About
Some thresholds we choose.
Others choose us.
All of them reshape us.
Lady Death
I came to New York City in my late twenties, carrying the ghost of a failed relationship and seven years of teaching that no longer fit. The city became my underworld—not the glittering metropolis of dreams, but a descent into necessary darkness.
By day, I worked as an executive legal secretary in gleaming towers, a bilingual Cinderella sweeping ashes in international law firms. The lawyers I served had everything except what mattered—success had eaten their souls, leaving them hungry ghosts in Armani. By night, I dove into depth psychology and archetypal astrology, trying to map my way through the dark.
I found a magazine called Parabola—the issue was "Fate & Destiny." Tucked inside, an ad for Pacifica Graduate Institute shimmered like light at the end of a dark tunnel. Something in me knew, even if I couldn't yet understand what. I carried that magazine in my backpack for three years, a talisman, a promise, a reminder of something waiting.
But I wasn't ready yet. I still had to eat the Big Apple, digest the full underworld meal, before I could take that leap.
Lady Grief
When I finally crossed the threshold to Pacifica, flying coast to coast for weekend intensives, I found my people—souls who understood that fairy tales aren't entertainment but instruction manuals for transformation. That myths matter because they show us how to die properly to what was, so something new can be born.
Pacifica undid me. Then it rebuilt me. Not into someone new, but into who I'd always been, just couldn't language before. I learned that my love of stories wasn't frivolous—it was medicine. That the imaginal realm wasn't escape but the most real thing there is.
Years later, as I left my corporate castle to birth my own practice, my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. I learned to midwife new life while attending death. Grief became my teacher in a way no graduate school could be. It showed me how creativity feeds on loss, how joy and sorrow dance together, how transformation requires we honor both the dissolution and the emergence.
Lady Joy
Eventually, I left the underworld of NYC for the moss and mist of the Pacific Northwest. If New York was my necessary Hades, this lush Venusian realm became where I rebirthed my creative self, found love, and discovered friends who welcomed all of me—not just the productive parts.
Plant medicine found me in my late forties—ayahuasca revealing what decades of seeking couldn't. The message upended everything: the universe doesn't want our seriousness, it wants to PLAY. The force behind everything isn't just love—it's play, expressing itself as a multitude of joys. Joy isn't our reward for good behavior. It's our birthright and compass.
Then my mother's death last year, after watching her white-knuckle grip on life despite unbearable pain. Her warrior spirit taught me work ethic, but her death taught me something else: that all our achieving means nothing if we forget the soul's appetite for beauty, softness, magic. I couldn't bypass Lady Grievana (I see her as Helen Mirren—elegant, fierce, taking no shortcuts) to get to Lady Joy. The landscape of grief must be walked, not Ubered through. Her passing became liberation—for her, I hope, and certainly for me.
Now I sit with others at their thresholds, listening deeply to the images hidden
in how they tell their stories. Every metaphor they use, every slip of language, reveals the map they need. Through archetypal astrology, I help them see which god walks with them, what wants to be birthed through them—threshold medicine.
Because your restlessness isn't a problem. It's your soul saying: there's more wanting to emerge.
I guide threshold crossers through life's passages using depth psychology, archetypal astrology, and the wisdom of old stories. My practice emerged from my own journey through corporate landscapes, academic study at Pacifica Graduate Institute (MA in Counseling Psychology), and years of exploring how myth and psyche illuminate our paths.
I'm a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). My understanding of archetypal astrology comes from years of dedicated study with mentors and my own ongoing practice. The mythological frameworks I use have been gathered over decades of reading, contemplation, and lived experience—because the best maps for transformation come from walking the territory yourself.
I write regularly about liminality, thresholds, and the soul's appetite for transformation (including why what gets dismissed as fluff might be exactly
the medicine needed). I also host a podcast exploring how to approach change with the curiosity of lovers. My work resonates especially with successful professionals who sense something essential is missing—those who've
achieved the goals but lost the plot. I don't help people climb higher. I help them descend into what matters.
Based in the Pacific Northwest, I work with clients in English and Portuguese. I offer individual mentorship for those ready to explore what wants to emerge through their own thresholds. My own journey continues to unfold, which means I meet my clients as a fellow traveler, not a finished product.
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