Serving the Juneau Community with individual and group psychotherapy, somatic coaching and bodywork.
Deeper Light Psychotherapy, Coaching and Bodywork
Education, Awards, Projects, and Publications
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
2021
Master's of Education in Counseling
FOGS
2017 - 2020
Volunteered with Friends of Sayeik-Gastineau School, a parent-based fundraising entity with the intention of increasing access for all students to extracurricular activities, particularly art- and nature-based education
Juneau Community Preschool
2014-2015
Served on the board and coordinated fundraising efforts
Pacific Northwest School of Massage
2014 - 2019
Coordinated Juneau-based bodywork trainings with Brian Utting, a renowned educator and founder of Pacific Northwest School of Massage
International Journal of Massage and Bodywork
2012
Authored and published an article on tendinopathy in peer-reviewed professional journal.
KTOO and KXLL
2007 - 2008
Regular creator, editor, and on-the-air contributor to Letters from the North, a Juneau-based radio show featuring creative interview representations of Alaskan artists/writers and featured on KTOO
On-the-air DJ for KXLL
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
Volunteer organizer
2005 - 2006
Seneca Center
2005
Awarded Counselor of the Year as a therapeutic behavioral counselor working with children and youth at-risk of losing their home/residential placement. I can't say I loved the behavioral focus and this is when I began training on my own in attachment-based ways of working with kids through Hand-in-Hand.
CUAV
2004 - 2005
Volunteer crisis line counselor for Community United Against Violence, an organization working to empower LGBTQ+ communities to transform violence and oppression
University of California at
Santa Cruz (UCSC)
2003
Awarded Highest Honors in the Major of Community Studies
Awarded Honors in the College
Western Service Workers Organization
Volunteered with WSWO, an organization working to bring resources and economic justice to migrant worker communities in California
2003
generationFIVE
2002 - 2006
Interned and volunteered with this community-based organization committed to addressing and ending child sexual abuse as a social injustice that intersects with other systemic oppressions
UCSC
2002
Recognized for excellence in student-teaching after creating and teaching a university-level class at UCSC
UCSC
2001-2003
Student editor for the Regional History Project in UCSC's oral history department contributing to the publication of "Out in the Redwoods," a documentation of UCSC's LGBTQ+ community, particularly in the early days of the campus. Interviews took place between 1995 - 2003.
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