I come at this having been there.

Artist.

I began my music career at the age of 12, singing and performing with a band in venues across the Southeast nearly twice a month.

By 14, I was writing my own songs, and with the cherished support of an award-winning Nashville songwriter and producer—alongside a host of incredible studio musicians—I released my first EP at 15 and a full-length album at 17. That album, Wasting Paper, is still available on streaming platforms

At 18, after countless live performances, radio shows, and songs written, I came to realize that the music industry—especially in Nashville—was not a safe or nourishing space for a young girl. So, like any wandering minstrel with an insatiable appetite for adventure, I packed my things and set out in search of deeper, more expansive experiences.

First came my years at UCLA, where I earned a degree in Political Science with a minor in Film & TV (2015), alongside completing a Meisner-based acting conservatory program in my time spare time. Then came a handful of years of traveling out of a backpack, always chasing threads of myself and the meaning of home.

It took years of adventure to recover the young poet within, and her reemergence in my twenties was the sweetest homecoming. While her external presence had been capitalized on, sexualized, harmed, over-worked, and energetically drawn on from too young of an age, her spirit was fully in-tact. That reclamation has been a slow, sacred, and ongoing unveiling—and it's an essence I hope to bring into all of my work: to help others find their own way back home to themselves.

These days, I write poetry and essays at the guidance of my own deep connection for the collective pleasure and use it as a catalyst for the erotism of my own womanhood. This practice has been cultivated in secret, a private dance with myself. That I sometimes make public via my Substack, Decadence.

Healer.

I am a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) in training through the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute (SETI), having completed 5 of the 8 modules required for certification in the 3-year program (expected 2025).

So far in my training, I’ve been equipped to support trauma renegotiation in both generalized and specific symptom areas, including:

  • Hyperactivity, panic, rage, hyper-vigilance, mania

  • Depression, disconnection, deadness, exhaustion

  • Boundary issues and boundary breaches

  • Startle responses, defensive orienting, bracing, fight/flight/freeze patterns

  • Fetal distress, birth trauma, and early surgical experiences (in adults)

  • Effects of anesthesia, high fevers, suffocation, choking, drowning

  • Physical trauma from falls, brain injuries, and motor vehicle accidents

  • Experiences of animal attacks, inhibited escape responses, and sexual abuse

Additionally, I am a certified Life Coach through the Martha Beck Institute (2018), and had the opportunity to learn directly from Martha during retreats at Londolozi in 2022 and 2023. I also practice and guide clients through “The Work” of Byron Katie, an inquiry-based method akin to a blend of mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques. I am a graduate of the 9-day School for “The Work” (2019).

Currently, I am completing my certification as an Equus Coach through the Center for Equus Coaching (2023), a modality that integrates horse wisdom into the personal growth process.

Since 2016, I have been deeply immersed in the study and practice of life coaching, stress reduction, and pathways to renewed aliveness. My journey has included experiences like The Hoffman Process and learning from teachers such as Gabor Maté, Koelle Simpson, Diane Poole Heller, David Whyte, Mary Oliver, and the natural landscapes of Southern California and South Africa that are very near and dear to my heart.

Collaborator.

This energetic third space is my personal favorite. I’m not sure it’s something that can be captured in physical proof—or that it even belongs in a bio—but I’ll try my best.

To me, collaboration exists between all kinds of entities: thoughts, ideas, images, people, places, animals, plants, material objects, systems. It means sitting in the seat you’ve been gifted, letting your nature attune to whatever it loves most, and following where that takes you—even if the material outcome doesn’t make sense to anyone else (least of all you). It’s a dance of sprouting and entropy, all at once.

I’ve collaborated with plants as deeply as I have with people. With locations as profoundly as with animals. With ideas I’ve resisted as honestly as with modalities I’ve chosen as tools.

By engaging in this kind of relational presence—what David Whyte calls being “part of the conversation”—I’ve found myself living into some of my wildest dreams with entities the soft animal of my body loves most. These include, but are not limited to:

  • Spotting a wild leopard on foot

  • Living in Paris, for a time

  • Visting and loving on 30+ countries other than my own

  • Building a multi–six-figure business in under two years, grounded in real-life connection and zero social media presence—offering me financial stability and creative freedom

  • Meeting just the right people, at just the right time, for mutual growth

  • Hosting dinner parties that answered long-forgotten dreams of village life with mutual reciprocity

  • Finding at least three soulmates (so far)

  • Creating my dream home… a couple of times

  • Experiencing the extreme luxury of being alive at very little cost

  • Witnessing and celebrating the power and presence of my friends’ unique art forms change lives

  • Having my cake and eating it with you—my creativity is mine and yours—it belongs to no captain of industry

I live and love in Los Angeles, CA with one of my soulmates—my dog, Edie.

FAQs about Somatic Experiencing

  • Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a therapeutic approach and set of tools that resolves symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, SE helps us release, recover, and become more resilient.

  • We usually begin by talking about your goals. What you would like to be different, whatever that may be. Then as we talk, I will invite you to notice the sensations in your body and your felt experience. I might support you to move between different sensations, and explore your impulses. And if that’s not something you feel comfortable with yet, we start with creating more awareness and attention to your environment. This modality is mindfulness-based, so if you already have a mindfulness, meditation, or yoga practice, this “tracking” of thought and sensation will be very familiar.

  • Coaching is more collaborative than traditional talk therapy, and SE is much more sensation-based than talk therapy. I will support you in tapping into different sensations in the body, at your level of comfort, creating spatial awareness over time. I also draw on nonverbal intuitive energy shepherding, focusing on somatic “bottom up” processing rather than “top down” processing, meaning we’re focusing more on the body’s messages and needs rather than using language or the thinking mind to try and force the body to have a different experience.

    The goal of this work is to support you to tap into the natural rhythm and wisdom of your own nervous system. Through tools, collaboration, creativity, and play, we’ll learn the shape of your nervous system and how it can best thrive in its full vitality and aliveness.