I’m a certified Jungian Coach with a deep passion for guiding individuals on their unique journey of self-discovery towards finding purpose and destiny.
As a lifelong student, teacher, truth seeker and healing arts practitioner, I’ve learned to embrace healing, self-exploration and transformation as a sacred commitment. This is my life's work. For me, it is an ongoing journey and I know everything that I learn, I am meant to share with others.
In addition to coaching, I am a Psychedelic Integration Specialist, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, and Sound Healing Practitioner, specializing in the Celtic harp. I am also an apprentice in the Celtic Seabhean, Pachakuti Mesa, and Won Buddhist traditions, and a doctoral student of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine.
While I believe knowledge and training are important to master your craft, my approach to healing arts very much aligns with one of my favorite Carl Jung quote:
“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.”
Before embarking on this path, I was a corporate healthcare executive with almost 20 years of climbing the corporate ladder.
Like many others, I carried belief systems and unaddressed micro and macro traumas that were unconsciously impacting my life. Despite achieving significant success - being recognized as a top sales leader, receiving accolades like 20 Under 40 and Emerging Female Leader, sitting on multiple boards, and making more money than I ever dreamed of — I felt profoundly out of alignment. I felt that I constantly had to prove myself and nothing ever felt good enough.
After battling toxic work environments, unresolved traumas, chasing money, trying to prove my worth, and misaligned relationships – I was left with:
a whole lot of money
emptiness and lack of purpose
and a ton of anxiety
While I was a generally happy person, the emotional suppression and living out of alignment caused me tremendous anxiety and led to other challenges like insomnia, ADD, and panic attacks.
I turned to SSRIs, sleeping pills, Xanax, and wine - overworking and always socializing to distract myself from the truth that I knew deep down: this was not my path. I was meant for so much more.
I needed to do something different.
I began to work with psychedelic medicine, which revealed how out of alignment I was living.
Psychedelic means Soul Manifesting, a deep connection to oneself and this connection is the baseline for healing. While psychedelic medicine was my initial catalyst, there are many other holistic modalities individuals can engage with for connection and transformation.
I began exploring new teachings and new ways of living - yoga, meditation, breathwork, journaling, reconnecting to nature, music and new approaches to therapy. And in one of my most challenging and darkest moments, I found Carl Jung’s work. While other teachers seemed to celebrate detachment, Jung’s approach allowed me to dance in my messiness as I uncovered, reconnected and listened to the deeper parts of myself. To me, it was like a psychedelic journey without the medicine.
I so deeply appreciated the self-exploration and transformative nature of the Jungian approach that after years of working with a Jungian analyst, I wanted to offer this gift to others and went into intense training with the International Jungian Coaching School to become certified as a Jungian coach.
My approach with Jungian coaching is not to give you what I think are your answers; but rather to guide you on your own journey designed to activate the wisdom within that only you know. My role is to support you in uncovering patterns, hidden meanings, blindspots, exploring emotional and somatic experiences, gaining insights from innate inner wisdom, and reconnecting with your authentic self.
I also weave in other (optional) tools that have been catalysts to my own healing and transformation such as Tuina (an ancient form of bodywork), trauma-informed Kundalini yoga, energy work, guided drum journeys, sound healing, guided meditations, holistic plant support, devotion practices and rituals.
With my training as a Psychedelic Integration Specialist, I also recognized the parallels between psychedelic journeys and Jung’s exploration of the unconscious and began applying Jung’s methodologies for those that needed assistance integrating their psychedelic experiences.
As a result of the work that I have put into holistic healing, I’m happy to share that I haven’t taken medication and drank for years… and I’ve never felt better.
My personal journey ignited my passion for sharing with others all the tools that helped me overcome my challenges, and with that I founded Jungian Coaching & Integration and my consulting company, The Sage Collective, integrating psychedelic medicine into traditional healthcare. It is my mission to create a space for others to also find their way to healing and purpose.
Part of this journey is becoming really comfortable with change. I continue to embrace my own evolution as I explore new modalities that call to me, just as I encourage my clients to explore their own curiousities.
In March of 2025, while continuing my education of psychedelic therapy, I was invited to train in Peru where I had the opportunity to learn from Q’ero Shamans and a Medicine woman from the Andes. While there, I was invited to receive my first ever acupuncture treatment. Unexpectedly, two of my sessions landed on days where we were working with the psychedelic cactus, San Pedro.
During the acupuncture treatments, I had the most catalytic release of stored trauma. Because I was so sensitive from the psychedelic cactus, I was able to experience how acupuncture moves stored trauma on an energetic level. It was like 10 years of therapy in 2 sessions. I woke up knowing this medicine was part of my path and upon my return, enrolled in a Doctoral program for Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. It has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
Traditional Chinese Medicine has deepened my understanding of healing across mind, body, energy, and spirit, which I have since integrated into my coaching practice. I also had the opportunity to learn Tuina, an ancient form of Chinese bodywork intended to move stuck energy and emotions, helping to alleviate pain, harmonize the body and recalibrate the nervous system.
Incorporating somatic bodywork into my practice has offered clients a powerful way to engage the body as an essential part of their healing process.
My school, headquartered in South Korea, also specializes in Won Buddhism, a modern approach to Buddhist practice. This brought me to South Korea for the unique opportunity to live and study with monks at their Won Buddhist monastery. After spending a few weeks there, I enrolled in Won’s Buddhism program to deepen my understanding of this tradition. Its teachings - particularly around recognizing and working through karmic patterns - have become a meaningful part of my work with clients.
Ancestral Knowledge
Earth-Based Wisdom
Along my journey, I also felt called to reconnect with my lineage and learn the earth-based healing traditions practiced by my ancestors.
This led me to Amantha Murphy, a Celtic Seabhean and shamanic teacher and healer based in County Kerry, Ireland, after I read her book, The Way of the Seabhean: An Irish Shamanic Path. After joining her for a weekend workshop, I embarked on a 4 year apprenticeship in Amantha’s Women’s Academy of Irish Shamanism & Spirituality.
My time in Peru also sparked a deeper interest in Andean earth-based practices and ceremonial healing traditions. Later I had the opportunity to begin an apprenticeship in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, training with Oswal Pomaquiza of ONAC New Jersey. Because this tradition is not part of my ancestral lineage, I approach this work with humility, respect, and an ongoing commitment to learning from its teachers and honoring its cultural origins and context.
As someone studying multiple spiritual traditions and multicultural healing practices, I am committed to following the guidance and boundaries of my teachers, honoring the sources of these learnings, and remaining accountable for how I name, hold, and share these teachings in my work.
I do not present myself as an Indigenous healer or representative of these traditions. Within the appropriate scope of my coaching practice, I integrate only the practices I have been taught are appropriate to share, in the context of how I’ve been taught to share them, while clearly naming their origins and my relationship to them. I also remain committed to learning how to deepen my understanding and practice of reciprocity.
Healing is deeply personal, and trauma can be complex to navigate. My training across a range of teachings allows us to co-create a versatile, customizable and integrative approach tailored to your unique needs.
At the same time, while training and knowledge are important, my core guiding principle is simple: to meet each person at the soul level.
As Carl Jung so eloquently stated quoted:
"Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul, be just another human soul."