I hold integrative certifications in Somatic Release Technique (SRT), The Points Holding Process & PsychoNeuroEnergetic (PNE), a body-based approach that invites the processing of energy, emotions, and memories through body sensation awareness.

I was raised in the woods of the Appalachian mountains, the child of a once Southern Baptist pastor. My childhood unfolded in the liminal space between wilderness and dogma—largely removed from modernity and intertwined with the natural world, yet deeply enmeshed within the rigid embrace of fundamental Evangelical Christianity. 

I inherited a collection of intersecting identities that reinforced my separation from body and self as perceived safety. I learned to inhabit a curious dual consciousness: simultaneously the observer and the observed, positioned just beyond the boundaries of my own lived experience. My sense of self became a landscape meticulously shaped by external expectations, my authentic interior obscured.

Even still, the wisdom of the body persisted. I began receiving somatic therapy in 2016 and was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition within the same month—the body speaking via symptoms, generously offering a map toward unconscious memories and long-held tensions. I began exploring alternative healing modalities—EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Parts Work, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Functional Medicine, and Kinesiology—as intricate pathways to mend the fractured connection between mind and body that had been quietly severed through chronic and rewarded disconnection from my being. 

Through the work of PNE, I began to move closer to essence and beyond the self constructed by external expectations and conditioning, offering me a profound sense of integration—a homecoming to the wisdom held within my own form. This unraveling and tender awakening to the language of the body became the fertile ground from which my current practice would emerge. I found my way to this practice—or this practice found its way to me, rather—during a profound shedding, a moment of Life asking me to begin releasing all that I'd architected my life upon without knowing how to reconstruct without it, and so I did.

After studying under PNE's original founder and teacher (now in her mid 80s), I come to this work humbly in service of the wisdom of the body, the wisdom that intuitively arises from this work and has guided me to my deepest healing.