What brougt me here
I was born in 1980 to an Irish Catholic family in a quaint suburb on Long Island, New York.
From the very beginning, I felt a little different—from family, friends, and even the world. My mother said I came in with an old head. I was observant, quirky, and deeply curious about people and life.
When my parents divorced at age seven, my curiosity intensified. I couldn’t make sense of why people did what they did, or why the world seemed to operate in ways that felt so disconnected, chaotic, and contradictory.
The explanations I was given never quite satisfied me. I wanted to understand what was really going on beneath the surface. Around that same time, my physical vision began to deteriorate and I started wearing glasses.
As the external world blurred, my internal perception sharpened. Without realizing it, I began a lifelong in-query into the depths of human nature, reality, and consciousness.
I didn’t dream of becoming an astrologer when I was little, but I knew at a young age that I came here to help people reconnect with something inexplicable. Astrology eventually became the language to help me do that.
Origins
Learning to See
By age nine, I stepped beyond the confines of Catholicism and became a born-again Christian. Three years later I stumbled on astrology, tarot and druid practices in the most unlikely of places—a Christian bookstore.
Though I was told astrology was “the work of the devil”, something about it felt oddly familiar and relieving. It reflected something I had already begun to sense: that life wasn’t random, it had deep meaning woven into it.
I left the church at 14 after a wild experience that shook my trust in religion altogether. I continued to open my doors of perception through psychedelics, creative immersion, and the exploration of other spiritual disciplines in college.
My degree in visual arts taught me how to see differently and how to work with pattern, perspective, and contrast. It also introduced me to an ongoing dialogue with self-criticism and self-compassion.
To this day, my art background deeply informs how I perceive the world and how I approach my work with clients because: I don’t think in straight lines. I think in imagery, symbolism, and metaphor.
Thresholds + Initiations
I was misaligned with my inner compass in my twenties. I followed relationships rather than my own voice and moved through jobs that paid the bills but left me empty inside. On paper, my life looked coherent. Internally, it was chaos. The dissonance eventually forced a reckoning.
At 27 when my life started to unravel, a friend gifted me with my first professional astrology reading with renowned Santa Fe astrologer, Tom Brady. The experience was life changing.
It initiated me onto a path of spiritual awakening that helped me learn how to really listen to myself despite my fear of disappointing others. I eventually stepped off paths that weren’t mine and reoriented to my true north.
My Saturn Return included a divorce, a relocation to California, and graduate school for holistic counseling psychology. I decided not to pursue a traditional licensing path so I could follow my inclination to forge my own unique method of working with clients.
A year later, I met the love of my life at Burning Man, and fifteen years later we’re raising two children who continue to teach us daily about presence, patience, and love. While pregnant with my first born, I suddenly lost hearing in my right ear. This loss challenged me, but also heightened my intuition and refined my listening skills.
I’m no stranger to adaptation. I’m familiar with finding a way through when it feels like there isn’t one. I know what it means to do things differently, to step outside of prescribed boxes, and to stand in truth even when those choices invite misunderstanding or pushback.
Where I Landed
I didn’t arrive where I am today because of certainty. I arrived here because I continued to ask questions.
That same curiosity lives at the center of my work with clients. I’m wired to hold the paradox that exists in the spaces where beliefs restructure, identities shift, and ways of being no longer fit.
I’ve learned that moments of change aren’t detours, they’re initiations into a more aligned way of living. I’ve also come to see that most people want confirmation they’re great as they are. They want permission to relax into that knowing so they can move through life with greater freedom.
People tend to find their way to me when they’re seeking something beyond traditional therapy or coaching—when they need a different perspective that can orient them to something new.
Like a prism, I reveal what’s possible and refract what’s dormant inside of you, so you can begin to shine in the way you were designed.
My approach helps liberate people from paradigms they’ve outgrown by gently shaking things up in ways that are surprisingly, stabilizing.
My role is to reflect your brilliance, redirect you back home to yourself, and help you recognize who you are beneath the survival strategies that once made sense, but no longer serve you.
If you’re ready for something different, something that feels like coming home to yourself — welcome, I’m so glad you’re here.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”
- Buckminster Fuller
