Betsy (she/her) helps people access states of deep rest, relaxation, reimagination, and regeneration through a unique union of energy work and integrative coaching. Betsy brings 13+ years of holistic nursing experience and graduate-level coaching training to create a warm, skillful, trauma-informed container for gentle yet powerful work.

Betsy’s work is especially well-suited for people who are:

-Looking for a soothing, gentle space to reconnect with themselves and their inner wisdom

-Interested in the connection between their individual energetic wellbeing and that of the collective and planet

-Wanting to honor their energetic sensitivity and/or sensitive nervous systems

-Wanting a supportive environment for practicing rest and relaxation

-Seeking energetic support with transitions and new ways of being

-Creative, self-aware, and interested in how cosmic healing arts can support their work in the world

A registered nurse in Minnesota since 2012, Betsy earned an integrative nurse coach certificate in 2014, became a national board certified health & wellness coach (NBC-HWC) in 2019. At the University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing, she completed Reiki 1 (2018), Reiki 2 (2020), and a MA in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching (2020). Betsy is currently studying Reiki Mastery at the UMN with Deborah Ringdahl DNP, APRN, CNM.

Betsy’s nursing path has been unconventional: in 13+ years of nursing she’s never worked in a hospital. Before professional nursing, she worked in social justice movements and political organizing, sustainable farming and beekeeping, coffee shops and farmers markets, and cared for her dad who lived for 15 years with early onset dementia. Betsy’s caregiving experiences include public and preventive health; community holistic mental health; integrative/holistic psychiatry practices; supportive housing for individuals transitioning from unhoused, institutional, and incarcerated circumstances; the Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition; housing for people living with HIV; a community clinic in Nicaragua; harm reduction sites; and home health care.

Betsy practices coaching and Reiki with deep humility, respect, and unconditional positive regard for the clients she works with—as a model for flipping the paradigm of care from power-over to power-with. She partners with clients, skillfully cultivating space for people to find their inner wisdom, explore challenges, and expand their own vision of what is possible. Trained in guided imagery, hypnosis, biofeedback, Enneagram, mindfulness, and other mind-body-spirit modalities, Betsy has years of experience supporting many people-–from woo-woo lovers to side-eyeing skeptics—to tap their innate healing skills and creative resources. Versed in the cosmic archetypes of astrology, Betsy also offers co-creative sessions infused with astrological insights for astrology lovers and the astro-curious.

Betsy is her own #1 case study in the art and science of integrative health and wellbeing. A raced-white, settler descendant, cis-gendered, queer woman with a highly sensitive nervous system, Betsy is on a humble and persistent lifelong journey to heal and transform patterns of generational, ancestral, and cultural trauma and systems of domination within her own mind-body-spirit. Her greatest hope is that this work might also radiate out: in service of others, her communities, the collective, and the planet. She loves to nap, read, write, dance, be quiet, be outside, think and talk about astrology and politics and water and all kinds of other stuff, hang out with her amazing friends and beloved partner, and hoof by the river—and just about everywhere—with their dog Danney Mars.