About Me
I grew up in the Eastern Sierra in California. As a young adult, I began to develop a a nurturing relationship with the land and beings of the mountains and desert. Developing a nurturing and safe relationship with nature, with all its wisdoms, has been central to my own journey.
Along this journey, I decided to attend graduate school in Boulder, CO to pursue a Master’s in Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy at Naropa University. Much of my graduate studies and training involved nature as teacher. I spent weeks in the backcountry during those years. I had the rock crags of Vedauwoo in Wyoming, the waters of the Green River in Utah, the dry desert emcompassing Natural Bridges National Monument, and mustangs on ranches of the Colorado Front Range, all as teachers during the course of my training. I’ve learned about the beauty of relationship and boundaries with horses, of dynamics in systems, like families and couples, in unpredictable water currents, of grief and transitions through a personal rites of passage among sandstone desert towers. And above all, I have learned that nature is an honest, but gentle and compassionate teacher.
In the process of completing my graduate studies and training, I served a practicum with Sanctuary Doulas & Family Care in Boulder, CO, where I worked with new mothers and supported the facilitation of a ceremony practiced in many old traditions to mark the significant transition of motherhood. I served a year long internship with Toiyabe Indian Health Project in Bishop, CA. Under Family Services, I primarily served the local Native American population and continued to learn about spiritual and earth-based practices that nurture the spirit and soul while expanding my experience with trauma work. I most recently joined the Center for Transformational Therapy, a group practice based in Nevada City, as a an associate clinician.
Experience
Associate Professional Clinical Counselor — Center for Transformational Therapy, 2025
Offering counseling for individuals and couples with a focus on somatic, trauma-informed, and transpersonal psychotherapy. Practicing under the supervision of Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Spencer Campbell (LMFT45585).
Internship — Toiyabe Indian Health Project, 2024 - 2025
During my internship with Toiyabe Indian Health Project, I provided individual and group counseling services to members of the tribal communities of the Eastern Sierra. I feel grateful for the commitment and trust of my clients, for in my time with them I gained experience in working with trauma through a somatic and culturally sensitive lens. In addition to individual counseling, I supported the facilitation of a weekly addiction recovery group rooted in Native-based beliefs, practices, and traditions and worked with teens and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, and mood disorders.
Practicum — Sanctuary Doulas, 2024
During my practicum, I worked with individuals experiencing the major life transition of motherhood. I am grateful for their trust during a vulnerable time and the opportunity to support the facilitation of a ceremony practiced in many old traditions to mark this significant life event.
M.A., Transpersonal Counseling Psychology: Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy, Naropa University, 2025
I attended a nature-based, experiential program drawing from Buddhist, contemplative, and earth-based ways of knowing and being. I had the opportunity to learn from teachers of all forms and spent weeks in the field, a time that involved meaningful experiential learning and understanding:
✺ Green River, UT (2024) — Canoeing with cohort members who had become a it’s own family system during the program, provided experiential learning and understanding of group systems and applications for working creatively in outdoor and wilderness settings with families, couples, and organizational systems.
✺ Eastern Utah Desert (2024) — Engaging in my own rites of passage ceremony and vision fast in the sandstone Utah desert changed my life as a human and as a clinician. By intimately engaging in my own transition into conscious adulthood, I gained deep understanding of how to support clients through transitions and experience with integrating ceremony, ritual, expressive arts, and solo vision fasts into meaningful and intentional transition.
✺ Vedauwoo, WY (2023) — My time among the breathtaking granite of Vedauwoo involved exploration of ecopsychology through a transpersonal lens, as well as exploration of practices for reestablishing and deepening connection to the natural world. Climbing was introduced as a method of intervention in work with clients in a nature setting.
✺ Natural Bridges NP, UT (2023) — Backpacking through southeast Utah and Natural Bridges National Park provided the opportunity to understand the application of adventure therapy and ecotherapy specifically as it concerns issues related to trauma, addiction, and substance use. The canyon provided such a holding and nurturing container to approach the pain held in those spaces.
✺ Uncompahgre NF + Dominquez-Escalante National Conservation Area, CO (2023) — Time with my cohort on this land involved experiential engagement in order to gain theoretical understanding of group systems and counseling theories with effective application in wilderness settings.
✺ Equine-Assisted Therapy, Front Range, CO (2023-2024) — I fell in love with horses during this time. I express undying gratitude to these honest, gentle giants for teaching me about relationship, especially as it relates to family systems. I learned a great deal about building trust in relationship, emotional attunement, congruency, and boundaries.
✺ Horticulture, Front Range, CO (2022) — This field section was held on various sites in the front range and both provided concrete therapeutic interventions in working with plants and expanded my understanding of our human relationship with the natural world.
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