About US

As a small child, there was always a heavy sense to help people to find inner peace and happiness.  I always defended the underdog and, even  when listening to adults gossip, offered an alternative perspective of what could be the inner world of the person being gossiped about.  I was often overwhelmed by feelings of sadness, abandonment, loss, and insecurity that I sensed from random people who crossed my path.  In later years, it became evident that I am an em-path, also known as 'energy reader'.  But back then, nobody talked about such things so those 'readings' took a front seat in my world as 'noise' and 'distraction' and everything else took a backseat.

School was nothing more than a Charlie Brown episode where, when the adults spoke, the only thing the viewers could hear was, "Wah wah wah wah wah".  Though the child characters responded in our native tongue, we never really knew what the parents or teachers were saying.  That's how I felt sitting in the classroom.  I was very keen to what was going on in the peripherals but, when the teachers spoke, all I heard was "Wah wah wah wah wah!"

It didn't start out that way.  My mom could barely contain me on my first day of kindergarten.  For the first couple of years, I ate, drank, and dreamed about learning in school.  I don't know exactly know when that changed, but by 3rd grade, my focus had switched from the school curriculum to the dynamics that played out in the classroom.  I began experiencing a lot of anxiety and, for the next four years, was bullied mercilessly.  In retrospect, my anxiety was not necessarily from the bullying, but from 'reading' the energy that came from the oppressors, which was their own fear and anxiety.  Not knowing that at the time, I was constantly looking for the culprit in my own world.

This is not to say I didn't have my own pain, coming home from school one day at age 12 to discover my mom had moved back to her family two states over and becoming a casualty of divorce.   Like everyone, we all experience childhood traumas and we interpret them from our own frame of reference at the time, whether or not it is correct.  In my case, I internalized the energy I read from others as well as my own trauma and thought there was something inherently wrong with me and it was only a matter of time before my parents and school authorities discovered it too.

During my junior year - five years past the bullying -  it was time to think about college and I had always wanted to be a counselor. Like my peers, I went to the guidance office for help in the process.  The counselor was very firm when he told me that I was not college material, rather should be a secretary (Yes!  Really!) and that if I went to college, I'd flunk out and he was washing his hands of it "now".  With no guidance, I pushed my way through the motions of college prep by doing what my peers did.  The only thing I had going for me, at that point, was that I was too stupid to know I was too stupid to go!  The next fall, off I went... and it was there that things began to change.  For the first time, "Wah wah wah" was actually real words and all of the classes - and the reason for them - not only made sense but they seemed interconnected and applicable to real life.

Flash forward twenty years, an M.A. in Psychology, eighteen years in the counseling and case management field later, I was disillusioned at the way our 'system' deals with wellness and mental health.   The lack of connection between mind, body and spirit - a key element to health, happiness and well-being - was mind boggling to say the least.

In grad school, for my final masters project, the assignment was to create a unique model of therapy, based on my own research and case studies from work experience, that would offer an alternative approach to current systems.  My model was to look at the human life as a whole pie and ask myself, what are the key elements to wholeness, wellness, good health, and happiness.  Then to determine how identifying these key areas will help people to make therapeutic changes that balance each key and bring wholeness.  Through this process, I found my soul passion to help those struggling to find peace, wellness, happiness, and soul purpose to understand the key areas, identify the imbalances in their keys, and change their mindset to balance and empower themselves in every aspect so that they can experience overall wholeness and peace.   It was through this process that I gave birth to  "The Energy Model of Therapeutic Change".