We are living through one of the most profound periods of change in human history.
As an integrative psychologist, consultant, and researcher, I have spent decades helping individuals, families, leaders, and organizations navigate trauma, grief, systemic conflict, burnout, and profound change.
But the conditions of change have changed.
We are now living through an algorithmic revolution.
We are seeing rising burnout, economic and job insecurity, mass confusion, grief, performative and transactional behaviors, and digital dependence.
Artificial intelligence, social media platforms, digitized life, information overload, and algorithms are reshaping how we relate, work, communicate, seek support, make decisions, connect with one another—and even how we understand ourselves.
As technology increasingly enters the space between us, another risk emerges: human bypassing—the erosion of distinctly human capacities when experiences that once required us to practice them are increasingly outsourced to technology.
And as we risk weakening our capacities to engage, attend, listen, reflect, emotionally relate, discern, communicate, and repair, something deeper can become neglected.
The soul.
The SoulResilience™ Difference
SoulResilience™ reconnects what fragmentation separates and strengthens what algorithms can weaken.
SoulResilience™ provides a trauma-informed and integrative approach to mind, body, soul, relationships, systems, and environments—to better understand the underlying and systemic influences contributing to suffering, burnout, and disconnection, while strengthening what supports healing, connection, and flourishing.
Rather than asking people simply to adapt to increasingly fragmented systems, SoulResilience™ asks us to notice what is happening—and consciously choose the capacities and qualities of our humanity we want to preserve, practice, and strengthen.
Drawing from decades of clinical, organizational, healthcare, communications, and research experience—and grounded in neuroscience, psychology, trauma recovery, systems theory, organizational research, and integrative health—I created SoulResilience™ to bridge the gap between mechanistic medicine and spiritual bypassing and offer a more integrative approach to navigating increasing fragmentation and algorithmic silos.
Because the systems we build, the conversations we share, and the spaces we inhabit can support healing—or participate in harm, SoulResilience™ is applied through three interconnected service areas: Integrative SoulResilient™ Systems Consulting, Integrative Communication Training, and SoulResilient™ Sacred Design Advising.
In an increasingly fragmented, algorithmic world, SoulResilience™ offers a path toward greater integration—so that as our world evolves, the soul still has space to breathe.
You can explore more of my work through Psychology Today, SoulLetters on Substack, or books: Ten Keys to Staying Empowered in a Power Struggle (Second Edition) and The Remembered Soul: Sacred Healing in a Forgetful World.
Want to Know a Little More About Me?
I have a laundry list of credentials—and as one friend lovingly teased, I seem collect degrees for a living.
Still in the spirit of the wise philosopher, Socrates—the more I know, the more I realize how little I know.
My studies started as a young child reading my father’s medical books, history books, biographies, and everything I could get my hands on.
As an Air Force dependent (and born babysitter to my siblings), I marveled at all the fascinating cultures throughout the world, yet discussions of politics, wars, and saftey tainted the air we breathed. And tears and grief from the news of another friend’s death were frequent.
Not surprisingly, I sought to understand cultures, grief, trauma, war, and conflict.
I have a PhD in health/medical psychology with graduate degrees in counseling psychology and marriage & family therapy. My undergraduate degrees are in international affairs/political science, journalism, and a specialization in bioenvironmental engineering—with graduate research in chemical & metallurgical engineering, where I studied—and published—my research on natural treatment systems.
Whether studying polluted environmental systems, dysfunctional organizational systems, or the human suffering created by grief, trauma, conflict, and chronic illness, I found myself drawn to the same question: What creates conditions for healing?
My most recent research in sacred spaces and sacred healing became the missing puzzle piece, ultimately leading to the creation of SoulResilience™—a deeply systemic and integrative approach to healing.