About Me.
A Different Kind of Healing Space
I didn’t come to this work through textbooks alone—I came to it through the body.
Years ago, a serious car accident altered everything I thought I knew about movement, trauma, and recovery. In the aftermath, I couldn’t move against gravity the way I used to. I felt disconnected, disoriented, and misread by the systems meant to help me. The medical interventions offered didn’t speak to the reality of what I was experiencing. They saw injury. I felt disintegration.
I refused further treatment—not out of defiance, but because I knew: they didn’t get it. And I couldn’t keep handing myself over to models that only addressed symptoms and left the deeper story untouched.
Then, years later, I had a tongue tie and lip tie release—something I hoped would bring resolution to the lingering tension in my body. In some ways, it did. But it also revealed something deeper. The release stripped away compensatory patterns I had unknowingly relied on, unmasking instability, nerve irritation, and a nervous system that didn’t yet feel safe enough to reorganize.
That experience unraveled what I thought I knew about healing. It forced me to go slower, listen more deeply, and redefine what support actually looks like.
My Path Here
Those experiences—both the accident and the release—became turning points. Not just personally, but professionally. They exposed the gaps in conventional care and opened a new door: toward reflex integration, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, and neurofascial support.
These weren’t just modalities—they were languages my body had been waiting for. They taught me how to listen beneath behavior. How to witness protective patterns instead of overriding them. And how to rebuild a felt sense of safety from the inside out.
Now, that’s what I offer others.
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What I Offer
My work blends formal training with hard-won insight. Though I’m a licensed speech-language pathologist, my approach is deeply integrative, spanning:
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Reflex Integration
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Developmental and Relational Therapy (DIR/Floortime)
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Myofunctional and Feeding Support
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Speech and Language Therapy
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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
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Neurofascial and Core Stability Work
I specialize in working with clients who don’t fit neatly into diagnostic boxes—infants with feeding struggles, children scripting instead of speaking authentically, adults who’ve never felt truly at home in their bodies.
This work is slow. It’s layered. And it begins with one essential premise: your system is wise. We just need to listen.
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Who I Am Beyond the Work
I find mirrors for my work in the natural world and in my relationships with animals. Isabella the dog, Batman the cat, and the other animals who’ve crossed my path have each taught me something about co-regulation, presence, and how healing never happens in isolation.
I don’t separate who I am from what I offer. The work I do is not a job—it’s a way of being. It’s how I meet the world.
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Why I Do This
Because I know what it’s like to have a nervous system that wants to heal but doesn’t feel safe.
Because I believe in honoring the body’s timeline, not forcing it into compliance.
Because we need more spaces that allow unfolding, rather than demanding performance.
Because healing is possible—but only when we stop trying to fix and start listening.
About Me: The Work Between Titles
“I don’t fit a title. I meet a system.
I don’t fix the symptom. I follow the story.
This isn’t therapy. It’s remembering.”
You could look at my credentials and think you know what I do.
Speech-language pathologist. Licensed massage therapist. Reflex integration practitioner. Trauma-informed. Craniosacral training.
But none of those titles really explain it.
The truth is, I’ve spent years unlearning what systems told me healing should look like.
I’ve sat with babies who couldn’t latch, children who couldn’t speak, adults who couldn’t feel safe in their own bodies. I’ve walked through my own trauma, postural collapse, and nervous system repair—and let that lived experience refine every aspect of how I show up with others.
So what do I actually do?
I work with the nervous system.
With breath. With reflexes. With attachment. With the body’s fluid rhythms.
I don’t treat surface-level symptoms—I support the deeper reorganization that allows someone to feel safe enough to grow, move, speak, or rest.
My work isn’t traditional therapy. It’s not massage. It’s not talk-based. It’s not behavioral.
It’s nervous system listening.
It’s developmentally-informed attunement.
It’s relationship as regulation.
And if you’ve tried everything else—and still feel like something’s missing—
you’re not broken.
You may just need someone who sees the space between the labels.
That’s where I live. And that’s where we begin.
Professional Foundations
The way I work has been shaped by years of formal training—and even more by what I’ve lived and integrated in my own body. Here are some of the paths that have informed and deepened this work.
Licensed Massage Therapist
CO License #0026446
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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Student
(August 2025 Anticipated Graduation)
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CranioSacral Therapy 1 (CS1)
Upledger Institute International
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Massage Therapy Certification
Lotus Educational Institute
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​Certified, Licensed Speech Language Pathologist
ASHA #12145069
CO License #0002198
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Recipient of 12 ASHA ACE Awards
Each award represents 70 hours of professional continuing education, completed within a 3 year period.
National ASHA requirements are 30 hours of professional continuing education, completed within a 3 year period.
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Obtained Certification as Infant Massage Instructor
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Obtained Certification as Family Specialist, Colorado Association of Infant Mental Health
Completion of 52 hours of reflective supervision for Infant Mental Health
Corresponding professional coursework:
1 graduate level semester-long Infant Mental Health course
1 32-hour professional level course
Completion of 2 years of DIR/Floortime Individual Professional Mentoring
Intermediate Level DIR/Floortime Profesional
Completion of 4 DIR/Floortime professional level courses
2 years of professional mentoring with DIR/Floortime Instructor
Completion of 12 month study, Neurorelational Framework for Interdisciplinary Practice​
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(616 hours completed a/o 2024)
Proprioceptive and Cognitive Integration
Visual and Auditory Reflex Integration
Stress Hormones and Reflex Integration
IPET NeuroTactile Integration
Oral Facial Reflex Integration Level 1
Oral Facial Reflex Integration Level 2
Stress and Trauma Recovery
Dynamic and Postural Reflex Integration
NeuroStructural Reflex Integration
Archetype Movement Integration
Lifelong Reflex Integration
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Completion of various professional education regarding:
sensory processing
infant bottle feeding
breastfeeding
pediatric feeding
orofacial myology (including coursework regarding tongue tie)
swallowing disorders
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300 Hr Yoga Teacher Certification
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200 Hr Yoga Teacher Certification​
Brett Larkin Uplifted Yoga
“Calm isn’t the goal—connection is.”
Regulation vs. Relationship
Why co-regulation isn’t a strategy—it’s a way of being with.
Not all “regulation” is real. Sometimes it’s performance. Sometimes it’s appeasement. This section dives into the difference between managing behavior and building true safety—through relationship, attunement, and pacing. It’s also where we explore the wisdom of animals, nature, and nervous system co-resonance beyond words.
“Calm isn’t the goal—connection is.”
Regulation vs. Relationship
Why co-regulation isn’t a strategy—it’s a way of being with.
Not all “regulation” is real. Sometimes it’s performance. Sometimes it’s appeasement. This section dives into the difference between managing behavior and building true safety—through relationship, attunement, and pacing. It’s also where we explore the wisdom of animals, nature, and nervous system co-resonance beyond words.
