I began my journey of the healing arts in the clinical world of Respiratory Therapy, but soon felt something calling me deeper—a longing for real connection with the people I served. That led me to Acupuncture, where I opened my own clinic and began truly meeting people in not only their physical pain, but their emotional pain and their longing for a better version of themselves.

Through my years of practice, I began to see that acupuncture—as powerful as it was—could only take some of my clients so far. The needle might release the tension, restore the flow, but some of the patterns kept returning. Something deeper was calling to be met.

Often at the core of our dis-ease are the old stories we carry about ourselves, the beliefs that shape how we move through the world. As Dr. Gabor Maté reminds us, a child needs two essential things: authenticity and attachment. In the face of distress & overwhelm, a child will always choose attachment—even at the cost of their authentic self expression. As little ones we learn to distort and hide our feelings, just to stay in connection with those we needed most. But over time, these survival patterns hardened into character, into the very structure of how we move through the world. What once protected us now confines us, getting in the way of the life and relationships we long for.

I began exploring multiple psychosomatic frameworks like Hakomi, IFS, Somatic Experiencing, Breathwork, and Psychedelic Medicines to do my own personal work. My soul awakened thru embodied relational experiential somatic therapies.

My seeking for truth led me to becoming certified in both BBTRS breathwork and Relational Somatic Transformation for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. I’ve been learning to really meet myself through all the layers of protection, shame, dissociation. This allows me to be ready to hold yours.

There's a profound truth that often gets overlooked in our therapy-saturated culture: we never talked our way into our trauma, so we can't talk our way out of it. It comes through experience—through what happened to our bodies, our nervous systems, our sense of safety in the world. A child who experienced neglect didn't intellectualize their way into that wound. A person who survived violence didn't reason themselves into hypervigilance. These injuries bypassed the thinking brain entirely and lodged themselves in the body, in the limbic system, in the parts of us that feel and react before we can even form a thought. By creating a relationship with your body again through interoception and sensation, we can track the delicate terrain that is felt sense.

There's profound courage in that raw presence. As we sit together in this space with attunement, we gently invite awareness back into your body—not to fix or force anything, but to simply notice what's there. Whatever arises, it's welcome here.

We were never meant to heal alone—our very nature is woven for connection, for being witnessed and held in our struggles. This is relational healing: the quiet power of being seen in your wholeness, without needing to perform or censor yourself. Trusting that in the safety of connection, your body can begin to soften, to speak, to remember its own innate capacity to come home to itself.

Registered Respiratory Therapist @ UCC

Registered Acupuncturist @ CTCMV

Advanced BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release Practitioner @ BBTRS with Giten Tonkov & Jennifer McKeever

Alchemy of Breath with Anthony Abbagnano

Certified Somatic-Relational Trauma Informed Practices for Medicine Assisted Facilitation with Rita Bozi @ Brilliant Healing

Trauma Coupling Dynamics with Kathy Kain

Wheel of Consent with Helena De Felice