As I concluded my degree I began to experience another deep shift in consciousness, a primal feminine awakening, leading to psychic and kundalini openings. I spent the next three and a half years in prolonged periods of solitude, working through layers of multidimensional, psychosomatic trauma that my body was releasing as I moved into greater subtleties within my being. As my feminine consciousness and soul memory opened, I worked deeply with the Earth soul, including non-psychoactive plant and land spirits as I lived in South America, Southern Oregon, and Bali. During this length of time, I studied depth psychology, somatic psychology, soul, the feminine nervous and hormonal systems, the womb (womb work and menstruation), non-dual meditation, Women's European spiritual lineages, and clairvoyance. This profoundly shapes the counseling approach I work from today.

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Through over a decade of exploration with several unexpected twists and turns, spiritual practice, psychotherapy, and writing have always remained as my foundation. This interweaving has been a guiding force through my own chronic and acute traumas, and continues to aid me in discernment through the shadow aspects imbedded in both West and East religions. I'm grateful for the ways in which these foundations have helped me to safely journey with growing confidence to the edges of my psyche, unconscious, and spiritual longings. In this balance between the disciplines, I am in a constant learning of loving my human self as much as my divine self. Bringing compassion to the messy, raw, and uncertain parts of myself, allowing me to live increasingly within the poetry of life. 

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Some of my hobbies include baking paleo desserts, hiking, community singing, and playing with tarot and herbs. I spend part of each year living abroad, connecting soul threads in distant lands, and part of the year in my nestled mountain home in Southern Oregon.