I am not one creature.
I am the whole zoo.
I have no niche.
I am both scientific and mystical.
My clients swear by me and are delighted by the power of our work together.
I am an oracle, an elder, a magician.
I am a neuroscience nerd, a researcher, a teacher.
I am a path finder, way maker, and edge walker.
I work with:
parents
families
blended families
neurodiverse families
couples + relationships
co-parents
teens
cishet men
individuals encountering change or crisis
individuals negotiating love, relationship, money, career, visibility, developmental patterns
neurodiverse ppl in a radically neuroaffirming way
individuals seeking a deeper understanding and expression of authentic identity
therapists
My favorite modalities:
(eg, the modalities that have evidential proof of being the most powerful and helpful for myself and my clients):
astrology
human design
psychodrama
unshaming + compassion skills
reparenting
intuitive coaching
nervous system rehabilitation (a blend of somatic mind-body awareness, polyvagal theory, and self-world boundaries renegotiation)
Certifications:
2014, Certified Yoga Instructor, CYT, Santa Monica Yoga
2023, Certified Integrative Change Coach, CICW, Ethical Coaching Collective + Institute for Integrative Hypnosis
2023, Certified Integrative Hypnotist, CIH, Institute for Integrative Hypnosis
2023, Certificate in Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies, Linda Thai, Collectively Rooted
2023, Trauma-Informed Certificate for Coaches, The Centre for Healing
2024, Certified Human Design Analyst, Quantum Human Design TM
2024, Certified Family Coach, Quantum Human Design TM (pending)
In addition to my certifications, I have multiple trauma trainings and am a trauma-informed practitioner.
Professional trainings of note include:
2014, Eat Breathe Thrive: Yoga for Eating Disorders Facilitator
2022, Evolutionary Astrology Intensive, Sabrina Monarch
2023, Memory Reconsolidation: Translating Neuroscience into Art, Academy of Therapy Wisdom
2023, Working with Complex Trauma: Innovative Approaches for Restoring Mind-Body Integration, Academy of Therapy Wisdom & Bessel Van Der Kolk
2024, Transforming Relational Trauma Using Sociometrics and Psychodrama, Academy of Therapy Wisdom
2024, Professional Training in Archetypal Astrology, Karen Hawkwood
My Coaching Pillars:
AGENCY: I think of agency as a meta-resource. Agency means feeling like we have an influence on our life. It means understanding and owning accountability. It means being able to stand in the power of being a stakeholder and decision-maker, vs. a helpless victim with no ability to influence their life or behavior. Agency is being in right relationship to the potency of Self.
AUTHENTICITY: I think we are conditioned away from our authenticity, complexity and paradox starting at birth. In our work, we reclaim all your parts, even the contradictory ones. We explore your depth, even the caverns that have been sealed off.
SAFETY: I can’t guarantee safety. The world is inherently unsafe. But I can work with you to distinguish what is actually unsafe from what is merely uncomfortable, and I can help you feel safer in situations that are activating. I can help increase your understanding and the capacity of your nervous system. I can teach you how to prioritize feeling safe.
COURAGE: When we are changing patterns, and evolving ourselves, risk and discomfort are inherent. It is our courage that allows us to engage with risk.
DIGNITY: No shaming or judging. Respect and trust for your inner wisdom, and for your system doing its best and getting you this far. Taking you seriously, respecting all your parts, beliefs, behaviors and feelings.
NUANCE: Resisting binary or black & white thinking. Stepping out of inhumane standards and judgements. Allowing paradox, complexity, non-linear timing, multiple truths at once, contradictions, imperfections. Building capacity to tolerate what is unknown or unclear.
RADICAL TRUST
RADICAL COMPASSION
Personal anecdotes: I am a person who knows crisis, and how to thrive in unstable conditions. Who has faced housing insecurity, who has battled chronic and mysterious illness and addiction.
I am a child of immigrants, and I carry unique stories about belonging, home, and safety because of this.
I was misdiagnosed as gifted as a child. I’m actually autistic and it’s partially my autistic gifts and sensibilities that make me such a keen practitioner. I attribute my heightened intuition, insightfulness, and empathy to my unique brain.
I am constantly overstimulated and delighted by my boisterous and neurodiverse children, and constantly energized by the puzzle of creating a life that honors all our authentic natures.
I am a creative and an entrepreneur. I am a mother with many faces.
I like to be well-resourced, especially when it comes to my work. I’m constantly buying books, learning new modalities, signing up for trainings, and actively utilizing my mentors.
Because I’m autistic PDA (pathologically demand avoidant/pervasive drive for autonomy) I face unique challenges in parenting and in life. I enjoy coming up with hacks/workarounds for my disability.
One such hack is combining training calls/workshops with housework. I learn best while moving, and I do housework best while being co-regulated by the presence of people.
I love coffee and I make it cowboy style (pour hot water over grinds, then use a (rose gold) sieve to filter.
I ran a million dollar skincare company for 8 years, that I built from the ground up.
It took me almost a whole year to learn to surf, but learn I finally did - that was when we lived a block from the ocean in LA pre-kids.
I hate capitalism, and like a lot of people, I’m doing my best to navigate a non-preferred system as generatively as possible.
My favorite thing to bake is Marian Burros’ plum torte.
A daily walk through a Nature trail is non-negotiable for my mental/physical/spiritual health.
Astro: Aquarius Sun, Aries Moon, Leo Rising.
HD: 5/1 Sacral Generator.
My coaching values and approaches:
I’m radically neuroaffirming and nonpathologizing. We’re not here to fix you so much as understand and unshame you.
I’m cultivating a practice of radical trust. I trust in your wisdom, your pattern of unfoldment, and your ability to figure shit out. I trust in myself to show up exactly as you need. I trust in Source, divine timing and divine lessons.
I’m paradoxical, complex, and abundant in multiplicities. I show up differently on different days with different people. Sometimes I coach, sometimes I facilitate, sometimes I teach, sometimes I excavate.
Out of my extensive academic and mystical lineages, I have a powerfully intuitive and responsive approach for supporting you, and the wisdom languages of astrology and human design are foundational scaffolding.
Modalities I use (gently, intuitively + trauma-informed):
Somatic Regulation
Psychodrama + Sociometrics
Astrology
Human Design
Coherence Therapy
Hypnosis
Therapeutic Memory Reconsolidation
Modified EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming)
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
Motivational Interviewing
Tarot
Unshaming
Experiential Contravention
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
Therapeutic Writing
All sessions are virtual - via zoom, phone call or asynchronous support.
Astrology and Human Design are fundamental modalities in my work.
My work is radically neuroaffirming and unshaming and actively divests from harmful neurotypical norms.
Wondering if I can help you?
Am I the best practitioner for you?
Book a mutual fit call (free, 30 min) and let’s find out!