Gentle, Supportive, Body-Based Therapy

Online & in Troy, Mi

Deep Work to Heal the Roots of Trauma & Disconnection,

Guided by the Cues & Symptoms of Your Body

In the space between your breaths,
your body whispers you home.
You were never lost,
only waiting to reconnect
with the truth that lives within you
.

Let's Connect

Sacred Surrender Therapy Online & in Troy, MI


Therapy that honors your whole being, helping you restore balance, return to your true self, reorienting and evolving through the imprints left on your heart and body, healing relational wounds and soul patterns along the way.

You are feeling called to pause, to listen, and to begin the deep work of remembering who you are beneath the expectations, the trauma and the noise.

Sometimes the stirring of noise within you is strong, there is a longing for what you feel inside to calm or become quieter, steadier and more ease than you feel right now. There are these moments where you aware you have not felt like yourself in some time, you feel fragments of what you have known about you here and there, what you felt you once knew about who you are, what you like or how you like to spend your time, no longer seems to fit. You’ve built a good life or maybe a decent one. You show up for your kids, your work, your relationships. You think, “This is good, I am doing the right things”: You manage the tasks, the to-do lists, and the daily responsibilities that keep everything moving. 

Underneath this, you feel sad, sometimes you are boiling over inside, you might snap; your body hurts and you are frustrated because your life just feels off: it feels stale or dried out (hell, you probably feel stale or dried out) created by expectations or beliefs that you feel may no longer serve you. It feels like it is affecting how you show up with maybe your partner, your kids, your work or for yourself.

There is an emptiness or hollowness inside that feels like it can just drag you down. You can’t quite remember the last time you felt like yourself, like completely alive or present in YOUR life. Doing what is right, with a little quiet self-time here or there, although reassuring, just does not feel like it brings the same ease, joy or direction that it once did. You get the sense that maybe taking that road that once seemed to bring ease is now making you feel trapped.

You might find yourself thinking:

“What the fuck!? What happened?! Why am I acting this way?” or even “Who am I?”

Underneath the layers of coping there is curiosity and desire to get to know what else is there. There are times in the effort to detach from pain, resentment or anxiety that you feel separate from your emotions, to protect yourself & you focus on just getting the shit done that needs to get done. You want to say ‘No' to folks but feel responsible for all the things. You know in your heart you say “Yes” too much or silently agree and walk away either convincing yourself of why you said “Yes” and why it is ok or questioning yourself, maybe even beating yourself up a little because being hard on yourself has helped you and protected you even if it does not feel good all the time.


We Will Work Together to Help Restore This Connection

You realize that something is needed here to take care of yourself, to be present to yourself with what you know: you take deep breaths throughout the day, try to go back to activities that used to bring you joy or sing along to songs that ONCE made you feel alive, but mostly, you just feel tired. Tired of being everything to everyone. Tired of doing things out of obligation instead of choice. Tired of carrying the invisible weight that has started showing up in your body — the tension, the aches, the fatigue.

You've tried to just deal with it on your own, do some yoga, stretch, breath, it has helped but it has not worked entirely. You have done therapy before, tried all the fancy techniques and you still feel stuck. You notice old patterns, the same patterns, maybe with a different expression, return and you feel like you are just making it, knowing there is something in you still feeling unresolved, something deeper asking for your attention.

You want more than doing and coping — you want liberation, to feel free, revitalized, an innate sense of guiding your own wild beautiful path and to feel love and connection.

If this resonates with you, Sacred Surrender Healing & Therapy Online & in Troy, MI offers a path back home, a rooting to yourself.

I help open-hearted conscious freedom seeking adults that over give, say Yes far more often than they would like to, function from a place of concern for being alone, security and survival: who give beyond what they have, that feel stuck in cycles that have come from the pain, self-protection and sadness, who feel exhausted & notice the presence of this in their body. They long to feel liberation within, to speak up, to heal the slow build of years of over-functioning, self-abandon and unmet, maybe even unidentified, emotional needs. I help them to start reconnecting to the parts of themselves that have been silenced, pushed aside or forgotten. Restoring the relationship within, bringing presence and wisdom and ease to where the anxiety feels alive: to the parts that have coped with feeling deeply alone, that are still working very hard to protect you, that exist in the emptiness, uncertainty and the disconnection and certainly long for love.

I will help you reclaim the parts that have felt lost for a long time that belong to the brilliance of who you are so you can start reconnecting to your truth, heart and inner wisdom; to feel grounded and at home in your body; to expand your self-understanding, to help your body to release pain, patterns of over-responsibility and self-blame and to stand in your “No” as the full sentence that it is. I help you build a trusted relationship with yourself and restore the connection back home: to your true nature, to your own definition of freedom, to expression and to be through the gnarly entanglements that feel binding to who you now be.

 As we work, you’ll begin creating new directions within you that illuminate your everyday life — choices rooted not in obligation or fear, but in authenticity, understanding and self-trust.

Call Me Today at 248-716-0624 for A Free 20-minute Consultation, I Would Love to Help

Love Based Trauma Healing

What To Expect in Our Time Together

At Sacred Surrender Healing our sessions are spacious and collaborative.

You set the pace, and we focus on what feels safe and manageable.

  • Gentle, body-centered awareness to calm your nervous system.

  • Guidance in exploring your inner world with curiosity and care.

  •  Practices that restore connection between your body, emotions, and intuition.

  • A healing environment grounded in compassion, safety, and presence.

  • You won’t be pushed to relive painful memories — instead, I will help your system integrate what it’s ready to release, where it guides us, one layer at a time.

The Transformation That Awaits

Through this process, people often describe feeling:

  • More present and centered throughout the day.

  • A Deeper connection to their intuition and purpose.

  • Lighter — emotionally, mentally, and physically.

  • Confident in setting boundaries and prioritizing their well-being.

  •  More open to love, joy, pleasure and possibility.

  • Feeling love, value and acceptance towards their whole self.

  • Having tools that can be integrated into everyday life to honor the presence of who they are authentically 

    You don’t have to keep living on autopilot. You don’t have to keep believing this is all that is here for you. You can reconnect with your aliveness, your truth, and your heart.

With Open & Heartfelt Intention,  I Invite You Here:    


With Love: Opening the invitation to discover the love that lies within you, beyond condition: what has been there, underneath layers of protection, all along, to be seen, known and felt by you.

With Your Body: Deepening the body relationship: diving into the symptoms, memories & cellular stories that long to be heard, expressed and witnessed. Learning your own cues, signals and intuition. What in your body is speaking to you, requesting your attention? Are you listening?

With Sound: To feel, hear and tone the language within you that speaks. Sometimes you have no words – sometimes silence is what is present. Or a growl, roar, tune, drum, hum, scream, pout or pause.

With Soul: Exploring within & beyond the narratives you have known, to journey into the whole of your consciousness to heal rupturing patterns you continue to experience in this life. To enhance your connection to your truest self and the wisdom you are already carry within you.

To Discover & Embody the Eternal Essence & Nature of You

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