A little bit about me…

Of the many experiences I’ve encountered in this lifetime, I’ve come to believe that we all have the innate ability to heal ourselves, and in doing so, to heal the world. And, that we are never as isolated or separate as we may think.

To me, understanding ourselves and learning to step into the responsibility of co-creating our lives is a form of activism. As I learn to love better, embody my soul, and flow in right relationship, I am contributing to the tides of change.

And with that, I believe that spirituality without attention to our humanity is a delusion. If my spiritual beliefs don’t help me live - love - be well, if they don’t help me see, hear, think, and receive others with more care, they are not useful. If my spirituality numbs me to the suffering of another, then it is not truly soulful.

As a Splenic Projector in Human Design with Enneagram 2 sensitivity, I’m here to guide with intuitive precision and heartfelt presence. I sense what’s unspoken, what’s needed, what’s ready, leading with care.

Born under a grand water trine- with four Scorpio placements, a Pisces Moon, and Chiron in Cancer, I’m intimately attuned to emotion, mystery, and transformation. My Capricorn placements help me ground that depth into structure, service, and sustainable growth.

I come from a matrilineal line of psychics and healers and a patrilineal line of nuns, monks, and priests. At 8 months in my Mother’s womb, I received shaktipat/a blessing from the 14th Dalai Lama while he was in California to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and from a very young age have been interested it mythology, shamanism, healing. My teens were spent among queer, anarchist, punk community which oriented me towards liberation and community. I’ve since been initiated into various lineages and spiritual traditions, some rooted in my own DNA ancestry, and others I’ve been graciously invited into.

All of this has and continues to guide me.

Before doing so professionally in 2017, I offered spiritual guidance and healing work freely for many years, based on my own apprenticeship, study and experiences. The birth of my first child led me to become a Full-spectrum Doula, leading to End of Life and Death Doula work; bringing full circle the sacred continuum of life, death, and rebirth. My work history also includes many years of social work caregiving: working with adults in drug and alcohol addiction recovery, nannying, advanced disease and dementia care, and various forms of community support.

Since childhood, I’ve wished to help others understand how pain can transform into power (ask my mom, she has stories). I pray to assist in the liberation of all beings and in the healing of our planet. Yet, I do not wish to force liberation before it’s time- I live in the paradox of dreaming a better world while also loving this one as it is.

My healing path is ongoing. I continue to learn this dance of life through waves of rebirth and remembering. I’m here to share what I’ve gathered along the way and be a resource for the empowerment of others. I aim to deepen my practices and skills—for myself, my family, my ancestors, my community, and the Earth.

While I don’t define myself by any one identity, here are some threads I’ve lived, healed through, and hold:

Queerness- exploring gender and sexual identity
Non-gendered understanding of masculine and feminine energy
Wounds of abandonment and self-worth
Generational trauma- sexual abuse, displacement, scarcity, genocide &
growing up in an immigrant family
Living through and healing from sexual abuse
Navigating autoimmune illness
Sex work (processing and healing from), erotic power, and sensual embodiment
Boundaries, people-pleasing, and fawning
Anxious attachment and relational repair
Parenting, long-term friendship, and partnership
Creative expression, self-acceptance, and self-love
Embodying spiritual wisdom and developing practices that work for me
Physical healing through reconnecting with the land

These lived experiences shape how I show up, with depth, nuance, compassion, and reverence for the complexity of being human.

My Lineages

My Grandmother/Metzmama immigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon in the 1960s with my Grandfather, who was a shepherd in a small Armenian village. She gave birth to my uncle in Beirut, and to my mother in California. My Metzmama helped raise my sister and me until we moved to Wisconsin, where my father’s family settled from Lithuania and Luxembourg in the 1840s and early 1900s, respectively.

I mostly identify with my Armenian side, with major Lebanese cultural influences (much of my family still lives in Lebanon and Armenia). I’m a second-generation diasporic person raised within the culture, language, foods, and customs of my Armenian & Lebanese family.

