I didn't set out to become a Reiki practitioner. For most of my career I've worked in leadership development inside big, high-pressure organizations, and I was capable, driven, and lived almost entirely in my head. When something wasn't working, I analyzed it, worked at it, and pushed through. It got me a long way.

Then my oldest brother died in an accident, and it knocked the ground out from under me. I took three months off to travel through Southeast Asia, and near the end of the trip, sitting on a beach at sunset with a stray dog beside me, as clichéd as that sounds, I decided to pack up my life in Washington DC and move to Europe.

At the end of 2019 I took that leap and moved to Berlin, wanting a life built more around the people who mattered and less around work. I started a kind of self-development journey, therapy, coaching, all sorts of modalities. I understood myself better and better, and still felt stuck.

Then my father died. Grieving and not sleeping, I was out of ideas, so when a friend suggested Reiki I booked a session online, skeptical but too tired to argue. For the first time in my life, instead of avoiding my emotions or analyzing them, I could feel them in my body and let them go. It blew me away. So I kept going, and over the next year, one thing after another, I let go of what I'd been carrying for years. Reiki gave me a kind of peace and clarity I hadn't known was possible.

That's why I trained in it, and why I do this work now. I can't think of a more meaningful way to spend my time than helping other people find that same peace, clarity, and connection to themselves, so they can move through their lives and relationships with more ease and trust in themselves.

What I believe

The body knows how to heal itself, but it can't while it's stuck in constant stress. I've seen this in my own life. For years I had psoriasis, and as I did this work and spent more time out of stress and in my body, it faded on its own. It comes back when I'm under real stress, which I read as a clear signal from my body. So I always start with the nervous system.

Who I work with

Many people I see are driven, self-aware, and used to handling everything themselves. They've often done the therapy and the coaching, they understand their patterns, and they still feel stuck, wired, or disconnected. Having spent my career inside demanding organizations, I know that world, and the particular kind of tired that comes with it. You don't need to know anything about Reiki, or believe in it. You just need to be open to something that works with your body instead of your head.