I came to the Circling Approach in the wake of a breakup—when the waters of communication had run dry in a long-term relationship. That same week, I stumbled across an Aubrey Marcus podcast featuring Guy Sengstock. Something in the way Guy spoke stirred something in me, and I followed that thread to a drop-in Circling event.

That first experience cracked something open. After so much confusion and distance, I encountered a kind of presence I didn’t know I was longing for—human, sacred, ancient. It didn’t have language in me yet, but I knew it was real. I’ve stayed close to the Circling Approach ever since.

This relational Approach has become the river I keep returning to—sometimes still, sometimes stormy, always alive. It’s where I’ve learned that bringing my true thoughts and feelings into relationship, even when uncomfortable, doesn’t have to rupture connection. It can deepen it.

My background is in Somatic Experiencing, Functional Nutrition, and trauma-informed care. I’m a therapist-in-training at Regis University, and I teach somatic groups and offer individual somatic sessions at a mental health clinic. Across all these modalities, I hold a steady devotion to helping people return to their bodies, their truth, and their wholeness. But the Circling Approach offers something distinct—something phenomenological and essential. When a group attunes to what’s truly here, the spirit of the experience begins to move us. Sometimes muddy, sometimes crystalline. Always real.

I’ve witnessed Circling sessions unfold like rivers and spirals: silent, stormy, slow, sacred. I’ve sat in awe as defense mechanisms softened, projections became portals, and the collective we took on a life of its own.

As a Circling facilitator, I bring a warm, grounded presence. I’m often told I create a sense of safety—not because I steer away from hard things, but because I meet them with permission and care. I listen not only to what’s said, but to the place it’s said from. When we follow that thread beneath the surface, something true begins to reveal itself.

And as life would have it, I now find myself in partnership with Jake, another Circling facilitator. Being in a relationship where the Circling Approach is not just something we offer, but a shared language, has deepened our connection in ways I never imagined. It’s helped us meet each other’s human and soul, witness each other’s inexhaustible founts, and navigate the sweet and the stormy with presence and repair. Living inside this Approach together isn’t just something we share—it’s something that shapes us. And sometimes undoes us, too, in the best ways.

I love the Circling experience because it creates a space where we don’t have to perform. Where we get to be honest about how it feels to be human—with all our projections, edges, beauty, and longing.

My hope is that people leave a Circling session with me feeling more known, more connected to their truth, and a little lighter in what they carry. And perhaps, with a deeper trust in what unfolds when we stay present to what’s here.