy as ritual, as reclamation, as resistance. It is a return to the body, to the breath, to the earth, and to the truths we carry in our bones. I hold space for healing that is not only personal, but political—a soul-deep process of unlearning, rewilding, and restoring what late-stage capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and other systems of oppression have tried to sever. I am here to help you remember who you are and find the joy of being in right relationship with yourself as you navigate your relationships with others and systems at large. I am here to help you reclaim your magic. I take my work seriously, but welcome joy and playfulness in my sessions. 

My practice blends clinical tools with ancient ones; comprehensive training in Western therapy practices such as DBT, CBT, and Parts work as well as esoteric practices such as Tarot, astrology, archetypes, and somatic ritual. I use these intuitive practices to help clients access the parts of themselves that exist beyond language and logic. My incorporation of Tarot into my work has been incredibly helpful as a practitioner and for my clients; it is not about prediction, but presence. It invites conversation with the unconscious, and offers imagery that liberates and heals. It is a tool to deepen intuition.

Living on Mt. Hood, I consider the natural world both muse and co-therapist. The land teaches me how to listen, how to slow down, how to trust. I guide clients into right relationship with nature as mirror and medicine, using ritual, seasonal cycles, and earth-based practices to support nervous system regulation, spiritual insight, and deep belonging. I am comforted by the woods I live in and my partner and I are always exploring new hikes.

“Inside each of us is the Maiden who dreams, the Mother who nurtures, the Queen who leads, and the Crone who knows.” - Unknown

As my personal practice has deepened, I have become more connected with nature, the four feminine archetypes—Maiden, Mother, Queen, and Crone—have become central to how I work. These archetypes live in all of us, regardless of gender, and I help clients reclaim the wisdom and power of each one. Whether you're navigating a transition, grieving a former version of yourself, or stepping into something new, these archetypal lenses offer profound insight into your inner landscape. With this work comes grief and I have been easing into my work as a grief doula. There is no healing without grief and although we must do our own work, we do not have to do it in isolation.

Somatic therapy is woven through every session, whether through breathwork or movement. I work with the body as oracle and storyteller, using yoga (primarily Hatha) and movement-based practices to support trauma healing and embodiment. “Movement as medicine” isn’t just a phrase for me—it’s a lived philosophy that honors the body as both sacred and sovereign. As a yoga practitioner for the past 22 years, it has become a core part of my identity and a deep passion to share with others.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” – James Baldwin

I am deeply aware of how oppressive systems shape our mental health. I hold an anti-capitalist, trauma-informed, and liberation-focused lens in my work. Therapy with me is not about fixing what's broken, it is about honoring what's been adaptive, protecting what's sacred, and reimagining how we relate to ourselves and the world. Healing is resistance. Rest is a spell. Boundaries are sacred. Community is part of the cure.

Though I’ve spent years walking beside clients one-on-one, I feel called toward collective spaces of healing—toward circles, ritual, and connection. I believe in therapy that’s rooted in soul and soil, in justice and joy. I believe in your right to take up space, reclaim your voice, and live a life shaped by your own values, not someone else’s expectations.

When I’m not in sessions or teaching yoga, my partner and I are finding new hikes each weekend and spending time with our dogs, Hattie and Cheese. I am a huge foodie and love exploring new foods and baking delicious treats. 

I am currently accepting new clients on a waitlist--please contact us to be added to it.

You will also find me on CSC's Patreon and in community groups in the future!

I work on the client intake and administrative side of things, helping to keep us running behind the scenes. I view my role here at Creative Spirit as the weaver between client and therapist. I find fulfillment in hearing peoples’ stories and helping to connect them with a therapist that best fits their needs based on where they are at in their journey.

I completed my Bachelors of Psychology and Contemplative Studies at Oregon State University and joined CSC after time with the Neuro Meditation Institute. My long term goal is to obtain my Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Naropa University, where there would be an emphasis on Mindfulness Meditation in the program. As meditation has been an integral part of my healing journey, having the opportunity to integrate this practice into the curriculum feels immensely in alignment.

I feel inspired by immersive experiences out in nature, reading an enticing novel, mindfully observing animals in their natural state of being, working with and tending to plants as well as studying and practicing various styles of meditation and yoga.

You can also find me on our Virtual Resources platform on Patreon, where I offer guided meditations and research-driven articles.