A person hiking through red rock desert terrain.

A Healing Journey Inspired by Nature

Wilderness camping in Algonquin Park, Canada, was my most memorable and enjoyable experience as a child. I remember the sense of openness and safety that allowed me to feel a wide range of emotions, including joy, freedom, awe, sadness, and possibility. Most profoundly, I recall feeling deeply connected to myself and something greater than me.

After the wilderness camping trips ended, I succumbed to society’s beaten path. Without passion or purpose in my life, I felt lost. I became very disconnected from both nature and myself. Following a series of significant life challenges, I was inspired to dream a new path for myself. My entire being was awakened, and I intuitively felt the call to journey to California, which, in retrospect, was a coming home to myself.

Little did I know, I was walking into even greater challenges that shaped my most transformative years.  On this path of personal alchemy, I was guided on a journey towards self-love, self-responsibility, breaking unhealthy addictive patterns, and compassionately confronting challenges.  By walking through each dark path, I found light-filled wisdom.  

My most impactful healing resources were inspired by my experiences in the wilderness, my intuitive inner guide, and healing modalities that support healing through our own innate intelligence. These experiences led me to seek out further wisdom and knowledge that support my desire to align myself and others with the rhythms of nature’s healing ways, allowing for the most genuine expression of one’s spiritual purpose.      

Inspired by nature, I guide experiences that offer solace, transformation, and wisdom – as I’ve so gratefully received from nature herself!  Embracing nature as my teacher, with the awareness that I too am nature, I continue to explore how nature heals us and mirrors our own healing journey.

Professional Experience

  • Bachelor’s in Psychology at SUNY Brockport
  • Master’s in Consciousness & Transformative Studies at John F. Kennedy University
  • Somatic Ecotherapy Wilderness Guide Certification from Wilderness Reflections
  • Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach from Wellness Inventory
  • PhD Candidate – East – West Psychology at The California Institute of Integral Studies
  • Professional Master Course in Classical Homeopathy from the Pitcairn Institute

Personal Transformational Experiences

  • 4 day vision-fast in the wilderness of Mt Lassen State Park 
  • 28 day nature-solo in the mountains of Crestone, Colorado 
  • Ayahuasca ceremony with the Shipibo tribe in Iquitos, Peru 
  • Hiking to the summit of Mt. Shasta 
  • 4 day vision-fast in the Southern Sierra mountains
  • Deeply surrendering to life’s challenges – allowing those dark moments to innately be led to wisdom-filled light