seeing the other, at the center of their being

is at the essence of how I work and love.

People have come to me for this for as long as I can remember.

In early life, I used this gift for survival; I gave my attention in exchange for closeness and to try to feel safe. My transformation journey has been very much about unwinding this pattern of using my gift in this way.

Over the years I’ve gathered tools and techniques that support and empower awakening, but at the center of my work is this art practice of seeing.

This sight holds potential for powerful, unique mirroring. In the reflection, one is able see and feel the layers, and the Truth at the center. The potential, and current reality. The space between.

This seeing is medicine. It heats up and moves through, rearranging. It goes into the places of stuckness. It facilitates and activates, and catalyzes movement and expression.

This sight can be confronting. There are spots that are armored. The patterns of survival don’t ‘want’ to be seen. But what’s underneath does want to be seen. That good-bad feeling is part of the experience.

Part of my job is to offer a map to orient the vessel for this experience, so the medicine can move through with more grace. That is where the tools and techniques like bodywork, embodiment meditation, and somatic practice comes in. Also creating a clear door to enter,

Adding heat to the system is essential, otherwise the medicine meets brittleness. Brittle things don’t bend, they break.

All of this is preparatory, protective, integrative.

To be seen in this way is to be met. It’s an encounter. We meet where you actually are. People often name the experience as a feeling of finally recognized (and exposed) in their essence. If held with awareness, this creates a permission field to expand more. Being seen and met with neutrality softens defenses, melts the places that have felt alone, and empowers what is ready to move.