Integrative Wellness didn't make me healthy... it Saved My life.

 At LOOM™, we take a synergistic approach to facilitating wellness. Our integrative model incorporates mind, body and spirit while supporting your physician-led healthcare. As the director of LOOM, I have a diverse skill-set in complementary health. I am a certified neuromuscular therapist, certified meditation teacher, and licensed massage therapist in practice for 23 years. I'm also a certified pregnancy massage therapist.

As you will see from my gallery of photos, my own size and health status has fluctuated over the years. I've battled obesity and many other physical challenges. Yet, I've thrived against some serious odds. If integrative health practitioners had not been present in my life during my early twenties, and again, during a more recent crisis, I certainly would not be here today. I owe my life and my career to integrative doctors; the first of whom diagnosed my elusive endocrine disease after four long years of mystery and suffering. Their comprehensive approach led me to the correct medical specialist. In advance, I knew what tests they needed to run in order to finally give me confirmation and what protocols I needed to pursue in order to recover. From that experience, I knew I wanted to serve people in that same way.  I wanted to teach people how to see themselves as thriving beings— pulling them away from the defeated emotion that they would have to exist as a collection of hopeless symptoms.  Sometimes you just need a new approach. Sometimes you need someone to help you weave all of the broken threads back together. Sometimes you need someone to help you get out the way of your own weaving. I know, because my own lifelines had become totally frayed.  Remarkably, I was led back to the "LOOM." Allow me to help you discover your own wellness potential as we "put life on the LOOM™"

In 2016, I traveled to Rishikesh India to become a Certified Meditation Teacher. Extracting the time-tested sciences of the Ayurvedic tradition, this 300 hour program has allowed me to develop programs for groups and individuals alike. Meditation practice can be utilized to heal from emotional and physical stress and to optimize sports performance. It helps you to organize your thoughts and reconcile them with the wellness outcomes goals that we set together.  

Traditionally, Yoga is an exercise that prepares the body for meditation, and I have enjoyed teaching it under my certification from both non-religious and ecumenical Christian perspectives. I have also taught yoga classes and individual sessions for special populations— 

youth, elderly and persons of size.       

 For many years, my motto has been, "Create Space For Healing." Often, we stand in our own way with a collection of toxic thoughts and learned negative habits. During my 23-year career, I have developed a keen sense of how the body reflects trauma & grief and "holds onto" mental and emotional patterns. There is a scientific basis for this scope of work called "psychosomatics." Sometimes, specialized doctors and counselors are needed to address the psychological basis of trauma patterns. Sometimes bodywork and meditation are the solution. Sometimes, we just need to honor what the body speaks and reconcile it with prayer and reflection, as God directs.  

 LOOM™ Integrative Wellness is founded upon my personal relationship with Jesus Christ, who I believe is available to all people, regardless of religion.  We welcome people of all faith traditions as our high professional standards and ethics remain universal.  Spiritual care is an optional component at LOOM™ and your treatment plan can remain entirely free of spiritual or religious nuance. As with all of our offerings, we always refer out to other professionals when our scope of practice does not meet the need.  Spiritual care is especially honored in this way. 

At the same time, our therapists want to support your preferences during therapy. I have personally taken advantage of unique opportunities to learn clinical pastoral methods and I have recently had the privilege of providing spiritual support within a hospital setting.

Sadly, I have also witnessed many unfortunate manipulations of spiritual care frameworks in complementary healthcare.  It is my mission to preserve safe spaces for all individuals who wish to acknowledge their spirituality as they pursue overall wellness.  We do not tap into cosmic forces.  We do not attune to mysterious energies.  If desired, we simply acknowledge faith in "The Great Physician," and honor it throughout your wellness plan at LOOM.  Before getting started, you can let us know if our spiritual component fits your personal perspective of care.