Helping people find their way back to themselves
I’m a graduate student in human services with a concentration in addictions counseling. I have a decade of experience holding space for people navigating vulnerability, transformation, and change.
Healing begins in the body
I believe lasting change starts from the ground up — with the nervous system, with breath, with the body's own intelligence. Before we can reframe thought patterns or shift behaviors, people need to feel safe enough to be present. From there, I work with interoception, helping people strengthen their capacity to feel sensations and emotions as they arise without judgment. I draw on cognitive behavioral therapy, logotherapy, and a deep belief in the power of personal meaning and daily ritual.
Ten years of showing up for people in vulnerable moments
Before formal counseling training, I was doing the work in other forms — on yoga mats, in breathwork sessions, in ceremony, in retreat spaces with people who had traveled across the world to do something difficult. As a breathwork facilitator, I guided individuals and groups through somatic work designed to restore nervous system regulation. As a plant medicine ceremonialist, I held space for participants navigating profound vulnerability, with rigorous attention to safety, consent, and ethical responsibility. As a yoga teacher trainer, I led 200-hour programs for international students, providing curriculum, mentoring, and 1:1 feedback. What I learned across that decade is the foundation of everything I bring to human services work now.
Nervous system regulation as a foundation for change
My approach is grounded in somatic awareness — the understanding that the body is not separate from the mind, and that lasting change requires working with both. This is especially relevant in addiction work, where nervous system dysregulation is often at the center of compulsive behavior. I bring over 1,000 hours of advanced training across two 500-hour programs — Hatha & Vinyasa at Krishna Village Centre for Yogic Studies in Australia, and Tantra & Shamanism at Durga's Tiger School in Ecuador — plus gong sound healing certification, breathwork facilitation, and graduate coursework in helping skills, CBT, and professional ethics.
The world is noisier and more chaotic than at any point in human history. In response, people are latching onto behaviors — scrolling, consuming, performing — that offer the illusion of grounding but quietly erode the self. I'm particularly drawn to digital addiction because we are living at the exact moment when AI and automation are becoming inextricably woven into human life. My work is about helping people develop an intentional relationship with technology using somatic awareness, meaning-making, and daily ritual to stay rooted in themselves, even as the world accelerates.
Why digital addiction, why now
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