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Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been interested in the ways we experience suffering in and around food and our bodies. A career in the performing arts only seemed to magnify the rigid food and body ideals that dominated my life and wreaked havoc everywhere I looked.

 

As I began to heal my own wounds, I made a pretty pivotal decision: to start talking about it. I talked about eating disorders and sizism and chronic dieting and social injustice and media literacy with anyone who would listen. I even created a one-woman-show so I could straight-up sing about it.

 

I also listened. Everyone I spoke to became my teacher. I devoured scientific literature and memoirs, trained in yoga, became a devoted student of mindfulness, and turned toward the truth-tellers who are bringing light to harmful inequities in our culture – all to invest in this crazy idea that we can help one another heal interpersonally.

 

And that's what I continue to do today – to help others get to know their own stories and to listen with a full and loving heart.

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more about skf

education

MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Concentration in Mindfulness-based Transpersonal Counseling | Naropa University | May 2019
 

BA in Radio and Television | San Francisco State University | May 2008

professional

credentials

Licensed Professional Counselor, Permit No. LPC.0017170 | Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies | 2021 - Present

Research Co-Chair | International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals, Denver Metro Chapter | 2020 - 2022

Certified Eat Breathe Thrive Facilitator | Eat Breathe Thrive and The Give Back Yoga Foundation | 2019
 
Certified Yoga Teacher RYT-200 | Yoga Alliance | 2014
 
Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner | AADP | 2013

training


Experiential Psychodrama | Jill Krush, LPC, CAS CP, PAT, ACS | August 2023

Applied Existential Coaching | Betty Cannon, PhD & Robyn Chauvin, MA, LPC | Boulder Psychotherapy Institute | November 2022

MDMA Therapy Training Program | Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) | April 2022


Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) Advanced Caregiver Workshop | Dr. Adele Lafrance, C.Psych | September 2019

The Praxis of Liberation | Desiree Adaway | August 2019

Mindfulness Instructor Training | Naropa University | May 2019

Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life, Formal Maranasati (Death Meditation) Training | Eugene Cash, Nikki Mirghafori, & Bhikkhu Analayo | Spirit Rock | May 2018

Downward Carried Breath: Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training | Juliana Mitchell | Living Now Yoga LLC | November 2015

Professional Teaching Day for Eating Disorder Treatment Providers | Eating Recovery Center | August 2015

Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT): Professional Training | Jean Kristeller, PhD, and Andrea Lieberstein, MPH, RD, RYT | June 2013

Mindfulness Workshops Using Arts and Yoga Techniques | Robyn Hussa Farrell | Mental Fitness, Inc. | April 2013

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