The founder of Integral Health & Healing, PLLC brings over two decades of clinical experience across some of the most demanding and diverse healthcare environments in the world. Her journey began in 2001 as a CNA — a foundation that instilled in her a deep, ground-level understanding of what it means to care for another human being at their most vulnerable.
She became a Licensed Practical Nurse in 2007 and a Registered Nurse in 2008, going on to earn her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Arizona State University in 2009. Over the years that followed, she cultivated an extraordinarily broad clinical foundation — practicing in ICU, step-down, liver and kidney transplant units, endoscopy, pre-op, and PACU settings, as well as both inpatient and outpatient psychiatry. As a travel nurse, she worked across the country within some of the most respected and high-acuity healthcare organizations in the world, developing a rare breadth of clinical perspective that few practitioners possess.
In 2022, she earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice with a family focus from Arizona State University, where her doctoral work centered on an innovative pilot study examining the relationship between plant-based diets, Type 2 diabetes, and the potential for reversal in the primary care setting — reflecting her enduring commitment to integrative, root-cause medicine.
In 2024, she was awarded the Diplomate of Lifestyle Medicine by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine — one of the most respected and rare credentials in integrative health. This rigorous designation deepened her expertise in the six pillars of lifestyle medicine: nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress resilience, avoidance of risky substances, and positive social connection. Rather than managing chronic illness reactively, she learned to empower clients to reclaim genuine independence in their health — equipping them with the daily preventative practices that address root causes before they escalate into crises. It is this philosophy that gave rise to the Integral Health Lifestyle Medicine Program at the heart of this practice.
It was in primary care, however, that she began to feel the limitations of a conventional model — the relentless pace, the surface-level interventions, and the glaring gaps in meaningful mental health support. She witnessed firsthand how many patients were suffering not just from psychiatric symptoms, but from unresolved trauma that no prescription could touch. This recognition ignited a pivotal shift: a commitment to deepen her training specifically in psychiatric mental health and trauma therapy.
In December 2025, she earned her Post-Master's Certificate as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Across the Lifespan from Regis College in Weston, MA — formalizing years of clinical growth with rigorous advanced psychiatric training. During her clinical rotations, she worked across both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings, gaining hands-on experience with severe psychiatric illnesses, dual diagnosis populations, and novel therapeutic modalities including ketamine infusion therapy and Spravato (esketamine) — placing her at the forefront of emerging psychiatric treatment.
She further deepened her psychotherapeutic foundation by completing an intensive six-month in-depth trauma treatment training program — because she knew that prescribing alone was never going to be enough. Her vision has always been to go deeper: to offer the kind of transformative, root-level healing that changes not just symptoms, but lives.
Today, she founded Integral Health & Healing, PLLC with a singular mission — to offer something different. Not the turn-and-burn model. Not surface-level symptom management. But deep, whole-person care that honors the full complexity of who you are and the full weight of what you have carried.
What makes her approach uniquely personal is that she does not come to this work from the outside looking in. She understands — not just clinically, but from lived experience — what it means to grow up in a dysfunctional family system, to carry anxiety and PTSD, and to search for care that could actually reach the root. For years she sought a therapist with the depth and courage to go there. That search shaped everything. It is why she pursued training far beyond conventional psychiatry, why she has committed herself to doing her own deep work, and why she brings the full weight of that experience into every session she holds.
But her healing has never been a single moment or a single method. It has been, and continues to be, a journey — one built through many tools, many seasons, and a willingness to go wherever the work requires. Alongside deep therapeutic work, her path has taken her across the world in pursuit of wisdom that conventional medicine could not offer. In 2011 she completed a Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate under the legendary T. Colin Campbell at Cornell University — one of the earliest seeds of what would become her integrative philosophy. In 2012 she became a certified Reiki practitioner, training in both New York City and Peru, developing a felt understanding of energy, the body, and healing beyond the purely clinical. That same year she immersed herself in Shamanic Yoga in Peru — a rigorous 200-hour training weaving together Sivananda, Ashtanga, Pranayama, and plant-based medicine traditions into a deeply embodied practice. In 2015 she traveled to Kerala, India, where she studied Ayurvedic principles and massage — one of the world's oldest healing systems — gaining firsthand experience of how ancient traditions approach the restoration of mind, body, and spirit in harmony.
Yoga, meditation, ceremonial plant medicine work in Peru, Reiki, Ayurveda — these are not footnotes to her clinical training. They are the living, breathing foundation beneath it. She does not approach healing from a textbook alone. She approaches it as someone who has lived it across continents, cultures, and modalities — and who brings that rare, hard-won wisdom into every clinical encounter.
She became the practitioner she once needed — not because she arrived at some fixed destination of wholeness, but because she committed to the journey with honesty, courage, and an open heart. That same commitment is what she brings to every person who trusts her with their care.
Her curiosity about healing extends well beyond the clinical. She holds a formal Aromatherapy certification from New York City (2012) and is an enthusiast of herbal medicine and sound medicine — ancient modalities she weaves into her own daily practice and integrative philosophy of care. In 2015, she traveled to Thailand to study Chi Nei Tsang, an advanced form of Thai abdominal massage rooted in Taoist tradition that works directly with the organs, nervous system, and emotional body — a profound modality that deepened her understanding of how trauma, grief, and unprocessed emotion live not just in the mind, but in the body itself. She believes that healing lives in many forms, and that the wisest practitioners remain students of all of them.
When she is not in session, you might find her on a road trip with the windows down, exploring an eclectic café in a city she has never visited, or boarding a plane somewhere abroad. She loves a great comedy show, time in nature, a yoga class focused on breathwork, and the deep stillness of a sound bath. She is also learning to grow her own food and tends to her garden with the same intention she brings to everything — as a practice of patience, nourishment, and connection to the earth. And at the heart of it all — she comes home to her four beloved animals: Brody, Sammie, Abby, and Toby, her two dogs and two cats who remind her daily that presence, play, and unconditional love are medicine too.
