Being someone with big dreams and a gut-brain that keeps vetoing them means constantly compromising between your health and fully living your life.
But it takes rewiring the IBS-stress cycle & rebuilding trust in your gut to stop compromising… that’s where I come in.
You’ve probably already suspected it.
That the problem isn’t the food or just an imbalance in your microbiome.
That there’s something deeper going on that every eliminated food, every antimicrobial protocol, every supplement stack keeps missing. Because you’re still here, still searching, still dedicated to your health after doing it all by the book. Every doctor’s book, every practitioner’s book, and the one you’ve been writing yourself on Google at 11pm.
That the reason you can eat something one day and feel fine, then eat the exact same thing the next day and react, might have nothing to do with what you ate.
That the more you watch for your symptoms, the more they show up. And the more they show up, the more you watch.
That loop has a name:Â the IBS-stress cycle.
You’re not broken. It’s not all in your head, and it’s not that you aren’t trying hard enough. Years of symptoms taught your nervous system to stay on guard. But what it learned, it can unlearn.
99%Â
of people with IBS say stress makes their symptoms worse.Â
Gastroenterologists now classify IBS as a disorder of gut-brain interaction. Yet six in ten say the gut-brain connection never came up once in their care.Â
If you’re someone who:
- Has cut your diet down to a handful of safe foods, done round after round of testing, antimicrobials, and supplements, and still negotiates with your gut every day
- Has been told to “manage your stress,” downloaded the meditation app, tried the breathwork, but never heard that your nervous system is what needs rewiring
- Feels one twinge and is already three steps ahead: Where’s the bathroom? What did I eat? Do I need to cancel?
Then welcome, you’re in the right place.
The Trust Your Gut Framework
 Stabilize Your SystemÂ
Strengthen gut-brain communication, reduce gut hypersensitivity, and build safety in the body so healing and digestion can begin.
Rewire Stress + Triggers
Understand your nervous system patterns and rewire the stress responses operating outside your conscious awareness, so symptoms no longer keep looping.
Support Your Digestive River
Digestion happens in a particular order — starting with the nervous system and moving downstream. We support your physical digestive process and microbiome in a way that fits your body and nervous system, without restrictive diets or protocol overload.
My Training
My approach brings together 30 years of my own journey with IBS, 17 years of research, trial, and error, and my training as a practitioner.
This is where gut healing and nutritional therapy meets nervous system regulation and healing chronic and traumatic stress.
- Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner – Somatic Experiencing International (a body-based approach to healing trauma and chronic stress, developed by Dr. Peter Levine)
- Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (FNTP) – Nutritional Therapy Association
- DARE (Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience) Level 4 Trained – Dr. Diane Poole Heller (a framework for healing attachment wounds and building secure, resilient relationships — with yourself and others)
- Integrative Somatic Parts Work Level 3 Certified – The Embody Lab (a body-based approach to working with the different protective parts of you, so they can finally feel safe enough to let go)
- BA in Body, Earth & the Arts – a self-designed concentration in the human-nature relationship, mind-body connection, somatics, and creative expression
AS PETER LEVINE SAYS ABOUT HEALING,
“Nobody can do it for you...
but you can’t do it alone."
We're each in charge of our own healing, but we need others to hold space, co-regulate, and help us see what we can't see alone. We need to be seen, heard, and witnessed in our process.
I'm here to help you do just that.
