I have an Masters degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University based on the study of the mind from both the western modern medical model and the buddhist study of consciousness.
I have a strong foundation in how our relationship to the earth affects our relationship with our minds and hearts. With a Bachelors Degree in Biology and a focus on Marine Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, I worked with marine mammals in language acquisition and cognition and behavior. Later I became an environmental educator through public radio and finally ended up on a 200 acre organic farm in SW Wisconsin learning how to tend soil and seeds and share the world with animals and plants of all kinds.
I also have a long relationship of multicultural issues. I was raised in a bicultural household where two languages were being spoken and with parents with their feet in three cultures. Ancestral healing of intergenerational trauma became a focus of my work several decades ago and the branches of genealogy and family systems helped me to understand how resilience and strengths that are passed down through generations affect who we are today as well as how the challenges we carry for our families shapes our understanding of ourselves.
In the midst of learning about land and work in the arts and building landscapes and houses, I studied Yoga and became a massage therapist. I have worked in the field of holistic health, specifically a body centered approach toward healing, education and counseling for over 30 years including doing psychotherapy and coaching with individuals of all ages, teaching dream-tending to groups and individuals, mentoring buddhist mindfulness techniques, navigating genealogy searches and family systems dynamics to heal ancestral patterning.
My specialties are working with attachment issues and how they impact all of our relationships with friends, coworkers and family, life transitions of any kind, working with artists and musicians dealing with creativity issues, ancestral lineage healing and visioning your future self beyond grief and loss, Illness.
I have a strong foundation in how our relationship to the earth affects our relationship with our minds and hearts. With a Bachelors Degree in Biology and a focus on Marine Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, I worked with marine mammals in language acquisition and cognition and behavior. Later I became an environmental educator through public radio and finally ended up on a 200 acre organic farm in SW Wisconsin learning how to tend soil and seeds and share the world with animals and plants of all kinds.
I also have a long relationship of multicultural issues. I was raised in a bicultural household where two languages were being spoken and with parents with their feet in three cultures. Ancestral healing of intergenerational trauma became a focus of my work several decades ago and the branches of genealogy and family systems helped me to understand how resilience and strengths that are passed down through generations affect who we are today as well as how the challenges we carry for our families shapes our understanding of ourselves.
In the midst of learning about land and work in the arts and building landscapes and houses, I studied Yoga and became a massage therapist. I have worked in the field of holistic health, specifically a body centered approach toward healing, education and counseling for over 30 years including doing psychotherapy and coaching with individuals of all ages, teaching dream-tending to groups and individuals, mentoring buddhist mindfulness techniques, navigating genealogy searches and family systems dynamics to heal ancestral patterning.
My specialties are working with attachment issues and how they impact all of our relationships with friends, coworkers and family, life transitions of any kind, working with artists and musicians dealing with creativity issues, ancestral lineage healing and visioning your future self beyond grief and loss, Illness.
"Working with Angela is totally like working with a counselor, a storyteller, a dream therapist, a coach and a genealogist all wrapped up into one person! I feel excited about what I am learning about myself and my family and the rich world of my history ."
