Like most healers, I did not come to this work through theory alone.
I am one of the oldest known survivors of a rare congenital birth defect. I am a cancer survivor. And in 2024, I survived a 17-day coma in Peru that abruptly stopped my life and invited me into a deeper reckoning with what it truly means to heal, surrender, and begin again.
These experiences are not credentials I wear — they are initiations that shaped how I listen, how I sit with others, and how I understand change at the level of body, mind, and spirit.
When I returned to graduate school in 2010 to pursue a Master’s in Professional Counseling after years of building and running businesses, I thought I was learning a new profession. What I didn’t yet realize was that I was entering a profound process of internal reorganization — one that required me to face parts of myself I didn’t know existed, and to allow my own identity, beliefs, and nervous system to evolve. The knowledge and wisdom gained through that process permanently altered my life and continues to influence my family and my work today.
I later completed my Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine, contributing the first quantitative research study examining the mind-body-spirit role in spontaneous cancer remission. That research — combined with lived experience — became the foundation for a deeper understanding of healing that honors biology, psychology, meaning, relationship, and consciousness as inseparable.
In 2019, I published The Gift of Luck: The 10 Essential Stages of Deep and Lasting Change, which explores the internal conditions necessary for sustainable personal transformation. This work became the foundation of Live Lucky Therapy, alongside The Gift of Luck Workbook, supporting individuals in cultivating emotional resilience, relational clarity, and embodied change.
In 2025, following both the completion of my doctoral research and my recovery from the coma, I published The New Earth Blueprint: A Guide to Humanity’s Conscious Evolution. This book speaks to those who feel called not only to heal internally, but to express that healing through how they live, relate, lead, and contribute to a changing world.
That same year, Vital Evolution was born — an integrative framework designed to help individuals embody internal transformation as a lived, relational, and sustainable experience, particularly in the context of chronic illness, cancer, and life-altering transitions.
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State (LMHC), a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina (LCMHC), and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Arizona, Oregon, and Ohio, as well as a Washington State Child Mental Health Specialist (CMHS). My clinical background includes work with adults, children, families, and intensive programs supporting individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic illness, and major life transitions across outpatient, inpatient, and community-based settings.
Today, my work bridges science and lived wisdom — supporting individuals who are not looking for quick fixes, but for coherent, embodied, and meaningful change.
