THE BUTTERFLY BLUEPRINT: FOUNDATIONS

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, psychedelic therapist, and integration coach. I hold an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling from Naropa University.
 

The Butterfly Blueprint grew out of both my professional work and my own experience with burnout.
 

For a time, I was working as an equine therapist at a residential treatment center. In many ways, it was my dream job. I cared deeply about the work and felt honored to support people through some of the hardest moments of their lives. I was working every day with the horses and getting to share their amazing co-regulatory power with my clients as they navigated substance abuse issues and resolving incredibly profound traumas. This was everything that I had gone to school for and spent thousands of hours training to do. I should have been lit up and thriving.  
 

But when I came home, my own nervous system told a different story.
 

Some days, I felt incredibly anxious, tense, and unable to settle. Other days, I shut down completely. I would come home exhausted, disconnected, and without the energy to participate in my own life.

That experience was difficult to make sense of. How could I be doing meaningful work that I loved and still feel so depleted?
 

I had clinical training. I understood trauma, stress, and coping skills. I could explain what was happening intellectually, but understanding it did not automatically change what was happening in my body.
 

After I left the residential treatment center, I finally had the time and spaciousness to figure out how to move beyond a nervous system that no longer seemed to know up from down.

I intentionally slowed down.
 

Instead of pushing through or judging myself for how I felt, I began listening to my nervous system patterns and warning signs. I paid attention to what happened before I became overwhelmed, what happened before I shut down, and what helped me feel more present again.
 

Over time, I realized I did not need more information alone. I needed practical ways to recognize the state I was in and respond to what my nervous system actually needed.
 

That process changed the way I understood burnout, anxiety, and shutdown. It also changed the way I worked with others.
 

Throughout my career, I have worked in high-acuity residential care, equine-assisted settings, psychedelic harm reduction, sanctuary support, and festival-based peer care. My approach brings together clinical science, somatic practice, mindfulness, EMDR, harm reduction, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and integration.

The Butterfly Blueprint grew from that work.

I help people understand what their nervous system is communicating, practice skills that fit the state they are in, and build greater capacity for safety, connection, and choice.
 

I created The Butterfly Blueprint: Foundations for people who are thoughtful, self-aware, and trying hard, but still find that their nervous system gets in the way of work, rest, relationships, or daily life.
 

Transformation is not only a change in mindset. It is a reclamation of your ability to participate in your life.