About Lisa

 

Welcome. Take a deep breath. You do not have to hold it all together here.

You feel everything deeply and it is both your greatest gift and your heaviest burden. You might be a highly sensitive person (HSP), a fellow healer or practitioner who spends your days holding space for others. You know what it is like to carry the weight of the room in your nervous system, only to find yourself depleted when the day is done.

Perhaps you are untangling the lingering threads of an unhealthy relationship, navigating a profound shift in your identity, or healing from religious and spiritual trauma. For those of us who are deeply attuned and highly perceptive, trauma and anxiety do not just live in our thoughts; they are stored in our bodies. Your anxiety is not a sign of weakness. It is simply your highly perceptive nervous system asking for safety.

You do not need to be fixed, because you are not broken. Sometimes what you need most is a safe, grounded space to settle your nervous system, process what you have been carrying, and come home to yourself. If you want someone to walk beside you as you untangle old patterns, quiet the fears, and reconnect with your innate strengths, you are in the right place. Together, we can create space for you to embody your true self and live the life you were meant to live.

My Journey

With over 30 years of experience spanning healthcare, leadership, and the healing arts, I bring a devoted heart, steadiness, and depth to my work as a counselor and hypnotherapist. Over the decades, my journey has included 27 years in clinical healthcare, time in corporate leadership, a decade teaching martial arts as a sensei, and 15 years as a dual specialized hypnotherapist. While these paths may seem distinct, they beautifully overlap in one core truth: true healing embraces our innate wholeness. It requires a fiercely grounded physical presence, a deep connection to your inner wisdom, and the expansiveness of the mind.

This understanding did not just come from my professional training. Like many of us, I have hit life road bumps. Some were abrupt, others gradual, yet all arriving at just the right time. They were invitations to step away from the exhausting outer spiral of my existence. Instead, they asked me to slow down, reflect, and spiral deeply inward to the quiet truth beneath the noise. Along the way, I questioned long held beliefs and discovered how unhealed trauma had created a profound inner disconnection. As I softened old patterns and integrated what I carried, I found harmony, deep peace, and lasting joy. What once felt like setbacks became my greatest teachers.

That personal transformation is the heartbeat of Align Within. It continues to inspire how I walk beside others—grounded, curious, and deeply respectful of your unique experiences. To ensure I could hold the safest, most comprehensive space for this deep trauma work, I expanded my clinical foundation by earning my Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and becoming a Professional Counselor Associate in Oregon. Today, I support you in reconnecting with your deeper nature, innate wisdom, and inner strength, empowering you to live authentically and be who you truly are.

 

Together, We Ground & Elevate

I am deeply committed to supporting you, and I believe in you — even if you don’t yet. With calm, compassionate sensitivity, I create a safe and confidential space where you can explore what it means to truly know, be, and love who you are. I honor your unique background, identity, orientation, and beliefs. By looking through relational, cultural, and systems-wide lenses, I hold the many layers of your unique lived experience with humility. All are welcomed, valued, and seen.

To ground is to come home to your body and your lived experience. It is the steady, bottom-up work of trauma resolution. We focus on growing a sense of safety within your nervous system, building emotional resilience, and developing practical skills for your daily life. Rooted in evidence based practices tailored to your unique needs, this work deepens embodiment, unwinds deep nervous system patterns, and softens the heavy weight of what you’ve been carrying. It creates sustainable change beyond insight alone.

To elevate is to reconnect with your inner wisdom, creativity, and true nature. The mind, the body, and the spirit are deeply intertwined, and reconnecting with that innate wholeness is the foundation for profound integration and awakening. While mental fortitude has its place, lasting transformation emerges only when you reclaim and integrate all parts of yourself, giving rise to clarity, deep peace, and joy.

Align Within honors our complete holistic nature and supports alignment with your authentic self. Together, our work is both grounding and elevating — practical and expansive — supporting you in living a life that feels truly aligned from within.

Distinct Pathways to Working With Me

My practice is intentionally structured into distinct pathways, centered in trauma-informed clinical counseling and hypnotherapy, with holistic services offered separately:

  • Clinical Counseling (Oregon Residents): A clinical, relational framework for trauma resolution, emotional integration, nervous system regulation, and longer term therapeutic care.

  • Mind Body Hypnotherapy (Worldwide): A focused, experiential approach for unwinding subconscious patterns and beliefs, accessing inner wisdom, and supporting meaningful, lasting change.

  • Holistic Services (Worldwide): Separate offerings for self-discovery, transpersonal insight, and deeper understanding through Human Design, Animal Design, animal communication, and related services.

The Intersection & Ethical Boundaries: For Oregon counseling clients, counseling and hypnotherapy may intersect when clinically appropriate; holistic services are kept structurally separate. Clients engage with me either as a counseling client or through my separate non-clinical offerings, but not both. This ensures our container remains safe, clear, and entirely focused on your care.

Human Design & Mentoring: Separate from counseling, I offer Human Design readings, groups, and practitioner mentoring. Human Design is a structured system for understanding decision making, behavioral patterns, emotional themes, and relational dynamics. For those familiar with the system, I am a 2/4 Emotional Manifestor on the Cross of the Four Ways, which naturally informs my orientation toward initiating, leading, and catalyzing positive growth within a collaborative, attuned, and empathic container.

 
 

Education & Clinical Credentials

This foundational clinical framework informs my mental health counseling practice.

Academic Degrees

  • M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  • B.S. in Science and Technology

Clinical Credentials & Approaches

  • Registered Professional Counselor Associate (Oregon)

  • EMDR with somatic integration

  • Restoration Therapy

  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

  • Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery

  • Trauma Informed Coaching and Counseling

  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

 
 
 

Hypnotherapy

These modalities inform my worldwide hypnotherapy and holistic services practice, focusing on subconscious integration, somatic grounding, and transpersonal growth.

My formal hypnotherapy training began with over 500 hours of advanced, dual-specialized education in both medical support clinical and transpersonal hypnotherapy, significantly exceeding the basic training hours common in the field. Since then, I have continued deepening my expertise through 15 years of clinical practice, ongoing study, and teaching.

I am a Fellow of The International Board of Hypnotherapy, a professional distinction held by practitioners who meet advanced training requirements and upholds rigorous ethical standards within a Board dedicated to advancing the profession.

 
 

Hypnotherapy Certifications & Credentials

 

Spiritual & Insight-Based Training

  • Certified Human Design and Quantum Human Design™ Practitioner

  • Graduate of CoreLight’s four-year Spiritual Teacher Training Program

  • Ordained interfaith minister

Somatic & Embodiment Training

  • Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery

  • Qigong practitioner

  • Certified Shoshin Ryu martial arts and self-defense skills instructor

I look forward to meeting you.

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“We are each unique. As we come home to ourselves and Align Within, we reconnect with the strength, wisdom, and power already within us. In that deeper connection, you can be the alchemist of your own life—transforming challenges into precious gold and shining from the inside out.”