ABOUT

I'm a creative coach, embodied dreamwork facilitator, artist, and writer with over 30 years of experience in the healing arts. As a creative companion, my work centers on embodied dreamwork and active imagination, integrating somatic practice with depth psychology to help people meet the wisdom already living inside their dreams, symbols, and creative expression.

I hold a Certificate in Jungian Studies from the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. My early work brought trauma-informed yoga and embodied dreamwork into recovery and mental health settings across Los Angeles, using the body and symbolic language as a unique lens on addiction and mental health, and offering practical rituals to support healing.

Today I work one-on-one with clients, lead creative classes — including active imagination classes and a class exploring animation as a dreamwork practice, where dream images are brought to life frame by frame — and travel to offer in-person retreats and workshops. I'm the host of Entering the Creative Unknown, a podcast featuring conversations with artists about creative process and the unconscious.

I facilitate an ongoing open studio space with This Jungian Life, and previously served on the faculty of The Dream Studio, the organization's 10-week immersive within its Dream School, where I helped hold a collective container for over 150 dreamers worldwide. My teaching there centered on embodied dreamwork and active imagination, with particular attention to cultivating dream recall and building a sacred, relational container in which participants could form an ongoing relationship with their dreams. Through movement, somatic inquiry, and creative expression, I invited dream images to be met as living presences rather than symbols to decode. I also lead monthly sessions for Lisa Marchiano's Spinning Straw fairy tale group.

My dream-based creative work has been featured in international exhibitions including The Red Book — Women's Dreams (Los Angeles, Costa Rica, Japan) and The Lost & Found Project in Mexico City. My animated film A Whale Called Me From My Sleep was selected for the International Animated Dream Festival in Lisbon (2025). I'm the author of The House with Two Stories, a book that emerged entirely through embodied dreamwork.

I'm currently developing an animated film, Saying Goodbye to My Mother, exploring symbolic language in end-of-life experience, and writing a workbook devoted to cultivating an intimate relationship with symbolic language through dreams, imagination, myth, fairy tale, and the body.