North Fork American River

North Fork American River

Welcome

I am an integrative therapist — a guide into and through the interior wilderness. I see a limited number of clients, so I can give the depth of attention each client requires. This work is for people who are ready to take an active, curious role in their own process — drawn to explore the inner landscape through the body, the psyche, and the wisdom traditions that connect us to something larger.

Some arrive already deep in self-reflection and looking to go further. Others are just beginning but are ready to meet themselves honestly. What matters most isn't where you're starting from, but whether you're ready to bring that understanding into embodied experience, into your relationships, and into who you're becoming.

What is Integrative Therapy?

Integrative therapy is an individualized, holistic approach that considers your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health as interconnected parts of a whole. By drawing on both psychological theory and spiritual and contemplative traditions, I offer a flexible and inclusive approach tailored to your unique needs.

My primary methods draw from depth hypnosis, applied shamanic counseling, energy medicine, and somatics. I'm not a psychotherapist — I work at the intersection of education, embodied practice, and altered-states modalities, and I bring thirty years of teaching experience to how I structure and pace this work with you.

I work with individuals at all stages of life. In particular, I've worked closely with college and graduate students navigating academic transitions, women in the second half of life exploring new purpose, and LGBTQ+ clients — though what matters most isn't which of these you fit, it's whether you're ready to do this kind of work.

My Therapeutic Philosophy

My approach centers on helping you access your own inner guidance and act from what you actually value. In practice, that means: we go in with a clear structure, we stay with what's actually arising rather than a script, and we come back out with something concrete you can work with — a pattern named, a practice to try, a next step.

I specialize in decolonizing, narrative, somatic, and deep ecological approaches to healing. In practice, this means naming the cultural and historical forces that shaped what you believe about yourself, tracking how that history actually lives in the body, and treating the natural world as part of the process, not just a backdrop for it. Regardless of age, we all have the capacity to re-pattern our neurological pathways, gain new perspective, and understand what shaped our assumptions about reality.

In session, I reflect back what I notice — the contradictions, the story you keep telling versus what actually seems true. From there, you decide what to keep and what to set down. This is mind-and-body work throughout: we're not separate from the rest of life, and healing here isn't just cognitive.

Trauma, a culture quick to tell you what's wrong with you, and the plain grind of everyday life can bury parts of who you are. We locate those parts specifically — through body awareness, image work, and journeying — and bring them back into daily use. Together, we'll develop practices you can carry outside our sessions to keep that integration going.

The work you do here doesn't stay contained to you. It changes how you show up with the people you love and the people you work alongside — and that's where it keeps moving.

Curious if this is a fit? Contact me here.

I hope to hear from you!