I work with a wide variety of people and situations, but I have specific expertise and interest in:

• Spiritual inquiry, especially finding your own unique spiritual path, reconnecting with your roots or ancestral practices, and healing from religious trauma 
• Chronic illness / body symptoms
• Enhancing Creativity
• Dreamwork
• Internalized oppression: healing the ways we oppress ourselves as a mirror of society's or our family's abuse patterns (think internalized racism, sexism, antisemitism, homophobia, etc.)

I've worked with people of all ages, abilities, and economic, social, and political backgrounds, and I've spent most of my life living and working in highly diverse settings, often in groups with people from ten or more countries collaborating on projects together.

I have extensive experience working with:

people who have experienced extreme states,

people who are seeking spiritual healing or awakening,

people making sense of their own mixed cultural or racial backgrounds, and

people with developmental disabilities.

I have worked with Christians, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, Atheists, Agnostics, Catholics, Anthroposophists, and practitioners of magic and ritual from Celtic, Norse, Sicilian, and Indigenous North and South American traditions.

My own heritage includes (at least) the Pale of Settlement, the German Shtetles, Scotland, England, Ireland, mainstream Germany, Spain, Central & South Asia, Northern and Western Africa, and North American Cherokee. I was born in Texas in the traditional homelands of the Karankawa peoples and raised culturally and religiously Jewish in a mixed-faith household.

I have done extensive work on internalized oppression and have worked with many clients and students on this topic. My free mini-course, From Self-Critical to Self-Confident in Under an Hour, goes in depth about the ways internalized oppression can show up as an inner critic.

I currently see 1:1 Processwork clients in my Beaverton office, and I offer off-site courses and workshops by request. Some fun places I've taught in person include schools, farms, and yoga studios. Click here to contact me to inquire about booking a talk or class for your group.

No problem at all! The beauty of Processwork is that we can explore the dreaming process while you're awake and you don't have to remember any nighttime dreams to do that. I do have a lot of teachings designed to help you improve dream recall and understanding of dreams, though. Click here to check out my Intro course

Processwork is an evolution of Jungian depth psychology, sometimes described as an "awareness method." It emphasizes signal-based awareness to discover the deeper patterns that are trying to be known in a person, a body, a relationship, or a group. Processwork believes that helping these patterns become more conscious and integrated allows for greater wholeness, ease, flow, and healing in life. Processwork is heavily influenced by Carl Jung's work as well as transpersonal psychology, somatic psychology, Taoism, and Shamanism.

"Somatics" refers to your perception of your lived experience in a body, and your ability to use this awareness to process and regulate emotions and experiences through the body. All emotions have a somatic, or body-based component. Becoming aware of how your emotions and experiences manifest in your body can help you process feelings, express yourself better, clear trauma, and improve boundaries and relationships.

Absolutely. You never have to tell a story you don't want to tell. The beauty of somatics, dreamwork, therapeutic horticulture, and Processwork is that you can work through life's most intense experiences without having to talk about anything you don't want to talk about. I will never pressure you to share more than you want to. In fact, I will support you to honor your own boundaries moment to moment.

Horticultural therapy is the practice of working with plants and nature as intentional healing and therapeutic processes. I am a Certified Horticultural Therapist but I am not a Registered Horticultural Therapist, which means I offer therapeutic horticulture experiences but I do not treat clinically. 

Not a this time. I'm happy to collaborate with your healthcare and mental healthcare team to best serve your needs.

Nope! But that's a good thing. I can't fix you because you're not broken, and I I'm not biased one way or the other towards your marriage being "saved." My job is to help you increase your awareness and build the skillset to work on yourself and your relationships in the moment. Through this process, you'll be able to align your life with what best suits your true nature. You can read more about my philosophy on this in my blog post, "You May Need Healing But You Don't Need to be Fixed."

I work a lot with dreaming, mythology, and archetypal awareness. The dreaming world is regenerative. It's like going back to source. Also, my work centers around transformation. I get to help people clear old traumas and express the essence of who they are more in their daily lives, and that's very energizing! I also take really good care of myself. I practice what I preach. I have many daily practices, and I take time off for restoration, ritual, and my own innerwork. I also have an excellent therapist.

Nope! It's my dad's last name. It's Scottish and was originally Inverararity, which loosely translates as "mouth of the Creek of Arity." Click here to hear my name pronounced out loud.

This is an impossible question. There are too many. I love them all. But, at the moment of writing, I’m partial to dandelions.

My style has been described as spacious, patient, and precise, and sometimes sudden. I listen carefully, I track your overall process, and I pinpoint exactly where the energy needs to shift for greater awareness, sometimes calling attention to that in surprising ways. I liken it to acupuncture.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY

CERTIFICATE IN HORTICULTURAL THERAPY, 2021

Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR

Year-long training to apply social and individual therapeutic principles to horticultural settings.

