The Sessions

The Work

There is no wrong door. Whatever brings you here — your body, your patterns, something you've been carrying — we will find the right way in together.

"I offer two distinct kinds of work — bodywork that speaks directly to the body's intelligence, and alchemical healing that works at the level of belief, energy, and pattern. They can be experienced separately or together. Most often, they find their way into the same session."

Below you'll find each of the modalities I work with — what they are, how I came to them, and what they might offer you. If you're not sure where to start, reach out. We'll figure it out together.

What I Work With

The modalities

My sessions draw from multiple lineages — not because I collected modalities, but because each one found me when I needed it and proved itself in practice. I use what works, in the combination that's right for you. Scroll down to read more about each one.

  • Manual Chinese Medicine

    Acupressure · Zen Shiatsu · Chi Nei Tsang

    Body-centered work rooted in TCM theory — moving qi and blood, addressing stagnation, supporting the organ systems. I work with my hands rather than needles, which allows for a different quality of presence and responsiveness. My foundation is Zen Shiatsu, built over 500 hours of training with Pam Ferguson — a genuine lineage holder in this tradition.

  • Theta Healing & Energy Work

    Energetic Release · Belief Work · Soul Fragment Clearing

    A meditation-based healing modality that works at the level of belief and energetic memory. The two things I use most: releasing shock and trauma held in the system, and clearing soul fragments — the energetic residue of difficult relationships that can linger in the biofield long after the event. All work is done with clear verbal permission. Always.

  • Trauma-Informed Care

    Somatic Awareness · Nervous System Support · Pacing

    Every session is held with an understanding that the body protects itself — and those protections were intelligent once. We work with the nervous system, not against it. Going slow is not a limitation; it is the work. Calming the nervous system is always the first priority. Nothing is forced. Everything requires your yes.

  • Flower Essence Therapy

    Vibrational Medicine · Emotional Support

    Gentle vibrational medicine that supports the emotional and energetic shifts that happen between sessions. Often the quiet thread that holds everything else together — working subtly and continuously in the background of a healing process.

  • Homeopathy

    Constitutional · Classical · In Formal Study

    Homeopathy works at the level of constitutional pattern, addressing the whole person rather than isolated symptoms. I have been a lay user of homeopathy for 30 years and in 2025 spent a year working alongside an experienced homeopath — observing cases and learning about the craft from the inside.

Bodywork

Manual Therapies &
Zen Shiatsu

I came to bodywork the way most people come to healing — because I needed it. What began as my own experience of receiving Zen Shiatsu became a deep curiosity about how the body holds what the mind can't process, and how skilled touch can begin to move what has been stuck for years.

My strongest lineage is Zen Shiatsu — acupuncture without needles. Rooted in Chinese medicine, it works with the body's meridian system to restore flow, release what's held, and support the whole person. I trained at the Academy of Oriental Medicine in Austin under Pamela Ferguson, a lineage holder in the tradition of Shizuto Masunaga — completing 500 hours of Shiatsu training as part of my graduate studies, and beginning to see clients privately in 2002. I am a formerly Certified Practitioner with the American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA).

What I want you to know about how I work: I always respect your space. I check in regularly. I expect you to communicate with me if something is uncomfortable — and I will always meet you there. I have worked with people who couldn't tolerate touch at all, and we figured out a way together. I am flexible, amenable, and yet principled. The session is yours.

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Abdominal Work

Chi Nei
Tsang

I was in my late twenties when I first experienced Chi Nei Tsang — and I didn't go looking for it. I had been having mysterious GI symptoms for months after a trip to India: weight gain, increased appetite, a foggy feeling, irritability. I would eat dinner and an hour later need to eat again. My doctors ran tests and told me I was healthy. I didn't feel healthy.

A friend guided me to a chiropractor who did nutrition work. She had me keep a food journal, and what emerged was a clear pattern — bread and cheese, over and over. She asked me to stop eating gluten and dairy for three days. I did. Every mysterious symptom disappeared. That was the beginning of trusting practitioners who actually listen.

That chiropractor referred me to Allison Post — a practitioner of Chi Nei Tsang, abdominal massage rooted in Chinese medicine and Taoist healing traditions. I didn't know what it was. But I trusted the referral. As soon as I met Allison, I was completely smitten with her as a practitioner. I worked with her for the next two years as her client. She taught me that the belly is not just a digestive organ — it is where we store our emotions, our unprocessed experiences, our grief and our fear.

I went on to study Oriental Medicine — deepening my understanding of the body's energetic systems, the meridians, and the intelligence of the organs. That framework runs through everything I do. And I have woven what I learned from Allison into my work ever since. I continue to deepen this practice — currently in a study group working through the lineage of Gilles Marin, whose teaching runs through Allison's work and through mine.

I offer CNT as a standalone session and weave it into bodywork sessions when the belly is ready to be worked. When it's willing to release, things shift that haven't moved in years.

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Energy & Belief Work

Alchemical
Healing

Long before I had a name for it, I was doing this work. A combination of Theta Healing, shamanic healing, and pranic healing — working with people's energetic fields to clear what had accumulated there. Debris from arguments, from witnessing something violent, from grief that never had anywhere to go. This work reaches things that talk therapy alone cannot, because it doesn't operate at the level of the story — it works at the level of what the story left behind.

I wanted to find a way to bridge this energetic work with my bodywork — to stop keeping them in separate rooms. That search led me to Lorie Dechar and her work in Alchemical Acupuncture and the Five Spirits of Chinese medicine. I had first encountered her through an online class on trauma and the five elements. I tried to get into her mentorship that year and it was full. I waited. The following year I heard her speak live — and that was the moment I committed. Something in me recognized that this was the bridge I had been looking for.

In her mentorship I learned to work with flower essences on specific acupuncture points, to use meditation and dream work as healing tools, to understand the Five Spirits not as theory but as living energies that can be engaged. And I brought all of that into what I was already doing.

When the bodywork and the energetic work happen together, the sessions are often quite profound. This is the work that lights me up most. And it is available to anyone who is ready for it.

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Breathwork

Guided
Breathwork

Breath is the one thing the body does both automatically and consciously. Which makes it one of the most direct ways in.

I offer breathwork as its own complete modality — not as a warm-up or add-on, but as a full session in its own right. Some of the people I work with come specifically for breathwork and nothing else. They may not want touch, may not be ready for it, or simply find that this is what their system responds to most. That is a completely valid place to begin — or to stay.

I also weave breathwork into sessions when the body needs a different entry point. Sometimes the system isn't ready for hands-on work. Sometimes we've done energetic work and the breath is what integrates it. The breath is flexible in a way that touch sometimes isn't — it can go where hands can't, working with the nervous system directly to calm what has been activated and move what has been stuck.

Sessions are gentle, guided, and entirely non-invasive. You don't need any prior experience. You just need to be willing to breathe a little more intentionally than usual.

Not sure where
to begin?

There is no wrong door. Reach out and tell me what's going on — we'll figure out together which of these feels like the right starting place for you. A free 15-minute consultation is always a good place to start.

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