Photograph by Tom C. Gettelfinger


About me.



I'm so glad you found your way here to A Vast and Humble Abode.

My work with individuals, partners, and groups is centered around one thing: a healing relationship. Relationships that heal are affirming and nurturing, while affording ample space for the risks and joys of self-discovery. We shepherd in the emergence of the not-yet-known in ourselves in exactly this kind of context, and the body is our potent, safe, and gentle guide.

I am an artist and a therapist with over two decades' experience mining and developing interpersonal creative process as a transformational playground. I started my career in body-minded healing practices when I became a yoga teacher in private practice in 2002. In 2008 I began incorporating creative process support for individuals and groups as my own creative career began to blossom. My work since then has incorporated experiential approaches to trauma resolution, helping individuals face and transform long-held patterns rooted in complex, relational experiences of early life. My masters program in Counseling with a Clinical Mental Health Specialization and Somatic Psychology emphasis allowed me to work with a wide variety of mental health clients in recovery from interpersonal abuse and social trauma as well as persons navigating major life transitions and recovery from substance and process addictions with dual diagnoses. I began offering creative group work in 2019 under the auspices of Steve Sommers, LMFT, LMT, long-time affiliate of the Cumberland Institute of Nashville, TN, whose approach to somatic and experiential group work has been a key influence and guiding light for a great many practitioners in this region. I now offer group as well as one-to-one therapy and creative process support in affiliation with Steve Sommers and the Cumberland Institute in private practice.

I am LGBTQIA and non-binary affirming, anti-racist, feminist, and an active promotor of decolonizing relationships and the body. I'm a member of the American Counseling Association, the Body Mind Centering Association, and a Licensed Professional Counselor/Mental Health Service Provider in the state of Tennessee. I am a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider and Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher. I am certified in SomEx, somatic and experiential interventions for addiction recovery and trauma resolution, at the second level.

I work with individuals and groups who are navigating change to harness the embodied and creative process in their lives and in specific undertakings.

Virtual sessions available as well as in-person at Body Perspectives Group Practice in the Donelson neighborhood south of downtown Nashville, TN.

Safety precautions include masking, air-filtering, and client self-check requirements.





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A Vast and Humble Abode is an embodied, social-justice oriented, trauma-informed, and richly creative approach to therapeutic and playful group and one-on-one counseling and facilitation which accompanies the body-mind along its path between innermost and social transformation, between awareness and dynamic, responsive action.