In my journey to become a therapist, I spent the first part of my adult working life in the non-profit and/or educational world before deciding to return to school in my early 30’s to become a therapist. Returning to school as an adult was daunting, and Antioch University Seattle was well set up for my type of learning (often experimental and reflective). I graduated in 2010 with a degree in Clinical Psychology, with a concentration in Depth Psychology. Within school, I fell in love with different ways of sitting and thinking about people, be it a feminist approach, a Jungian approach, and a compassionate & mindful approach. I came to understand that through my life circumstances, I was drawn to grief and loss work and helping people find their inner wisdom which comes from the human experience.
A few things to know about me: I grew up in Carnation, WA, and Seattle, and San Francisco – I’m a little bit country and a lot of big city. I have been in the Whatcom County area since 2012. I have a long history of working with and being an activist around HIV/AIDS and social justice. I’m an avid reader of fiction, I adore music, movies, nature, tasty food, and art in all forms. I look for the weird and wonderful in life and have found this beautiful weirdness is often the least celebrated parts of ourselves, and yet the most interesting. I love to laugh. I mean life can be quite absurd, can’t it? I tend to swear – let’s face it I am not a delicate flower. But I respect those who don’t use those words as a form of punctuation and can (somewhat) promise to try and modify my language. I am spiritual in nature and enjoy working with the questions and ideas and hopes we have around the meaning in life and who we are within it. My teachers are Carl Jung, Ram Dass, Sonya Rene Taylor, psychedelics, and anyone and everyone who is down for love and liberation. I like trees and mushrooms and animals and the smell of the forest. I believe in transformative social justice, free education, personal liberation, and most of the time, humans. It would be an honor to sit with you and get to know who you are, in all forms.