A Lifelong Learner, Adventurer, and Creative

Hi, I’m Ande. A seeker of curiosity, wonder, and wisdom sparkles.

I have long been drawn to inner worlds of human experience. This has often manifested in a deep curiosity, leading me on a winding path, exploring my own depths, devouring fields of study in interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, trauma healing, creative arts therapies, somatics and body wisdom, while learning to hold the human experience in a field of compassion.

I call this field the heartspace.

Each stop along the way has deepened my belief in our inherent wisdom.

A wisdom that often shows up as stuck places, obstacles, and pain points manifesting as defenses, protections, resistances. All began as brilliantly adaptive ways to deal with difficult life circumstances and all have the power to show us the pathway back home to ourselves.

Healing requires profound courage.

A courage that transcends, anchoring us as we spiral from the known to the unknown, illuminating the implicit and transforming it into the explicit, again and again and again.

I have been fortunate enough to travel with, learn from, and deep dive with those facing neurological injuries, emotional challenges, nervous system dysregulation, and traumas - relational, developmental, and shock.

I have also wholeheartedly committed to my own healing, surrendering into all I am so I am able to co-journey with others in the best way possible.

It is this personal work that has allowed me to expand, grow and cultivate my heartspace, creating a field of warmth and clarity for all who choose to enter.

I am also a writer, dancer, integrator, and lover of nature, fire, water, courage, authenticity and adventure.

While I often move tenderly towards the places that are scary, I have found that only by descending slowly into and through the pain points, stuck places, and burial grounds of our soul remnants can we build enough capacity to emerge and radically embody our joy, essence, compassion, and aliveness.

Intensive Studies

Multi-year immersions in:

  • Safe Embodiment and Embodied Attachment with Dierdre Fay

  • Relational Neuroscience with Bonnie Badenoch

  • Authentic Movement with Susan Cahill and Marcia Plevins

  • Attachment theory

  • Somatic, creative, and expressive arts therapies

Certifications

LCMHC - Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor

BSE - Becoming Safely Embodied Certified Practitioner

BC-DMT - Board Certified Dance/movement therapist

NCC - Nationally Certified Counselor

GL-CMA - Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis

EMDR Trained

Education

Master of Arts - Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling

Bachelor of Science - Psychology and Anthropology

Featured Speaker

2024 Deirdre Fay’s Online Retreat - Rewiring the Threat System: Training the Body Mind Heart to Receive instead of Defend

2019 Aspire CEU Presentation - Navigating the Abyss: Finding the courage and acceptance to “naked hermit crab it” as a clinician while maintaining the ability to guide clients through their own abyss

2018 ADTA Conference Opening - Restoring Vitality: Harnessing the body’s innate wisdom to integrate trauma while building resiliency

2017 Aspire CEU Presentation - Dance/Movement Therapy Presentation on Trauma, Integration and Resiliency

2016 ADTA Webinar Series - The Gift of the Embodied Shadow

2015 ADTA Conference - The Gift of the Embodied Shadow

2014 Utah Mental Health Counselor Association Conference

2012 ADTA Conference - Exploring Vistas and Soaring to New Heights

2011 ADTA Conference - Moving Through Relationship: Giving and Receiving Support during Life’s Transitions

2009 ADTA Conference - Embodied Writing as a Research Technique

Creative Work

Seen at the Chicago Center for Arts + Design, World Film Festival, and Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival

Performer with Core Project Chicago

Co-founder, dancer, choreographer of SolesBare Dance Collective

“Ande is able to guide her clients towards breathing new life and courage into the beautiful, wise, authentic core she knows is hidden underneath.”

-ANNE C.

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