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You’re the one who holds it all together — the career, the household, the people who depend on you. From the outside you’re thriving: driven, accomplished, always learning, always moving. But underneath the momentum, you’ve lost the thread back to yourself.
And you’ve tried. You journal. You meditate. You’ve done therapy, maybe medication, maybe more practitioners than you can count. Still — there’s a place inside that nothing has quite reached. That’s not because you’re broken. It’s because words alone can’t reach it.
Most people come to me wanting to get rid of something — the anxiety, the trauma, the depression. I see it differently. Those feelings aren’t your enemies; they’re messengers. They formed long ago to help you survive — sometimes in your own childhood, sometimes carried in your blood from the generations before you. Over time they grew heavy, but they were never the problem. They’re trying to tell you something. Our work is to finally listen.
So I don’t do much talk therapy — talk stays on the surface, and the healing you’re looking for lives deeper than that: in the body, in the spirit, in the states of consciousness we reach through EMDR, hypnotherapy, breathwork, and somatic trauma work. Before we go there, we build safety. That always comes first. After that, every session is its own — I don’t work from a script, because no two spirits are the same. I work from attunement and intuition, bringing the right tool at the right moment: tappers, mats, blankets, water and ice, the strengths of the 7 Grandfather Teachings and the animals who carry them, and whatever inner resources you bring.
In the medicine wheel there are seven directions. The seventh — within — is the center: your true self, your spirit. My work guides you back there — to uncover the source, heal the old attachments, and build new inner states that are nurturing and adaptive, so you live from your center instead of from survival. This is how years, and generations, of stored pain begin to release.
I come from a line of powerful Indigenous women healers. My grandmother — who helped raise me, and whom I lived with for most of my life — was a renowned healer of faith and healing; so much of what I carry, I learned from her. I believe therapists are the modern people of medicine, and I don’t hold that lightly.
I earned a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Montana (minor in Native American Studies) and a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis — the #2-ranked school of social work in the nation — with a concentration in American Indian/Alaska Native communities. I’ve since earned an MBA from William Jewell College through its OneDay program (July 2026), because somewhere along the way I discovered I love the business of healing as much as the work itself. Before I ever sat across from a client, I spent years working with tribal nations across the country in health, education, poverty, and child welfare. I came to therapy later, by choice, and spent four years in acute adult psychiatric care — where I trained and worked extensively with people navigating suicidality, self-harm, and psychosis, including CBT for psychosis — before building and later selling my first private practice. Along the way I trained deeply — EMDR, Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy, Lifespan Integration, the Gottman Method for couples, attachment-focused and somatic healing, and energy work — and wove the Indigenous worldview through all of it. That’s when the profound healing started happening. NATIVation Counseling is the vision that grew from it.
I’ll be honest: my way isn’t for everyone, and that’s okay. Most people know within a few minutes whether we’re a fit — and I want you to trust that. If it’s not right, I’ll say so, and I invite you to do the same. But when it is right, that’s where the magic happens.
I can’t heal you. Only you can do that. What I can do is bring the tools, the safety, and the medicine — and walk beside you while you do the deepest work of your life.