I’m here as:
A compassionate companion on your journey
A listener when you need to be heard
A guide through grief, growth, or big questions
A sounding board in times of decision or doubt
A celebrator of your joys and milestones
Let’s walk this path together—with presence, care, and meaning.
Kirkland or Online
1-1 Grief support for women during life transitions
Spiritual Care and Counseling
Discover the peace and clarity that come from making decisions rooted in body-based spiritual care. Using a trauma-informed and embodied approach, I’ll guide you through a proven framework that helps you align your choices with your values, goals, and faith—so you can move forward with clarity, confidence, and calm.
Through our work together, you’ll gain:
I've supported hundreds of individuals in navigating life’s toughest choices and have provided mediation for couples and families. In 2018, I co-founded a nonprofit and developed a curriculum to help ease the burden of decision-making.
Many people experience decision-making as a major source of stress—sleepless nights, racing thoughts, inner conflict. But what’s often overlooked is this: decision-making is a skill. And like any skill, it can be practiced, embodied, and strengthened.
With the support of body-based spiritual healing, you can make grounded, values-aligned choices that support your healing, growth, and life direction—without the emotional overload.
Some common reasons people seek spiritual care and counseling include:
Anticipatory grief is the grief experienced before a death or loss occurs, often when someone we care about is suffering. It can arise in situations like a loved one being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Cumulative grief, also known as compounded grief, can be described as a series of losses that occur over a relatively brief period of time. Research shows that while the losses may relate to various causes, intensities, and areas of your life, they can be harder to cope with than individual losses because of the compounding effect.
Ecological grief is a feeling of sorrow or loss that results from environmental change or the loss of ecosystems, species, or landscapes.
Disenfranchised grief occurs when someone experiences a significant loss, but their grief is not acknowledged, validated, or accepted by others—either because the loss itself isn’t recognized as legitimate, or because the way they express their grief falls outside of socially accepted norms.
Collective grief happens when a community, society, village, or nation all experience extreme change or loss. Collective grief can manifest in the wake of major events. Some examples include war, natural disasters, or others that result or widespread tragedy.
ADVERSE/TRAUMATIC RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES
An Adverse Religious Experience (ARE) is any experience of a religious belief, practice, or structure that undermines an individuals sense of dignity, safety or autonomy and/or negatively impacts their physical, emotional, social, sexual, relational, and/or psychological wellbeing. These experiences have significant potential of resulting in religious trauma
Religious trauma is the physical, emotional, or psychological response to religious beliefs, practices, or structures that is experienced by an individual as overwhelming or disruptive and has lasting adverse effects on a person’s physical, mental, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being
To have experienced religious trauma, adverse religious experiences, or to be questioning/stepping away from harmful religious beliefs you once held is incredibly difficult. Creating a safe space to identify and breakdown any judgement or shame you might have around questioning religious dogma, learning to navigate changing relationships with family and friends, exploring your identity as a person of moral courage, and helping you to feel a sense of empowerment as you process, deconstruct and reconstruct your worldview & lifeway with compassion, courage and patience. Spiritual healing within a trauma informed framework.
Build resilience, resource & capacity in your nervous system so you can handle big waves of emotion and allow your grief to move through your body in a way that is gentle yet brings relief
body-based spiritual care + grief support for women in Kirkland & Online
Build personal practices rooted in body-based spiritual care and grief support for women to help you navigate grief and life’s everyday challenges with resilience.
Through body-based spiritual care and grief support for women, you’ll learn tools to help rewire neural pathways, supporting healing from deep grief and chronic stress.
Deepen your relationship with your innate goodness and healing capacity through body-based spiritual care and grief support for women. Reconnect with your inner guidance system—the subtle cues your body offers in every moment—and discover how your body can become a powerful ally in your recovery and healing journey.
Kirkland, WA, USA
& Online
Illuminated Lifeways