In my mid-20s, I became extremely sick with a mystery illness.  Day by day I got worse, and by the sixth month I was so exhausted I couldn’t get out of bed and was unable to walk smoothly or speak without a stutter. I had to abandon my thriving business because I couldn’t climb up stairs or carry anything without dropping it.  After being repeatedly dismissed or misdiagnosed, eventually I found out that I had Lyme Disease.

After receiving treatment, I still experienced crippling fatigue, brain fog, intense pain, and bizarre neurological symptoms that nobody seemed to be able to explain. I was lucky enough to be able to try a huge variety of treatments and modalities aimed at helping me recover.  Some of them helped but most of them didn’t.  And it seemed like so many people were offering a magic bullet solution that would cure me overnight.  With the help of some amazing practitioners, dedication, and experimentation I was able to eventually get rid of my physical symptoms and return to an active life.  I’ve since studied a lot of the techniques that helped me the most and incorporated them into helping clients with not only chronic illness, but all of the other seemingly insurmountable obstacles that keep them from having a life they love amidst the challenges of the modern world.

Living with illness, grief, or pain can be frustrating, isolating, and seemingly impossible, so I try to bring some lightheartedness and a sense of positivity to this work.  But not, you know, the annoying kind.  I believe that the best approach always starts with as full of an understanding of what my clients have been through as possible.  I am certified in Tension and Trauma Release Exercises, Counseling, and Pain Reprocessing Therapy.  I’m a lifelong lover of sports, cooking, creative writing, and being in, on, and around the water.