MASTER OF ARTS IN PROCESS ORIENTED FACILITATION AND CONFLICT STUDIES, 2017

The Processwork Institute, Portland, OR

Processwork is an evolution of Carl Jung’s work expanded by Dr. Arnold Mindell to include the Dreambody (somatic) concept and World Work (social/large group applications) with theoretical foundations in quantum physics. Training included: Organizational development, facilitation of open forums, social justice and diversity, processing historical trauma, personal development, individual counseling, couples counseling, somatic processing, dream analysis, working with extreme and altered states, and the ability to remain facilitative in tense environments. Modalities and philosophies emphasized included art therapy, family constellations-style process, ancestral influence, Taoism and Confucianism, and cross-cultural shamanism. Counseling internship at Rivers Way Community Clinic.

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONORS) IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, 2006

New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL

Exchange semester at The Findhorn Foundation Ecovillage in northern Scotland 2004

Exchange semester at the Landscape and Livelihood Field Semester in Swan Valley, Montana 2005

Semester leave of absence working on small organic farms in Europe 2005

Thesis project, oral history: Community Gardens in Sarasota County, FL 2006

Recipient of Sarasota County Achievement Award in Environmental Education, 2006

PROFESSIONAL & TRADE

CERTIFICATE IN BOUNDARIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: ETHICAL, CLINICAL, AND STANDARD OF CARE CONSIDERATIONS, Present

The Zur Institute

57 mental health CE credit hours, self-paced, addressing touch, gifts, dual relationships, self-disclosure, power dynamics, in-home care, bartering, ethical decision making, and risk management.

PROFESSIONAL APPLICATIONS 10-MONTH TRAINING, Feb 23-Nov 16 2022

Core Awareness with Liz Koch

30 NCBTMB CE credits in 43 contact hour course on biointelligence and the psoas.

HEARTMATH CLINICAL CERTIFICATION FOR STRESS, ANXIETY, AND SELF-REGULATION, 2022

Heartmath™ Institute

20 CE credits in HearthMath™ biofeedback for clinical settings. Includes teaching clients self-care, coherenece model, heart-brain communication, relational energetics, heart rate variability, and basic interventions.

CERTIFICATE IN MASSAGE THERAPY (580HRS), 2012

Costa Rica School of Massage Therapy, Sámara, Costa Rica

Modalities included Swedish, Thai, Shiatsu, Neuromuscular Therapy, Myofascial Release, Craniosacral Therapy, Hydrotherapy. Clinic hours in on-site Spanish/English clinic providing affordable massage for locals.

CERTIFICATE IN PERMACULTURE AND ECOVILLAGE DESIGN, 2005

Lost Valley Education Center, Dexter, OR

Two-month residential training in human-scale community design, communication, group decision-making, and ecologically regenerative practices of food production, medicine-making, and land restoration.

ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS:

•  Year of Gaia Herbal Training, 04-2023-04-2024 (Currently completing Certificate components as of 06/2024)
•  EastWest School of Planetary Herbology Professional Herbalism Training Course, 10-2022, (Present)
•  Kabbalah 101, 102, 103 (About 40 hours) with Rabbi Olivier BenHaim, 11/2022-06/2023
• Intro to Cacao Ceremony Facilitation with SoulLife Cacao, 05/02/2023
•  Suicide Prevention (6 CE hrs) Zur Institute, 11/2022
•  Somatic Interventions for Chronic Pain and Syndromes with Dr. Peter Levine and Diane Heller (10hrs) Somatic Experiencing® Institute, 02/02-03/02, 2022
•  BASIC Psoas Workshop, Liz Koch Core Awareness (12 hrs) 01/28-30, 2022
•  Dimensions of Dementia Processwork workshop with Stan Tomandl and Ann Jacob, Sept-Nov 2021
•  Seed Saving Teacher Certification, Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, 05/2021
•  Qualified Mental Health Professional, QMHP-C#00926
•  Youth Mental Health First Aid Certification, valid 02/2019-02/2022
•  Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Certification, valid 08/2018-08/2019
•  Body-Mind Centering® Embryological Development and Spiral of the Limbs (5 hrs, 2018), Authentic Movement (5 hrs, 2018), and Embodiment of the Perceptual Response Cycles (5 hrs 2019) with Mary Lou Seereiter
•  Chi Nei Tsang and the Abdomen (24 hrs) with Saumya Comer at East West College of the Healing Arts
•  Toastmaster's Competent Communicator and Toastmaster's Competent Leader Awards, 2015
•  Licensed Massage Therapist, LMT#22490
•  Client-Centered Hypnotherapy Certification (100hrs) Bastyr University, 2013
•  Arvigo® Technique of Maya Abdominal Therapy Self-Care Training (17.5 hrs 2012), Professional Training (36.5 hrs 2012), and Certification Training (26 hrs 2013)
•  Foot Reflexology Certification (200 hrs) Connecticut Center for Universal Reflexology, 2011
•  Yoga Instructor Certifications
  •  (170 hrs) Yoga Therapy College of Houston, 2007
  •  (200 hrs) Embodyoga® at Yoga Center Amherst (based in Body-Mind Centering), 2011
  •  (25 hrs) Mindful Yoga Therapy for Veterans, 2012
•  Birth and Postpartum Doula Trainings with Michelle L’Esperance, 2010
•  Non-Violent Communication Integration and Mentorship Program with Miki Kashtan, Jan-Mar 2010
•  Feldenkrais® Method Practitioner Training: (40 hrs, first year of four-year training) at Feldenkrais Center of New York, 2009-2010
•  Additionally completed over 70 hours of CEU’s in diverse areas including Ayurvedic Pulse Assessment, BodyReading the Myofascial Meridians, Headache Treatment, Feldenkrais® for Back Pain, Working with Disorders of Emotional Regulation, Hypnotherapy for Weight Management and Smoking Cessation, Somatic Dysfunction, Massage for Labor and Birth, Client Positioning Strategies, Cadaver Dissection, Scar Tissue Management, Cultural Competency, and Boundaries

