Trusted Collaborators & Referrals
Kirien Eyma
Kirien is my partner in life and one of the deepest influences on how my work has evolved.
Through our relationship, my understanding of mindfulness and somatic practice has expanded far beyond the individual body. Kirien first helped me notice how much of my earlier somatic training stopped at the boundary of the human body, while our lives are always unfolding in relationship with place, land, culture, other people, and the wider living world. That realization has deeply influenced the ecological and land-based orientation of my work, including the walking meditations and nature-based practices I now offer.
Kirien is a Reiki Master, forest therapy guide, tarot reader, shamanic practitioner, sound therapist, and life-long meditation practitioner. I received my Reiki Level 1 training and attunement through him, and his approaches to forest therapy, tarot, sound, meditation, shamanic journeying and relational presence have all found their way into how I listen, notice, and create space with others.
Just as importantly, being in an intercultural relationship with Kirien has continually expanded my awareness of cultural context. Through him I have learned much more about collectivist ways of understanding relationship and selfhood, the Eastern cultural and philosophical roots of mindfulness beyond its Western therapeutic adaptations, and the importance of approaching another person's world with humility and curiosity rather than assuming my own framework is universal.
Together, we now offer 2:2 couples work (more info coming soon), bringing our different backgrounds and ways of attending into the same space with a couple. We are also exploring longer couples intensives and retreat experiences centered around relationship, rest, nature connection, and making more room for complexity.
Bianca Cenan
Bianca and I connected through our shared interest in supporting internationals building lives in Norway, and I immediately resonated with the way she approaches her work.
I experience Bianca as a systems thinker. When we first met, I described her work as a little like mycelium: connecting people, companies, communities, and organizations in ways that allow new relationships and possibilities to emerge. What struck me was how genuinely and generously she builds those connections. Her approach feels less transactional and more like the way a forest works, with relationships strengthening the larger whole.
Our work approaches international life from different but complementary directions. I tend to focus on belonging, identity, relationships, transition, and the personal experience of migration, while Bianca's work through CandidateAid focuses more on professional life, networking, workplace culture, and career development in Norway.
We are exploring ways to bring those perspectives together around the wider experience of finding one's footing here, personally, socially, and professionally.