About

I am the founder and Executive Director of Harmony and Horses. I have a Master's degree and California Pupil and Personnel Services credential in school psychology, and am a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) whose guiding purpose is to empower, uplift, and amplify autistic voices while advocating for neurodiversity-affirming care. I am certified through EAL Academy to facilitate equine assisted learning and meditation with horses, as well as Horse Powered Reading® to facilitate academic learning through partnership with horses.

I have worked with neurodiverse children and their families for over 17 years in both school and home settings, and am passionate about meeting all children where they are at in their own growth in order to help them learn the tools to live their most authentic and fulfilled lives. I am the proud mother of four neurodivergent daughters and am inspired every day by their beautiful and unique way of learning and viewing the world. Through them, I have seen the immense impact that experiential learning facilitated by animals can have. I would love to help guide your children to find hope and trust in their abilities in reading, writing, math, and social-emotional skills. I specialize in working with children in grades preschool-12 to teach skills that are important and meaningful to each individual learner, including academics, daily living skills, and social-emotional learning. I value fostering an inclusive environment and students of ALL abilities are welcome.

In addition to my knowledge and experience as an educator, I am called to offer healing and wellness experiences through sound healing, meditation, and mindfulness practices alongside our beautiful equine partners. I found the healing power of sound while struggling with an unrelenting chronic pain condition that caused me to fall into a deep depression. After exhausting everything the western medical system had to offer without obtaining any relief, I attended a sound bath with the goal of just doing something to help the relieve the stress of being in constant pain, and I found that for the first time in over a year, I had an entire hour where I was pain-free. I soon found that during every sound bath I attended, my pain went away for the hour I was held by sound. The continual reset of my nervous system over time eventually led to longer and longer stretches of being pain-free, until eventually the pain never returned, and I have been pain-free since.