My most useful wisdom, when sitting with clients, comes from my many teachers and the people I’ve witnessed and guided over the years as well as my diverse life experience and background (not, in fact, from my academic training). While I have been a psychotherapist since 1992, I have also spent considerable time in the worlds of business, entrepreneurship, high-technology, non-profit and political activism.

I am not interested in conformity and my life reflects this. After flunking out of the 4th grade, getting kicked out of prep school and never graduating from high school, I received my BA, Cum Laude, in 1987 from Simon’s Rock of Bard College and my MSW in 1992 from Smith College’s, School for Social Work.

In between those degrees I was an AIDS activist, a grant writer and an Assistant Vice President in a Fortune 100 Venture Capital firm. In 1993 I received my LICSW. Since then my clinical career has moved me ever-more off the map of traditional hierarchical talk therapy. I have given up my license so that I may attend to the fullest range of our human experience and not collude with what I see is an ever-deepening  wounding from what has become a deeply pathological culture.

In my current practice I do not call myself a ‘therapist’. It is part of the mission of my work that we entirely restructure psychotherapy to include the entire body, in all its generative capacity. That we allow that this work include the body in ways that are somatic and hands-on. Yes, this is dangerous and given the way we currently train therapists to be with and hold the extraordinary experiences of the clients who come to them, we, as a profession, do not have the capacity to hold the wild and tender nature of this work. Some do however. And it is my belief that those who do must work visibly – taking great risk – to insist that psychotherapy radically shift how it both trains its professionals (and holds them accountable) and how it works with the individuals, couples and family systems who come to us. So, while I do not call what I do “pyschotherapy”, this is a legal choice I’ve made because it is clear that I’m no good to this work if I’m behind bars or barred from working with people.

I work as a guide in the landscapes of masculine and feminine, soul, myth, sexuality and intimacy as individuals and couples re-wild themselves and each other. I accompany people in their explorations of the unique story that lives within each of us, without which the world will not be whole. It is my experience that the souls of individuals and couples are the intimate interface between the isolated experience of being human and the mystery of the larger world, to whom we belong, from which we come. Our souls speak a first language, one which is indigenous to all life. Remembering this language is the key to self love, to our purpose, our passion and our power. It is also, at this point, the key to our human survival and perhaps to much of the current expression and diversity of life on this planet.

I am the founder and current Executive Director of the Global Culture of Women, a nonprofit organization working to resurrect and celebrate women’s wisdom world-wide.

I am honored to have studied with Bill Plotkin, (author of ‘Nature and The Human Soul’ & ‘Soulcraft’ and founder of Animas Valley Institute), most recently completing AVI’s ‘Year-Long Soulcraft Intensive for Leaders and Visionaries’. As well, I am honored to have studied with Mayan village leader and half- blood Native American Martin Prechtel, from whom I was offered the term ‘feeding the Holy’ which now guides every action I take. I believe these two men are doing some of the most powerful work available in our culture; work that serves to reunite us with our own brilliance as well as the deep mysterious miracle of our origin and our current place of belonging.

I have been an apprentice to the ancient sexual arts of Tao (sexual kung fu) and Tantra since 2004.

I have developed the curriculum for, and teach, numerous programs on ReWilding, sexuality, intimacy, coupling, community-building and the vitally important dance between the masculine & feminine.

I have been teaching totemic sacred feminine doll-making to women and girls of all ages since 2004.

I rely heavily on a close-knit group of sisters & brothers, women and men in my geographic and global communities who have taken the time to see me and what I am meant to be doing in the world, who hold me accountable, mirror my wisdom and serve as constant reminders of the necessity of deep intimate tribe. Without them, and my collaborations with their own passions and callings, I would be incapable of offering my work in the world.

I hold a certification in Sexological Bodywork and incorporate this work into my practice, where appropriate, to offer somatic sexual education and re-awaken indigenous erotic intelligence in my clients.

I am a writer, a poet, a dancer and an efficiently humbled student of the fiddle (I never knew how much emotion one could pack into ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’…until now).

I live in Boulder Colorado with a glorious community of wild beings, including my husband, my two extraordinary sons and their father, my husband’s two children, a beautiful wise four-legged canine who is learning how to sit with people as an empath, dispenser of unconditional love and joyful reminder to play, two regal black cats and a host of families, individuals and couples who are dedicated to re-envisioning deep community; as if our lives depended upon it.

I look forward to supporting you as you discover and develop the gifts you are meant to offer this world; those that are distinctly and beautifully yours alone to bring.