About Me
“My greatest joy is being a participant witness to your emerging authenticity as you fulfill your deepest desires and sacred purpose.”
Wholehearted Presence
I am a southern California native living and working in Encinitas, San Diego.
Considered “gifted,” I am intuitive, empathic, caring, intensely curious, and spiritually aware.
I embrace optimism, asserting that by valuing reason, naturalism, and critical thinking, humankind can truly realize its potential and create a better world.
A lifelong learner, I actively pursue various intellectual, philosophical, psychological, scientific, somatic, and creative interests through focused learning of topics related to wholehearted functional living.
As a multipotentialite, my skills lend themselves to many different interests and capacities, including creative and artistic pursuits.
Education and Career
I am a graduate of the University of Humanistic Psychology with over 30 years of experience in transformational human potential and holistic health. My Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and my Minor degrees in Women’s Studies and Expressive Arts Therapy provide a comprehensive platform to meet my clients’ therapeutic goals.
Through the years, I’ve grounded myself in the science of functional neurodiversity to understand the biological mechanisms by which the nervous system mediates behavior associated with higher brain functions, from perception, movement to learning and memory, especially as it relates to giftedness, greater sensory sensitivity, and emotional processing. The function and efficiency of these networks play a critical role in the overexcitabilities of gifted individuals including the intensity of intellectual, emotional, motor, and sensory processing.
I embrace contemporary shamanic, vibrational, and meditative practices that bridge traditional psychotherapy with awareness of what is ready to transform in the face of changing paradigms conducive to healing aspects of your life.
I have been privileged to work with diverse clients throughout my career. I have experience serving people from various nationalities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, professional and vocational occupations, and spiritual and religious beliefs. Respecting my clients’ life experiences leads me to value the uniqueness of each person.
Throughout my career, I have enjoyed working collaboratively alongside some leading luminaries of our time, such as Deepak Chopra and Paul Chek, HHP. They, among other teachers, have helped me expand a living philosophy to honor and celebrate life fully.
I am dedicated to those trying to live their highest values at the highest vibration, with the highest health.
Khijra, my corporate business name, reflects my intention to live by example.
Khijra means friend of the soul. When you are ready to evolve, Spirit meets intent through Khijra.
Why Akasha?
Akasha is the space where infinite possibilities reside.
Akasha contains the seed of love. It is here between your heartbeats, your thoughts, and between you and me, we tap your rich inner source of wisdom to hear the lovingly whispered guidance of your soul.
Curious, Creative, Expressive
Someone asked me once, “What is one thing I need to know about you?” I replied:
“I am super curious, and I love to create!”
I discovered early in my childhood that imaginative thinking gives non-verbal expression shape to my intellect, thoughts, and emotions. Communicating those impressions has helped me develop the capacity necessary for a meaningful life.
Embracing my receptive creative side has been a compulsion that excites me toward embodied presence, beauty, courage, compassion, resilience, optimism, and gratitude.
From writing to crafting custom beaded jewelry to pen and ink to watercolor to canvas acrylic, mosaic, food, and more, I create with joy every day.
Nature’s Delight
“Interconnectedness wholeness!”
As a California native, I am happiest in natural settings when my senses are absorbed in my environment’s sights, sounds, and smells. I am inspired with the mystery, awe, and wonder that just by virtue of being alive offers.
The healing traditions of the Sacred Feminine ignite an extraordinary spiritual foundation for living with a grateful heart. Like the abundant fragrance from the garden, the dimensions of my soul delight in Her loving presence of interconnected wholeness and beauty.
In all that I do, I acknowledge love as the most sacred force in the universe. I dedicate myself and my work to the service of that love for the upliftment of all beings.