About

Creative Approaches for Deep Feelers

You may find yourself seeking an open-minded counselor who accepts you for who you are, who you used to be, and who you want to become. Whether we dive into discussing your experience, create art that explores feelings without words, divine the meaning of your dreams, or simply breathe together,each session is a co-created ritual designed to help you navigate this wild world. 

My counseling style seeks to address the needs of deep feelers, dreamers, and caretakers. As an art therapist and former massage therapist, I offer  a depth of experience in somatic art techniques, energy work, breath exercises, meditation, and embodied movement. As we talk, I create personalized intuitive art activities inspired by your story. Creating art is always an invitation, not a requirement.

Together we might explore:

Grief and loss rituals, processing, and coping

Life stage transitions, adjustment or evolution

The impacts of chronic pain or illness

The ripple effects of trauma

Intuitive art as a way to uncover truth

Unspooling relational patterns

The many aspects of being a caretaker

Dream interpretation and other mysteries

I embrace humanistic, phenomenological principles and a depth psychodynamic approach to dreams and the unconscious. I am gender, sexuality,  neurodiversity affirming and I am committed to learning and practicing an antiracist and decolonial approach to therapy. I identify as a midlife, white, queer/pan cis-woman with experience of disability and I enjoy working with people of all genders, sexualities, and relationship orientations.

Raised with magic in the rainforest, I bring the tools of intuitive art to all of my creative projects. Whether I am teaching children new art techniques or older adults the soothing power of somatic art, I stay present, patient, and alert to each student’s unique learning needs.

 As an artist and former bodyworker, I offer a depth of experience in somatic art techniques, energy work, breath exercises, meditation, and visualization. I strive to use these meditative techniques when I create my own art and love teaching new artists how to tap into their own intuitive art-making abilities. Co-creating safe community spaces for engaging and daring art experimentation is at my core.

I was raised by a new-age/witchy mother so building trust in my intuition and vivid dreams was a part of everyday conversation and reflection. Art from dream-groups I have led can be seen on Instagram: @DrawingFromDreams

I am an art therapy counseling resident at Shelterwood Collective and graduate student completing my last months at Antioch University. With a deep love for the forest I can be found backpacking all summer, dreaming all winter, spending ample time with my fluffy little dog, and, of course, making art.