Most people arrive carrying something.
Grief, perhaps, or a worry and uncertainty about next steps.
A rupture in the family still waiting for connection.
A crossroads where every road looks the same from where you stand.
Whatever brought you, come in and sit a while.
Something in you already knows.
A tightness that arrives before the phone rings. A weariness with no clear source. An argument with your partner running the same track it ran last year and the year before. A child whose behavior tells you something words cannot yet reach. A family standing at a threshold, unsure what comes next.
The mind explains these things away. The body keeps the record.
My work begins with your body’s own intelligence. We slow down until sensation can speak. We follow what arrives, in small amounts, with plenty of room to rest.
Talk carries us a certain distance. The body carries us the rest of the way. Real healing asks for safety and for relationship. It asks for a way in through sensation.
For more than fifty years I have worked alongside children and families across every kind of household and income. I arrived first as a teacher, later as a mentor, later still as a counselor and consultant. The hat changed as the need changed.
I have sat with people through the hardest seasons of a life. Families have brought three and four generations into one room. Practitioners have come looking for firmer ground under their own feet.
My work lives where therapeutic insight meets the intelligence of the body, and five decades close to human struggle taught me the rest of what I know.
Something in you already knows. A tightness, a weariness, an old pattern repeating itself in a new room. We begin with your body’s own intelligence, slow down until sensation can speak, and find the shape of the work together.
Children speak in behavior long before they speak in sentences. We look at the message underneath the behavior, at rhythm and ritual, repair after rupture, and the small daily moments where connection either builds or leaks away.
Legacy travels through the body of a family long before it appears in a document. I work with families navigating succession, estrangement, grief, and the conversations that come with handing down meaning alongside assets.
You hold a room while your own ground shifts under you. I offer supervision, mentorship, and training, attending to your nervous system as closely as your client’s and helping you find firmer ground beneath your feet.
My work has crossed borders and carried me into rooms of great wealth and rooms holding very little. I have taught clinicians, worked alongside treatment centers and community leaders, spoken internationally, and stayed with people long after the formal program ended.
I found the same longing in every room.
A family in conflict, an emerging adult at a threshold, a practitioner losing herself in the work: each one wants to feel met, and each one wants the way home.
Legacy shows itself in what holds after the teacher leaves the room.
Most of what I know arrived through relationships and experience, though the ongoing learning from master teachers kept me busy for a lifetime.
I write about attachment, estrangement, eldership, and the culture we make between us. I speak nationally and internationally on attachment and trauma, on eldership, and on what holds a family together.
Nearer home I host small retreats and SoulCollage® afternoons, where we work with image, story, and the body.
People arrive as strangers. They leave carrying something they use for years.
Some people come to me for somatic work. Some come for a grief ritual, or for help holding a family through the handing down of a legacy. Practitioners come for mentorship and supervision, and for the steadying that lets them stay present in a difficult room. Others come to a retreat and leave with something they carry for years.
You do not need to know which door is yours before you write.
Tell me what brought you. Tell me your story. I will listen.
You do not need to know exactly where to begin. Share a little about what is happening, what you are looking for, or what led you here. I will read your note and be in touch.
Tell me what you want to hear about, and I will meet you there.Your information stays private. We’ll never sell or share it.
