About Me

My current practice started to develop during a 16+ year role as a teacher in an arts-integrated school. During this time, I witnessed many adults pouring resources into their children without investing in their own inner needs. I witnessed a huge need for healing, creativity and connection that was not being met, and decided to create This Art Heals to meet these needs. I have developed this practice to serve people who are ready to have honest and creative conversations with themselves and their community. I have deep lived experience with family development, the needs of people in helping professions, and the healing power of creativity. 

I am a human being on a lifelong, ever-deepening journey of learning to embody love. I am committed to an integral relationship with Source, Nature, myself, my partner, our children, birth families, friends, and the people whose highest good may be served by my presence, skills and gifts. I listen for the ancestors and the generations to come. I am part of a neurodivergent and queer family. Our life together has been both joyful and painful. In the last decade, we all stepped forward to better understand and support ourselves, which has enabled us to heal past harms and to appreciate the gift of being together. 

During the pandemic, I experienced a transformation in which most of my identities fell away. During this chapter in my life, I welcomed two powerful catalysts into my healing journey: intuitive art and psychedelic plant medicine. Before this shift, I spent many years in talk therapy, and while I learned important things, my healing journey plateaued. Then, through immense grace, I connected with people who introduced me to the power of sound healing and intuitive painting. I allowed myself to explore the medicine in sound as many new instruments called me into healing play. Intuitive painting invites me into a space where color, gesture and image express what I never can through speech. No matter what part of me shows up, the people in intuitive art circles witness me with love, a miracle that feeds my trust in life. 

During this same time, I also sat in ceremony for the first time with psychedelic medicine. My relationship with plant spirits profoundly supports living in alignment with my authentic self, unfettered creativity, and Nature.

All the medicines I serve allow me to perceive the water human consciousness swims in and gives me the will to honor and heal these sacred waters. Doing this for myself is intimately connected with doing this for other people and for the Earth.

Credentials

• Certified Master Facilitator of Intuitive Painting and the Expressive Arts
• Certified Transformational Addiction Recovery and Psychedelic Integration Coach
  
• Certified Waldorf Grades Master Teacher
• Certified Mental Health First Aid Responder
  
• Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Classics, magna cum laude