If you're a provider ~

If you’re working with someone you’d like to offer more nervous system specific support for, but aren’t quite sure how to layer that into the work you’re doing together, I'd love to talk. This work has changed how I understand what "root cause" means, and I'm always glad to connect with other practitioners who are curious about where the body and the nervous system meet.

If you're wondering whether this is for you ~

Maybe you already know the plan on paper, you could probably write it yourself at this point, but you still find yourself not doing it, or doing it and still feeling off.

Maybe you can talk yourself into feeling fine, right up until something specific comes into focus - a decision, a conversation, a season of life and suddenly your chest is tight, or your stomach is unsettled, or you notice you've been holding your breath.

Maybe you're in a life transition — a new stage of motherhood, perimenopause, or living in a body that doesn't feel like yours anymore and you're tired of being told it's just something to push through.

Let’s tend to the deeper layers of YOU, so you can know yourself, nourish yourself + be whole.

Compassionate Inquiry

A relationship to be tended, not a problem to be solved

For 20 years, I've sat across from women who did everything right.

They’ve followed the protocol to a T. They cut the gluten, balanced their blood sugar, ran all the labs, took ALL the supplements, tried the next thing and the next thing after that. And so often, something was still missing. Not because the protocol was wrong, but because the body was never just asking to be fixed. It was asking to be understood.

Witnessing this pattern over time, over and over, across thousands of visits: the symptom would quiet down, and then return. Or it would resolve, but the person in front of me still didn't feel home in their own body. I started to understand that healing from the root meant something deeper than lab values. It meant also tending to the patterns held in the nervous system, patterns that were often laid down long before the symptom ever had a name.

This is where Compassionate Inquiry® entered my work.

What is Compassionate Inquiry?

Compassionate Inquiry® is a body-based, trauma-informed approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté and San Duram Kaur ND. It's not talk therapy, and it's not a technique layered on top of treatment. It's a way of listening and asking questions that help a person notice what's actually happening in their body, in the present moment, underneath the story they've told themselves for years. It is somatic awareness and re-patterning.

It rests on a simple truth: biology and beliefs are not separate. The nervous system is the connector between what we've lived and how we feel in our bodies today. When we can gently meet what's been held — rather than push past it or pathologize it — something shifts that no protocol alone can reach.

I weave Compassionate Inquiry into my clinical work as a CI-informed practitioner, continuing to deepen this training through private and group mentorship. It isn't separate from the naturopathic and functional medicine I practice, it's often what makes that medicine land.