home in your body

Before venturing into a session or movement class, you might like to know a little more about me. 

My work is as an educator and therapist. In my earlier life, I studied Philosophy and Psychology earning a BA in the US, and earned an MA shortly thereafter in Communications and Design; but the gateway into my current work has been through illness and rediscovery of my own body. Yoga and bodywork (Rolfing, Rolf Movement, Craniosacral Therapy) have served as a foundation for the manual therapy I offer, and over two decades this has evolved to include Somatic-based trauma therapy (Compassionate Inquiry, and more recently, Somatic Experiencing).
 

I came to know my own body first through auto-immune disease as a young child. These early years set me on a lifetime quest for understanding illness and healing from chronic pain, which ultimately came from movement, touch therapy, and self-exploration. On this path, in my twenties I discovered yoga and craniosacral therapy; in my thirties, Rolfing and Rolf Movement; in my forties, Compassionate Inquiry; and in my fifties, Somatic Experiencing, NARM and Polyvagal theory and practice.
 

Some people come to me with chronic pain or a body-specific question or problem, others with a sense there is emotional or nervous system overload; and in other cases there is a traumatic event which has disrupted the dynamism of life. Whichever pathway speaks to you for beginning our work together, I aim to create a space for you to meet yourself with honesty, authenticity, and possibility.

Learn more about me, and how I work.