Hi there!

My journey into the medical field began when I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis at age 12.  As a teenager, I quickly became immersed in the world of western medicine and began to see that my condition was thought of as a life sentence, and would be addressed primarily by managing my symptoms with heavy-hitting pharmaceuticals. 

I grew up in Oakland, California, and was lucky to be surrounded by an alternative medicine community.  Soon after my diagnosis, I found myself in the office of a holistic body worker, who became my first mentor and helped me to understand the concept of the “root cause” of illness – what mental, emotional, and physical trauma and life circumstances had set off the immune dysfunction that led to dis-regulation and inflammation in my body.  This way of thinking about dis-ease was entirely new to me, and has led to a life-long curiosity about how our bodies and spirits express health and illness, and how to achieve true healing.