• MA, Couple, Child and Family Therapy, Antioch University, Seattle, WA
   
• TARA Approach Certified Advanced Practitioner and Teacher, The Dom Project, Boulder, CO
   
• CCH, Certified Clinical Herbalist, Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies, Boulder, CO
   
• BA, Comparative Religion and Environmental Studies, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
  
  CV available upon request

A bit about myself:

I began my studies in integrative medicine in 1999. The emphasis of my study and training is in Clinical Herbalism, nutrition, and lifestyle interventions for health. While attending the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies (RMCBS) in Boulder Colorado I completed a three year course of intensive study in herbs, nutrition, and integrative medicine as well as a clinical residency to receive Certification as a Clinical Herbalist.

Working as a Clinical Herbalist and Nutritional Consultant, I noticed more and more how critical emotional and spiritual resiliency was to the healing process. Often it seemed that the degree of emotional and spiritual resiliency dictated the healing trajectory more than any herbal and nutritional interventions I could offer my clients. As I began my search for more tools and resources to support my clients in their healing journeys I was on a healing journey of my own. Having my physical health deteriorate for no diagnosable reason according to Western allopathic medicine drove me further to seek out more integrative approaches to working with the entire body, mind, spirit. It was in this search that I discovered the TARA Approach. The TARA Approach is a system that effectively addresses the blocks we have, emotionally, developmentally, neurologically, and physiologically speaking, to manifesting our full potential.

As I steeped myself in studying and working with the TARA Approach I began to understand that our capacity for total health is often determined by our earliest experiences. In addressing these dynamics using the TARA Approach while simultaneously approaching my client’s health issues with herbs, nutrition, and lifestyle interventions I witnessed a profound increase in people’s healing potential. This is what inspired me to pursue a Master’s degree in psychology. I wanted to understand more about the mind and behavior so that I could more fully understand and work with the body mind connection. In addition to having a master’s degree in Couple, Child, and Family counseling I have training and experience working with expressive arts and various movement therapies.