I’m a coach, artist, researcher, and the founder of Neuromystics™—a sanctuary for sensitive souls and divergent minds seeking resonance, reconnection, and rooted transformation.
I was raised in the Shaconage, the land of the blue mist, in the mountains of North Carolina on the ancestral lands of the Anikituwagi, more widely known as the Cherokee.
I grew up in a close relationship with hawks, waterfalls, and river stones. The energy that animates the natural world was my first language. The forest ecosystem taught me what many human-made systems did not: that belonging is our birthright, and that healing is not a process of fixing, but of remembering our interdependence.
Neuromystics™ is the culmination of my lifelong inquiry into what allows us to feel and be whole, celebrated, and connected in an age of fragmentation.
I’m queer, disabled, and multiply neurodivergent. My lived experience includes navigating autism, ADHD, dyslexia, chronic illnesses, cPTSD, and synesthesia as a white European-American.
For years, I worked within big systems—higher education, hospitals, corporations—trying to make them more organic, more humane, more in resonance with what I perceive as aliveness. I spearheaded diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility research programs in tech corporations centered on LGBTQIA+ safety in countries where those identities were illegal, taught compassion cultivation and intercultural anti-ablism to medical providers, led radical ethnographic research focused on epistemic diversity, and worked to decolonize wellness programs.
Over time, I found that disrupting systems from within was no longer satisfying. While I worked to inspire inclusive change, I came to see that these institutions were not designed to evolve—they were designed to exclude. That recognition, and the toll it took on my health, led me to shift my focus. Instead of pushing against systems resistant to transformation, I chose to create a space where meaningful change was desired and could take root.
This coaching and healing arts practice is a sanctuary for like-hearted people—a place where transformation happens in relationship, guided by the earth, our nervous systems, and the wisdom of difference. Here, I’m able to support change in ways that are embodied, sustainable, and aligned with how transformation naturally unfolds.
My lifelong curiosity has made me a big research nerd. While somatic intuition has become my main guidance system, I’ve also spent years immersed in formal training, fieldwork, and academic inquiry. I believe that embodied wisdom and intellectual rigor need not live in separate worlds.
How do we relate to ourselves? To each other? To life? How to human (to live a full, meaningful, generative human life) is one of my special interests. I’ve intentionally built my life and career around this question.
I hold a Master of Public Health from Columbia University, where I studied medical anthropology, environmental health, and the cultural patterns that shape understandings of health, the body, and healing. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork with palliative care teams in New York City, exploring compassion fatigue, clinical power dynamics, and pathways for intercultural communication and relational repair in clinical settings. My research carried me across sectors—from community health to tech. I’ve contributed to global initiatives like Oxford University’s Traditional Systems of Health project and led inclusion research at big tech companies, centering the experiences of disabled, queer, and BIPOC folks. In every role, I’ve asked: how can we create spaces where people are truly safe to be fully themselves?
My Bachelor of Science is in Environmental Psychology and Spanish from UNC Asheville. That path led me to the Andes, where I collaborated with Conservation International and studied at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in Bolivia, exploring culturally-rooted environmental education and the connection between ecological knowledge and community health.
I am a certified Neurodivergent Family Coach (from an 85-hour ICF-accredited program), a trauma-informed care practitioner (SAMHSA-certified), and a 230-hour certified yoga teacher. I’ve trained in biophilic design and sensory-accessible environments, and I weave these principles into the space I hold for clients—spaces where people can rest and remember.
My journey into energetic healing began as a teenager living with chronic pain. I wanted to learn how to stay with the sensations in my body—not dissociate from them or push them away. Over the years, this practice of presence has grown into a steady capacity to sit with discomfort, tend to grief, support chronic conditions, and offer myself grounded care and transformation.
Alongside my academic and professional work, I’ve developed a private energy work practice to share these tools with others. For the past two decades, I’ve trained with The Four Winds Society, Tibet House US, Stanford’s Center for Compassion Cultivation, and the Zen Center for Contemplative Care. I’ve also studied with master energy practitioners like Maryam Hasnaa and Kenneth Jover, whose teachings have influenced my approach to subtle energy, inner sovereignty, and relational presence.
Currently, I am a settler and guest in the sovereign Kingdom of Hawai‘i, island of O’ahu. I honor the ancestral grandmother Papahānaumoku and her descendants, the Kanaka Maoli, who are the original tenders of this ʻāina. My ancestry traces back to Ireland, Spain, and Germany. Living within the generous Kingdom of Hawai’i deepens my daily practice, fostering ongoing learning about what it means to be in right relationship with life.
I offer attuned support that honors your way of being. Each session, I hold intentional presence and extend an invitation for you to reconnect with your innate intelligence to cultivate sustainable self-transformation.
My methods are rooted in over a decade of research and practitioner experience in medical anthropology, trauma-informed public health, environmental psychology, and contemplative neuroscience. Each practice, tool, or process I bring into our sessions together is thoughtfully selected, evidence-based, and refined through continuous experimentation.
I also approach holding space for clients as an artist. I see each session as a container we create together. I trust the organic ebb and flow process of transformation, including silence, symbolism, and sensations. We move at an unhurried tempo to allow space for what is ready to emerge.
At its core, my practice is grounded in a commitment to our innate sovereignty. I actively design my work to center consent, accessibility, dignity, and interconnection. I actively engage with continuous education and reflection around how systemic power dynamics, such as racism, ableism, classism, and colonialism, can distort healing and wellness work. The result is a space that supports not only personal insight but collective liberation.