I also carry Mexican, Central American, and Spanish ancestry.

I continue to explore and reclaim my ancestral roots through research into food, folklore, music, dance, and history, as well as through personal lineage healing work.

My Scope of Practice

I’ve received training in a range of therapeutic modalities through accredited institutions and long-term mentorship, and have worked for years in the field of social work (outside of licensure). I’ve made a conscious and intentional choice not to pursue licensure or practice as a therapist.

Choosing coaching allows me to offer the kind of direct, creative, and spiritually integrated support that feels most true to my calling.

While I draw on helpful aspects of Western psychology, I’m committed to divesting from a colonized model of wellness that often prioritizes scientific methods of knowing and isolates suffering within the individual, rather than recognizing the impact of systemic, cultural, and intergenerational forces.

Please take this into consideration as you decide what would best suit your current needs. I trust you to do what feels right for you.

Other Things:

I love dancing, freestyle baking, karaoke, playing D&D and Magic the Gathering, making music, gardening, and going on adventures with my kiddo, newphew, & nibblings. I’m into myth, fantasy, sci-fi, herbalism, and wild fun with friends. I engage in ritual, ceremony, and performance art that lives at the edge of meaning and meaninglessness. Since high school, I’ve been in several bands, played hundreds of shows, national and international tours, and made a dozen recorded LP’s and EP’s. Among humans, I care for two ball pythons, a baby tarantula, a crew of spirit allies, and many beloved plants.

Training and Experience

    • Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings (with Sabia Wade, Jenna Brown)

    • The NAFSA School Project (Traditional Moroccan Postpartum)

    • The Dying Year (End of Life Doula, Merilynne Rush)

    • The Postpartum Healing Lodge (Anishinaabe postpartum teachings with Raeanne Madison)

    • Shamanism & Sound Healing (Dr. Cary Loose)

    • Q'ero Spirituality (Mesa Carrier Apprenticeship, Bill Humphrey)

    • Akashic Records Consultant (Akashic Knowing School of Wisdom)

    • Nada Yoga Initiation (Akhilanka, Mysuru, India)

    • Reiki Master Teacher, Traditional Japanese Lineages

    • Orpheotelest in Bacchic Orphic Tradition (Starry Crown)

    • Ayahuasca Dieta, through ritually safe ceremonies with various Curandero/as

    • Depth Psychology

    • Herbalism & Plant Medicine (Self-study)

    • Courses with Luis Mojica (Somatic Experiencing Course, Embodied Practitioner Course)

    • Feeding Your Demons (Lama Tsultrim Allione)

    • Somatic Attachment Theory (The Embody Lab)

    • David Bedrick’s Foundations. of Unshaming, Transference & Countertransference, & Working With The Inner Critic (Santa Fe Institute for Shame-Based Studies)

    • Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner Training (Daniel Foor, Cohort 8)

VALUES

1. Liberation & Justice

Anti-supremacy, anti-racism, abolitionist, decolonial values. Committed to collective freedom, dismantling oppressive systems, and co-creating just, free, joyful futures for all beings.

2. Inclusion & Embodiment

LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, body-diverse, sex-, kink-, poly- positive. Trauma-informed, mentally and emotionally attuned, and devoted to loving the infinite diversity of life in all its forms.

3. Animist Spirituality

Guided by ritual, animism, ancestor reverence, interspecies kinship, and right relationship with the seen and unseen. A spirituality grounded in Earth-honoring relationality that holds the idea that humans are just one group of many bodies of beings in existence.

4. Community & Care

Centering caregiving, collaboration, community, mutual aid. Striving for collective thriving.

5. Autonomy, Curiosity, & Sacred Responsibility

Honoring personal soul-sovereignty, deep inner knowing, spiritual responsibility, and meeting the challenges on the sacred path of healing with curiosity- for self, ancestors, community, and the world.

Please feel free to reach out.