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My Training & Experience

My work has always lived at the edges of neat categories.

For more than two decades, I've worked at the intersection of story, embodiment, and the subtle worlds — alongside thoughtful people navigating life and work transitions, grief, chronic illness, identity shifts, and big questions like "what am I doing with my life?"​ My formal foundation is in Writing & Holistic Studies (Vermont College of Fine Arts), where I studied mythology, folklore, embodiment, and the ways stories take root in the body.

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Coaching

  • Certified Professional Coach — Certified Life Coach Institute, an ICF-accredited school

  • Currently pursuing the ACC credential through the International Coaching Federation

Somatic and Trauma-Informed Training

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  • Graduate and trainer, Spirit of Embodied Leadership and Spirit of Learning programs — trained directly in Strozzi's modalities by founder Carey Smith

  • 100 hours of live training with Richard Strozzi-Heckler and other Strozzi Institute faculty

  • Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies — trained with Linda Thai

  • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and Internal Family Systems — trained with David Treleaven

  • Certificate in trauma and body-based approaches with Bessel van der Kolk

My core somatic training runs through the Center for Embodied Education, where I'm a graduate and former faculty member.

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Bodywork and Herbalism

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  • Clinical Herbalist, over 25 years' experience

  • North Carolina Licensed Massage & Bodywork Therapist #3911

  • Chartered Herbalist, Dominion Herbal College; graduate, Wild and Edible Plant Program

  • Biodynamic craniosacral therapy woven into bodywork practice for over 20 years

  • Reiki Master and Reiki Master Teacher, Usui lineage

  • Former owner, wellness center and tea shop in Southport, NC — offered bodywork and wellness consultations and taught classes in healing, meditation, and herbal medicine

Before shifting fully into story and language work, I spent over 25 years working hands-on with nervous systems in every state of wellness, illness, overwhelm, and sensitivity.​

Teaching and Facillitation

  • Facilitated groups and retreats for more than twenty years

  • Taught continuing education at Duke University Medical Center

  • Co-taught courses in medicinal herbs and permaculture at Central Carolina Community College

  • Lectured on patient advocacy at the Seymour Center, Chapel Hill

  • Lectured with the North Carolina Humanities Council Road Scholar program

Mythic, Ancestral, and Ministerial Lineage

  • I carry a lineage in mythic and ancestral work through Ancestral Lineage Healing (Dr. Daniel Foor), animist psychology, and ritual practices rooted in the ancient traditions of Ireland and Scotland.

  • Ovate, Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD)

  • Foirfeach — mentor and guide — within the Céile Dé, a native, land-based Gaelic tradition rooted in early Celtic Christianity

  • Ordained interfaith minister​

Something brought you here.

And that's enough to start.
 

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