I hold a Master's Degree in Psychology with a specialization in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a Certification as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher from The Awareness Institute and the Center of Greater Good at the University of California Berkeley. For most of my adult life, I have been engaged in the exploration of body-mind health/healing in hospitals, outpatient clinics and in my psychotherapy practice. For nearly two decades I have been a psychotherapist in private practice and a supervisor of psychotherapy interns working with hospitalized patients and their families/loved ones, providing trainings to the interns and other members of the hospital care-team.

I have also been in deep inquiry around Embodied Spirituality, trusting that our experience/expression of the sacred is through this human experience/body, not in spite of it. This led me to Somatic Psychotherapy and to the practice of meditation, particularly meditating with the body/breath and compassion practices, for over twenty years. Through in-depth trainings and other practices, such as Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Qi Gong and Authentic Movement, my understanding around how our "conditioning" –including transgenerational trauma, lives on in us unconsciously (including in the body), unless non-judgmental, compassionate awareness is brought to it. It has also shown me our underlying beauty, depth and resiliency, untouched by this conditioning. This attitude allows inner knowing and the unfoldment of our Soul/Psyche within our very human lives.

My work is to support compassionate-somatic inquiry that draws on the immense resources and wisdom of the body , heart and spirit. This can support:

• listening to your own deepest longings, wants and needs

• identifying/understanding relational patterning -- the motivations and beliefs influencing behavior

• clarifying personal & professional/vocational goals

• processing grief

• working with and understanding anxiety and/or depression

• the cultivation of more presence and internal resource

• navigating health challenges for you or loved ones

• supporting care-givers – both inside the home & out

• navigating life changes

• cultivating the sacred in your life

I incorporate Somatics, Mindfulness, Jungian, Psychodynamic, the Expressive Arts and Transpersonal approaches. I am also influenced by Attachment Theory, Trauma theory, Neuroscience, and the Cultural Body.