Alongside my creative work, I bring over a decade of experience as a trauma-informed yoga educator. I have taught in places such as Cook County Jail and helped train other teachers in trauma-aware practices that center safety, choice, and agency. I have also completed a year-long professional coaching program focused on deep listening, facilitation, and holding supportive space for personal exploration. Together, these paths represent more than 4,000 hours of education and embodied practice, which I bring thoughtfully into every session in service of your story.

I believe our paths lead us exactly where we are meant to be. This work calls to me with deep alignment and excitement because every chapter of my life has led here.

I began in portrait photography, photographing seniors and working in schools. It was there that I learned how much presence, honesty, and trust matter in front of the lens. But photography was not my first relationship with story. Before becoming a photographer, I was a professional storyteller and performer, creating and touring work centered on mental health, community dialogue, and lived experience. Story has always been my throughline.

My own journey of healing began with a story when I discovered community theater as a kid. Later, I wrote and performed a one-woman show, One Woman Hamlet, which explored mental health and the stigma surrounding it. At the time, I was working as a professional Shakespeare and film actor, doing what I loved, yet privately struggling with deep unhappiness and suicidal thoughts.

That experience forced me to become curious about the story I was living inside. I had to rewrite it for myself. First, I wrote the story. Then I embodied it by performing it. Then I shared it with others. Performing that work opened conversations around mental health and helped many people seek support of their own. It also changed my life.

Around the same time, I began studying trauma-informed yoga because I needed to learn how to feel safe in my own body again. Through that work, I began to understand how deeply story and the body are connected. Years later, I found that same intersection again through photography.

As I continued photographing people, I began researching narrative identity, storytelling, and somatic approaches to healing. I discovered the principles of narrative therapy and recognized something deeply familiar: the idea that the stories we practice shape the lives we live.

While I am not a therapist and this work is not a replacement for therapy, my background in storytelling, trauma-informed education, and coaching allows me to hold thoughtful and supportive creative space. Narrative photography became the place where all of my paths met.

This process has helped me rediscover joy, creativity, and connection in my own life. It helped me build a business, deepen relationships, and learn to ask to be seen as I truly am.

It is not always comfortable. Being seen rarely is. But neither are growth, creativity, bravery, or change. Comfort is not always the goal. Sometimes the goal is curiosity. Sometimes it is courage. Sometimes it is play. And sometimes it is simply telling the truth about who we are.

If this speaks to you, I would love to meet you.

What could this work do for you? Does it call to you?