How We Can Work Together

I am a spiritual healer and coach that supports (primarily) women in transforming how they feel in their lives. I help you know yourself, love and accept yourself, and live the life that you want to be living. Specifically, I help women feel safe in their bodies, engaged with life, purposeful, and empowered. I offer this work because it has changed my life, as I describe below, and I want to help any person who is looking for it.

I currently offer 3 ways to work with me:

1. Relationship Coaching: Weekly or biweekly virtual sessions to strengthen how you show up in relationships, including romantic, platonic, professional, or the relationship with yourself.

2. (New!) Spiritual Healing and Guidance Session: One 80-minute virtual call to go deep into a specific experience, question, or area of your life through a spiritual lens. Similar to my past offering of Clarity Calls/spirit guide communication.

3. Human Design Reading: One 60-minute reading of your Human Design chart.

What sets my work apart from other personal development work is that I have a strong emphasis on the spiritual and energetic realm, emotional intelligence, and the mind-body somatic connection. For deep feelers and deep thinkers on a spiritual path, it is usually not enough to simply talk through an issue or experience to heal and move forward–you need to connect into the spiritual perspective, understand how the energetics are impacting you, tap into the depth of your emotions, and connect with the way your body is digesting the experience.

Why I Do This Work

(Content Warning: Briefly sharing about experiences with assault)

Before I share about what I offer, I want to tell you why I do this.

I was a corporate lawyer before this, and I changed so many parts of my life to pursue this work. While it is deeply fulfilling and fun, it can also be very challenging. I work as a healer because I feel that I have a unique ability to help people genuinely heal and move through difficult experiences and as a result, totally change the way they experience their life. I have this ability, in part, because of my own journey.

As many of you know, because I have shared about these experiences on my (now inactive) podcast Wild River, when I was 19 years old, I was assaulted on two occasions. I was attacked and strangled at a fraternity house, and then 2 months later, raped by a peer, also at a fraternity house, when I was incapacitated. I only remember fragments of both nights because I was drinking heavily. I pretended that it didn’t happen for years and believed it did not affect me, until I started having anxiety attacks at the age of 25. I was already profoundly impacted by these experiences, though I did not realize it. I struggled with any physical affection, disassociated regularly during sex and rarely experienced sexual pleasure, had low self-worth in romantic relationships, minimized my own needs, abandoned my body regularly, and was emotionally volatile. Still, I did not view these experiences as traumatic and did not draw a connection between them and the anxiety attacks or any other behavior in my life. To the extent I thought of these experiences, I believed I was to blame because of my drinking and that I was overreacting by being upset that they happened.

Through divine intervention, I signed up for a crystal energy healing and sound bath in New Orleans in June 2018, not realizing what it was, and had a mystical experience. In that ceremony, I realized that I was being impacted by these past experiences, they were manifesting as anxiety, and if I did not start looking at them and sharing them, it would make me afraid and numb to the world. That night, my spiritual awakening began.

For the last 8 years, I have been on a journey of reclaiming my sense of safety, spirituality, self-worth, embodiment, and creative fire. Though some of this has been focusing on healing from those traumatic teen experiences, which has been extremely painful and challenging to work through at times, much of the path has been about propelling my growth spiritually. It has been an intense, demanding, joyful, emotional, and freeing experience. I have invested significantly–financially, energetically, and time–into my healing and growth. I have had hundreds of sessions with therapists, healers, and bodyworkers, thousands of hours in ceremony, weeks spent at retreats, and learned how to go into, face, hold, and alchemize my own pain. And it has worked!!

I have genuinely transformed how I feel in my life, and as a result, what my life looks like, how I spend my time, my relationship with my body, and the quality of relationships I attract. I feel so much joy, embodiment, purpose, and wonder in my day-to-day life, in ways I did not know were possible. It feels like my responsibility and privilege to pass on everything that I’ve learned to help others heal and grow as well.

I know that life can get better than you currently believe is possible. It is my honor to support you on your path.

Relationship Coaching

I work closely with clients in an intimate, long-term coaching relationship. I help people create thriving, authentic relationships—romantic, professional, familial, platonic, and with themselves.

I help you:

• Identify what you want out of you next romantic partnership and do the self-work and personal growth to attract that.

• Break detrimental patterns.

• Feel emotionally connected to, relaxed, and safe being yourself in relationships.

• Figure out why certain relationships are feeling so crunchy and work on shifting them.

• Learn when to walk away from relationships and how to do that gracefully.

• Deeply know yourself and be able to communicate what you want and need, in a way others can understand.

• Trust yourself to choose and maintain healthy relationships.

• Work through imposter syndrome.

• Feel filled up, rather than depleted, after connection and socializing.

• Stop being avoidant and take accountability and agency for you life, decisions, or interactions.

• Become more magnetic.

• Enjoy profound self-acceptance and self-love.

• Ground and find your center.

• Trust your intuition and connect with your body.

• Develop your relationship to the Divine and trust the Universe.

