Relationships have the power to shape us more than almost anything else in life. Love can open us. Challenge us. Heal us. And invite us into becoming more fully ourselves.
Gavin and I love helping individuals and couples build relationships rooted in truth, emotional maturity, friendship, vitality, communication, spiritual alignment, and genuine partnership.
For us, the key to a thriving, healing intimate relationship is learning to love well while staying honest and transparent.Â
We support you in remaining true to yourself while also merging within the beauty of partnership. A transformational relationship allows couples to grow together consciously and create a shared field where they can both truly thrive.
Meet my Beloved
We met later in life after many years of personal growth, heartbreak, healing, searching, and becoming. What brought us together was shared values, emotional honesty, friendship, and spiritual resonance. (Plus, the chemistry.)
Gavin reached out to me on SpiritualSingles.com, and when I read his initial message, a very thoughtful overture of interest, I instantly felt a profound resonance and familiarity. After three weeks of long-distance phone and Zoom dating, he traveled to Mt. Shasta so we could meet in person. What we planned as a long weekend became a twelve-day immersion and fast track to falling in love. Three and a half months later, we moved in together.Â
Today, we’re married and continuing to deepen our connection. Our relationship informs the programs we offer together. When we co-facilitate, we share stories, vulnerable experiences, and lessons learned.Â
Our relationship is a living laboratory. And we do our best to live with awareness, heart-centered communication, humility, compassion, and skill.
Gavin brings decades of experience as a couples counselor, teacher, and spiritual therapist, and I bring my background in professional development, leadership, and the healing arts.
Together, we create spaces that are warm, grounded, honest, experiential, and deeply human.
Our Philosophy
Relationships illuminate our patterns, fears, wounds, gifts, needs, desires, communication styles, nervous systems, and capacity for intimacy.Â
We experience trauma and heartache through relationships, and we can heal through relationships, too.Â
They invite us into greater self-awareness and deeper love. A healthy relationship is not about losing yourself in another person. And it is not about avoiding vulnerability in the name of independence. It is about learning how to remain connected to yourself while also forming a meaningful connection with another person.
At the heart of our work is this understanding: A thriving relationship supports both people in becoming more alive, authentic, loving, and aligned with their deeper nature.
Client Success Story
An excellent example for all.
"Your generosity of heart and practical application to “walking the walk” give you the credentials to show others how to do the same. AND you do it with so much love and joy. I loved being in your community...You hold the feminine energy so beautifully while balancing the masculine within yourself. — An excellent example for all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. With love & gratitude"
– Pam Herzer
Author, Transformational Mentor
Explore Our Relationship Offerings
Our offerings are experiential, relational, practical, and deeply reflective.
We work independently and together with both singles and couples because the quality of our relationships begins with the quality of our relationship to ourselves.Â
Awakening Heart: Attracting True Love
An Online Program for Women with Joy
A heart-centered journey for single women opening to love, dating, self-worth, emotional healing, feminine embodiment, discernment, and magic.
This program supports women in attracting a partner through deepening self-love, strengthening intuition, recognizing a healthy partnership, healing relationship patterns, and cultivating confidence and clarity.Â
Created especially for spiritual women who desire relationships rooted in emotional safety and genuine compatibility.
Client Success Story
It's never too late to love
"In our process of living, we can get caught up in our own self-centeredness and lose touch with who we are. This special weekend allowed me to access, appreciate, and grow my self-love and make decisions from my heart. My ability to love is much greater than I imagined, and I am grateful it's never too late to love. Everyone who attended, including the facilitators, contributed sincerely from their heart. Everything happens for a reason, and I can now feel and develop the love I seek within myself and with a romantic partner."
– Anthony Moell
The Real Us Online Workshop Series
This monthly online workshop is for singles and couples exploring conscious relationship, communication, intimacy, compatibility, emotional healing, and relational growth.
Sessions include teaching, guided practices, reflective exercises, and heartfelt conversations within a supportive community.
Themes vary monthly and focus on core elements of intimate relationships, communication skills, and emotional safety.
Mt. Shasta Singles Retreat
An annual retreat experience for conscious singles who desire authentic connection, meaningful conversation, personal growth, and the possibility of aligned partnership.
Held in the beauty of Mt. Shasta, this retreat includes facilitated workshops, nature excursions, dating confidence, communication tools, and group connection.
It is an intentional experience designed to support genuine connection, self-awareness, and heartfelt community.
The Real Us Couples Immersion
An intimate retreat and ongoing integration experience for couples who value growth, honesty, emotional depth, friendship, intimacy, and conscious partnership.
This immersive experience includes a multi-day retreat in Mt. Shasta, online integration workshops, private couples sessions, and growth tools, resources, and online courses.
Designed for couples who want not only to stay together, but to truly thrive together.
Relationship Coaching with Joy
Private coaching for individuals navigating dating, heartbreak, transitions, relationship patterns, emotional growth, self-trust, communication, or conscious partnership.
Transformational private coaching with Joy blends emotional insight, intuitive guidance, embodiment, nervous system awareness, and practical support.
Couples Therapy with Gavin
Therapeutic support for couples seeking professional counseling, communication support, conflict resolution, emotional healing, and relational growth.
Gavin brings decades of experience as a therapist specializing in conscious relationships and emotional healing.
Mt. Shasta Private Immersion Retreat
Whether you're seeking an in-depth personal healing journey or looking for a shared experience with a partner or family, all of our immersion retreats are custom-designed for individuals, couples, or small groups. This level of care and empowered collaboration allows for profound spiritual and energetic awakening.Â
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An Invitation ...
Whether you are single, dating, healing, growing, or deeply partnered, a relationship invites us into profound self-awareness and transformation.
We would be honored to walk beside you on that journey.
Client Success Story
With love and appreciation and gratitude
"This is a time of big positive movement for me and I am so pleased and grateful that I found out about you in this fruitful period. I totally believe that every moment and every encounter is sacred and part of the divine dance. But some moments are more obviously wonderfully beneficial and that is how I regard the value of what you share. You are a blessing to the world!"
- Kate Moody
Musician, teacher, and spiritual guide
www.musicalsanctuary.org
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