About
Ashley
By the time I was in my twenties I had mastered the skill of appearing to have it all together.
I had a promising hospitality management career, long-term partnership, a vast social circle and an aesthetic that competed with every other appearance-obsessed New Yorker. I was convinced that as long as I looked like I was healthy and happy, people around me would buy into the performance. And they did.
The truth was that underneath this facade I was struggling deep down inside. I was skilled at masking how I truly felt underneath the surface. I distracted myself with unhealthy coping strategies like excessive partying, compulsive shopping and overeating to deal with the stress and discomfort I was experiencing on the inside.
At age 29 during my “Saturn Return” I had a spiritual awakening and it all came crashing down. I was overworked and completely burnt out. I knew I needed to get away from working in hospitality. I quit my job and decided to study health coaching so I could start my own business. I wanted a complete lifestyle transformation.
After supporting clients in the health coaching space for 2 years, I still felt unfulfilled. I was noticing that my clients were not having the success they aspired to because something on a much deeper level was inhibiting them. They were lacking a sense of wholeness. They needed support beyond just their physical means. It was time for me to dive into the emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of the self.
In the most serendipitous way, I was guided to a psychic medium mentorship with a renowned medium. Simultaneously, I started working with a shaman who supported my plant medicine journey. Collectively, these experiences opened up my intuitive faculties that were always present within me. During this transformative time, my ancestor’s revealed to me that I was reliving karmic patterns of my family from my maternal side. More importantly, they illuminated the path to healing and repair. I felt a huge sense of relief knowing there was purpose in my pain. With their support I was able to shift my unhealthy relationship patterns and addictions.
As I continued health coaching clients my intuitive faculties expanded. Spirit was leading me to help clients understand the root cause of their health concerns. I had come to realize that deep-seated unresolved trauma was preventing them from moving forward.
I then shifted my focus towards trauma healing. Throughout my coaching career I always taught what I had first mastered within myself.
I deeply immersed myself in my trauma healing education. I worked with yet another spiritual teacher and continued to follow the guidance of my ancestors.
My first pregnancy was a defining moment in my coaching practice. My intuitive abilities became significantly enhanced and I felt the full presence of my legacy and lineage.
It was only then that my greatest purpose was shown to me - to break the cycle of suffering, pain and abuse for my clients’ legacies. To help heal the trauma that had been passed down from one generation to the next.
I began studying ancestral and inherited trauma and applied all of it to my own healing. I discovered several tools, techniques and modalities in order to heal myself first. Everything I support my clients in doing I have experienced and had success with myself.
My trauma education, self-healing experience and intuitive abilities, combined, is what makes me different from other trauma informed coaches. My sessions are guided by the divine. I am shown a trigger or event for me to go into, I read their life timeline from present day back to conception and I feel into the trauma they have experienced. I then trust the process and allow it to unfold.
My journey to healing, expansion and success has been entirely led by following my intuition. I am now married to a wonderful partner, pregnant with our second child, living in Europe, with a thriving practice in service to humanity— all of which were dreams of mine. My vision is to become a leader for the mother’s and aspiring mothers who have inherited the burden of generational trauma so they can raise emotionally secure children.
Credentials
University of New Hampshire, Bachelor of Arts, Sociology 2006
Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Holistic Health Coach, 2015
Buti Yoga, Vinyasa 200hr RYT, October 2018
Silver Star, Reiki Master, Feb 2020
Association for Integrative Psychology, Certified Master Practitioner, Hypnotherapy, Nov 2021
Association for Integrative Psychology, Certified Master Practitioner, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Nov 2021
Association for Integrative Psychology, Certified Master Practitioner, Mental & Emotional Release ®, Nov 2021
School Yoga Institute, Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher, May 2022
Embody Lab, Somatic Attachment Therapy, June 2022
Family Constellation Institute, Inherited Family Trauma, Nov 2022
InnerCamp, Trauma Informed Breathwork Facilitator, Jan 2023
Academy of Inner Science, Ancestral Trauma Healing, July 2023
Compassionate Inquiry, Completion Date: Feb 2024