Meet Your Guide

My path began in the corridors of conventional medicine — over a decade in Emergency Medicine, moving through trauma bays and urgent care rooms across the country. I saved lives. I stabilized bodies. But somewhere along the way, I began to see what so many in medicine eventually see: we weren't practicing healthcare. We were practicing sickcare.

Then the world shifted. COVID carried me to the edges of Alaska — to some of the most remote and isolated communities in the country. For three years, I witnessed a depth of loneliness, suffering, and disconnection that no textbook prepares you for. And in that silence, I felt my own spirit asking for something more.

That was my turning point.

I stepped off the conventional path and into the unknown — becoming a yoga teacher, training in shamanic energy medicine with the Four Winds Society, and discovering the functional approach to wellness as the bridge between science and soul.

But even functional wellness, with all its brilliance, has its edges. It speaks to the body beautifully — yet we are more than a body. We are emotional. We are mental. We are spiritual. Wellness that honors only the physical is wellness that remains incomplete.

This is the soul of Gaia Functional Wellness.

Here, I bring together everything I've lived and everything I've learned: the rigor of emergency medicine training, the ancient wisdom of yoga, the transformational power of shamanic healing, and the root-cause intelligence of functional wellness — woven into a practice that sees the whole person.

I am a guide — someone who listens deeply, who helps you hear the true message behind your symptoms, and who walks beside you as you awaken your body's innate ability to heal.

Every person carries the blueprint for wellness within them. Sometimes all that's needed is the right guide, the right tools, and the right space to remember.