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 felt difficult, I tended to overthink it, push through it or avoid it altogether.

When my oldest brother died in an accident, I took three months off and travelled through Southeast Asia. At the end of that trip, sitting on a beach with a stray dog beside me, I realized I didn’t want to go back to the life I had been living. It had become too centered on work and something important felt missing. So I left DC and moved to Berlin at the end of 2019, wanting less focus on work and more space for relationships and the parts of myself I had put second. I started therapy and coaching to understand why the same patterns kept showing up in different parts of my life. I understood myself much better, but the patterns didn’t change.

A few years later, my father died. I was grieving again, barely sleeping and trying all the things I normally relied on when a friend suggested an online session with her Reiki healer in Bangkok. I was very skeptical but figured it was worth a try. That first session changed everything for me. For the first time, instead of avoiding what I was feeling or trying to understand it intellectually, I was able to feel the emotions in my body and let them go. I didn’t understand how it worked, but I knew I needed to keep going.

Over the following year, session after session, I started releasing grief, old emotions and patterns I had understood for years but had never really been able to shift. The impact went far beyond grief. I felt lighter, calmer and more connected to myself, and I started noticing real changes in how I was feeling and moving through my life. I wanted to understand it more deeply, so I trained as a Reiki Master. That training deepened the changes I was already experiencing and eventually led me to create Light Mind Studio.

I know what it is like to be capable, self-aware and used to figuring things out yourself, to have done the therapy and the self-work and still feel stuck in the same patterns. If you are tired of thinking your way through everything and want to finally shift something at a deeper level, I would be honored to work with you.