My deepest self awareness has actually unfolded during my journey as a space-holder.

A Bit About My Path

For much of my life—and throughout a significant portion of my personal growth journey—the depth of my wounds remained hidden, even from myself.

In 2010, I began working deeply with sacred medicines and skilled practitioners across a variety of healing modalities. I experienced transformation and growth, yet I still found myself hovering on the surface of my pain, unable to access the core of my dis-ease.

At the age of 42, life offered me a perfect storm. In a span of just three months, I became a mother, was initiated into the Bwiti tradition, moved to another country, and co-founded an Iboga retreat with my husband, Anthony. Any one of these rites of passage could have catalyzed profound transformation—but I chose to walk through all four at once.

I was raised in a loving, yet broken home. Both of my parents were deeply wounded children of addicted and highly dysfunctional families. Without realizing it at the time, I endured emotional and physical abuse, repressed sexual trauma, and lived within cycles of codependency, enmeshment, and control. I had constructed a narrative that my childhood was mostly happy, and that belief made it nearly impossible to understand why I continued to attract painful, toxic experiences—and why I carried such a deep reservoir of anger and frustration.

Motherhood, the medicine, and our retreat center became mirrors—illuminating the shadows I had yet to meet with love, compassion, and truth. Becoming a mother to our brilliant daughter, Luna, continues to reveal parts of myself in need of liberation and authenticity.

This journey has been beautiful, messy, and profoundly empowering. It humbles me daily.

Through years of personal excavation and my work as an Iboga facilitator since 2017, I’ve come to understand the deep imprint traumas leaves on the psyche—and how profoundly it shapes our lives. Along the way, I’ve developed a strong relationship with the Universe, learning to embody the dance between connection to Source and the often ass-kicking reality of being human.

It took me over a decade to reach the root of my challenges and begin cultivating the level of self-understanding I carry today—a journey that continues to unfold every day. My deepest hope is to help shorten that learning curve for those I walk alongside.

I am a passionate scholar of psychology and existential reality, with training in Root Cause Therapy, Embodied Processing, Conscious Creation Coaching, and Compassionate Inquiry. I’m also trained in Transformational Recovery and am a Mesa Carrier in the Q’ero tradition of Peru.

And while formal training has absolutely enriched my path, my most trusted tools come from lived experience and the honor of facilitating healing through Iboga. I draw deeply on my intuitive and compassionate nature—and what I consider to be a double Ph.D. in LIFE—to guide my work. Read more about my philosophy…