Frequently Asked Questions

While talk therapy explores your story through language and cognition, integrative healing works primarily through the body and felt experience. It complements therapy beautifully — we work with the energy and emotion underneath the story rather than the narrative itself. Using deep breathing techniques calls our attention back to the immediacy of our experience in the present moment putting us back in the driver’s seat of how we relate to ourselves and receive and engage with parts of ourselves who have become identified with fear-based and self-limiting perspectives. We cease to be a story of self unwittingly perpetuating a limited sense of possibility and become an experience in the moment, allowing ourselves to awaken and directly experience that the source of our well-being exists within us, not in external circumstances.

Not at all. Sessions are guided moment by moment. You simply need an openness to notice what’s happening in your body and emotions as we work. Many clients are new to this approach and find it surprisingly natural.

Group clearings are available for groups of 5 or more. When human beings are gathered together with shared intention it creates an amplified field of resonance and can facilitate a deeper clearing of the distorted energy of fear-based perception than when clearings are conducted individually. While working at White Raven Center, a healing center in Anchorage, AK, I facilitated 384 group (10-16 people) clearings between 2014 and 2017. Through this direct experience, I was able to confirm the increased benefit often experienced by clients in group clearing settings.

You only share what feels comfortable. Much of the sharing occurs while in the breathwork session. While utilizing the deep diaphramatic breath, the tendency to manufacture an image of ourselves and maintain a story of ourselves that ego says will ensure survival, begins to relax and clients become less self-conscious and more willing to risk being vulnerable and speaking the truth; a truth that may have never been heard and received by a compassionate, non-judging witness. The work doesn’t rely on re-telling your story; it’s about how those experiences live in the body now. You’ll always be guided gently and at your own pace.

That’s completely natural. Emotions are energy moving. Health on all levels requires a flow of energy. Stagnant energy often serves as the source of mental, emotional and physical challenges so experiencing strong emotion is a common experience through the practice of breathwork. The breath begins to encourage a lessening of brainwave activity from a Beta state, the most active level of mind, to an Alpha state, a more relaxed state of mind with little to no awareness of time and thus a greater ability to be present to what’s happening Now. Even when strong emotion is experienced, it’s often without the accompanying story of what that emotion means about you, about your worth, your value, your deservingness or how lovable you are. It becomes an experience in the moment with less mental critique and judgment. By holding presence with the feelings as they flow, you create an opportunity to change your relationship with difficult feeling states and the parts of yourself who have become identified with that stagnant energy. It is primarily through this transformation of how you experience and relate to heavy emotional states and the parts of self who have learned to define themselves through these heavy emotions that you begin to heal. You’ll be supported through the process and shown how to stay grounded and safe as the body releases what it’s been holding.

Frequency depends on your goals and what’s arising in your process. For breathwork, sessions could be as often as you feel is needed given what you’re experiencing. Most clients begin seeing me once a week. Energy clearings require a week to integrate so at the most we do one clearing session per week. Many clients like to begin with weekly sessions to build momentum, then move to every other week. Once a client has been with me for a while they may choose to check in monthly or seasonally for another round of clearings. We’ll discuss what feels right for you.

Yes. Distance sessions are equally effective. I conduct my sessions, whether it be breathwork or energy clearings through Zoom, enabling me to work with people anywhere they may be. Energy and awareness aren’t limited by location — you’ll simply join by a Zoom call in a quiet, private space where you can relax and be undisturbed. I can also do energy clearing work for you even if not joining me on a Zoom call. For instance, I have conducted many clearing sessions for clients while they’ve been on a plane. The most important thing is that your surroundings be quiet so that you are relatively undisturbed and undistracted for the duration of the clearing. You cannot be driving while the clearing is happening.

Yes. Everything shared in session is treated with the same level of confidentiality as a therapeutic environment. Your privacy and trust are central to this work. I have facilitated this work through Licensed Professional Counselor’s practices where I was held to strict confidentiality rules. I have carried that strict adherence to confidentiality into my own private practice.

Comfortable clothing that allows you to breathe easily. A blindfold as you’re encouraged to direct your attention inwards during your session. You don’t need to bring anything else — just yourself and an openness and willingness to explore.

Sessions are 90 minutes. My rate is $250/session. That said, it is very important to me to be able to offer my services to anyone who is sincere and willing to transform their relationship with themselves. I am always willing to discuss a reduced rate and find an arrangement that works for both of us. Please reach out through the contact form for current details.

Sessions may be rescheduled or cancelled with at least 24 hours’ notice. This honors the time and preparation that go into each session. If sessions are cancelled within 24 hours of your scheduled time, the client is responsible for the full cost of the session.