About Me
I help you through your most challenging life transitions because, like you I’ve been through many a dark night. Navigating 25 years of marriage, a painful but amicable divorce, raising kids, running my own business, managing chronic illness, healing childhood trauma, making huge moves, embracing an empty nest and taking big risks are amongst my own personal challenges. Needless to say I can relate to what you might have going on and I pride myself in creating a personable and safe atmosphere where together we can determine what your next steps are and tools which can get you to living your best life!
I work full time as an Intuitive Coach and Counselor at A Joyous Life, while hosting special events, ceremonies and workshops related to personal and spiritual growth. I am excited to announce the formal opening of my most recent enterprise: SANCTUARY FOR SOUL AND MIND AND CONSCIOUS CONNECTIONS: MINDFUL SPEED DATING. I am also the owner and founder of Actors Academy for Performing Arts in Boulder and Denver.
MY JOURNEY AS AN INTUITIVE LIFE COACH
Having grown up in New York City, and subsequently California, Oregon and Colorado I understand the diverse range of east coast, west coast urban and mountain culture. I have also enjoyed extensive international solo travel where I have done humanitarian work and traveled to the homes of my ancestors. I know firsthand the joys and challenges inherent in transitions around place and have a passion for supporting women in doing solo journeys.
WHAT I’VE DONE AND WHAT I AM
I hold multiple degrees in Theater performance, Drama/Movement Therapy, and Spiritual/Psychological Studies as I hold professional certifications in Jungian Dream Analysis and Dream Tending, Non -violent communication, Women’s Leadership, Gabrielle Roth’s 5 Rhythms’ movement practice and the Hoffman Process.
I have also studied with Trauma Specialist Peter Levine and currently utilize his pioneering program for restoring the wisdom of the body with clients who have experienced emotional or physical trauma.
Most recently I completed course work with Leading Relationship expert Esther Perel in a curriculum that takes a multidisciplinary approach to the field of relational intelligence and couple’s work. This groundbreaking approach to relationship coaching has been inspiring my work as a couples and family relationship coach. Furthermore, I have extensive experience in the field of Tantra and use a tantric approach to explore intimacy and connection with couples.
Other advanced studies included intensive course work in the Intuitive Arts, Energy Work and Reiki, Alchemy and Ritual Making at The Cascade Mystery School in Boulder, and Temple Namaste in Denver, Colorado and a Six year Heart of The Wounded Healer course with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes Reyes.
Why choose me as your Coach/Counselor?
I AM a director, artist, writer, mom, spritual intuitive, healer, teacher, traveler, performer, singer, dog mom, and humanitarian. Most of all I am a lifetime student and passionate about the personal and spiritual growth trajectory.
I was married for 24 years and have maintained a healthy and amicable relationship with my ex-husband since our divorce. Our relational journey and the conscious uncoupling process we went through has inspired much of my work with couples.
I am endlessly curious and passionately committed to my own personal and spiritual development as I support others through life’s passages. There is no work I do with others that I have not personally done myself.
They say the most stressful events people will experience in their lives are: divorce or the ending of any relationship, death, illness, changing careers, moving, and an empty nest.
Seven years ago I entered my own dark night of the soul. In the course of three years I divorced, ending a 24 year marriage as I watched my best friend pass away from cancer. Within a few months, my son left home for college, leaving me newly divorced and literally in an “empty” nest.
This was a time of tremendous upheaval as I struggled to make sense of a life devoid of the people I most loved. In the two years following I sold what had been my dream home and semi-retired from my work/business as I completely changed careers.
I then spent two years volunteering internationally and sporadically traveling the world solo before I applied and went back to graduate school, moved to another state, met my soulmate and had the relationship which awakened me to divine love!
If you are in the midst of your own “dark night of the soul” or “midlife crisis”. I can personally guide you through this significant and profound life passage and help you not only get through it, but find transformation there! I have been on the journey and I can now say being on the other side that it was because of the challenges not despite them that initiated me into becoming the most authentic expression of the self I was destined to be.
