Bio

I am a naturopathic physician, midwife and mother. I blend the medicine of traditional healers (from Europe and the native Americas), with the knowledge of conventional medicine.  By removing the obstacles to the proper flow of vital fluids within the body, and by promoting the drainage of wastes and toxins, health can be restored.

I am proud to live in Portland, Oregon. But I grew up in a 200-year old farmhouse 35 miles north of Times Square in New York State.  I was fascinated by the story my elder neighbors told me how on clear days, they could watch the Brooklyn Bridge being built.  One day I hope to return to the east coast.  I miss the land which is so deeply imprinted into my psyche.  I also feel that Portland has so much healing talent, and the east coast needs more healers.  So, if you hear I’m moving, I have no plans to leave at this time.  But someday…over the rainbow… way up high.

About My Education:

• Undergraduate at University of Rochester : World Religions and Women’s Studies
• Apprenticeship in Herbal Medicine with Susun Weed
  
• Shadowed Certified Nurse-Midwife in South-Western Vermont in Hospital
• Long distance Mentoring and Apprenticeship with Rosita Arvigo from 1999-present
• National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon : Doctorate of Natural Medicine
• Vaccine Seminar with Dr. H. Andrews, ND and Dr. Heather Zwickey, PhD
• Apprenticeship to Dr. Ed Hofmann-Smith, ND for midwifery
• Apprenticeship to Dr. Brenda Holcombe, ND/CPM for midwifery
• Functional Medicine University : to become proficient in the reading of labwork with a New World perspective on vitality

If I were to choose a different career, I would have started having children by 25 years of age, study Biodynamic Agriculture and be a farmer!

I feel blessed to work with women and children.  My patients make going to work worth leaving my child in the care of others (part-time, of course).  So if it takes a few days to get a response from me, it is because I am a mother first.