About Abigail
I’m Abigail — a double board-certified nurse practitioner, transformational coach, and integrative guide.
My work has evolved at the intersection of science and soul. I support individuals navigating life transitions, relationship evolution, and health challenges with grounded clinical expertise and intuitive depth — helping you move through change with clarity, steadiness, and sovereignty.
My academic foundation began at UC Berkeley, where I studied Anthropology and Archaeology and was particularly drawn to ceremony, rites of passage, and the liminal spaces — the betwixt and between moments where identity shifts and transformation unfolds. That lens continues to shape how I understand human growth: as both cultural and deeply personal, rooted in meaning as much as in biology.
I later trained at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as an Adult Nurse Practitioner and Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse. My clinical foundation in psychiatric and integrative mental health was forged in rural and underserved settings across California, where primary care demanded strong psychiatric discernment and adaptability. I worked extensively in tele-psychiatry and community mental health, supporting individuals navigating complex and transitional circumstances.
For over twelve years, I have collaborated with Dr. Dwight Berquest, a seasoned psychiatrist and consulting physician. We began our work together at Alameda Community Mental Health (Progress Foundation), where I deepened my psychiatric training in real-world, community-based care. His mentorship and collaboration strengthened my capacity to integrate holistic approaches responsibly and ethically within psychiatric frameworks.
While my primary focus today is transformational coaching and integrative wellness, I offer selective nursing consultation and psychiatric support when appropriate and collaborate with medical and psychiatric providers as needed. My advanced nursing training informs my work — but it does not confine its scope.
Alongside my clinical practice, I have worked as a transformational life coach and hypnotherapist since 2007.
Prior to advanced nursing, I practiced as a massage therapist for twelve years, training in craniosacral therapy, somatoemotional release, breathwork, vibrational healing, and intuitive body-based modalities. These disciplines grounded me in the intelligence of the body — how emotion, stress, and lived experience are held and integrated somatically.
At the core of my approach is intuitive attunement. I listen beneath words — to emotional patterns, nervous system cues, and subtle shifts that often go unspoken. I lead from presence and discernment, drawing on clinical insight when it supports clarity and stability.
Intuition and medicine are not opposing forces in my work — they are integrated.
I guide individuals through life’s thresholds with steadiness and depth, helping you reconnect with your inner authority and move forward rooted, resilient, and aligned.
I was born in the United Kingdom to a British father and an American mother of Norwegian and Danish descent. I return to Scotland and England regularly — landscapes that continue to shape my sense of history, resilience, and rootedness.
Eventually, my family settled beside the ocean in Bolinas, California, where tending to others was simply a way of life. My mother, a British-trained midwife and advanced practice nurse, brought me to home births throughout my childhood. Healing was not abstract — it was embodied, relational, and sacred.
From an early age, I was curious about humanity — our cultures, our rituals, and the forces that shape identity and change. That curiosity led me to study Anthropology and Archaeology at UC Berkeley.
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 medical training at UCSF, drawn to understanding the human body and mind through a rigorous clinical lens.
Over the years, I have navigated my own thresholds — marriage and conscious uncoupling, caregiving, chronic pain, body image struggles in adolescence, financial recalibration, and the continual evolution of identity. These experiences inform my work not as confessions, but as lived understanding.
Meditation, movement, and deep connection to nature remain foundational in my daily life. They remind me that growth is cyclical, that roots matter, and that change — even when disorienting — can become initiation.
Today, I stand at the intersection of these paths. I do not choose between science and spirituality — I hold both, and guide others in learning to do the same.
CLOSING 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.
— Abigail
My Story
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