You are loving awareness. As a therapist, mentor, cancer survivor, and former veterinarian I support and encourage you in embodying and expressing your inner truths, desires and living whole-heartedly. I practice the healing ways of the ancient somatic (body) traditions with a body-centered psychotherapy approach to reveal the wisdom of the heart and to return to the endless source of love within. This embodiment of love and awareness offers a way to alleviate suffering, deepen relationships, and create a meaningful life that we most long and yearn for.

Jamie’s training and professional experience spans over several fields related to therapy, embodiment, movement, psychology, western and eastern medicine, counseling, and spirituality. Her multifaceted ways of guidance and much of the heart of what she offers is influenced by the ancient wisdom traditions ( namely Vajrayana Buddhism) and Somatic Psychotherapy along with the many teachers, guides, and kind souls who have generously offered their teachings and wisdom along the way. Her biggest teacher has been her own suffering leading her to a life devoted to the embodiment of love as the medicine to end suffering and offering space for others to do the same.  

For more than two decades, Jamie has been a student of somatic meditation and somatic embodiment practices. Jamie has a bachelor’s degree in Nutrition, a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine followed by a Master’s degree in Counselor Education specializing in Mental Health Counseling all from the University of Florida. There she learned body-centered (somatic) psychotherapies with her mentor, Dr. Roberta Seldman, one of the first female psychotherapists at the University of Florida. It was Dr. Seldman that inspired her to adopt ancient wisdom principles of meditation and somatic practices as tools for transformation and deep understanding. She assisted in her private client sessions, co-led mindful therapy courses, facilitated yoga and somatic therapy workshops, intensives and retreats.

Jamie is a Licensed Massage Therapist from the Florida School of Massage. She later traveled to live in Costa Rica to learn and experience the healing aspects of ocean therapy. Since 2013, she has owned and operated a private somatic bodywork and movement practice in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica. 

Since 2019, Jamie has trained with Anne-Marie Marron, a body-centered Hakomi therapist and leadership and integrative business coach. It is with Anne-Marie that she further discovered and cultivated her devotion to embody love with a focus on presence, power and awareness. 

In 2019, Jamie became a student of John Wineland, renowned speaker, relationship coach and teacher where she practices embodied leadership, spiritual intimacy, sexual polarity and an even deeper embodiment of love.

In 2019, wanting to blend her knowledge of veterinary medicine with psychology, she created her own position at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine where she mentors veterinary students in mindfulness and somatic practices. She also serves as the lead Mental Health Counselor for the Florida Veterinary Medical Association.

In 2020, Jamie was diagnosed with a rare gynecological cancer requiring chemotherapy and radiation treatment. This further initiation with the preciousness of life, Jamie began her own private somatic therapy practice devoted to restoring and accessing the wellspring of love within each of us. Looking for more gentle loving way of being, Hakomi therapy offered a mindful curious approach to life. Currently, she is in the process of becoming a fully certified Hakomi therapist from the Hakomi Institute of California and has completed two years of comprehensive training and one year of advanced practitioner training. Hakomi is a somatic body-centered psychotherapy approach first created in the late 1970's by the internationally renowned therapist and author, Ron Kurtz.

Jamie is also an avid surfer, world traveler, and artist. She has been a student of the ocean since 2005 and travels around the globe to experience its vastness and depths. Jamie feels most alive when she is in the presence of the ocean reminded of the awe and wonders of life. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” - Jacques Yves Cousteau