Hi. I’m Liz, an intuitive healer, channel, and Reiki practitioner.
I believe that we are all surrounded by support and healing at all times, and want to remind others of this truth. I work to connect others with to their own spiritual guidance, power, and internal knowing -- resources that I believe live within each of us at all times.
I’ve been studying and practicing intuitive healing since 2014. My ever-expanding toolkit includes channeling spirit guide and earth energies, Reiki, working flower essences, gemstones, and spiritual counseling. With these tools, I seek to provide a sacred, safe and nurturing space for my clients that allows for deep reflection and moving through challenging and stuck spaces. My healing lineages are listed in detail below.
I feel excited every time I do a healing session with a client, and above all I feel incredibly grateful to be able to do this work and to stand in this vulnerable and beautiful space with others. My healing work is also informed by much of the work that I have done with others in recovery groups where I've learned how to hold space, listen deeply, and ask for guidance from a Source of Wisdom that is not my self, but lives in me (and all of us).
I seek to operate inside of an anti-oppression + anti-racist framework, and my work lovingly acknowledges that the systems that we live and the identities we inhabit in impact each of our lives in profound ways every day. As a white and queer person, I work to dismantle paradigms of dominance within my inner and outer worlds, and strive to stay humble and right-sized as I learn and unlearn. I also love working with other queer folks + I walk with my ever-awakening sense of life outside of gender norms and binary thinking.
My journey as a healer has been an expansive ride, one that continues to surprise and uplift me as it unfolds. Before discovering intuitive work, I had been walking my own healing path for a decade-- working with talented therapists, Al-Anon (a 12-recovery group), healers, and individuals who helped me learn to truly see and love myself. Like many of us, I was working through impacts of childhood and teenage trauma that left me feeling unworthy and unloveable. I learned how to speak up for myself and identify my real needs and wants, discovering so much hope, possibility and fullness in living my life.
While working with intuitive healers and beginning my study of Reiki, my world expanded as I became willing to consider the presence of unseen energies and I opened more deeply to the magic of the natural world. I felt a real + embodied surge of love, support, and possibility that carried me into a new phase of life. I was so excited to be able to feel the energy move in another person’s body, and to receive information from others’ bodies in the form of images, colors, and intuitive feelings.
I continue to be amazed as I receive detailed information when doing readings for folks. I sometimes feel like what I hear when I channel is the sound of our future selves, future ancestors, future world, calling us home. It is my true honor to share this with the folks I hold healing space for.
For more about how a session with me looks and my approach, click here.
Teachers + Healing Lineages
I am influenced by many healers, teachers, and spiritual traditions in my work. Here are some of the important teachers and teachings that I carry with me:
I am a graduate of Shayne Case’s Under The Eagle’s Wing Mentorship and Apprenticeship Program and studied with her for 5 years.
My studies with Shayne began in October of 2015. Alongside Shayne and the circles she held, I learned how to channel guides, work with gemstones and flower essences, create energetic boundaries, connect with the earth, and so much more.
I studied Reiki with Jett Koda, a Portland-based Reiki master, author and healer and all-around rad human.
My work with Jett was from 2014-2016, and included Reiki Level 2 and the Reiki Master level. I learned how to channel reiki energies, create containers for healing work, and began to learn how to feel energy in people’s energetic fields.
The Shan Ren Dao system
I attended a healing retreat to learn this lineage in July of 2019 for 2 weeks, led by Tamara Staudt. This system is based in Chinese medicine and qigong, and taught me tools for moving trauma from the body, the power of not blaming, and many tools for working through trauma and working with the elements.
Portland State University Master’s in Social Work Program
Participation in this program is deepening my practice in unpacking systemic oppression and gives me many tools in holding space for others, in addition to helping to connect folks with needed resources. I will graduate in June of 2023.
I’ve participated in this program since 2004. In many ways, the rooms of Al-Anon may have saved my life. Here, I learned how to be seen and accepted for who I truly am, how to continue to be accountable to myself and others, and how to listen deeply.