How I Have Trained to Support You
Over 25 years, I have built an integrative body of work centered on human growth, connection, and transformation. My foundation began in experiential education, wilderness leadership, movement, and community building—learning how to guide people through challenge, uncertainty, and moments that ask them to discover new capacities within themselves.
That foundation has expanded through extensive training in somatic healing, trauma recovery, grief, attachment, nervous system regulation, parts work, and relational healing. Rather than following a single modality or protocol, I weave together diverse approaches into an embodied understanding of how people heal and change.
This work lives at the intersection of professional training, lived experience, and decades of walking alongside people through life’s most challenging landscapes.
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Somatic Foundation
Mind–Body Coaching Certification | The Embody Lab
Nia Technique — White, Blue, Brown, Moving To Heal, and Black Belt Certified; Trauma-Focused Nia | Elaine Wolf
Reiki Practitioner Certification | The Usui System of Natural Healing
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Perinatal Loss, Grief & Mental Health
Perinatal Death | Resolve Through Sharing®
Theoretical Framework of Grief | Resolve Through Sharing®
Communication with the Bereaved | Resolve Through Sharing®
Caring for the Family Experiencing Perinatal Death | Resolve Through Sharing®
Best Practices in PMADs (Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders) | Postpartum Support International
Trauma and Birth: Multidisciplinary Approaches | Perinatal Support Washington
Holding Space for Abortion | The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
Birthing Beyond the Binary | king yaa
Expert Strategies for Working with Anxiety & Depression | NICABM
Strategies to Help Clients Process Grief & Loss | NICABM
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Somatic Trauma Training
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy : Certification & Mentorship | The Embody Lab
Somatic Developmental Trauma Therapy Certification | The Embody Lab
Somatic EMDR Certification | The Embody Lab
Healing Trauma | Dr. Peter Levine
Biology of Trauma & Functional Medicine | Dr. Aimie Apigian & The Embody Lab
Polyvagal Theory & Pathways to Connection | Deb Dana, LCSW & The Embody Lab
Polyvagal Theory: A Science of Safety | Dr. Stephen Porges & Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Vagal Toning for Nervous System Regulation | Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy: A Hakomi Approach | Manuela Mischke-Reeds
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Parts Work & Attachment
Somatic Parts Work Certification, Levels 1–3 | Frances D. Booth LICSW & The Embody Lab
Somatic Attachment Therapy Certification | The Embody Lab
A Parts Approach to Preverbal & Attachment Trauma | Dr. Frank Anderson & NICABM
The Neurobiology of Attachment | NICABM
Inner Relationship Focusing | Dr. Maureen Gallagher & The Embody Lab
Implicit Memory and Attachment Wounds | Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Healing the Inner Child: Unburdening Exiles | Dr. Richard Schwartz
No Bad Parts: Focus on Addictions & Healing | Dr. Richard Schwartz
Navigating Emotional Triggers and Resistance: An IFS Approach | Dr. Richard Schwartz
Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence | Dr. Dan Siegel
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Relational Healing
The Somatic Signs of Developmental Trauma | Dr. Peter Levine
Healing Relational Trauma: Identifying our Negative Cycles | Dr. Albert Wong
Betrayal Trauma | Tammy Gustafson & various national experts
Treating Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents | NICABM
Gaslighting & Manipulation Recovery | NICABM
Dissociation and Post-Traumatic Growth | Dr. David Berceli
How to Work with a Client's Emotional Triggers | NICABM
Working with Core Beliefs of 'Never Good Enough' | NICABM
Working with the Pain of Abandonment | NICABM
How to Work with Anxious Families | NICABM
Avoiding Avoidance: Applications of Mindfulness for Anxiety | NICABM