My first step into pursuing a direction into the healing arts came through my own need for support. When I was 18, I had a strong sense in my gut that something was wrong. I continuously grappled with low self-esteem, low self-confidence, depression, relationship conflicts, and self-sabotaging patterns. At this time in my life I was searching externally for validation, which left me feeling lost and empty.

After some time I began to receive an answer to this question in the form of a school called White Winds Institute of Energy Medicine. The school offered a Two Year Certification in the Art and Science of Energy Medicine. Knowing that I needed a deeper understanding of healing, I enrolled in the two-year program with the hope of healing the traumas in my life that had contributed to wanting to renew my relationship with myself. 

I Took The First Step Into Healing

Through White Winds Institute and under the teaching, guidance, and supervision of Dr. Fernand Poulin, I learned the Art and Science of Energy Medicine. In my personal healing journey, I felt the life changing influence of having a compassionate, accepting, loving, and supportive community in empowering me to open up and speak about my life and challenges. Through White Winds, I learned how the past impacts the energy systems of the human body; I experienced the weight of my feelings, emotions, and thoughts being released and soothed while being supported in a community that reflected back to me how to be a compassionate support system for myself. 

My desire to find a greater means to support myself and others led me to enroll at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute to complete a three-year certification to become a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Through the program, I have benefitted and learned from the 40 years of successful clinical practice and professional research of Doctor Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing.

SE offers a vast scientific approach to trauma healing and specific techniques to help clients heal from trauma such as falls, sexual abuse, childhood neglect, medical interventions, car accidents, first responder or military trauma, birth trauma, or inescapable events. SE has taught me how to offer a gentle, slow, and gradual approach to helping individuals connect with their physical body and to release the complex survival reactions that are generated from traumatic events, all while empowering them to be their own greatest source of healing and regulation. I am a graduate of the three year program and am now offering Somatic Experiencing as a central part of my private practice.

Blending Integrative Energy Medicine & Somatic Experiencing

In the Present

Presently in my life, I feel that I received the answer to my initial question of how to find self-support and self-confidence. The answer came through a unique journey into body centered approaches to healing and recovery in the form of thirteen years of study in the healing arts, a journey into meditation practices in the form of Vipassana and Mindfulness, a two year study at White Winds Institute of Energy Medicine, three years of education at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, and eight years of private practice. The result has been remarkable for all of my relationships. I don’t struggle anymore with depression; more often than not I make good decisions for myself; I feel relaxed in my body; and my personal relationships are my greatest source of health and vitality.  Most importantly, if something happens in my life, I feel that I can always fall back on my relationship with myself for love, support, and healing. 

My hope is that you will meet yourself on this journey as your own greatest Support System.

I hope that together we can find an uplifting, powerful, and an ever-evolving process of deepening your connection to self-confidence and self-support.