The body has an innate ability to heal itself.  I am an avid believer in the healing potential of the human organism, and any creature of nature, for that matter.  The human body has an amazing ability to compensate for its imbalances in an attempt to restore homeostasis....the body's adaptability and extreme tolerance to what is unnatural never ceases to amaze me.  It really takes quite a bit of insult for the body to finally break down to the point where pathology prevails over physiology.  Even still, I believe that there is no disease a person cannot heal from, no matter how severe or advanced, if they have the intense desire to heal and their vital force is strong enough.  There is only one disease, and that is DIS-ease, or imbalance of the human organism.  

These imbalances can occur for a variety of reasons.  There are some things we are born with (due to faulty genetics and pre-birth environmental conditions), some are caused by the birthing process, and some occur as we live our lives.  When we are either not in touch with or we suppress our emotions, or we hide our true desires from ourselves, sometimes our body has no choice but to express these things for us.  The illness will always manifest as the perfect illustration or metaphor for what we denied ourselves experience of on a soul level.  Put in another way, imbalance occurs when there is a conflict between the ego and the High Self, or between the conscious mind and the unconscious /subconscious / superconscious minds.  If it were not for the human ego that sees itself as separate from all things and from nature, we would not live in such disharmony; the humanspecies has drifted so far from being aligned with nature....we are fighting against nature.

While there are some things you were born with or circumstances about your body you cannot change, you must always do the best with what you have been given.  It is of utmost importance that your physical structure be brought up to the highest level it can be, because you will have this body for the rest of your life.  In order to reach higher states of consciousness and evolve as a species on this planet, we must have bodies that are in peak, pristine condition.  It is my pride and joy to aid human beings in this process, and I have some amazing tools to help you accomplish this.  By improving your structural integrity from head down, improving gut function, restoring nutritional deficiencies, improving diet, and establishing a healthy lifestyle in accordance with how humans were meant to live on this planet, we can get you to a point of optimum health and well being.  We also need to get you back in touch with that deepest part of yourself, the part that feels safe, loved, nurtured and at home.  When you are in this place, you will become aligned with nature and with life circumstances that will bring you great joy.  

As a holistic physician, I want to empower you to take action of your own life and health.  I cannot heal you, only you can, along with the innate Healing Power inside of You.  I am only a facilitator.  I want to help you get unstuck, overcome pain and chronic ailments, get in tune with your body, mind, and Spirit, become aligned with Nature again, and reach optimum health and well-being to become the person you were designed to be.  There IS a perfect blueprint of your body that was designed for you and only you, and we can help you get to it....you have to believe it exists and that you can get to it.  I will work hard for you, but you must be ready to make a commitment to your own health and have trust in the process. My deepest desire is to create true harmony and deep beauty in the world, and I desire to take healing to a place of deep beauty inside the soul.  When we are in touch with ourselves on the soul level, this beauty opens up to us and Life can crack through at every moment.

Born and raised in Madison, WI, I was interested in becoming a doctor since an early age.  Surrounded by illness (a father with Bipolar Disorder, a younger sister with pyelonephritis requiring 3 childhood surgeries), I had a natural inclination to try to make things whole again and a desire to heal others.  This innate desire in me, combined with my own personal health struggles, led me to embark on my study of medicine, which is a life long commitment and ever growing endeavor.

The past 6 years of medical school have been the most enriching and at the same time the most grueling and difficult years of my life.  The process of becoming a Healer is much different than simply becoming a doctor.  A true healer has to first heal themselves and their inner wounding.  I have had to learn hard lessons.  I had to re-live my early childhood wounding and heal myself completely from it.  I had to get to the point where I could appreciate my childhood, as dysfunctional as it was, and could realize there is no other childhood I would have rather had, and no other life I would rather be living than my own.  I had to entirely re-evaluate my initial desire or compulsion to heal others.  I had to learn that it is not my obligation to heal others at all.  My only job is to bring my Light into the world and walk with others on the Path to Healing.  I also had to learn that life is perfect exactly the way it is, illness and all.  There is no need to "fix" anything because everything that is occurring in your life is perfect and is meant to be, and everything occurs with perfect timing.  Illness is already the organism's own attempt at correcting/bringing light to the situation.  The last thing a healer would want to do is to take away the illness.  This is not to say you should have to live with pain and illness forever, but you first must accept it into your experience and see it as a doorway to a new, Higher Reality.

Aside from medicine and healing, my other main big passion is music.  I was fortunate to be raised by two musical parents--my father, a professionally trained pianist, and my mother, a vocalist of amazing talent.  I began singing at the age of 3.  At age 9, I took up the cello, and have been playing ever since.  I studied cello professionally in college, where I was also a member of the UW symphony and other orchestras, as well as chamber groups.  Currently, I enjoy subbing for local professional orchestras when I get a chance.  It is also my personal desire to record my own music, and to integrate music into my medicine.  I used to see music and medicine as two distinct, separate entities in my life, but now I am beginning to see it all as one thing.

My other interests include:  all things metaphysical, following a spiritual path, experiencing expanded states of consciousness, astrology, hiking and sight-seeing in nature.