Integral Health

Sometimes we don't even know what we are thinking or feeling until we give ourselves a chance... I have some sliding scale fee spots available.

Talking with someone trained to listen can make all the difference in helping you figure out your life. I've been a life student and PhD potential doing a variety of research projects on such topics as attention and memory, sexuality, hypnosis, and how mental health status affects job applications. I worked with charter school students, elderly people with disabilities, and inmates within the Wisconsin Green Lake Correctional System. I was a member in our local chapter of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, which included serving in executive positions and fundraising for the Alzheimer's Association and a local group that worked with victims of domestic abuse. During my senior year, I underwent a personal journey of self-discovery in a depth psychological fashion, reading books by Carl Jung and other deep thinkers. After a year or so away from school, I moved to San Francisco to pursue a Master's in Integral Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). I have completed that degree and a year of practicum at one of our school clinics, Golden Gate Integral Counseling Center. I'm accepting clients, including individuals, couples, families, kids and groups. I'm available in person in San Francisco, or by video to anyone in California. Please give me a call or text to see if I can be of service: 1(920) 319-5020

09/28/2025

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09/18/2025

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+19206721549

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http://integralninja.dao/

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Dear well-being seeker,

I’m in the middle of a mission to bring nature back to the city of San Francisco. I’m hiking into the canyon of the Glen Park neighborhood with friends and clients to restore health and vitality to individuals and our community, and decrease the technological noise that so often fills our lives. From an evolutionary perspective, this connection to nature was implicit. In the modern world, some societies lose touch with the natural world, while there exist cultures for which this ecotherapy is still traditional.

As summarized by Fauver (2018), “Spending time with trees and opening to your intuition are integral parts of a Japanese practice called forest bathing (shinrin-yoku). Forest bathing involves quietly relaxing under the trees or casually walking through them, which research has found to provide a wide range of health benefits” (p. 6). Among the evidence for this is work by Lee et al. (2011), in which young japanese male subjects participated in a 3 day, 2 night nature-based experiment.

The study used physiological and psychological measures, including heart rate variability analysis, that indicated the forest environment significantly increased parasympathetic nervous system activity, the rest and digest side of the autonomic nervous system, and significantly suppressed sympathetic, fight or flight activity of participants compared with the urban environment. This could be particularly helpful for anyone with a dysregulated nervous system, especially including those with such experiences as hypervigilance from trauma.