ADDITIONAL PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Story Medicine: A Storytelling Workshop with Will Hornyak, (8 hrs over 4 weeks), 06-2024 
• Kabbalah 101 & 201, 6-month course with Rabbi Olivier BenHaim, Bet Alef Synagogue, 2022-23
•  Vocal Odyssey with Nessi Gomes, Oct 15-16 2022
•  Ayahuasca Retreat and Master Plant Dieta with Bobinsana, 11 days, Aya Healing Retreats, Iquitos, Peru 09/2022
•  Ancestral Medicine Courses: Practical Animism Parts Iⅈ Foundations of Ritual; Kindling the Need Fire: Ritual Support for Pandemic Times; Bring Out Your Dead and; Ancestral Lineage Healing, with Dr. Daniel Foor, 2020-2022
•  Kabbalistic Healing Dreams Kislev Workshop series with Chaya Lester, November 2021
•  The Nature of Cities Conference Attendee 2021
•  Akimbo Courses: The Marketing Seminar (2020), Writing in Community (2021-22), The Podcasting Workshop (2022)
•  Anti-racism and equity trainings Anti-racism book club at Portland Community College (2020-21); Oregon Volunteers Anti-Racism Training with Engage the Change (2021); Achieve the Dream Conference (2021); Salmon Nation Festival of What Works (2021); How to be an Anti-antisemite with Rabbi Olivier BenHaim (11/2022-02/2022); Webinars with Co-Creative, Global Just Recovery; Partners for a Hunger-free Oregon; Slow Food USA and Slow Food Youth Network, Tamarack Institute; Resolutions Northwest; White Awake; Resmaa Menakhem’s Cultural Somatics, and more.
•  Seed Saving for Farmers, 10-week training through Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, 2020
•  Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference and Teacher Training, John Muir Laws, 2021
•  Plant Spirit Medicine Vision Quest, 10-day wilderness vision quest with plant-communication and solo fasting components in eastern Oregon through The School of Forest Medicine, 2019
•  Animas Vision Quest, 10-day wilderness vision quest with 4-day fast and 3-day solo component in Colorado and Utah through Animas Valley Institute, 2017
•  Bellydance 8-week series, Annyelle, Feb-Mar 2015
•  Soul Quest Vision Quest, 3-day guided wilderness vision quest with 1-day fasting solo component in WA, Vital Way Natural Medicine, July 2014
•  Intro and Intermediate Bellydance Series with Performance, Chaya Leia Aronson, Sept-Nov 2011
•  Tai Chi Pushing Hands and Fighting Set (12hrs) Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming, Boston, MA, Feb 2011
•  EMerge Dance and Somatics Weekend, Earthdance Retreat Center, Feb 2011
•  Writing It Up In the Garden, 10-week creative writing workshops with Nerissa Nields, 2010 and 2011
•  Vipassana Meditation Student and Server, in the tradition of S.N. Goenka, regularly sitting and serving over 1,000 hours at Texas and Massachusetts Vipassana centers, 2005-2011
•  Contact Improv Boston Winter Festival, participant, February 26-28, 2010
•  Body-lab Embryology Workshop with Saliq Savage (4hrs) December 2009
•  SEEDS mini-festival weekend, Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance, & Science at Earthdance Retreat Center, June 2009
•  Spring Equinox Jam at Earthdance with Leslie Cohen-Rubury and Amii LeGendre, March 19-22, 2009
•  Jennifer Monson iLand Dance and Ecology Weekend Workshop, The Performance Garage in Philadelphia, PA, Janauary 2009
•  Yoga Master Classes and Workshops with Seane Corn, Jonny Kest, Doug Swenson, Julie Byrd, and Edward Clark (Tripsichore), Dec 2007-Nov 2009
•  Shamanic Improvisational Dance Beginner’s and Advanced courses, Rosemary Court Learning Center in Sarasota, FL with Jesse Deerwomon, Fall 2004
•  Student of 5-Rhythms® and Ecstatic Dance, in Texas, NYC and Scotland, Summer 2003-2019
•  Massage Tutorial Semester College Credit, learned how to give professional Swedish massages, gave massages to New College students as part of the massage clinic on campus, Fall 2002
• Saolin Southern White Crane Kung Fu and Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Student and Student-Teacher, Houston, TX 2000-2006 Marc Golubic and Jeff Bolt with workshops from Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming, Continued regular studies of Tai Chi at YMAA Western Mass in Northampton with Jeff Rosen in 2010-2011 and briefly with Full Circle Arts with Art Baner in Bellingham, WA in 2012.