Most people who come to this work start with a feeling more than an explanation. Something’s off, something’s stuck, something keeps repeating. That’s enough to know there’s something to uncover.
Below are a few questions people often ask before we begin.

Most of your behaviors are decided by your brain’s drive to survive – not thrive. Our brains have adapted to protect us from the early experiences that made us feel insecure, threatened, or scared.

These subconscious patterns carry into adulthood, and can make our thoughts work against us, holding us back from stepping into our fullest potential.

Thinking your way into a positive mindset alone doesn’t work; you’ve probably already discovered that. This is because our mindset is based on our belief system, and a belief is a combination of our thoughts plus our emotions. Working with only one side of the equation, the mind, can only get you so far. In order to create lasting change, we need to address the emotional memory.

Thoughts happen in the mind, emotions happen in the body.

Something happened in your life that created the belief you currently have. The emotional memory continues to live in your body, believing it’s protecting you, but often getting in your way.

In order for that emotional memory to resolve, it needs to be addressed, acknowledged, and then released.

Once your body is aligned with your mind, you have the ability to come into coherence. And coherence is where the mind and the body can synchronize and establish a new belief system.

Talk therapy is powerful, and for some people, it’s not the whole picture. You can understand why you feel a certain way and still feel stuck repeating the same pattern. That’s often a sign the work needs to move from the mind into the body, where emotional memory actually lives. This is especially true for trauma healing and deep inner child work, insight alone doesn’t always reach what’s stored beneath it.

That’s a completely reasonable place to start from. The way I work with Reiki isn’t passive energy healing where you lie back and have something done to you – nor are you ever out of control of your own body or mind. You stay aware and an active participant the entire time, moving through stuck memories and energy yourself. If you feel a memory is too difficult to process, we slow down. You set the pace, and I help guide you using your breath and visualization. Think of it less as “energy healing” and more as a structured, embodied practice for self-healing, one you’re learning to do for yourself.

Self-Integration Counseling combines theta-state meditation, Reiki, and behavioral counseling to take you on a journey back to your radiant self. Much of this work draws on your inner trinity: the inner child, inner mother, and inner elder, three parts of you that each carry their own wisdom. You’ll learn how to access your wisest, most whole self to reparent your inner child, healing yourself across your past, present, and future.

We begin by building a safe place within you, somewhere steady you can return to, anchored to a single word, so there’s always a place to come back to no matter what surfaces.

From there, intentional breathwork helps bring old memories, emotions, and stuck moments closer to the surface. Rather than reliving them as they happened, you revisit them from a place of safety, inviting in the wisest, most whole version of yourself, the one who can offer what was missing the first time: a different response, a way out, the words you didn’t have then but have now.

You stay an active participant throughout, learning the tools to navigate your own healing, with me alongside you as guide and support.