2000 - 2002: Attended Bastyr University, achieved a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science and Wellness.

2001 - 2002: Completed 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with The Samarya Center For Ashtanga Yoga and Yoga Therapy*. Earned RYT-200 (certified yoga teacher) designation.

2003 - 2005: Completed 500 Hour Yoga Therapy Training and an advanced Yoga Therapy Internship with The Samarya Center For Ashtanga Yoga and Yoga Therapy*. Earned E-RYT 500 (highly experienced certified yoga teacher) designation. 

2005 - 2010: Full time work as a yoga teacher and yoga therapist at The Samarya Center For Ashtanga Yoga and Yoga Therapy*.

*The Samarya Center For Ashtanga Yoga and Yoga Therapy was founded by my teacher and mentor Molly Lannon Kenny.

2010 - 2015: Worked as a yoga instructor teaching classes at various studios around Seattle. I taught a variety of different styles of yoga to a variety of populations. 

2010 - 2015: I opened and ran a private yoga therapy practice where I treated clients with PTSD, C-PTSD, chronic pain, anxiety, etc. 

2011 - 2013: Attended The School Of Evolutionary Herbalism where I completed their Alchemical Herbalism Program. This program included the study of plant spirit healing, spiritual ecology, traditional Western Herbalism, Ayurveda, the relationship between plants and the elements, the planets, and energetic patterns of nature, medical astrology and astro-herbalism, as well as Alchemy, Spagyrics, and the Hermetic tradition. 

2011 - 2015: Completed both the Energy Healing Program and the Clairvoyant Awareness Program at Psychic Awakenings. Psychic Awakenings is a school in Seattle that is an offshoot of the Berkley Psychic Institute. Here I learned energy healing and became trained as a psychic (i.e. someone who can read energy). 

2013 - 2017: Developed and taught a 200-hour yoga teacher training program that I offered through Lotus Yoga in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. This intimate program (with only 8 students per cohort) focused on yoga as a spiritual practice, rather than as a form of physical exercise. I was the sole instructor and was responsible for all of the curriculum. 

2015 - Present: Opened (and now I maintain) my private practice offering intuitive counseling, somatic healing and energy work. I work with people from all walks of life.

2017 - Present: I teach energy work and Nature-based spiritual practices to small groups in an ongoing yearly program that I call Witch School. I am the sole instructor and responsible for all of the curriculum.

2017 - 2020: Apprenticeship with a shamanic healer named Tara Boyce. I assisted Tara in leading retreats around the country and gained valuable experience learning to support people’s healing.

2020 - 2023: Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program with The Embody Lab.

2021 - 2023: Professional mentorship and supervision with a counselor, healer and facilitator named Sandra Morse.

2022: The Somatic Narrative workshop with Kathy Kain

2022: Transforming The Experience Based Brain, Module 1 with Stephen Terrell.

2023 - 2024: Completed a 13 month training entitled Somatic Relational Practices for Trauma - Informed Therapy led by therapist Rita Bozi.

2024: Advanced somatic therapy training with Rita Bozi.

2023 - Present: Professional supervision with somatic therapist Rita Bozi.

2024 - Present: I assist Rita Bozi at her trainings and retreats, where I gain valuable experience and skills working somatically with various populations.

2025 - Present: I am currently completing Dr. Aline La Pierre's 9 month long NeuroAffective Touch Training for trauma therapists.

 

I have also taken many other smaller workshops and trainings that are too numerous to list here. In these smaller workshops and trainings I studied things like:

Ayurveda

Yoga / Yoga Therapy

Channeling

Shamanic Healing Techniques

Sound Healing

Energy Healing

Somatic Trauma Therapy

Thai Massage and other bodywork techniques

 

 

 

If you have any questions about my experience or training, please do not hesitate to ask!