As a lifelong apprentice to the cycles of birth and death, the work of my heart has always been in supporting others to have courageous conversations about the things that matter most to them. For the past 15 years, I have worked as an Infant Mental Health Specialist tending to the sacred relationships that parents and caregivers have with the young ones in their lives, including those both precious and unlived.
Built on my lived experiences of perinatal loss, birth trauma, and postpartum depression, I show up (and stand up) for the mourning. I also believe in the miracles and mysteries of life, and am reminded that our pain and suffering can mark the beginning of something even greater – a new wish, a re/membered joy, a fierce and passionate love.
I hold a Master’s of Science in Psychodynamic Developmental Neuroscience from University College London and the Anna Freud Centre and a Graduate Certificate in Infant Mental Health from the Barnard Center at the University of Washington. My loss and bereavement work is a weaving of disciplines across the fields of mental health, ecopsychology, attachment theory, neuroscience, and spiritual traditions remembered. My formal training and education is further listed here.