I am a transracial adoptee, a multiracial woman of Irish, Scottish, Puerto Rican, and African/Yoruba descent. I have spent more than twenty years as a licensed professional counselor sitting with people in the hardest moments of their lives.
In 2026, I completed my PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision at Adams State University. My doctoral research focused on what the counseling profession has largely overlooked: the ancestral grief and cultural disconnection experienced by transracial adoptees and others separated from their lineage.
That research produced the Transracial Adoption Counseling Assessment, the only known counselor self-assessment instrument designed to measure competency in working with this population.
I built the H.E.A.L. Path™ because the profession did not have the tools my clients needed, and because I lived the experience myself. I know what it is to grieve a culture you were never given access to. I know what it is to search for belonging in a world that has no framework for your particular kind of loss.
Over the years, people began finding me specifically. Word traveled that I worked differently. That I did not pathologize the grief of not knowing where you come from. That healing in my practice could involve the body, ritual, story, and lineage, not just symptom reduction.
The H.E.A.L. Path™ grew from all of that. From two decades of clinical work. From my own lived experience. From the clients who trusted me with the parts of themselves that other counselors had not known how to hold.
The Healing Pause is the space I wish had existed when I was looking for my own way home. It is built with clinical rigor, community consultation, and a deep respect for the people who carry this work in their bodies every day.
I am not a neutral guide. I am someone who did this work on herself first.