ROLES and SKILLS

2022-Present PRIVATE PRACTICE Coach/Mentor/Guide, Modern-Day Alchemy Coaching, CO

2024-Present ASSISTANT/APPRENTICE Wild Earth, Wild Soul 9 month Wilderness Practice Group – with Gene Dilworth and Lauren Golten, CO

2009-2022 PRIVATE PRACTICE Transpersonal Art Psychotherapy, LLC, with active LPC and ATR, CO

2006-2012 Grief Counselor and Art Therapist:  THE DENVER HOSPICE, CO

2005-2006 Art Psychotherapist:  CATHOLIC CHARITIES, CO

2004-2005 Counseling/Art Therapy Intern:  MOUNT ST. VINCENT HOME, CO

2004 Clinical Practicum Student:  DENVER CHILDREN’S HOME, CO

2000-2002 AmeriCorps Volunteer:  ACCESS, OH

2000-2002 Rape Crisis Volunteer:  YWCA, OH

EDUCATION and DEGREES

2002-2005 MA  Master of Arts in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology/Art Therapy, Naropa University, CO 

2001 Courses in Psychology, The University of Akron, OH

1993-1997 BFA Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

TRAININGS  and EXPERIENCES

2024 Creative Fire Training - with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes, CO

2020-present Capoeira-Afro-Brazilian martial art training - amarelo cordão with Canto do Galo Capoeira, Mestre Grilo Preto and Mestre Beringela, Denver

2023 Wild Earth, Wild Soul 9 month Wilderness Practice Group – with Gene Dilworth and Lauren Golten, CO

2023 Anti-Bias Training, Office of the Independent Monitor, Denver

2020-2023 Participated in and Co-Hosted Racial Justice Parent Group, Denver

2022 Wild Heart Center daylong wilderness group experiences – with Gene Dilworth and Lauren Golten, CO

2021 Dreamwork Trainings- Robert Moss, online

2020 Parenting and Sexual Education as Anti-Racism Racial Justice training – with Holistic Resistance, online

2020 Erotic Embodiment and the Triune Autonomic Nervous System course and Individual Mentoring – with Christiane Pelmas, CO

2019 MogaDao Institue Depth Sexuality training – with Zhen Dao, NM

2019 One year Medicine Mandala plant spirit Apprenticeship and Green Magic initiatory intensive – with Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman of Active Culture Family, Elder Farm, CA

2018 Sexually Healthy Households training – with Patience Bleskan, CO

2017 4 month Courting Your Medicine Ceremony/Training/Rite of Passage – with Sweigh Spilkin and Katie Asmus, CO

2014-2015 Frontrange Soulcraft wilderness experiences and private dreamwork sessions - with Gene Dilworth, CO

2014 Soulcentric Dreamwork Training for practitioners – with Bill Plotkin and Geneen Marie Haugen, AZ

2011 Pachakuti Mesa Shamanic Training Part I & II - with Gary Caudill & Paula Givan, CO 

2011 Peruvian Shamanism Workshops - with Don Oscar Micro Qusada, CO 

2011 Shamanic Journeying Workshop – with Renna Shesho, CO 

2009 Reiki Level I & II Training and Attunements - with Soltahr Tiv-Amanda, CO

2007 Children and Grief Training - with Alan Wolfelt, CO 

2007 Soulcraft Intensive backpacking excursion – with Gary Scanlin, Utah

2006-2007 Holotropic Breathwork Workshops -CO 

2005 Dreamwork Training – with Jeremy Taylor, CO

1999 Thru-hiked The 2,160 mile Appalachian Trail – from Georgia to Maine

*Additionally, I’ve had the extreme honor and pleasure of participating in numerous long-term council practices over the years, wherein the group holds deep space for one another to take turns sharing deeply from the heart. Group members offer reflection and opportunities to deepen. I cherish having these experiences of long-term relationships that foster vulnerability, authenticity and growth, wherein we witness the unfurling of both the individual and the group over time.