I grew up in the corn and soybean fields of Central Illinois, moved to Chicago after college, and spent years working in business. In my early twenties I struggled with panic attacks — and that experience set me on a path I couldn't have predicted.

What followed was long and winding: graduate school at the University of Alabama, a Ph.D. in geology, thirteen years teaching at the university level, an internship at a domestic violence shelter in Montgomery. Now I'm in Mobile, Alabama, birthplace of Mardi Gras, helping people create new pathways. Running through all of these changes, one persistent question — why can some people move forward while others stay stuck?

I discovered tapping during my years in science and began offering it as a coach. People kept coming to me with bigger and more complex problems — trauma, dissociation, anxiety that had been present for decades. It became clear I needed clinical training to meet them where they were. So I went back to school for mental health counseling. It remains one of the best decisions of my life.

Today I specialize in therapy intensives — concentrated, multi-hour experiences designed to reach what years of weekly therapy sometimes cannot. I work with clients who are done waiting for slow progress and are ready to go deep. Using somatic tapping, brainspotting, and hypnosis, we work at the level where the pain actually lives — in the body and nervous system, not just in thought.