To live with illness is to live with contradiction. To feel your body as both sacred and strange. To feel life asking everything of you when you have almost nothing to give.
I’ve walked that path — through grief, fatigue, disorientation, and the slow reclaiming of self. I know what it is to suffer, and I know what it is to heal. And I know that no one should walk that road alone.
I offer coaching for people navigating chronic illness, Long Covid, pain, and transition. My work is gentle, relational, and rooted in the body. We move at your pace. We listen for what still feels alive. We build the quiet muscles of trust, resilience, and presence.
Professional Roots
I hold an undergraduate degree in neuroscience and a two-year certificate in mindfulness-based psychotherapy from the Hakomi Institute. My work is shaped by my training with Francis Weller and Joanna Macy, and deepened by my completion of Maria Owl’s grief ritual facilitation program.
I am also trained in Nonviolent Communication, organizational change management, and permaculture design through the Permaculture Design Institute. I hold a project management certificate from Portland State University. My approach bridges science, story, and soul.
How I Live This Work
I’ve had an active meditation practice since 2000. I am a gardener, a cyclist, a music lover, and a soft-hearted companion to two sweet cats. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, where annual backpacking trips in the Cascade Range taught me the wisdom of moss, mountains, and quiet companionship with the wild.
Healing, for me, is not a return — it is a reweaving. Not a fix, but a remembering. I’m here to walk with you as you reweave your own story — with dignity, with care, and with deep trust in your body’s wisdom.
“Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”— Mary Oliver, The Uses of Sorrow
