About Me
I’m a 58-year-old single parent, immigrant, neurodivergent, genderqueer human living in Los Angeles with my son and my cat. I love gardening, being in nature, and cooking for friends and family, and community has always been at the center of my life. I’ve been a student for as long as I can remember and a teacher for much of it. I share what I’ve learned not just from formal education and professional experience, but from a lifetime of making mistakes, asking hard questions, and finding my way back to myself.
I grew up in Germany, where I fell in love early on with mythology and the work of Carl G. Jung. As an undiagnosed neurodivergent tomboy, the world around me often felt confusing and unforgiving. No matter how hard I tried, I seemed to be either too much or not enough. In stories of heroes, witches, fools, and shadow figures, I finally saw my inner experiences reflected—without judgment. By the time I reached adulthood, I had read most of Jung’s work in German.
After moving to the United States, I studied psychology and was introduced to Joseph Campbell, Eastern medicine, and Taoism. The idea that body, mind, and soul are not separate, but deeply interconnected, felt like coming home. When my son started kindergarten, I returned to school to become a doctor of Eastern medicine.
For 12 years, I ran a private practice and two community acupuncture clinics. One served elderly patients living with chronic and degenerative illness and provided hospice care; the other supported the HIV-positive community in West Hollywood, treating both immunological conditions and acute trauma. This work shaped me deeply and reinforced what I had always believed: healing happens when people learn to listen to their own bodies.
When COVID forced me to close my clinic, I took it as an invitation to shift. What I loved most about my work wasn’t needles (much to the amusement of my friends and family, I’ve always been a bit needle-phobic), but helping people understand themselves. Coaching allows me to do exactly that—without insurance battles, geographic limitations, or rigid systems that don’t honor individual lives.
Today, I work with clients nationwide through online coaching, along with phone and text support. I also offer free weekly Zoom support groups and pre-recorded classes focused on natural, holistic approaches to health. My intention is simple: to help you reconnect with your body, your intuition, and your inner wisdom, so you can create a life and healing path that actually fits you.
My Approach
As Carl Jung wrote, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Healing and change don’t happen through shortcuts or quick fixes. Growth is a lifelong process that often requires us to face what’s uncomfortable, painful, and inconvenient in ourselves in order to become more whole.
Deciding that something in our life isn’t working anymore is usually the easy part. The harder work is recognizing the patterns that keep pulling us back into old cycles—especially when stress or triggers push us into autopilot. In those moments, our nervous system defaults to familiar reactions shaped by conditioning, habit, and past experiences. We react before we can observe, and our minds quickly rationalize behaviors we know don’t truly serve us.
I approach healing through the lens of nervous system awareness. Just like a computer operating system, our nervous system runs on deeply ingrained programming. Lasting change requires understanding that programming—what still supports your vision and what no longer does—before trying to replace it. Together, we slow things down, cultivate the inner observer, and map your patterns so that new ways of being can take root in a grounded, sustainable way.
When we begin to change, discomfort and fear are inevitable. Old beliefs, internalized judgments, and social pressures often surface, pulling us back toward what’s familiar. Without tools and support, it’s easy to lose trust in the process and retreat. This is where I come in. As your coach, I help you stay oriented when things get hard and guide you through the moments when change feels most fragile.
Our work begins with clarifying your goals and identifying the obstacles, fears, and triggers that have kept you stuck. We explore the stories attached to those triggers, work on rewriting them, and support your body in releasing stored stress and trauma. Depending on your needs, this may include somatic practices, mindfulness, cognitive tools, writing exercises, nervous system regulation, nutritional guidance, or herbal and dietary support.
In addition to one-on-one coaching, I offer text and phone support for challenging moments, weekly facilitated support groups, and a growing library of videos and classes to help you build resilience and self-trust. My goal is to help you develop the tools, awareness, and confidence to navigate your own healing in a way that honors your unique system.
If you’re curious whether this approach might be right for you, I invite you to schedule a free consultation.
My Mission
In a profit-driven world, we’ve been taught to look outside ourselves for answers to our inner turmoil. We’re told that more is better, that youth must be preserved at all costs, and that our worth can be defined by numbers, labels, and diagnoses. We count calories, obsess over macronutrients, and often accept disease narratives that place us into boxes—then sell us cures for the very boxes we’re put in. We try to fill internal emptiness with external solutions.
My mission is to guide clients back to their internal world. I help them explore how their symptoms and challenges are connected to the environments they live in—physically, emotionally, and socially. Rather than prescribing one-size-fits-all answers, I empower clients to identify what truly doesn’t work for them, to trust their intuition, and to create lives that reflect their unique needs. This work is about moving beyond a binary, label-driven model of health and reclaiming agency, self-trust, and wholeness.
Relevant Experience
Academic Experience
Work Experience
Life Experience
AA in Journalism
BA Psychology studies for 3 years
MA and Doctorate in Eastern Medicine & Acupuncture
Graphic Artist/Druckvorlagenhersteller
Radio Journalist
Editor
World's Worst Stripper
Fine Artist
Teacher and College Professor
Doctor of Eastern Medicine
Pet and Farm Sitter
Lived in two different countries
Single parent of a neurodivergent biracial son
Ran two community acupuncture clinics
AuDHD
Been Homeless
Genderqueer/Non-Binary
Survived a near-death experience