I offer a sanctuary for deep healing work, where we collaborate as partners in your journey toward embodied safety and resilience.
Through a dynamic integration of trauma-informed acupuncture, NeuroAffective Touch®, and somatic parts work, we create a refuge where your body's wisdom can unfold at its own pace. This holistic approach honors both the profound challenges you carry as a healing professional and your innate capacity for transformation.
Mental health therapists and other helping professionals hold sacred space for transformation in our communities - work that has deepened in complexity and intensity over recent years. This profound calling requires not just professional skills, but the courage to witness pain, hold hope, and remain present with suffering. Yet who witnesses the witnesses? Who holds sanctuary for those who create sanctuary for others?
The tender, vulnerable places within us and the protections we developed to keep us safe will naturally be elicited through the sacred work of holding healing space for others. Vicarious trauma builds up. The weight of caring can stretch us beyond our window of tolerance.
If you're a helper who recognizes yourself in these words - if you feel stretched beyond your window of tolerance, feel clenched or exhausted when thinking about work, or long to feel truly safe in your own body - know that you deserve the same reverence and care you offer others.
I invite you to join me in a sacred partnership of calling you home to yourself.
Step into a sanctuary where your body's wisdom guides the way, where your nervous system can explore what it actually means to experience safety, and where your capacity for resilience can be restored.
modalities & approach
In my practice your body's wisdom takes the lead in our collaborative healing journey. Through presence and deep attunement, we honor the profound interconnection of mind and body, recognizing that true healing happens when both are invited into the conversation. Whether through the precision of trauma-informed acupuncture, the nurturing presence of NeuroAffective Touch, the spacious witnessing of parts work, or the collaborative exploration of your body's guidance system, each pathway honors your unique way of coming home to yourself.
Authentic choice and consent are the very foundation of our sacred partnership. Your nervous system knows what it needs to feel safe, and together we create space for that wisdom to emerge and guide our work. What would it feel like to have a trusted witness as you learn to listen to your body's messages? How might it be to discover that your body knows exactly what it needs - needles or touch, stillness or movement, connection or space?
neuroaffective touch & co-regulating touch
Attuned presence creates the foundation for all healing. Whether through the nurturing language of touch or through the medicine of being met exactly as you are in this moment, presence allows the body to exhale as its needs are finally seen and heard.
I draw from the wisdom of craniosacral therapy, NeuroAffective Touch, and Somatic Resilience and Regulation to foster new depths of safety in the body. What makes this approach uniquely healing is how we follow your nervous system's moment-to-moment guidance - sometimes that’s a quiet space for deep rest, sometimes it’s a collaborative exploration to find the specific quality of touch that helps armoring soften or brings new vitality where there has been collapse. Through this dance of presence and response, the threads of connection between body and mind grow stronger. Embodiment becomes its own sanctuary.
Your body's wisdom determines not only if touch feels right, but what type of presence is welcome - whether we're meeting in physical space or through digital connection, your nervous system's needs lead the way.
“I think this work can benefit so many people. In particular for those of us who have done so much “work” / introspection, it is quite humbling how much can arise in the space of quiet attunement and coregulation.”
trauma-informed acupuncture
Trauma-informed acupuncture in my practice becomes a collaborative conversation between your nervous system and this ancient healing wisdom. Rather than simply applying techniques, we create space for your body to guide how these precise points of connection can support your unique journey toward safety and embodied awareness.
Through gentle inquiry and deep listening, we discover together whether acupuncture feels like a welcomed pathway for your nervous system, or whether other modalities call to your body's healing wisdom.
“your style of acupuncture has been revelatory. I feel more engaged in the process, more aware of what my body wants/needs, and more in touch with myself generally.”
internal family systems (IFS) & body-oriented parts work
Our bodies hold the messages that our parts are working so hard to communicate and a wisdom that our minds often struggle to access. Perhaps you have persistent physical symptoms that won't respond to usual interventions or you find yourself stuck in situations that your mind can't quite untangle. We begin by listening to what sensations arise as you speak - that familiar shoulder tension might be a protector part bracing against the weight of witnessing, or the chronic symptoms of IBS communicating a deeper vulnerability.
This isn't therapy or traditional talk-based work. Your body becomes the honest messenger, revealing parts that have been holding space for others while their own needs go unmet. Integrating my somatic background with my training as a Level 2 IFS Practitioner, physical symptoms become sacred doorways to the parts of you that rarely receive witnessing. We create sanctuary for the protector that's been carrying everyone else's pain, the exile that craves belonging, and the Self that can hold it all with courage and tenderness.
This embodied approach to parts work can unfold as its own complete journey, or weave naturally with acupuncture and attuned touch - allowing your body to guide whether healing happens through the gentle precision of needles, nurturing presence, or the sacred witnessing of your inner landscape.
“ I deeply appreciate the sanctuary that you consistently provide, both physically (your office space) and emotionally/energetically (your presence). My body knows this, too, because I can feel it start to “talk” to me as soon as I sit down in your chair. It’s like every part of me knows that your office is the space where all of my parts get to show up and be acknowledged/heard in a respectful way.”
Banner photo by Marcus Dall Col
“I think you do an EXCELLENT job of creating a space and offering care in a way that supports safety, dignity, and belonging.”
-KJ