I grew up navigating Complex-PTSD, undiagnosed neurodivergence, and thick layers of unprocessed family trauma. Living with a chronically dysregulated nervous system took a toll on my health. I experienced emotional overwhelm, anxiety, severe panic attacks, exhaustion, and a vast array of physical symptoms that never fit into a clear diagnosis. My body was communicating what I didn’t know how to understand.

I always knew my symptoms weren’t just physical but deeply connected to emotional and deeper internal experiences that needed attention.

From the age of nineteen, I began exploring healing modalities. I practiced yoga and meditation, attended silent retreats, tried therapy, dance, personal development practices, and at times, less supportive coping strategies. Many experiences were meaningful and formative, but none reached the depth I was seeking.

I was frequently offered medication as a "solution", but I always knew that wasn’t my path. I was searching for something deeper, a way to understand the meaning behind my symptoms, that they were pointing me toward something important.

Eventually, I reached a breaking point. Everything unprocessed rose to the surface, and that crisis led me to two key paths:

→ Herbal medicine as a practical, grounded, and deeply relational path of healing

→ Embodied psychotherapy and soul-focused work to explore trauma, emotional patterns, and the unconscious.

Through these paths, I began untangling the layers of my life and rediscovering who I was beneath them. I learned to trust my body, my timing, and my intuition. I explored relationship, ancestral connection, healing and medicine, boundaries, nervous system regulation, trauma theory, and the power of being witnessed. Bit by bit, I began to understand myself, and the pieces of my life started to make sense.

I grew up with a pharmacist for a parent, was continually failed by doctors, and through training in herbal medicine I became increasingly aware of the limits of the conventional medical model. For long-term illness, it often focuses narrowly on suppressing symptoms rather than supporting the person to heal.

Many herbalists are now referred to as “medical herbalists,” a title attempting to fit their wisdom into a system that often dismisses their depth. I prefer to call myself a non-medical herbalist, working intuitively, earth-based, guided by ancestral lineages, and addressing the physical, emotional, and deeper energetic levels of healing rather than clinical labels.

I have always been fascinated by energetic systems such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, but I wanted a system rooted in my own ancestry. My final dissertation led me to Celtic healing lineages in Britain and Ireland, uncovering pre-colonial practices and earth-based wisdom that have been buried over centuries.

Through these traditions, and through my own years of healing, I learned how to listen to my body instead of fear it. I learned how symptoms can speak, how patterns repeat, and how healing unfolds over time, in ever-circling layers - a journey I continue today.

This is what I now guide others through: not a quick fix, but a relationship. Not symptom suppression, but gradual restoration. Not fighting the body, but learning its language.