I come from a hard-working family in Chicago, though it's been a long time since I called the Midwest home. Over the years, I’ve lived coast to coast in the States, as well as in Europe and Morocco. I've also traveled to over thirty countries, sometimes to work with spiritual teachers & indigenous leaders, other times to hike through enchanted forests or leap through waterfalls—and always to observe the world from wildly new perspectives. 

I've formally studied at New York University, in Aix-en-Provence, France, and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where I received my graduate degree. Upon graduation, I was invited to teach in the UNLV Honors College, where I remained for nearly fifteen years, teaching multi-disciplinary seminars until the fall of 2024. You can learn more about my role as a professor here. I also love writing, have published several stories & poems, and am currently working on a three-book speculative fiction series. Some of my older, published work can be found here. 

My background as a spiritual guide, counselor, and healer has evolved over decades of intensive shamanic work & dedicated study with intuitive therapists, spiritual teachers, and indigenous medicine carriers who generously shared their wisdom, lineages, and direct transmissions with me. I am eternally grateful for the 14-year relationship I shared with my primary teacher & curandero, who profoundly shaped the way I hold space for clients. He places integrity, alignment, and love at the center of every healing—and his influence remains with me always. Out of respect for his valued privacy and humility, I will keep him unnamed here, but I wouldn't feel right discussing my path without honoring the role he played.