My Path Into This Work

I work with people and animals to help shift the underlying patterns that keep physical, emotional, or behavioral issues in place.
I did not come to this work because I had always felt spiritually gifted or deeply connected. From childhood, I experienced the world with unusual intensity, yet often felt profoundly separate from it, as though I were observing life rather than fully living inside it. I learned how to appear engaged even when, inwardly, I felt alone and uncertain of where I belonged.
My fascination with energy and consciousness began in my teens. What started as a youthful curiosity has grown into a lifelong journey of exploration, study, and discovery.
As a young adult, I began the difficult, deeply personal work of finding my way into greater connection with myself, my body, and other people. Years of body-centered psychotherapy, heart-opening work, group process, and spiritual exploration gradually transformed the way I experienced being alive.
That journey taught me something no professional training alone could have taught: longstanding protective patterns can change. Sensitivity can become strength. Disconnection can give way to presence. What once made life difficult can become a doorway to compassion, perception, and meaningful connection.
I know transformation is possible because I have spent my life living it.
My professional life also shaped the way I understand healing. As a Registered Nurse, I began in fast-paced hospital settings where decisions had to be made quickly and clearly. At times, something quieter and more precise would guide the next step in care. I learned to recognize and trust that signal, even under pressure.
That inquiry deepened in the early 1980s when I lived and worked at the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston. I observed people engaging deeply with raw foods, sprouts, greens, and wheatgrass. Some experienced profound improvement, while others did not. What stood out was this: when inner beliefs shifted, physical improvements frequently deepened as well. Many people experienced meaningful changes, even after years of discouragement with conventional care.
What I witnessed changed my understanding. Healing was not something imposed from the outside. It was an innate process that could emerge more fully when the body, mind, and environment were properly supported.
Later, in pediatric rehabilitation case management and home care, I worked closely with people over time. The question of what makes change possible stayed with me and began to shape the direction of the work I do today.
My own search continued through Reiki, the four-year Barbara Brennan School of Healing program, and extensive study of the relationship among the physical body, emotions, beliefs, consciousness, and the human energy field. My understandings continued to evolve. I was influenced by additional frameworks that helped articulate what I had already observed. As I applied these principles in my own life, I saw consistent, tangible results.
After more than 40 years as a Registered Nurse and more than 20 years in real estate, I have also seen how both internal patterns and external environments influence our well-being.
Over time, I found the structured methods that now support my work. They allow me to listen carefully, work with the body’s innate intelligence, and address subconscious and energetic patterns without relying on guesswork. A later medical incident deepened my understanding of how closely the body listens, how powerfully stress can shape us, and how much can change when the system receives the right support.
Today, I bring together clinical grounding, energy-based training, structured inquiry, and a lifetime of personal transformation. I work in conscious relationship with the innate intelligence within the body and life itself. I experience this as a sacred intelligence that supports healing and transformation.
I enjoy a heart-centered connection that allows more lightness, laughter, and joy. Through focused presence and intention, I can help others to facilitate shifts, allowing balance to re-emerge, staying open to what is possible and often unexpected, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
My role is not to force an outcome or define what another person or animal should need. I create the conditions for coherence, listen for the system’s priorities, and support change at the pace that feels safe and appropriate. The work is gentle, grounded, and often profound. Clients commonly describe feeling clearer, lighter, more settled, and more fully themselves.
Professional Training & Certifications
Clinical & foundational grounding
- Registered Nurse, former, with over 40 years of clinical experience
- Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, Barbara Brennan School of Healing, four-year program 1997
- Usui Reiki Master, trained mid-1990s
Advanced energy and consciousness-based training
- 0-Ishiki Healing certificates, Basic and Advanced, Osamu Fujishiro 2025–2026
- Ho’oponopono, Advanced Practitioner, -Joe Vitale 2024
- Awakening Dynamics®, Advanced Practitioner, Brent Michael Phillips 2023
- Magnetic Mind Coach, Conscious Education Company, Chris Duncan 2022
Applied healing systems & Methodologies
- The Emotion Code® · The Body Code™ · The Belief Code®, Discover Healing, Dr. Bradley Nelson 2024–2025
- Transformational Energetics, Advanced Practitioner, Melinda Meszaros, PhD 2024
- Energy Medicine for Animals, Donna Eden 2026
Ongoing study
- Current student of 0-Ishiki Healing Mastery Course
- Current student of Dr. Joe Dispenza
- Current student at Practitioner Education Program, Discover Healing
- Medical Intuition Foundational Training with Skylar Akamesis and ongoing peer practice group.
These trainings inform my capacity to listen and hold space.
Founding Professional Member

Global Guild of Intuitive Medicine
Proud to be part of an international community supporting collaboration, shared learning, and greater awareness of intuitive and energy-based healing practices.
My Purpose
- To create the conditions where long-held patterns can soften without being pushed.
- To offer animals a calm, respectful space where their systems can respond in their own way.
- To allow clarity to emerge by meeting what’s present, rather than trying to define or fix it.
- To create a space where healing feels safe, human, and true.
- To support reconnection with what your system already knows to do.
Healing does not need to be complicated. It simply needs the right conditions and the permission to unfold.
If you feel drawn to this work, I would be honored to support you.

My Healing Philosophy
Guiding principles that shape how I approach energy-healing…
My work is guided by the body’s innate intelligence and focuses on restoring coherence by addressing underlying imbalances rather than isolated symptoms.
The body has a natural capacity for healing. When balance is disrupted, the root cause is often deeper than the presenting issue. My approach centers on identifying and releasing what interferes with the body’s ability to self-regulate, reorganize, and support overall well-being.
Imbalances can arise on many levels including physical, emotional, mental, environmental, and energetic influences. They may involve stress patterns, subconscious beliefs, environmental influences, or interruptions in the body’s internal communication. Rather than working on single symptoms, this whole person approach supports the system in returning to its own natural priorities and order.
Emotional energy and subconscious belief patterns are part of this process. Every person is unique. Limiting beliefs can contribute to emotional, physical, or spiritual challenges. Without needing to analyze the story, these patterns may release or reorganize, and the system often responds with greater ease, clarity, resilience, and stability.
The body communicates through many signals beyond symptoms. These include grounding, nervous system regulation, nourishment, alignment, and the influence of our surroundings. I treat these signals as meaningful information. As interferences release, the system naturally moves toward coherence, and people commonly notice improvements in physical comfort, emotional balance, energy levels, perspective, and ease in daily life.
Many common questions are answered on the FAQ page.
When you’re ready, you can begin here.
