My approach is anatomy-driven, based on over 1,000 education hours at Virginia and Washington, DC myofascial massage schools with community college anatomy,  physiology and cadaver dissection courses.  Extensive craniosacral therapy training is through the Upledger Institute; a world-renown curriculum that blends cranial osteopathy with somatic emotional release, myofascial release, and accupressure. Fortunately I was also mentored by Dr. John Upledger, the developer of craniosacral therapy, working as a visiting therapist in his Florida brain and spine intensive treatment program as well as a teaching assistant for his brain balancing curriculum in the 19-90's. We pioneered healing techniques that were decades ahead of today's neuroscience. His spirit of inquiry informs my therapeutic approach of listening more deeply to the intricacies of how our bodies, brains and subtle energies weave together. In addition, attachment theory and birth psychology graduate studies taught me how our earliest emotional patterns continue influencing our relationship dynamics with ourselves as well as our partners, children and aging parents. Too often these patterns lean on habits developed from a survival mindset rather than from abundance, creativity and receiving universal divine love. These emotional issues are not just psychological but also physical; creating deep neurological pathways in the brain. This craniosacral approach, engaging and touching the brain itself, releases what I call the neuroemotional pathways of shock and trauma.  Following the myofascial and neurological depths of emotional and physical trauma is also the foundation of the french osteopathic Visceral Manipulation and Neural Manipulation courses; which I studied through the Upledger Institute.  These  foundational element are true for pediatric clients as well as adults beginning as early as gestation where we negotiate both the physical tensions of the womb and the emotional dynamics of our parents and their world. Decades of working with infants and children, unraveling their birth stories, has taught me lessons I bring to my adult clients while the adults teach me the end results of growing up with untreated birth and relational trauma.  ​ Prior to pursuing the healing arts in 1995,  I worked as a broadcast journalist, reporting, writing, producing and editing. I received a BA from University of New Hampshire in English, concentrating in journalism, in 1985. I began, after graduation with a job at the BBC World Service, London as an assistant in the newsrooom. I'd grown up hearing my German mother talk of dark days in WWII Berlin illegally listening to BBC broadcasts late at night with her mother. Back in the US, I pursued my writing, editing and broadcasting radio career with positions in Vermont, Maryland and ultimately working as a correspondent on Capitol Hill covering Congress, the White House and federal agencies. I watched the senate vote to go to war against Iraq, realizing we will always find reasons to wage war, ignorant of the collateral damage that lasts generations. Through the work of German psychologist Sabine Bode I learned I am a "war grandchild;" the daughter of a woman who endured, as a young girl, the horrors of starvation, bombings and violence on a daily basis in war-torn Germany.    ​ My path to motherhood led me to Colombia, South America, in 2015 where I adopted two older brothers who lived through the stark reality of poverty, drug wars and living off the streets, absent from school. They have been my greatest teachers of spiritual surrender, trust and, ultimately, healing through our bonding and attachment journey.   ​ As a highly sensitive child I was fascinated with the unseen and communed with nature spirits growing up in rural New Hampshire, though I didn't realize at the time what was happening. I've learned, through many teachers,  to see my sensitivity, psychic and clairvoyant skills as gifts.  I follow the teachings of Contemplative Christian Mysticism in the tradition of St. Francis and have studied Hinduism, Native American healing and shamanism.  We are always being held and supported in the mysterious web of universal divine love; a truth that can be challenging to remember and even more difficult to embody.