I am an integrative counselor offering counseling services in Ashland, Oregon for Adolescents and Adults.

I hold a Masters degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy from Naropa University. I have completed extensive adjunct training with the Gestalt Institute of the Rockies and the Gestalt Equine Institute of the Rockies. 

I specialize in ecopsychology and nature connection, holistic approaches to long-term eating disorder treatment and recovery, trauma symptom reduction through somatic intervention, mindfulness-based coping skills, and addressing relationship issues through the lens of attachment theory. 

My whole life, I have had a deep and unquenchable love for people. From a young age I found that I was keenly interested in the internal worlds of the people around me. I cherish community and make the cultivating of it a high priority in my life. In my early adulthood I moved to Northern California and fell in love with the natural world. A long time student of ecopsychology, the connection between humans and nature has shaped my personal life, my work, and my own journey of self-discovery and integration. I spent a fair amount of my 20's backpacking in the wilderness, living on rural properties, and studying the ways of the world. When it came time to finalize my education in graduate school so I could best bring my work to the world, I chose a Transpersonal Counseling program with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy because I believe that healing the "mind" is actually a mind, body, spirit affair. To me, doing that training in nature just made good sense. I gained my hours towards licensure working in an eating disorder recovery center and a county community mental health agency. In 2014, on a whim of inspiration after spending only one day visiting friends in town, my family and I packed up from Sonoma County, California and moved to Ashland, OR. We have been happily putting down roots in the Rogue Valley ever since. 

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. 

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument. 

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”

– Mary Oliver