The simplest way I know how to describe the energy I work with is life-force energy.

I have received training and attunements in different forms of energy healing, including Sekhem and Alchemical Healing, and I have a deep respect for the traditions, teachings, and frequencies I have been entrusted to work with. Each has taught me something and expanded my capacity to experience and work with energy in ways that I could not have understood before experiencing them for myself.

But somewhere along the way, I stopped experiencing them as separate things.

The more I worked with energy, the more I began to understand that the names help us identify and learn particular practices and frequencies, but the energy itself feels much more expansive to me. At its foundation, I experience it as life-force energy. There are different frequencies, different qualities, different ways that energy moves and expresses itself, but I no longer feel a need to separate those experiences while I am working.

When I begin a healing session, I am not deciding which modality I am going to use or mentally moving from one practice into another. I listen. I feel. I pay attention to what is happening in the moment and allow the energy to guide the way I work.

Sometimes my hands are drawn somewhere before I consciously understand why. Sometimes the energy feels strong and concentrated, and other times it is incredibly subtle. I may feel a shift in frequency, a change in the way the energy is moving, or a sense that something different is coming forward. There are moments when I understand very clearly what I am experiencing and others when I don't have language for it at all. I have learned that I don't always need to.

This has probably been one of the greatest changes in the way I work with energy. In the beginning, I wanted to understand what I was doing. I wanted to know what I was feeling, what it meant, and where it belonged within what I had been taught. Experience has taught me to trust the energy without always needing to translate it through my mind first.

That does not mean I have moved away from my training. My training gave me the foundation for this work. My attunements opened me to frequencies that I deeply honor, and experience continues to teach me how to work with them. But I have also learned that there comes a point when what you have been taught begins to live within you differently. You are no longer trying to remember every step or determine what should happen next. You begin to recognize what you are feeling because you have developed a relationship with the energy itself.

That is what energy healing has become for me.

I don't experience Sekhem, Alchemical Healing, or life-force energy as competing ideas that I need to choose between, nor do I feel that I am taking separate practices and combining them into a new modality of my own. I experience different frequencies of the same life-force energy, each with its own qualities and teachings, and I allow them to move through the work in the way they naturally arise.

There is an intuitive quality to that which is difficult to put into words because so much of it is experienced rather than thought about. It is a relationship built through attunement, practice, sensitivity, trust, and time. The more I have learned to listen, the less I have felt the need to control or define every part of what is happening.

For me, that is where the art of energy healing begins. My training matters. My attunements matter. What I have learned through experience matters. But there is also something that happens when I trust all of those things enough to become fully present with the energy in front of me.

I am not trying to make the energy fit the healing.

I am allowing the healing to unfold through the energy.

The Alchemy of Healing

Alchemy changed the way I think about what it means to heal.

There can be such a strong focus in healing on releasing things. We want to let go of the pain, move beyond the grief, get rid of the anger, overcome the fear, and leave behind the experiences that have hurt us. I understand that desire. There are things we carry that we genuinely do need to release. But alchemy introduced me to a different question: before I decide that something needs to go, what might still be held within it?

That question opened something entirely different for me.

Grief is painful, but grief can also carry an incredible amount of love. Anger can be uncomfortable, but it may also be connected to our power, our boundaries, or the part of us that knows something was not okay. Fear may have spent years trying to protect us. An old wound may still hold a part of ourselves that became hidden, silenced, or disconnected along the way.

When I began looking at healing through that lens, I became less interested in getting rid of every difficult feeling or experience and more curious about what might be asking to be understood, reclaimed, or transformed.

That is what alchemy means to me.

Alchemy does not require us to pretend that something painful was actually beautiful or that everything happens for a reason. It does not erase what happened, and it does not ask us to be grateful for what hurt us. It allows for the possibility that what we have carried does not have to remain in the same form forever.

Our relationship with it can change. What it means within our lives can change. Something that once existed only as pain may eventually exist alongside wisdom. Anger can help us recognize our own power. Grief can remain connected to love without consuming our lives. An experience that once made us feel disconnected from ourselves can eventually become part of how we find our way back.

For me, there is something deeply important about that because healing does not always have to mean leaving parts of ourselves behind. Sometimes it is about going back for them.

There may be pieces of ourselves that became buried within experiences we were simply trying to survive. Parts that learned to become quiet, guarded, small, disconnected, or something other than what they once were. Healing can create an opportunity to meet those parts differently now—not as something broken that needs to be fixed, but as something of ourselves that deserves to be known again.

This is where I experience the transformation within alchemy. The past does not disappear. What happened does not become something other than what it was. But it no longer has to occupy the same place within us or carry the same meaning forever. We can take what still belongs to us and allow the rest to change.

