Title: Spiritdancer

Gender: Female

Location: Kirkland, WA

I'm a licensed psychotherapist in California, but living in Washington while I finish a PhD at Saybrook Graduate School. I've been teaching since I was 15, starting with creative dance to kids, and moving into more psychospiritual workshops over the years. I guide individuals and groups into the realms of psyche and spirit through movement, trancework and ritual, bringing this work to the fields of addictions, chakra work, eating disorders, psychospiritual crisis and ecopsychology. I  teach workshops in various places, from “Inner Ethics” with Kylea Taylor, to “Guiding the Journey: Facilitating Transformative Experiences” (this year scheduled twice in May - at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts, and as part of the Sacred Centers Immersion program in Norther California). This year I'll be co-leading a Self-Relations Supervision with Dvorah Simon in late April in the Santa Cruz mountains, bringing movement and poetry-writing into our work with deepening relationships with ourselves and others.

I've written about the chakras (The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body, and Spirit through the Chakras, co-authored with Anodea Judith), about working psychospiritually with anxiety disorders (chapter in The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook, Eds: Sharon Mijares & Gurucharan Singh Khalsa), and Self-Relations Psychotherapy (chapter in Walking in Two Worlds, Eds: Stephen Gilligan & Dvorah Simon). In years past I was editor of the Spiritual Emergence Network Newsletter. 

Right now I am at a transition point in my life. For the past five years, I have been on sabbatical from my psychotherapy private practice, since my husband's work took us away from the Santa Cruz, CA mountains up to the Seattle, WA area. I took this opportunity to pursue a PhD program, as I had some writing and research in mind, and realized that this program would be a great support for that. I'm in the final stretch now, transcribing interviews and analyzing data for my dissertation, which  explores the challenges of integrating transformative workshop experiences. And it's time to head back down to Santa Cruz, as soon as we can figure out just how to make that happen career-wise.

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