Getting to know me

      Ever changing and ever growing, my life is one long tapestry and with each unfolding a new mystery is revealed. Knowing myself is like knowing a wave as it rises and falls, as it keeps heading towards the stable rocky coast it is swooned back to the sea again and again. ​

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      When I started Wild Heart Therapies, it was during a time of much loss. It seemed that the whole world had suddenly revealed itself like a large wave of change, sweeping over who I was and who I thought I was becoming. We have all been swept into change. Fears, grief, prejudices crept closer into our everyday awareness as we face cultural and climate tragedies.

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      Throughout all of these sudden changes, I have journeyed to find my will - the sweet wild within me.  "Wild" means to be Willed and having access to will gives me faith in my ability to grieve, heal, and strive towards overcoming challenges. Its a learning and relearning process, again and again making mistakes again and again, and trusting those mistakes are moving me closer to who I really am. 

 

I dare to trust in the healing lessons hidden within pain. Perhaps, after all, healing and suffering are two beloveds wrapped up in the same story of joy and tragedy. It was Rumi who said, "The cure for pain is in the pain."

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      I am a spiritual mystic, poet, music maker, forager, and hiker. I am interested in holistic health and integrating the mind, body, and spirit in ways that decolonize  how we relate to our bodies, others, animals, the earth, and the cosmos.
     

     I have practiced as an LMFT for 5 years and enjoy the intimacy of my home office. As a practitioner, I have a gentle presence that seeks to deeply attune to the healing potential of my clients. I believe problems are rites of passage. This means that intimacy issues, a child’s "misbehavior,” chronic anxiety and depression, or grief may be ordeals that reveal new avenues for growth in embodiment, awareness, strategy building, and meaning making.
      I have a clinical grasp of both the breadth and depth of the human experience through my various training experiences. Trained in Systems Theory, Jungian Process work, Adlerian Psychology, Ecotherapy, Sandtray, Meditation, and Ritual building, I see people holistically with gifts within to build themself and contribute their community and ecology. 

     As an ecotherapist, when I encounter our society where loneliness persists and collective grief is carried, I turn to the logic of nature, the unique journey of life, death, and rebirth.

    As an educator, I take my role of Professor of  Adlerian Fundamentals and Interventions at Adler University with great honor and pride. Alfred Adler's philosophies of human nature is centered on all individuals being indivisible and innately whole while also being embedded in their unique socio-cultural community. A person's interest in contributing to the greater whole is a sign of well-being. Likewise, those who seek to conquer and hold superiority over others is a human pathology that is ultimately useless.

     

    If you are interested in unlocking the hidden edges of who you are and who you are becoming in relationship to yourself, others, and this planet, then I encourage you to reach out. I would love to connect and encourage you along this human path. 

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