That is the alchemy I bring into this work. Not the promise that pain will become beautiful, but the belief that pain does not get the final word on what something becomes within us.

Sometimes healing is release.

Sometimes healing is reclamation.

And sometimes, it is discovering that something we thought we needed to leave behind was still carrying a part of us home.

The Language of Energy

You do not need to understand energy in the same way I do in order to experience this work.

Energy can sound like something abstract until we begin paying attention to how much we already experience without consciously thinking about it. We walk into certain spaces and immediately feel at ease, while something about another space may make us want to leave. Our body can soften around someone we trust or become tense before our mind has figured out why. We can feel connected, unsettled, open, heavy, grounded, or completely drained without always being able to point to one specific reason.

For me, this is part of the language of energy.

I have become much more aware of that language through my own healing and through learning to work with energy, but I don’t believe someone needs to understand energy systems, know about chakras, have a spiritual practice, or even have the same beliefs I do to receive energy healing. You are not coming into a session to prove that you can feel energy or to have a particular kind of experience. You are simply being invited to notice what is happening within you.

Sometimes what happens is very physical. People may notice warmth, tingling, heaviness, lightness, changes in their breathing, or a sense of their body deeply settling. Sometimes emotion comes forward. Sometimes there is imagery, memory, or an unexpected sense of clarity. Sometimes the experience is subtle and quiet. And sometimes a person may not be able to describe what they experienced at all.

I think that last part matters because we are so accustomed to believing that we have to understand something for it to be meaningful. Energy has taught me that not every experience needs to be immediately translated into words. Sometimes we can simply notice what we feel and allow ourselves to be curious about it.

There is no right way to experience an energy healing session, and I am not looking for you to have the same experience that I would have. What I feel while working with energy may be different from what you feel receiving it. Your experience belongs to you.

That is what I mean when I talk about the language of energy. It is not a language you need to study before you arrive. It is something we learn to notice by becoming more present with ourselves—with sensation, emotion, intuition, subtle changes, and the things we sometimes know or feel before we have the words to explain them.

You do not have to arrive already knowing how to listen.

Sometimes the experience itself is where we begin.

Sunday Healing Sessions

Sunday sessions are where everything I have described throughout this page comes together in one experience.

I offer these sessions in person at Temple Medicine Healing in NE Portland because I wanted this work to have the time and physical space it deserves. There is something different about being able to step away from everyday life, enter a space intentionally created for healing, and know that there is nowhere else you need to be for a while. These sessions are not meant to feel rushed or like something we need to fit into a narrow window. There is time to arrive, experience the work, and come back into yourself before returning to the rest of your day.

We begin by opening the space together and talking about what is bringing you in. You may arrive with a very clear intention, something you have been carrying, a place in your life where you feel stuck, or simply a feeling that you need time to reconnect with yourself. You do not need to know exactly what you need from the session before you arrive.

From there, I guide you through breathwork. For me, the breath creates a natural transition between the outside world and the deeper work we are about to enter. It gives you time to become present in your body, notice what is there, and begin settling into the experience rather than moving directly from the pace of your day onto the healing table.

The table work is where I allow the session to become much more intuitive. This is where the energy healing, alchemy, sound and vibration, spiritual connection, and everything I have learned through my practice can come together in response to you and what is unfolding in the moment. I may work directly with the body or within the energetic field around it. I may be drawn to incorporate crystals, sound, or other sacred tools. There may be intuitive information or spiritual guidance that comes forward, or the session may unfold primarily through the energy itself.

I do not follow the same sequence with every person because I do not believe every person needs the same experience. My role is not to decide ahead of time what your healing should look like. I create the foundation for the session, bring everything I have been trained and attuned to work with, and then listen closely to what is actually happening once we are there.

That is one of the things I value most about this work. There is structure, but there is also freedom within it. There is room for the session to become what it needs to be rather than asking you or the energy to fit into something I decided beforehand.

When the table work comes to a natural close, we do not immediately end the session. There is time to ground, reconnect with your body, and allow yourself to settle before we close the space. We can talk about what you experienced, and I will share anything I experienced or received during the healing that feels important to offer you. There is no expectation that everything needs to make sense before you leave. Some experiences are immediately clear, while others continue to unfold or take on meaning with time.

I also wanted there to be a way for the experience to continue after you leave the healing space. You will go home with a healing bag containing everything you need for a guided cleansing bath. The bath is not separate from the session or simply something extra I send home with you. I created it as an intentional continuation of the work—a way to return to yourself, reconnect with the experience, and give the clearing, grounding, and integration more space to continue in your own environment.

More than anything, I want these sessions to give you time to experience healing without needing to perform it, explain it, or know where it is supposed to lead.

You can simply arrive as you are, and we begin from there.