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Healing · Illumination · Of the Soul

Heal Deeply.
Transform Fully.
Illuminate Your Truth.

Trauma-Informed Coach · Psychedelic Integration Specialist · Certified Addiction Recovery Coach · Licensed Massage Therapist

Real transformation begins beneath the surface. Together we illuminate what has been unconscious, suppressed, and avoided. We heal it at the root. This is the work of becoming who you were always meant to be.

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The approach

Illuminate. Heal. Transform.

Illuminate. Most people spend their lives managing what is on the surface. The anxiety. The patterns. The relationships that keep breaking the same way. Underneath all of it is something that has never been truly seen. We go there.

Heal. Insight alone does not change a life. We heal where the wound actually lives, in the body, the nervous system, the grief that was never allowed to move, the identity that formed around survival instead of truth. This is deep, root-level work. Not coping. Not managing. Actual change.

Transform. Like the caterpillar that dissolves completely before it becomes the butterfly, real transformation asks you to release what you have been in order to become what you truly are. The complete dissolution of the patterns, the armor, the survival identity. And the emergence of who you were before any of it. The person who was always there, waiting beneath the wounds.

The work is deep. The change is real. And you are held with care every step of the way.

Is this for you?

You are ready for the real work.

You do not need prior healing experience. You need one thing: the willingness to go within and finally meet what has been waiting to be healed.

Carrying trauma that has never fully healed

Childhood trauma, CPTSD, preverbal trauma, sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, attachment wounding. The wounds that shaped you and the survival patterns that have quietly been running your life ever since.

Struggling with addiction or recovery

Substance addiction, alcohol addiction, love addiction, sex addiction, workaholism, codependency, betrayal bonding. You are ready to heal what is underneath, not just manage the surface.

Living with anxiety, depression, grief or suicidal ideation

The low hum that will not turn off. The weight that will not lift. The grief and loss that has nowhere to go. The moments when it all feels like too much. You deserve support that goes to the root, not just the symptom.

Navigating a psychedelic experience

Before or after a journey with plant medicine. Safe, experienced preparation and integration support from someone who knows this terrain from the inside.

Like the butterfly, you do not need to force the transformation. You simply need to be ready to enter the cocoon. The rest unfolds from there.

Offerings

Ways to work together

Coaching

Transformational Coaching

Shadow work, attachment awareness, grief integration, inner-child healing, and compassionate inquiry, for deep, lasting personal evolution.

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Integration

Psychedelic Preparation & Integration

Support before and after expanded states of consciousness, to translate insight into lasting transformation.

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Embodiment

Somatic Healing & Bodywork

Trauma-informed, body-centered healing to regulate the nervous system and return to embodied safety.

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Ceremonial Support

Private Ceremonial Support

Safe, experienced guidance for expanded state experiences, plant medicine journeys, and intentional ceremony for life's threshold moments.

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Offerings are tailored through inquiry to ensure fit. Reach out to begin a conversation.

Client words

What the work does.

Heather understood the depths of what I was navigating in a way no one else had. Her support through my integration work was profound. I left our work together genuinely changed.

Lauren, Austin, TX

I started working with Heather at a time in my life when it felt almost serendipitous. I was going through an incredibly painful breakup that reopened wounds I hadn't fully healed from for over ten years.

From our very first call, Heather felt like a warm hug. She creates such a safe and supportive space, and she is deeply attuned to both her own energy and the energy in the room. After that first conversation, I knew I wanted to continue working with her and booked a coaching package.

Over the next two months, Heather walked beside me through the messy, challenging, and transformative process of healing. She provided guidance, support, and insight every step of the way. The growth I experienced during our time together was truly life changing. Looking back, I can honestly say I am a completely different person than I was when I started.

I am incredibly grateful for Heather and the role she played in my healing journey. I cannot recommend her highly enough to anyone seeking support on their own healing journey.

Field Notes

Writing from the work

Integration

How to integrate a psychedelic experience

The ceremony ends and the real work begins. A practical guide to psychedelic integration and why most people skip this step.

Nervous System

Polyvagal theory, plainly

Why your body is not broken. A clear, jargon-free explanation of how your nervous system works and what it means for healing.

Trauma

What is trauma-informed coaching?

People ask this a lot. The honest answer matters, especially if you are deciding what kind of support you actually need.

Practice

5 somatic grounding practices after plant medicine

Your nervous system just went somewhere big. Simple, body-based tools for the days and weeks that follow a ceremony.

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Begin

If any part of you recognizes this work, trust that.

I offer a complimentary 20-minute discovery call. Come as you are. There is no wrong way to begin. I will reply within two business days.

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