ILLUM Counseling Center for Trauma and Loss

11/17/2025

✨ I am deeply moved by this weekend’s grief workshop. ✨
What an honor it was to hold space for a beautiful group of women who arrived as strangers and gently discovered the common threads we all carry in grief, those universal themes that live in the heart, no matter our individual paths. It was heartwarming to witness how grief can gently shift when held in community, through shared experiences, connection with nature, and moments of stillness.
Nature teaches us that we all move through seasons… each one asking for patience, grace, and presence. And just like nature, we are perfectly whole even in the places where we feel broken. It’s often through those very fractures that light, healing, and deeper understanding emerge. I am profoundly grateful to everyone who showed up, shared space, and allowed themselves to be held by nature and by one another. 🌿 A special thank you to Esmie from for graciously donating her time and offering a beautiful Sound Bath experience. Your presence added so much depth and calm to our day.
And heartfelt gratitude to LSNB and Jason’s Deli for their generous support in helping make this workshop possible. Your contributions allowed us to create a nourishing and meaningful space for the community.

11/12/2025

My heart is full
The Honoring Loss, Embracing Love Grief Workshop is officially sold out! I am deeply grateful to everyone who registered and to those who continue to support this vision of creating healing spaces in our community.
A special thank you to Lone Star National Bank for their generous sponsorship and to Jason’s Deli for providing lunch for our participants. Your partnership helps make this offering possible.
It fills me with so much gratitude to see how our community values rest, connection, and healing. Thank you for trusting me to hold this space with you.

10/31/2025

10/28/2025

✨ I’m so pleased to announce that Esmie from will be leading the sound bath at our upcoming grief and loss workshop. Her calming energy and beautiful sound healing will be the perfect way to close our time together. I can already tell this will be a truly special experience. 🌿💫
If this gathering speaks to you, I invite you to reserve your space and join us in community and reflection.

10/22/2025

🌿 Honoring Loss, Embracing Love: A Free Community Workshop
Grief isn’t only about death — it can come from illness, job loss, relationship changes, or life transitions that quietly reshape our world.
This free nature-based workshop offers a space to pause, reflect, and honor what has been lost, while gently reconnecting with meaning and hope.
Through expressive arts, somatic movement, and community connection, we’ll explore ways to hold grief with compassion and presence.
We’ll close our time together with a restorative sound bath, inviting deep rest and renewal.

This workshop is educational and experiential in nature — not therapy.

✨ Cost: Free (registration required) https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/illum-cctr/honoring-loss-embracing-love
Come as you are. Allow nature, sound, and creativity to remind you that even in loss, there can be love, connection, and renewal.

09/25/2025

🌳 What if nature could teach you how to move through life with more ease?
Like the oak, rooted yet flexible.
Like the butterfly, transforming through its seasons.
Like the forest, alive with rhythm and connection.
✨ In this workshop, we’ll step away from the noise and into nature to:
Awaken our senses
Create through expressive art
Reconnect with the strength that already lives within us

You’ll be guided through:
✨ Nature immersion practices to reconnect with your body and senses
✨ Creative expression to bring insight and renewal
✨ Gentle reflection on how nature can resource and sustain you in times of change

Register here: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/illum-cctr/the-reset-retreat-rest-relax-renew

09/22/2025

✨ Lessons in Adaptability & Grace ✨
I had been preparing for this workshop for months—ordering supplies, booking the venue, planning every detail. But of course, life had other plans. My supplies never arrived, and when I got to the venue… there was no electricity. One of my worst fears.
For a moment, my mind raced. I felt the stress rising—but I also knew I had a choice. I allowed myself to breathe, to accept the situation, to pivot and look for solutions. I didn’t want to disappoint the participants who showed up ready to do the work.
We set up outside—despite the heat, humidity, and chance of rain—and somehow, it worked. It became a lesson in humility, adaptability, and finding the calm in the storm. Eventually, the power returned and we were able to move inside, but by then the magic had already begun.
The participants showed me so much grace, kindness, and support. Together, we explored the Wellness Wheel, honoring its Indigenous roots and approaching it with cultural humility. What unfolded was a beautiful space of awareness, restoration, and deep connection—with self and with others.
I left the day with a heart full of gratitude—for the resilience of the group, for the lessons in surrender, and for the reminder that even when things don’t go as planned, healing and connection will always find a way. 🌿

08/19/2025

✨ You’ve done it—you’ve poured your heart, time, and energy into helping your child reach their goals. And now, they’re ready to spread their wings and leave the nest.
There’s so much pride and excitement in this season, but there can also be a quiet ache. The house feels different. A certain energy is missing. The drive home without them feels heavier than you expected.
Yes, you can visit. Yes, they’ll be back. But right now, you may find yourself asking:
🌿 Who am I beyond being “Mom” ?
🌿 What brings me joy now?
🌿 How do I create a meaningful life that feels whole, even as the role I’ve known for 18 years shifts?
This isn’t just an ending—it’s also an invitation. A moment to pause, reflect, and rediscover yourself.
💫 My upcoming workshop, A Return to Yourself, is a space designed just for this season of life. A place to nurture what’s been waiting quietly inside you—to emerge with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
It’s time to return home… to yourself. 🌸
Register here: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/illum-cctr/a-return-to-yourself

08/12/2025

A Return to Yourself
A soulful, Nature-Based, half-day workshop for women ready to reconnect with who they are beneath the roles they’ve carried. Through the art of collage—guided by the Indigenous Medicine Wheel and the Wellness Wheel—you’ll explore your emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental wellbeing. This experience blends somatic practices, breathwork, and creative reflection to help you return to your body, your voice, and your inner wisdom.
Register here: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/illum-cctr/a-return-to-yourself

08/11/2025

It’s back-to-school season.
Even though I no longer take my son to school, there’s still an unmistakable energy in the air — a buzz of excitement, anticipation, and the quiet awareness that something is shifting.
With change often comes a swirl of emotions: joy, hope, uncertainty, even a touch of anxiety or grief. These are all natural responses to transition. As humans, we are meant to evolve — and with that comes the inevitable sea of change.

The way we meet these moments is shaped by our perspective. We can view change as an opportunity, a loss, or a mix of both. All are valid.

So as this new season begins, take a moment to pause. Notice what’s stirring in you. Sit with it. Let it flow.

07/31/2025

Something meaningful is coming this fall…

This season, I’m offering a series of workshops rooted in nature, creativity, and embodied reflection—each one an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and return to what restores you.

These non-therapeutic, nature-based workshops are open to both community members and mental health professionals. They’re designed to support personal insight, emotional wellness, and the integration of expressive arts, somatic practices, and breathwork. Optional CEUs will be available for Texas LPCs.

Here’s what’s coming:
Return to Self – A half-day workshop to reconnect with your body, voice, and inner wisdom through collage, breathwork, and somatic practices, guided by the Indigenous Medicine and Wellness Wheels
The Wisdom of Trees – A nature-based exploration of how the seasons and life cycles mirror our own, using metaphor, art, movement, and reflection
Honoring Loss, Embracing Grief – A full-day experience to honor death and non-death losses (like chronic illness or life transitions) through expressive arts, somatic rituals, breathwork, and sound-based restoration

Taking place in September, October, and November Held in a nature-based setting
Optional CEUs available for Texas LPCs

Comment FALL or DM me to join the interest list and be the first to know when registration opens.