Serving your highest and best for over 30 years as a professional healing artist, I believe in you. I am here to help you spark and support your healing and well-being of body, mind and spirit.
With my unique blend of sound and subtle energy healing, Reiki, bodywork/massage therapy, speaking and presentation skills, I provide the mind and body support you require to create day to day breakthroughs; accelerating you to your next level of healing and growth; assisting you in feeling your best, complementing your personal well-being practice and empowering how you live your life in all stages.
Intrigued with how you inhabit your body, I instinctively and masterfully get to the heart of “the matter.” My expertise is tuning in to you and expanding your body perception to help you move through issues of body, mind and spirit for personal healing, well-being, transition and empowerment.
Committed to listening to you as you present yourself to the world, I provide a safe, soothing presence. Then, meeting you at your place of discomfort, I guide you back to your place of remembrance, where you feel safe enough to let go and allow your energy to run its natural course.
A Bit of Background
After graduating with a BA Cum Laude in Drama and French from Tufts University, I tapped into my theatre and drama training and education and my natural organizational skills to launch into a professional stage management career, landing ‘gigs’ in NYC and regionally. Ask anyone who embarks on a career in theatre, when starting out they usually need another job to help support themselves. I loved costuming; the meticulousness, the attention to detail, sewing on different fabrics…Every fabric, depending on its cut and content (cotton, silk, etc.) behaves and drapes in its own unique fashion. You cannot simply push the fabric through the sewing machine; you must first learn its nature before manipulating it; respect it and ‘collaborate’ with it. I never could have guessed or foreseen how this skill would translate into the foundation for my future bodywork/massage practice.
Stage management led to wardrobe supervision, dressing and costuming work. After achieving the landmark theatre career goals I had set for myself; to be ‘on the road’, with the national/international touring company of Camelot (personal dresser to Richard Harris) and on a Broadway production, La Cage aux Folles (wardrobe and dressing), I was flying high! Realizing that I was hungry for more creative expression in my work, my inner voice urged me to step up and try something new.
I moved to Massachusetts and subsequently decided to become a massage/bodywork therapist, becoming certified and licensed in 1990. I chose “Listening Hands” as the name for my entrepreneurial venture, given my hands’ intuitive expertise in directly zooming in to the area of your body that needs attention. Ever seeking to expand the depth and breadth of my expertise, I received certificates in body/mind psychotherapy, cranio-sacral therapy, Reiki and healing sounds (to name a few) – expanding my range of expression, ability and proficiency in ‘touching’, enriching and bettering my clients’ lives.
To fulfill a further calling, my partner and I co-published and authored, along with dozens of contributors, a two-book series of women’s short stories, In Your Own Words Women. Our second book was released just prior to the pandemic making its appearance – screeching life to a halt – causing me to question how I could best add to my services and continue to guide others on their well-being journeys in this uncharted landscape.
Donning my facemask, I am grateful to have been led to the sacred, life affirming End-of-Life/Elder Care Doula profession by divine grace. My purpose is to hold the space to guide and support you and those left behind through this transitional phase of your life and beyond.