Hi! I’m Abby. I’m a Certified Microdose Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Somatic Coach, Integration Guide, Creative Expression Facilitator, and World Traveler with a penchant for storytelling and good food.

I’m a trusted and experienced guide with a passion for psychedelic-assisted therapies and somatic integration work as important tools for lasting change, growth, and evolution. I deeply care about creating safe, nourishing spaces for others to feel more alive, connected, and at home in their being.

I have deep roots in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina and currently reside in Brooklyn, New York where you can probably find me sauteeing garlic and butter in someone’s kitchen, doodling, scribbling, escaping to the forest, asking a lot of questions, and relishing those tiny moments of human connection.

I’ve always been fascinated by humans. The way we make meaning. The way we connect. The way we feel. The light and dark within each of us. The way we can’t experience true joy without knowing what the pits of grief feel like.

There is nothing that warms my heart more than encountering a connection between beings, like an act of kindness between strangers or an intimate dinner party where the conversation and food deeply nourish your soul.

I’m an experimenter, a traveler, a seeker – one who (for better or worse) learns by doing. I’ve solo traveled around the world for the last few years and observed the way people live.

I’ve dwelled on farms in Italy, in the lush jungle of Costa Rica, in the buzzing cities of Mexico, in the soft rolling hills of Appalachia, in the salty Algarve of Portugal, and in a tiny village on a volcanic lake in Guatemala.

I’ve worked in marketing, indie publishing, the service industry, the festival scene, as an executive assistant, on a farm, and in textiles. And all of these experiences have allowed me to fall even more in love with humans – our messiness, our complexities, our universal truths, and our longings.

I’ve also spent most of my life living in my head, calculating the pluses and the minuses and rarely finding stillness to listen to my heart. I believed a lot of the lies the world fed me about my worth, my body, my sexuality, my gender, and my career. I’ve experienced crippling anxiety, an abusive relationship, depression, disordered eating, body image issues, and people-pleasing during different periods of my life.

All of these experiences have led me here today. I’m grateful to share this little corner of the Internet with you. As I evolve, this space will, too. I hope it gives you permission to create, grow, think, and reflect. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to ask any questions or say hello!

Abby’s Trainings, Certifications, & Communities

  • 70 hours completed 11/22

    About: Presence Based Coaching draws from the fields of mindfulness, somatics, developmental psychology, complexity theory, leadership, and interpersonal neurobiology to offer an emergent synthesis of the most potent approaches to developing leaders on the planet.

  • 35 hours completed 04/23

    About: Trauma & Somatics is an in-depth professional training program designed specifically for helping professionals and caring individuals to deepen their awareness of trauma physiology and build the skills necessary for their work with clients who have a history of trauma.

  • Completed 30 hours 05/23

    About: This training is led by Axis Mundi, whose mission is to make intentional work with psychedelics accessible to those who feel called to it.

  • To be certified by late 2023

    60+ hours earned

  • Completed 05/22

    30 hours earned

    About: This training explores the Five Element Theory and indigenous herbs in the Americas from an energetic perspective. Studies completed with Atitlan Herbals at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

  • Active member of the Strozzi Institute’s SOMA Community

    About: Strozzi’s monthly meeting place to build specific somatic skills to embody our fullest potential and help others do the same.

  • Member of Alexandra Roxo’s 2023 Radical Awakenings Community

    About: A 12-month mentorship program, sacred online temple, and coven of women devoted to full-spectrum embodied liberated expression, emotions as spiritual practice, creating our own realities outside of the mainstream overculture, sharing our voices, and doing it together