Professionally:

Education and Training

B.A. in Sociology — Western State College of Colorado, Gunnison, 1977
Exploring the threads of human connection and the social patterns that shape our shared experience.

M.A. in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology — Naropa University, 1999
Bridging psychology and spirituality to support the full awakening of mind, body, and spirit.

Additional Training

• Multicultural Counseling & Culturally Responsive Practice

• LGBTQQIAA+ Affirming Counseling

• Gestalt Therapy

• Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism — Healing the embodied impact of racial and ancestral trauma

Teaching and Facilitation

Naropa University — Instructor, Multicultural Counseling Skills (M.A. in Transpersonal Psychology and Transpersonal Counseling Psychology Programs)
University of Colorado, Boulder — Facilitator, Ways of Knowing, Norlin Scholars Program
Regis University, Denver — Instructor, Leading from Within, Nonprofit Management Program. Guiding students and seekers in cultivating awareness, compassion, and inclusive leadership rooted in spiritual understanding.

Sacred Service

• Ordained Minister — 35 years of sacred service through ceremony, ritual, and spiritual guidance inclusive of all spiritual paths

• Therapist in Private Practice — 26 years supporting individuals through transformation, healing, and soul reclamation.

• Workshop & Lecture Presenter — Offering teachings on Anti-Racism, Social Justice, and Embodied Awareness

• Consultant — Partnering with organizations to deepen understanding of racial identity, belonging, and spiritual justice

  Spiritually

  For nearly four decades, I have walked as a Priestess of the Divine Feminine and Mother Earth—an Earth-based practitioner devoted to the mysteries of change, transformation, and renewal. Through solar and lunar ceremonies, rites of passage, mothering, birthing, dying, and countless rituals both public and private, I have served as midwife to the sacred transitions of life.

  My path has been woven through many traditions. As a Mindfulness Instructor at Naropa University, I came to know mindfulness and Tonglen as lifelong companions—gentle practices that ground the heart and open us to the flow of giving and receiving when the world feels unsteady.

  I have studied Shamanic healing with the late Moonhawk of Hopi lineage, his partner Lynn Johnson—through whom I became a Reiki Master in 1994—and with Shamanic practitioner Renna Shesso, Jungian analyst Terry Keepers and Puma Fredy Quispe Singona. These teachings allow me to guide others through the subtle gateways where spirit and healing meet.

  Two years of deep healing on the ancestral lands of the Tiwa people in Albuquerque transformed me profoundly. Living in solitude, held by desert winds and Indigenous wisdom, I entered the sacred work of grieving, remembering, and reclaiming who I am—as Elder, Healer, Teacher, Mentor, and Guide. My continuing journey includes decolonizing my mind, body, and spirit, and deepening into the ancestral wisdom of my African lineage.

  Recently returned to my home on the unceded lands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe, also known as Longmont, Colorado, I live in the blessing of family--my beloved twin daughters, their partners, and my radiant young grandchild, Luna, a bright rainbow spirit.

  My ongoing study in Somatic Abolitionism, inspired by Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands, continues to reshape my being. This work—healing from the wounds of racism, white body supremacy, and colonization—is not separate from my spiritual path; it is at its core.

  I have crossed rivers of transformation and sailed oceans of awareness to arrive here—as Elder, Priestess, Healer, Abolitionist, and Truth-Teller. These are not titles, but lenses through which I witness the divine unfolding of liberation.

  I have no fear of your depths or stories. Together, we can meet what longs to be healed—transforming pain into power, grief into grace, and remembering the sacred wholeness that is your birthright.