About Alex
Alex is a warrior for the human spirit, guiding individuals to rediscover their intrinsic goodness and deepen their spiritual lives through embodied contemplative practice and ritual-based healing.
With over 20 years of contemplative spiritual practice, Alex offers a compassionate, inclusive approach to spiritual growth, meeting each person at their unique point on their journey.
Alex is a Certified Somatic Practitioner trained by The Focalizing Institute. This modality applies mindful body-awareness for trauma healing and personal transformation. It allows folks to gently and compassionately release stuck emotion and internal barriers that prevent them from experiencing life more fully.
How To Work With Alex:
Alex offers 1:1 sessions, small group circles & retreats. For 1:1 work, Alex sees clients both online via Zoom and a limited number of sessions are available for in-person sessions at their home office in Astoria, Oregon. Contact Alex using this form to start a conversation or schedule a free 20 minute consultation here.
Integrative Spiritual Care Services:
Somatic Spiritual Counseling
Access your Natural Presence:
Presence is innate to being human. Attuning to it allows us to access the simplicity, vitality, and wisdom of our being. Often easier said than done. By settling into natural embodied presence, barriers around the heart soften, revealing our natural qualities of understanding, compassion, and love which give us courage to face life.
Open your Heart and Mind:
Through life’s inevitable suffering, the heart and mind become defended and reactive, limiting our access to the fullness of life. These defenses and patterns become habitual and unconscious, and requires dedicated practice to rewire our bodies and minds towards open-heartedness. Contemplative practice helps uncover the subtly of our defended state and attend to the pain of a closed heart, while also granting access to the unchanging nature of our deepest essence.Use life’s circumstances as spiritual practice:
Spiritual life is not just about finding comfort. It's also about facing our real struggles in the world, society, relationships, and family. While comfort is a support we need on our path, wisdom requires more than just seeking relief. Our pains and losses often need to be lovingly and non-judgmentally witnessed.
Grief & Loss Support
The one thing that is inevitable in life is change. Though impermanence is an inherent truth of life we often need support to weather the pain that comes with separation, unexpected loss, illness, life changes, and death. In ancient times we had ritual and ceremony to grieve the changes of life and learn to surrender with the support of community ritual. 1:1 grief support with Alex brings in earth-based ritual practice, creative processing and music to acknowledge, honor, and be with the waves of grief until it naturally releases itself.
Testimonials
Dr. Megan Taylor, ND - Seattle, WA
“There is medicine just being in Alex’s space. Alex has had a profound impact on my life, in more ways that I can count. I can always rely on our conversations to help bring clarity to my inner experience, and insight into my best next moves.”
Mattie F., Designer - Los Angeles, CA
“Knowing and working with Alex is a gift. Alex creates space to allow others to see and feel clearly, to explore, and to be introspective. Alex is as real and human as they come - she creates an environment to be reflective, inspired, and close to one's true north. Thank you, Alex!”
Gayan Macher, Spiritual Teacher - San Francisco, CA
“Alex has a beautiful combination of depth of spirit and effectiveness in functioning in the world. She has the soul of a student—eager to learn, open and curious. And she is a capable teacher—articulate, intelligent and authentic. Alex has a dedicated contemplative life, and is a serious practitioner of meditation.”
Angela S., Strategist - Portland, OR
“Each time I visit with Alex I am first greeted by a warm smile. It's a smile that invites me in and makes me feel safe. I am able to share what's on my mind and in my heart freely, without any fear of judgment. Hers is a calming presence and one of sincere trust. Alex has an expert ability to create serene spaces that engage all the senses. As she's guided me through exercises, I've felt confident in her approach, allowing me to experience growth and peace. Alex's devotion to finding truth and balance are apparent whenever we meet, and I cherish all the time that we spend together.”
Kristy W., Professional Facilitator - Portland, OR
“Whether someone wants to begin or deepen their spiritual and inner-knowing journey, I wholeheartedly recommend Alex. Before working with Alex I had no idea how disconnected I was from feeling in my body and how often I would disassociate and abandon my self. Working with Alex is safe and gentle and our sessions feel like I am coming home to myself. My sessions with Alex are what I call 'Truth Therapy' as everything we uncover and explore when pulled from my inner knowing in my body, is the truth. I can't hide from the truth, and Alex creates such an encouraging environment that I don't want to.