Growing up with the challenge of being highly sensitive to the distress in my family, I took refuge in the sense of belonging I felt in the woods and on the lake shores of my home in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The land and water developed in me a respectful and loving relationship with Nature, which nurtured my sense of connection to the world and grounded my spirituality in the sacredness of my surroundings.  

I work well with Highly Sensitive People (HSP), because I am one and it takes one to know one! I  know the experience and stigma of feeling different, easily overwhelmed, “too sensitive”, “too emotional” and empathically vulnerable. The good news is that flower essences are a match made in heaven for us! Flower essence therapy is a gentle, compassionate approach which honors and supports our innate capacities and particular challenges as highly sensitive spiritual beings living in a beautiful, chaotic, joy and pain-filled world. 

After decades of spiritual learning and contemplative practice in Christian mysticism, yoga, and Buddhism, and working as a licensed clinical social worker psychotherapist, I am returning home to the divinity in Nature with flower essences as healing allies, for a profound medicine of our time. 

Education/Training/Experience

• Flower Essence Society Practitioner Certification (in process)

• Bach Centre Flower Essence Learning Program Levels 1 & 2

• Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker Psychotherapist private practice, Newport, RI, (license retired 2020)

• Boulder Community Health, Integrated Behavioral Health Psychotherapist & Manager Outpatient Behavioral Health, Boulder, CO

• End of Life Doula training, Conscious Dying Institute, Boulder, CO

• Reiki Levels 1 & 2, Reiki Colorado, Boulder, CO

• Vajrayana Buddhist Somatic Meditation training, Sutrayana Mahayana study Intensives-Dharma Ocean, Crestone, CO

• Internal Family Systems Psychotherapy Level 1, Boston, MA

• Monastic spirituality studies-St. John’s School of Theology/Benedictine Monastery, Collegeville, MN

• Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training Certification, Lenox, MA

• MSW, Boston University