What I most value about Focusing is that it shows us how to allow the nitty-gritty issues of our daily lives to become stepping-stones into a rich life lived from our deepest, largest self. It shows us how to sense and follow the inner thread of our own aliveness – and how to pick it up again when we lose it.

Before encountering Inner Relationship Focusing, I had been professionally practicing and teaching energy healing for 20 years. What most sparked me about energy healing was seeing the illumination that came when a client first realized that their hurting place was just one part of something much bigger.

Once I encountered IRF in 2008 and realized that it was largely about connecting with something bigger and deeper than the hurting part, I never looked back. I was certified as a Focusing trainer and guide with a specialty in IRF in 2010.

I have also participated in a two-year training in Wholebody Focusing with Kevin McEvenue and Karen Whalen and was approved as a WBF trainer in 2013. I particularly value WBF for giving us an expanded felt experience of our “body” and showing us how to heal our relationship to it.