MY STORY

In 2019 I survived a car accident that changed everything. 

3 weeks after my 30th birthday, I had a successful career as a makeup artist, a book contract, a boyfriend, and I was about to move into a high-rise condo downtown. I thought I had it all. I got in a car on a cold February morning to head to the airport on a girls’ trip after wrapping work on a season of a TV show. 

Well you know how they say “humans make plans… God laughs?” God DEFINITELY had other plans for me. 

Almost 6 years, 4 surgeries, lots of tears, and countless hours of rehab later, I’m living my purpose as an artist, coach, and holistic healer; I bought a little house in the woods, surrounded myself with the most incredible community of friends, and have created a life I love.  I’m healing my nervous system after scraping by, deeply entrenched in hustle culture, generational baggage, sexual trauma, and general burnout. 

Everything had to fall apart before it could be rebuilt stronger. The breakdown was the breakthrough. 

Throughout my journey of healing from trauma and 6 major physical injuries I have benefitted from so many different modalities and I knew I needed to share some of them with others.
Holistic + Artistic is an eclectic - yet integrated - mix of so many things I'm passionate about:
  • art + sacred crafts
  • yoga + somatic movement
  • Reiki + energy work
  • trauma healing + healthy lifestyle
  • connecting with the divine within us and all around us​

Ready to make your breakdown your breakthrough?  Let's chat.

MY VALUES

I believe that all people are deserving of care that is trauma-informed, justice-centered, and gender-affirming. I support the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC Communities and am always striving to learn more about how I can be a better community-member and ally.

I see through both a feminist and a post-gender lens, with the belief that while gender is a social construct, different people carry different energies and have different aptitudes, all of which all valid and important to make the world go round.  I believe the way we were raised in regard to gender role has a massive influence on our current circumstances, behaviors, wounds, and limiting beliefs.

While I was raised Catholic, I consider myself "spiritual but not religious."  I have studied several different world religions and philosophies and have respect for all of them.  I work with clients from all faith backgrounds, with the common thread being that you choose the Higher Power of your own understanding.  My Higher Power doesn't have to be the same as your Higher Power, but my work hinges on the tenant that there is something out there bigger than all of us.  I am also versed in working with religious trauma.

I believe all humans are inherently good and inextricably connected.  I am not here to trauma-bond with you: we will validate the pain, but we will not spend our sessions stuck in the past or rolling in the muck.  I am here to help you remember the light that is already inside of you (and others).

I have a love of all things "woo-woo" and bring a lot of that to my work.  At the same time, I believe in science and lean heavily on Polyvagal Theory, quantum physics, and neurobiology.  I am influenced by the work of Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and Dr. Andrew Hubermann. 

Although I am fundamentally anti-capitalist, I work to bring my expertise to the world in a way that is sustainable for me within a capitalist structure.  If you resonate with my work and are in need of pricing options or payment plans, please reach out.

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

IN-PROCESS TRAINING

  • ​Transcending Sexual Trauma though Yoga - with Zabie Yamasaki​
  • ​Shamanic Moon Magic and Psychic Mediumship - with Sharon Ramel

ADDITIONAL COMPLETED COURSEWORK + ATTUNEMENTS

EDUCATION

  • New York University; Bachelor of Arts | Class of 2011
  • Pivot Point Academy; Cosmetology License | Class of 2014
  • New Trier Township High School; Diploma | Class of 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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"Every session with Christine leaves me understanding more about my life, past and present.  Her readings help me to trust my own inner knowing, clarify why things are the way they are, and guide me toward the steps I need to take to achieve what I want to achieve.  At times the information is so simple, but at the same time so profound. Christine has an amazing gift."

- Cheryl C. | Colorado, USA

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I am blessed and humbled to live and practice on the traditional unceded lands of the Sauk, Fox, Illiniwek, Kickapoos, Miamis, Potawatomi (Neshnabé), Menominee, and Winnebago peoples.  To learn more, please click here.