My Story, My Path
I was born in the United Kingdom and grew up between British roots and coastal Northern California. I still return regularly to the UK, to family and landscapes that continue to shape my sense of history, resilience, and rootedness. California is home.
I grew up with both beauty and challenge, and that combination has shaped how I understand people and the lives we live. My mother was a British-trained midwife and advanced practice nurse, and I lost her to cancer when I was twenty-one. I know something of deep loss, trauma, chronic pain and sports injury, assault, love and divorce, healthy relationship and love again, changing careers, moving away from community, having family far away, and finding one’s own way without a mother beside you. I also understand the expectations placed on women, the lives we imagine we are supposed to have, and the courage it can take to listen to what is actually true for us.
My path has never been entirely linear. I worked in investor relations in the corporate world while completing pre-medical studies, later studied Anthropology and Archaeology at UC Berkeley, graduating with highest honors, and went on to complete my graduate nursing education at UCSF.
Nature and movement have been constants throughout my life. I grew up riding horses, spent twelve years as a sea kayak and nature guide, and remain a runner, gardener, athlete, animal lover, and nature enthusiast. I have practiced meditation for more than twenty years. Movement, animals, the natural world, and contemplative practice continue to shape how I understand healing, resilience, joy, and connection.
Today, I bring both professional training and lived experience to my work. I understand that a life can hold challenge, reinvention, loss, love, humor, beauty, and deep joy, sometimes all at once.
I am a double board-certified Nurse Practitioner, Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Life Coach, Reiki practitioner, and ordained minister.
The Journey That Led Me Here
After college, I followed a conventional path into business and investor relations within the clean energy sector. While successful on paper, something essential was missing. The pull toward healing - toward deeper, more meaningful work - never left.
I returned to hands-on healing through massage therapy, hypnotherapy, and coaching, deepening both technical skill and intuitive awareness. At the same time, I pursued formal nursing training at UCSF as a Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care and later continued into integrative, holistic mind-body care and integrative mental health. Since 2013, I have been drawn to understanding the human body and mind through a rigorous clinical lens.
Over the years, I have lived through my own thresholds - grief and loss, care-giving, marriage and conscious uncoupling, chronic pain, financial re-calibration, illness, and the ongoing evolution of identity. I have sat with uncertainty, rebuilt from the ground up, and found my way back to meaning more than once. These experiences are not incidental to this work. They are at its heart. They are why I can meet you without judgement, without a script, and without pretending that any of this is simple.
Over the years, my work has naturally expanded to include supporting people through some of life's most profound transitions. As a birth and death doula and priestess of transitional ceremonies, I have the privilege of walking alongside individuals and families through beginnings, endings, grief, healing, and transformation. There is something deeply sacred about accompanying people across the lifespan with presence, compassion, and respect for each person's unique journey.
People come to this work from many different places. Some are navigating a significant life transition - separation, a new diagnosis, a career crossroads, grief, or a growing sense that something needs to change. Others arrive not in crisis but in curiosity - ready to grow, to shed what no longer fits, and to move toward a more intentional, joyful, and aligned life.
What they often share is this: they are tired of feeling like they have to choose between practical support and something deeper. They want someone who can help them troubleshoot a career decision and also understand why their nervous system is dysregulated. Someone who takes their anxiety seriously and their spiritual life seriously. Someone compassionate, direct, and genuinely present - who has actually been through some of this themselves.
If that sounds like what you are looking for, you are likely in the right place.
My work sits at the intersection of clinical training, integrative coaching, and years of lived and spiritual practice. I am a board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care specializing in integrative care. I am also a board-certified Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse, a certified hypnotherapist, and a certified life coach. I attended and graduated from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where I completed my Nurse Practitioner training. I continued my professional development through training in integrative and functional medicine, hypnotherapy, massage therapy, craniosacral somato-emotional release, breathwork facilitation, NLP, EFT, somatic practices, and end-of-life care. Since 2015, I have also collaborated with an MD/Psychiatrist to provide integrative mind-body mental health, working alongside physicians, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, and other healthcare professionals to support clients with comprehensive, collaborative care.
Training & Credentials
I care for people from all walks of life, including healthcare professionals, physicians, nurses, therapists, executives, entrepreneurs, creatives, athletes, and other high achievers navigating periods of transition, growth, leadership, burnout, and personal transformation. It is a privilege to support those who spend their lives caring for others, helping them reconnect with themselves while moving toward lives that feel more meaningful, balanced, and authentic.
In addition to private sessions, I teach and lead retreats globally, bringing this integrative mind-body-soul approach to groups navigating change, meaning, and deeper becoming. I also continue to support individuals through significant life transitions with compassion, presence, and deep respect for each person's unique path.
Professional Memberships & Affiliations
American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA)
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
American Psychological Association (APA)
California Association for Nurse Practitioners
International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Adult Primary Care & Psychiatric Nursing Professional Liability Insurance
ICF Coaching Professional Liability Insurance
My Reflection
Meditation, movement, and deep connection to nature remain foundational in my daily life. They remind me that growth is not linear. We evolve through spirals - returning, deepening, and meeting life again with greater awareness. Roots matter, and even disorienting change can become initiation.
My Reflection: Life inevitably shifts.
Not everything will be clear, and much can change along the way. Yet we learn to navigate through uncertainty - to ride the waves, steer through cloudy skies, and trust the unfolding rhythm of life.
Through reflection, recalibration, and realignment, we learn to meet those shifts with greater clarity and inner authority.
And in each moment, we are given what we need to take the next step forward. I am walking the path with you, as your fellow traveller.
