As a young adult, when I first began developing my career path, I worked in crisis shelters for runaway youth, adolescent group homes and treatment centers. I eventually took up patient education for women in crisis, became a women’s health and reproductive health educator, and then an art educator, using art as a means to awaken to a young person’s truest self and to heal. 

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Through my encounters with thousands of people from varying backgrounds, I came to understand  that in connecting with and caring for our truest self lies the path to healing and living steadfastly and true. I began to fully recognize how deeply we long to awaken to the true love within us and the true loving support around us.

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I left conventional work settings to dedicate my life to meeting, guiding, and supporting others to living a more fully truthful life.

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Elle is a master educator,  holds a Master's of Arts in Teaching, is a certified master parent coach, certified art therapy coach, trained in somatics and nervous system regulation, Restorative Practices, with a CAMFT Certificate for healers: Trauma and Addiction.  She is a trained Waldorf Educator and teacher of young people and loves stewarding each one towards truth and the birth of their self. She is also in her third year of  her Therapeutic Arts training  at the Kairos Institute working with paint an charcoal as a therapeutic medium.  She is gaining  training in Emergentcy Pedagodgy to work with trauma, and looks toward integrating  the animal therapies she has been learning as well.