Integration of the Heart: Where Faith Meets Neuroscience

My life’s work began in the quiet places ... wandering wooded trails and golden fields as a child, where the natural world stirred something deep within me: a longing for connection, meaning, and presence. That same sense of sacred invitation resurfaced at age 24, when I met my first spiritual director while working as an ER nurse. In the silence of a hermitage in Vancouver, I felt truly seen and heard - and something within me awakened.

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Since then, I have spent over three decades as a Registered Nurse, rooted in trauma-informed care and soul care, working at the intersection of suffering and healing. My path has woven together clinical practice, spiritual formation, and contemplative tradition shaped by both Catholic and Protestant influences, and nourished by the ancient wisdom of the Desert Mothers and Fathers.

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I am now completing my second Master of Science in Nursing as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP), graduating in late 2025. This next chapter expands my vision: to offer integrative, faith-based, psycho-spiritual, mental health care that tends to the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. My approach blends Interpersonal Neurobiology, intergenerational trauma restoration, and contemplative theology, rooted in a strengths-based vision of human dignity and resilience.

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Trained in Contemplative-Evocative Spiritual Direction through CenterQuest and shaped by years of formation in psychology and spiritual care, I offer a sacred space for others to slow down, listen deeply, and uncover the sacred story that lives within them. Grounded in my Scottish-Irish Celtic heritage and contemplative practice, I integrate modalities such as somatic work, Jungian dreamwork, the Enneagram, and Narrative Therapy allowing for a deeply personalized, restorative, culturally-safe and embodied journey.

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In a world marked by relentless pace and growing disconnection, soul care offers a vital invitation: to return to a deeper sense of belonging: to yourself, to others, and to the Creator. As we now understand more about the nervous system and the impact of trauma (including intergenerational systemic trauma), we are also rediscovering what the ancients knew: that stillness, safety, and sacred presence are profoundly healing. Soul care is not about fixing, it is about remembering who you are, and gently returning to the center where Divine encounter and transformation meet.