My Story, My Path

I was born in the United Kingdom to a British father and an American mother of Norwegian and Danish descent. I return to Scotland and England regularly — landscapes that continue to shape my sense of history, resilience, and rootedness.

Eventually, my family settled beside the ocean in Bolinas, California, where tending to others was simply a way of life. My mother, a British-trained midwife and advanced practice nurse, brought me to home births throughout my childhood. Healing was not abstract — it was embodied, relational, and sacred. My father, with his brilliant mind and kind heart, spent a lifetime caring for our family and designing hospitals around the world.

From an early age, I was drawn to questions of humanity, ritual, identity, and change. That curiosity led me to study Anthropology and Archaeology at UC Berkeley for my undergraduate.

After college, I followed a conventional path into business and investor relations within the clean energy sector. While successful on paper, something essential was missing. The pull toward healing — toward deeper, more meaningful work — never left.

I returned to hands-on healing through massage therapy, hypnotherapy, and coaching, deepening both technical skill and intuitive awareness. At the same time, I pursued formal nursing training at UCSF as a nurse practitioner in primary care and later into integrative and holistic mind-body care and integrative mental health, drawn to understanding the human body and mind through a rigorous clinical lens since 2013.

Over the years, I have lived through my own thresholds — grief and loss, caregiving, marriage and conscious uncoupling, chronic pain, financial recalibration, illness, and the ongoing evolution of identity. I have sat with uncertainty, rebuilt from the ground up, and found my way back to meaning more than once. These experiences are not incidental to this work. They are at its heart. They are why I can meet you without judgment, without a script, and without pretending that any of this is simple.

People come to this work from many different places. Some are navigating a significant life transition — separation, a new diagnosis, a career crossroads, grief, or a growing sense that something needs to change. Others arrive not in crisis but in curiosity — ready to grow, to shed what no longer fits, and to move toward a more intentional, joyful, and aligned life.

What they often share is this: they are tired of feeling like they have to choose between practical support and something deeper. They want someone who can help them troubleshoot a career decision and also understand why their nervous system is dysregulated. Someone who takes their anxiety seriously and their spiritual life seriously. Someone compassionate, direct, and genuinely present — who has actually been through some of this themselves.

If that sounds like what you are looking for, you are likely in the right place.

Training & Credentials

My work sits at the intersection of clinical training, integrative coaching, and years of lived and spiritual practice. I am a board-certified Nurse Practitioner and board-certified Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse, a certified hypnotherapist, and a certified life coach — trained at UCSF and through programs in integrative and functional medicine, hypnotherapy, massage therapy, craniosacral- somato-emotional release practitioner, breathwork facilitator, NLP, EFT, somatic practices, and end-of-life care.

In addition to private sessions, I teach and lead retreats globally, bringing this integrative mind-body-soul approach to groups navigating change, meaning, and deeper becoming.

This work is devoted to holistic life coaching, hypnotherapy, and integrative guidance — serving clients in Marin County, the San Francisco Bay Area, and beyond.

A Note on Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy, in this practice, is not a quick fix or a standalone session. It is one thread within a deeper, more integrated process — used to access what conversation alone sometimes cannot reach. The people who find this work most transformative are those who are open, curious, and genuinely ready to engage — not just in a session, but in their own unfolding.

Meditation, movement, and deep connection to nature remain foundational in my daily life. They remind me that growth is not linear. We evolve through spirals — returning, deepening, and meeting life again with greater awareness. Roots matter, and even disorienting change can become initiation.

My reflection- life inevitably shifts.

Not everything will be clear, and much can change along the way. Yet we learn to navigate through uncertainty — to ride the waves, steer through cloudy skies, and trust the unfolding rhythm of life.

Through reflection, recalibration, and realignment, we learn to meet those shifts with greater clarity and inner authority.

And in each moment, we are given what we need to take the next step forward.

— Abigail