My Story

I’m a lifelong carer, fixer, and lover of nature.  I’m also disabled and neurodivergent - autistic and ADHD, and I live with chronic illness.  While my neurotypes offer many useful traits, they also make life more challenging because I’m functioning in a society that’s not designed for the way my nervous system works.  Metaphorically, I’m running a different operating system than what’s considered typical in our society.  

My interests led me to pursue oncology nursing as my first career, and a decade later to transform that career into environmental health and climate justice advocacy.  I worked in the climate movement for another decade, where a culture of urgency and intensity was an understandable response to the crisis at hand.  All through both of these career paths, my extreme sensitivity prevented me from building the coping mechanisms my peers relied on for dealing with the emotional intensity of these roles.  Vicarious trauma, grief, and conflict landed in my body as physical damage, and I could not simply make myself more resilient because I recognized the need to do so. These forces, coupled with the demands of caring for a neurodivergent and disabled family, managing my own chronic illness, and discovering and navigating my own neurodivergence - one day led my body to simply say “no more.”  Listening to my body was no longer a cool pithy saying that I mostly ignored; it was an absolute physical imperative prompted by a serious health crisis. 

This moment led to me to discover somatics, which turned out to be both my life’s work and my path home to myself.  Somatics allowed me to access the deeper wisdom available through reconnecting deeply with my body and its aliveness.  Where feeling deeply used to be a liability, it now became a gift that fostered transformation.  I learned to make the changes I knew I needed, but that I could not simply think myself into.  My body became the path to that transformation, and its sensations and signals became my guides.  This is especially meaningful for me as a neurodivergent person, because neurodivergent bodies and traits are all-too-often seen as deficient or diseased when in fact they hold real, valuable, life-affirming wisdom. 

My Work

As a Certified Somatic Coach, I now bring together distinctive lived experience with deep knowledge of human physiology and somatics, creating a safe and affirming space for clients to transform towards their deepest longings. I maintain licensure as a Registered Nurse, and I hold a doctoral degree in nursing.  My work is shaped by years of accompanying individuals and teams through pivotal transitions, and by a belief that our bodies hold vital wisdom that deserves our attention.  

My primary focus is working with neurodivergent individuals, coming home to our true selves and community in a culture that often pathologizes difference. I also specialize in somatically supporting healthcare practitioners and healers, social movement leaders, and people navigating the embodied experiences of illness, death, dying, and grief.

My coaching is marked by steady grounded presence and co-regulation in moments of intensity, uncertainty, and profound change. Rather than fixing, directing, or rushing the somatic transformation process, I trust each person's innate capacity to discover the wisdom and truth within.

Outside of work, I can be found dancing, parenting, and spending time with horses – both my favorite animal and my greatest somatic teachers.