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I got my Master's in Mental Health Counseling/Expressive Arts Therapy because my acting and movement training inspired me to bridge breath/body awareness into helping people cultivate whole self wellness. Meisner acting training focuses on present moment vulnerability and the deep connection we can find when we let down our walls and allow ourselves to be seen - when we truly receive, listen, and respond with the full instrument of our Self. Williamson Technique Movement focuses on the Physical Process and how to more openly interact with the world around you and inside you. By connecting breath, body, stillness, and movement, you can remove what blocks your capacity to encounter, experience, and express with fluidity and ease. These drew me to study in expressive arts as a means of using music, movement, dance, drama, improv, and visual art to help people tap into something beyond thought, that regenerative creative force that is life itself.
I was further compelled to bring this work out to a broader audience after working with veterans experiencing homelessness, people surviving cancer, and people struggling with addiction. The vulnerability, grit, strength, courage, resilience, and determination of people in such compromised circumstances made me want to offer my work to the world in a new way. I decided to expand what I do into workshops, talks, and one-to-one growth and transformation facilitation.
I continue to train in trauma interventions and integrative studies to best serve my clients. My training/influences include Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing and Pat Ogden and Janina Fisher's Sensorimotor Psychotherapy as well as Qi Gong and Linklater breath work. My wild and magical past and present life experiences inspire me to help people remember the beauty around them and inside them - and also give me compassion for what a process that can be.
I enjoy travel, photography, nature, swimming, and the arts in all their glorious forms.
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