The summer before I started graduate school I walked into my first yoga class carrying years of chronic migraine. Within weeks something shifted. The headaches that had defined my daily life began to quiet — not through medication but through the ancient practice of connecting breath, body, and awareness. I was astonished. And I was hooked.

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That same autumn I began my master's program in Occupational Therapy at Western Michigan University — studying neurological disease processes and mental health, learning how the nervous system shapes every aspect of human function and daily life. What I was discovering in the classroom and what I had experienced on the yoga mat were telling the same story in different languages.

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​That discovery became my life's work.

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Over 22 years of occupational therapy practice I have specialized in chronic pain, nervous system regulation, and the intersection of modern neuroscience and ancient healing. I deepened my study of yoga — completing my yoga teacher certification with Sarah Tomlinson of Sarah Yantra — and pursued energy healing, becoming a Reiki Master and dedicating 17 years of study to Sai Shakti Healing under the lineage of Sri Kaleshwar of Penukonda. Later in my career I completed my Therapeutic Pain Specialist certification — bringing the latest pain neuroscience into my clinical work.

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In 2026 I made a pilgrimage to Tamil Nadu, India — visiting each of the nine Navagraha temples, sitting with the planetary intelligences that Ancient Ayurveda teaches shape our strengths, our challenges, and our path through life. That journey — and everything it opened — lives in every session I offer at Inner Silence.

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I created Inner Silence because I kept witnessing people fall through the gap between clinical care and holistic healing — receiving either symptom management or spiritual guidance, but rarely both, and almost never from a single clinician who spoke both languages fluently.

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That gap is what Inner Silence was built to close.