I didn't set out to become a Reiki practitioner.

For most of my career, I worked in leadership development inside large, high-pressure organizations. I loved the work, but I also built a life around being productive, capable and good at handling things. If something wasn’t working, my instinct was usually to analyze it, fix it or push through.

When my oldest brother died in an accident, I took three months off and travelled through Southeast Asia. Near the end of that trip, I was sitting on a beach at sunset with a stray dog beside me when I decided I didn’t want to go back to the life I had been living. I left Washington DC and moved to Europe.

I arrived in Berlin at the end of 2019 wanting a life that revolved a little less around work. I started therapy, coaching and trying all sorts of things to understand myself better. And I did understand myself better. I could see where my patterns came from and why I reacted the way I did. I just still felt stuck in a lot of them.

A few years later, my father died. I was grieving, barely sleeping and trying all the things I normally relied on when a friend suggested Reiki. I booked an online session with a practitioner in Bangkok. I had no idea what to expect and was pretty skeptical, but at that point I was willing to try something different.

For the first time, instead of avoiding what I was feeling or analyzing it, I could actually feel the emotions in my body and let them go. It blew me away. So I kept going. Over the next year, month after month and session after session, I started letting go of old trauma, emotions and blocks I’d been carrying for years.

That’s why I trained to become a Reiki Master and why I do this work now. I know what it’s like to have done all the thinking, all the therapy, all the trying, and still feel like something hasn’t moved.

If any part of my story feels familiar, I would be honored to work with you and help you find out what Reiki can do for you.