Dear Weary Wild Woman,

What calls to you from the depths of your soul?

What lies to be discovered? What awaits to be remembered?

I reached a point during these past few years when a couple of things became undeniable to me, and maybe you can relate:

  1. I was tired of being tired. Need I say more?

  2. I was constantly sitting in suffering.

    The world has felt chaotic, and deeply unsettling over the past few years in particular. I had layers of suffering to grapple with daily between global, interpersonal, professional, and personal. I’d been a social worker for nearly 15 years, and while I was quite good at being with deep pain and compassionately meeting it, I was exhausted.

    In order to counterbalance the feeling part of my existence, I leaned hard into my head. I consumed information, and avoided being in my body by listening to constant podcasts and audio books. I was intellectualizing life.

3. I lived in my head. Thought to thought instead of heart to heart.

Living in our heads allows us to avoid being in our bodies. That’s where all the feelings we’ve avoided feeling live. And thats the stuff that feels inconvenient. Who has time to grieve? Process shame? Feel deep rejection, sadness, loss, confusion? Besides, at this point it would be like opening flood gates rather than turning on a faucet- and that sounds terrible, right?

4. I was not living in my aligned purpose.

I was detached from the very thing I had long identified as what I wanted to do with my career and life. I had disconnected from that part of myself, I had dismissed and distanced my dreams

I made some pretty monumental decisions at this point. I deeply invested in my dreams. I even closed my successful private practice that I had been building for 7 years. I began to remember the things that made me feel alive.

During this process of soul searching, I connected back to my self. To the things that felt like a breath of life into my world. These things had been here all along. These things, my childhood self would have said “of course that’s what you’re meant to be doing!”

So, I want to ask you— if the 8 year old version of yourself could see you now, would she be surprised?

Would she ask you why you never pursued a life that included art, or horses, or [insert your childhood talents and loves here]?

Would she ask you why you don’t go outside and play anymore?

Would she ask if you still have friends that make you laugh until you can’t breathe?

Do you still see the world with wonder, awe?

Do you still find joy in the little things like the bliss of an ice cream cone or a feeling of wanting to be quiet and still when you spot that cottontail bunny hopping through the yard?

Why have we let these things go?

And more importantly, how do we get back to them?

If you are feeling frustrated, depleted, or disconnected and you, too, feel a craving to be less of a human doing, and more of a human being, I’d love to hear from you. We can work together towards a reconnection, and re-remembering of your purpose so that you can live life the way it was meant to be lived: with a sense of ease, flow, joy, and connection.

I created Wild Hearts for women like you. I’m providing services that:

  • empower connection

  • inspire wonder and awe

  • nurture intuition

  • explore deeper purpose

  • cultivate daring curiosity

  • compassionately collaborate

  • create purposeful partnership with nature + horses

Credentials and Clinical Experience

  • I’m a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW-C). I’ve been working in the field since 2007 and have been a licensed therapist since 2012.

  • My training as a therapist has helped me shape the way I see the world and my capacity for showing up for my clients in a skillful and deeply present way.

  • I’ve worked in just about every setting you can think of including but not limited to: inpatient units, residential facilities, Level V schools in Baltimore City, in home/community services, the VA, and private practice for the past 8 years.

  • I’m also the steward of my horse Mojave, who inspires me to be a better horsewoman each day.

Some relevant trainings and areas of expertise:

Among my many areas of study over the years, here are a few that may be most relevant to our work:

  • Internal Family Systems (aka Parts Work or IFS)

  • Mindfulness (cowrote, implemented and researched mindfulness protocols for the VA)

  • Post Graduate Certificate from University of Maryland in Trauma Treatment

  • Embodiment practices, body acceptance, and body image

  • Somatic Experiencing

  • CBT+ certified, ACT applications

  • Experience treating eating disorders

If you’d like to work with me, fill out the form below and I’ll be in touch with next steps!