I am thankful to be here and honored to walk by your side as you enter this SE journey.
My home is between Lake Whatcom and Stewart Mountain, and just south of the Nooksack River watershed where we enjoy great flocks of migratory birds, ample salmon, and many other wild residents.
I practice as a Washington State counselor, seeing most of my clients outdoors and consulting Nature as a guide and context while engaging with SE work. Along with an M.S. in clinical mental health counseling, I have an M.A. in transpersonal psychology with a focus on ecopsychology from Naropa University.
I am indebted to many teachers of wilderness awareness, rites of passage, dance, Chinese martial art, and other movement arts. I’m curious about how to help cultivate somatic work in groups and communities, about the role of grieving in trauma, and about cultivating nonviolent, respectful, and honoring ways to share and treasure our world’s multicultural wisdom. I would like to continue to develop trainings and resources for people who want to directly include the natural world in their therapeutic work.