I often get asked if my work is like therapy. Like therapy, coaching supports your emotional health, self-discovery, and personal growth. Unlike a therapist, I do not treat mental illness or addiction, respond to crises like mental health breaks or acute trauma, or have any clinical training. Coaching is very forward-moving and goal-oriented, often more so than therapy. While we do revisit your past (sometimes often), it is to move forward in a specific direction that we define together.

One of the biggest differentiators is that my work is infused with mysticism, bridging emotional health with spiritual depth. While the goals might be similar to therapy, the ways in which I help my clients reach them, and the frameworks I use, are different. I believe that your relationship with spirituality is an essential part of your growth and healing. I read energy and, through energetic information, gain insights that help you move forward. I guide you to connect meaningfully with your body, and lean on your body to help you understand, navigate, and process your lived experiences. I teach you how to hear and trust your intuition and body’s wisdom. This allows us to move faster, deeper, and more holistically than traditional approaches alone.

If you are curious about coaching, the next step is to book a free consultation call with me. We will talk about what is going on in your life, discuss whether my work is a fit, and get to know each other better.

Client Testimonial: “I wasn’t the same person when I left ongoing support with Sam, I started to feel and process buried things and come out of the other side with compassion for my past self and hope for the future, and the beginning of an awakening to a new kind of connection to spirituality and a curiosity to dive into many new things since my mind wasn’t obsessed with cruel thoughts and ruminations of my past mistakes. Over the past two years I have felt the impact of this work in every area of my life. I have been able to navigate challenging life events, heartache, religious deconstruction, and also fun new opportunities that would have felt too scary to try before, but now I have the capacity to handle more joy in my life. I am so grateful that I took a chance and invested in myself to learn from Sam!”

Spiritual Guidance and Healing Sessions (New!)

These sessions are deep-dive explorations into one specific area of your life. Together, we’ll bring a spiritual perspective to the question, theme, or struggle you’re navigating. If you’ve worked with me before, you might remember my Clarity Calls–these sessions build on that same foundation of intuitive, heart-centered guidance.

Examples from Past Spiritual Guidance Sessions:

• Exploring whether to leave a long-term relationship or how to cope post-divorce.

• Processing a miscarriage or abortion.

• Navigating pain related to the experience of being adopted.

• Saying goodbye to a significant home when moving.

• Approaching dating with greater self-worth and confidence.

• Navigating imposter syndrome at work.

• Going through a spiritual awakening and feeling overwhelmed but excited.

• Approaching life with more spark and enthusiasm.

These sessions offer a sacred space for healing, clarity, and support. They’re designed to help you release what’s stuck, move forward with greater ease, and shift your trajectory for months or even years.

I draw on a blend of tools and practices—spirit guide communication, intuition, energy healing, somatic processing, coaching, and Human Design. My role isn’t to hand you the answers, but to help you hear your own inner wisdom more clearly. Often, this includes emotional processing. One of my gifts is helping people identify where they’re holding unprocessed emotions and move them so they can step into clarity. During each session, I also invite in your spirit guides to share any messages they choose, offering support and perspective along the way.

You can book a session here!

A Note on Pricing:

The price of these sessions is higher than my Human Design readings because they require a tremendous amount of energy and presence. Connecting with higher realms, translating spiritual information, and holding space at this depth is an intense process. While it often leaves me feeling deeply inspired and lit up, it also takes a lot out of me energetically.

I stepped back from offering these sessions at the end of last year, and reduced my coaching practice because the energy exchange left me feeling physically unwell with flu symptoms after every session. That wasn’t about my clients at all! I needed to hold stronger energetic boundaries, self-care, and energetic practices. Since then, I’ve rebuilt my approach so I can hold these sessions with clarity and joy.

Because of the depth, intensity, and lifestyle commitment this work requires from me, the price reflects that. These sessions are not casual conversations, but transformative experiences designed to ripple through your life long after we meet. I believe they are worth the exchange, and I trust that those who feel called will know their value.

Spiritual Guidance Session Testimonial: “Our session was equal parts validating things I know and feel to my core, as well as bringing me a step further in alignment with who I am meant to be. Sam is pure magic - trustworthy, respectful, knowledgable and passionate. The ripples of my call today are going to be felt throughout this year.”

Human Design Reading

Human Design is a blueprint of how your energy is designed to work. It is based on a birth chart created with your birthday and birth time. It tells you how your energy is meant to flow, how you make aligned decisions, where you most impact others, and the places you are most likely to sabotage yourself. Though mystical in nature, Human Design is practical. It offers tools you can use daily for communication, decision-making, leadership, and relationships.

I have given hundreds of Human Design readings, and consistently hear that the reading puts to words the experiences you have always felt but did not know how to describe, affirms your best qualities, and reframes the parts of you that felt wrong.

In our 60-minute Zoom session, we’ll explore your gifts, challenges, direction, and energetic design. If you have a specific question or intention, the reading will be tailored to that. Perfect for both beginners and longtime students of Human Design.

Book your reading here. Learn more about Human Design and watch free, awesome videos on my Human Design YouTube channel, Moonrise.

Human Design Reading Testimonial: “Sam’s Human Design reading was absolutely amazing! She explained everything so well and I genuinely feel as though I’ve learned some important, life changing insights.”