“ How am I to train the Power in me? ”
Chuang Tzu — The Inner Chapters
I am a Somatic Attachment Coach who specializes in relational growth and repatterning. I support clients to transform their relationships with other people, the world, and especially themselves. For the past twenty years, I’ve offered mentorship and guidance to youth and adults.
The inner revolution is my focus - personally and professionally. To be witnessed in shifting one’s inner and outer landscape is a form of deeply needed activism.
My passion rests within the process of transformation. My joy dwells in reclaiming the power of the imagination. My work resides in subtle movements of alchemizing beauty and suffering into healing and belonging.
Study and Influences:
Somatic Attachment Coaching Certification at The Embody Lab
Teachers of this program include: Gabor Maté, Peter Levine, Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Scott Lyons, Kai Cheng Thom and others…
Practice Self-Regulation Certification - A Trauma Informed Approach to Health and Wellbeing
Zhenevere Sophia Dao - mentor and teacher of Post-Daoism, neo-Romantic Philosophy and Mythosomatic Training (ongoing study for the past five years)
Sunny Smyth - Mythosomatic Qigong and Erotic Basis of Being (ongoing study)
Eve Bradford - teacher of Animist Daoism, Ecology of Eros, Mythosomatic Training (one year training)
Management of Anxiety for Teens - the work of :
Lynn Lyons, LICSW
Neurobiology and Attachment Healing - the work of:
Stan Tatkin (founder of The Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy)
Sue Johnson (founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy)
Rebecca Kennedy (clinical psychologist, founder of Good Inside)
Brené Brown (LMSW, shame research professor)
Polyvagal Theory - the work of:
Deb Dana (LCSW, founder of Rhythm of Regulation)
Internal Family Systems and Parts Work
Nonviolent Communication and Marshall Rosenberg
Elaine Aron’s research of Highly Sensitive People
Al-Anon Family Groups
Patrick Marsolek - mentor of Nonviolent Communication
Sheri L - Youth Counselor, MA, LCPC - mentor and inspiration
Peter Hwosch - mentor of Compassionate Listening and social/emotional education for youth
Matt Anderson - Medical Director for Anderson Integrative Medicine’
The written work of Ray Bradbury, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Martín Prechtel
My personal resilience is influenced by:
Mythopoetry
Animism
Wood / Fire / Earth / Metal / Water
Ceremony
The Reclamation of Innocence
Cold Water Training
Swimming / Singing / Writing