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About My Clients
I specialize in helping clients navigate burnout, abandonment wounds, grief and loss, religious trauma or faith transitions, and the emotional shifts that come with pregnancy, postpartum, and relationships. I also work with couples who want to strengthen their foundation and interrupt painful patterns. I help partners begin to name the dynamics that keep showing up and focus on what those patterns are protecting, how they formed, and what’s needed now.
My Background and Approach
I draw from multiple disciplines, which means we might talk, track sensation, use metaphor, or reflect on past experiences—all in service of getting to know your internal world better. I hold a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Naropa University, where I focused my studies on Somatic Psychotherapy – an approach that integrates the wisdom of the body as central to the therapeutic process. During my graduate studies, I wrote my thesis on the lived experience of childhood abandonment, exploring how early relational ruptures create internal voids that shape identity, embodiment, and meaning-making. ecology, mythology, depth psychology, anthropology, and the expressive arts.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I became a therapist because I believe the most difficult and unresolved parts of a life are often where the most important things happen. My work is rooted in a willingness to go there with people: into complexity, contradiction, grief, conflict, identity, and the deeper truths that are often hidden beneath adaptation and survival. I do not see human struggle as purely individual. I understand people through the many concentric circles that shape them: family, attachment, community, culture, institutions, social location, and historical moment. A multicultural and social justice lens is central to my work because I believe people make sense in context, and healing must account for both inner life and the systems that shape it. Wild Refinement Studio extends that same philosophy beyond the therapy room. I built it in response to a wellness culture often promises transformation through short-term intensity without enough depth or structure to sustain it.