The body holds its own history — physiological, emotional, ancestral, and experiential. My work grows from the belief that healing emerges when we listen closely to these layers with presence, compassion, and an understanding of how the body organizes itself. Over the years, my practice has evolved at the intersection of trauma-informed bodywork, somatic psychology, osteopathy, elemental medicine, and cultural traditions that honor the body as a living story.

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Integrative Bodywork as Foundational Care

Bodywork is central to my practice and a primary way I support whole-person health. My approach is informed by osteopathic principles and ongoing training with the Barral Institute, where I study visceral manipulation, neurology, fascial relationships, craniosacral therapy, and the art of listening with the hands. This allows me to sense how the organs, nerves, fascia, lymph, and structures influence each other — and how restrictions in one area can shape symptoms across the system.

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I also draw from Elemental Medicine and Ayurveda as a lens by which to view symptomology and the tissues of the body--especially in lymphatic and women's care. In this, I honor my teacher, DeAnna Batdorff, and her Ayurvedic Clinical Foundations training at Dhyana Essentials. Viewing tissues through qualities like hot/cold or wet/dry helps me understand patterns of stagnation, inflammation, depletion, or excess and how to offer touch and remedies that support balance.

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My background as an archaeologist has shaped my reverence for cultural healing traditions and the ways manual therapy has been practiced across time. I have been deeply influenced by studying Mayan Abdominal Therapy with the Arvigo Institute and Advanced Hawaiian Lomi Lomi with Kumu Jeana of Ho‘omana Spa Maui, both of which ground my work in lineage, ritual, and a relational connection to the body as an expression of the land it comes from. These traditions honor the abdomen, pelvis, breath, and circulatory systems in ways that continue to inform how I touch and what I listen for.

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In practice, bodywork unfolds as a conversation between your system and my hands. Sometimes the work is subtle; sometimes more direct. I follow your guidance of your nervous system and the intention we co-create for the session, meeting your body, heart, and mind with presence, curiosity, care, and precision. Sessions may support lymphatic flow, digestive motility, reproductive function, hormone health, neural pathways, freedom of movement, nervous system health, emotion, and general wellbeing.

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Somatic Psychology & Trauma-Informed Care

A trauma-informed lens and somatic psychology are essential elements of my approach. Touch interacts with nervous-system states, memory, and long-held protective patterns. Somatic psychology recognizes that our patterns — how we protect, reach, fear, brace, soften, or connect — live not only in the mind but in the tissues, breath, and nervous system. My training in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing® helps me navigate these layers with attunement and compassion.

Hakomi is a mindfulness-based, somatic approach that invites you to slow down and notice the subtle sensations, impulses, emotions, and meanings that arise from within. Many of our patterns live in the body rather than the mind, and Hakomi offers a way to access these layers directly through conscious awareness. The mindfulness aspect of Hakomi creates a spacious inner environment where experience can be observed with compassion, while the resonance we build together (what Hakomi calls "Loving Presence") helps create a safe relational field where the body feels free to reveal its truth.​ 

Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a body-centered approach to trauma resolution and nervous-system healing. It works by helping the body complete the physiological stress responses that were interrupted or overwhelmed during past experiences. Through slow, mindful attention to sensation, movement, breath, and internal rhythms, SE supports the release of stored survival energy and helps the nervous system return to balance. The work is gentle, paced, and grounded in safety, allowing meaningful change to unfold without overwhelm.  

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Together, Hakomi offers a relational, mindfulness-based way of understanding the patterns held in the body, while SE provides a framework for restoring nervous-system capacity — creating a gentle, attuned process for meaningful, embodied change. When this trauma-informed, somatic lens guides the manual therapy or bodywork, healing becomes a multidimensional process: supporting physiology, nervous-system regulation, emotional clarity, and deeper connection to one’s own embodied wisdom.

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Clinical Herbalism & Elemental Medicine

Plants enter this work as quiet, steady companions. My Western Herbalism training (California School of Herbal Studies) and Clinical Ayurvedic Medicine training (DeAnna Batdorff, Dhyana Essentials) help me support your system through herbal allies that nourish, regulate, clear stagnation, ground overwhelm, or replenish depleted tissues. I encourage clients to explore herbs somatically — noticing how a tea, tincture, or essential oil lands in the body, what sensations or shifts arise, and how the system responds over time. This creates a deeper relationship not only with the plants, but with one’s own physiology and inner wisdom.  Personalized formulas also provide continued support for the physiological and emotional layers we explore in manual therapy, and provide continued support for the body, heart, and mind between sessions.