ABOUT ME

Before entering into private practice, I worked in schools across Washington as a school psychologist for eight years. I loved connecting with children, teens, families, and educators – and gained valuable skills as a result. I’m well-versed in school systems, evaluations and assessments, clinical observation, IEP’s/504 Plans, ABA therapy, SEL, accommodations, coping strategies, skill-building, and goal-setting. As much as I loved it, I also felt called to a role that would allow me to connect with adults + children more personally and directly.

The call only grew louder after embarking on my own diverse and multi-modal healing journey. I started to ask the big questions: What does this life mean to me? What does it mean to live authentically and unapologetically? I turned to metaphysics, and cultivated a relationship with my own inner-knowing. I interwove the holistic practices of ecstatic dance, meditation and mindfulness, breathwork, plant medicines, play, ritual, EMDR, shamanic journeying, Vibrational Sound Therapy and tuning forks, and an abundance of time in nature. I read the work of Eckhart Tolle, Tara Brach, Thich Nhat Hanh, Abraham Hicks, and Michael Meade. I was invited to return home to my body, connect with my true nature, and reclaim the lost parts of myself.

As a mother of two, parenting has perhaps been my most powerful vehicle for growth. In the early years, I often felt ill-equipped and lost. But I found that as I healed my own wounds, and cultivated a relationship with my inner child, my relationship with my children took on a new ease and flow. I discovered conscious parenting – which focuses on compassion, mindfulness, and acceptance of our own experiences as parents first. This naturally allows for a more emotionally-centered and spacious capacity to meet our children. My relationship with my children is now a powerful font of beauty and love in my life.

I take great interest in the relationship between cultural + family structures and mental health, and feel this is vitally important for healing. Wounding happens within specific contexts and expectations, and those contexts must be brought to light if we are to heal. Shifting outdated, invalidating belief systems is a large part of my work.

The collective experiences of my professional roles, personal healing, and parenting journey has gifted me with a dynamic array of knowledge, tools, and resources that I now offer to you, through a fine-tuned + unique approach to therapy.

With humility and love,

Ruby