Throughout all my years of formal education, the greatest teacher I’ve known is the Earth herself.

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Experience has shaped me more than any classroom. I’ve spent years in the helping professions—as an educator, coach, naturalist, caretaker for unhoused youth, and wilderness therapy guide. In the wilderness, I supported students navigating profound emotional and psychological challenges—depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, attachment wounds, and more—often for days at a time in the backcountry.

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More recently, I completed three years in Naropa University’s Buddhist-informed Contemplative Psychotherapy program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. This program taught me deeply about the nature of mind, meditation, and the wisdom to be gained in silence and stillness. I’ve chosen to step off the path of traditional Western psychotherapy to follow a deeper calling—one that honors Eastern and Indigenous perspectives on healing.

 

What gives me the confidence to walk this path is that I’ve lived it. I’ve done—and continue to do—the work. I’ve descended into my own darkness, faced my shadows, and walked through the fires of my own transformation. I’ve found the solid ground at rock bottom, and the light that can be found in the darkest places.

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I’ve done this for my own well-being, and so that I can guide others through their own initiatory journeys. I am here to walk with you through your own fire and offer up the gift of fearlessness. Whatever you’re holding, I will hold it with you—just as the Earth holds all of us.

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By working with emotions, energy, and the mind, I aim to help you reconnect with the innate wisdom, sanity, and wholeness that is already within you.