meet CAT

I am a heart-centered Wellness Practitioner who offers both Eastern and Western therapeutic healing modalities.

I am a licensed psychotherapist, psychedelic medicine integration specialist, coach, group facilitator, teacher, presence maker, sound healer, reiki master teacher, energy worker, intuitive channeler, community builder, creative, poet, truth teller, plant mama, literal tree hugger, athlete, dancer, and ever-evolving dynamic human.

I believe my strength resides in allowing and tuning into the depth and fullness of my sensitivities.

I support people in moving beyond trying to figure themselves out, and into feeling, sensing, and working with what’s actually happening—so change isn’t forced, it is revealed.

My Journey

I believe we are here to honor the desires of our heart, to grow deeply with ourselves and others, and to exist in a community held in joy and unconditional love — the kind that inspires and alchemizes us into our most expansive, radiant selves. 

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, I was taught to hide the parts of myself that didn’t quite “fit” in order to be accepted, and later as I entered the professional world, to be seen as legitimate. As I stepped into adulthood, my body began to speak to me about this behavior in ways I couldn’t ignore. I experienced a series of serious, mysterious medical issues that lasted for many years. I’ve come to understand that when my voice and self expression wasn’t allowed, my body spoke for me. And, wow, was she angry. If we don’t listen to the whispers of our body, it will eventually start to scream. When I stopped making my body a problem and started listening, everything began to change.

About a decade ago, after a loss that broke me wide open, I began to live more honestly and share more of who I am. I lost people. I learned hard lessons about conditional love—and, slowly, how to turn that love inward.

I went down every existential rabbit hole, luxuriating in the exploration and deepening my spiritual practice. To me, spirituality is about going inward and contemplating life’s Big Questions beyond what we can neatly explain. All I know for sure is that much is mystery. During this time, I entered public psychedelic work, joined a medicine group with other therapists, received formal Shamanic and Energy Work training, and realized I had been doing it intuitively all along.

I love all the parts of me — especially the parts others may hate. I don’t hide. I am an integrated presence in all the spaces I exist in and I get my needs met more than ever. If I am embraced, it is because I am celebrated, not because I made myself smaller to fit in. Acceptance is not the same as belonging, and we all crave unconditional love.

I have let the brightness of who I am be seen. It has been worth the grief and loss, because on the other side I found a reclamation of who I was underneath it all. From community mental health and work in jails and prisons to the work I do now, every part of my path has shaped how I hold people—inviting them beyond the box into a different kind of freedom.

I am grateful for the hardships that have deepened my understanding of the human experience so I can truly support my clients. I consider it sacred to be invited to witness other’s vulnerable moments and honor them so they can learn how to take up more space, have deeper connections, find harmony with the environment, be at ease in their body, and overall — to find a life that they truly love.

Psychotherapy specialties

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Trauma & Nervous System Healing
Complex PTSD or acute/current trauma
Perinatal & pre-verbal trauma
Abuse & neglect, sexual trauma
Generational, cultural, religious & spiritual trauma

Grief, Identity & Inner Work
Grief & mourning (death, break-ups, transitions, ideals)
Inner child/re-parenting & IFS parts work
Identity, self-expression, creativity & voice
Worth (enoughness / too muchness)
Queer, Neurodivergent, and/or Marginalized Humans

Relationships & Relational Patterns
Boundaries, attachment & relational dynamics
Presence within connection
Estrangement & reconciliation

Embodiment & Integration
Somatic embodiment (from head to heart & body)
Psychedelic therapy & integration

Meaning, Transition & Transformation
Existential exploration, spiritual awakening & integration
Major life transitions, mid-life & burnout

For Practitioners
Therapy for therapists, coaches & practitioners

I began in the mental health field in 2004 and in practicing psychotherapy in 2009. I’ve been in private practice since 2016.

I work with individual adults, couples, dyads & small groups.

See “What does is look like to work with you as a therapist?” at the bottom of this page or my counseling page for more detailed information.

Coaching

I also work with therapists, coaches, and practitioners who feel the limits of staying in their heads and sense there is more available than what they were taught.

Together, we shift into presence — so you can trust what you feel and work with what’s actually happening in the energetics of the room, allowing the work to become less effortful and more alive.

See “What does is look like to work with you as a coach?” at the bottom of this page or my coaching page for more detailed information.

Contact Me

  • I like to help people get out of their heads and the content of their story and into their somatic (soma = body), spiritual, and emotional experience of life. I am here to help you in deeply trusting yourself and your own process and finding repair with the child selves within so you can lead from your adult Self.

    For standard psychotherapy, I typically meet with clients weekly or every other week for 60 or 90-minute sessions, though frequency can be adjusted depending on where we are at in the process and what is needed.

    For Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), I typically make a commitment to facilitate 3-6 medicine-assisted sessions, though my clients often extend this until they feel complete in their goals.

    In addition for KAP, we would meet for assessment, prep, and intention setting prior to medicine-assisted sessions, and for at least one integration session after each medicine-assisted session. Sometimes, people like to take their time with integration and have more sessions between medicine-assisted sessions.

    For standard psychotherapy, I can meet online with anyone who lives in California or Colorado. For those in the Los Angeles area, I can meet in person for both standard psychotherapy and KAP.

    Please see my counseling page for more information.

    Please see below “Who is a good fit to work with you?” to see if you connect with what I am sharing and feel stirred to work with me.

  • I seek to help people step out of the performative way we are taught to build a business and to be led instead by inspiration, so your business is a place where you draw energy from rather than are drained of it. I help people get clear on their worth by filling up their gaps to loving themselves so they aren’t led by achievement only.

    I meet with people in 3, 6, 9, or 12-month increments. I like to start at 3 or 6 months so we can see how the fit feels while also allowing some commitment to the process and space needed to find flow.

    I either see people weekly for an hour, or twice a month for 2-hour meetings (depending on how a person processes and integrates best.)

    Each month clients receive additional offerings to help them focus their goals within the structure of the constant shifting cycles of the moon every two weeks that bring you to review + release at the full moon and rebirth + intention setting at the new moon.

    I can meet with clients internationally via phone or through a video platform. I am also available in-person for those residing in the Los Angeles area.

    Please see my coaching page for more information.

  • For therapy:

    I love to work with people who consider themselves seekers and have not only been asking themselves the “Big Questions” but have some sense of their answers, even if they are lifelong learners fine tuning their unique song.

    I best serve clients who have done a good amount of inner healing and are ready to go into deeper layers of transformation and embodiment.

    If someone is newer to the journey, as long as there is a willingness to go deep into themselves with curiosity, patience, and persistence then we will likely mesh well together.

    I fit well with people who see this as a sacred process that unfolds in layers, ever more to be known.

    Are you ready to step out of the content of your story and go beyond the basics? Then I would be happy to help you find your own path to creating a vibrant life full of authentic expression, playfulness, connection, expansion, and joy.

    Please see my counseling page for more information.

    For coaching:

    Any therapist, healer, or coach who is ready to step into a new paradigm of healing with their clients that is led from inspiration, where burnout doesn’t live and an overflow of energized presence (or, passion) is drawn out of you. A place where you get to be more fully human and share the wisdom you have gained as your collective offering.

    Please see my coaching page for more information.

  • Please see my sound healing, spiritual,‍ ‍tea, and events pages for more information.