Six years ago, a contemplative practice that had been present-moment based for nearly three decades shifted into something unexpected. I had my own spiritually transformative experience, and nothing looked the same after. My connection to the Field radically opened. Perception shifted profoundly—in ways that were unimaginable to my western-science trained mindset. What had been a discipline of stillness opened into direct experience in nature, and what came through was vivid, undeniable, and life-changing. I began experiencing what arises in deep contemplative practice as sudden, clear knowing—something some practitioners have called downloads—and later came to understand that these experiences map directly to what neuroscience identifies as gamma integration states.

I share this openly, knowing that some therapists have not yet had this experience and may not recognize it as a natural part of the contemplative path. For those without this direct experience, sharing it can seem unusual. I believe the opposite—that this is exactly the kind of honest conversation our field needs right now. This is a moment in history where something is transforming—and whatever this transformation turns out to be, it includes authenticity, openness, and a willingness to speak and share our truths so we can support one another in the changes we are going through individually and collectively.

It's true—and it fundamentally changed how I understand what healing actually is. Walking between the world of neuroscience and clinical training and the world of direct spiritual knowing, these are overlapping territories—distinct in some ways, deeply intersecting in others. The intersection is where the most important work happens.

The intersection of Science and Spirit awareness is growing and means in practice. It is not a metaphor. It is how this work lives and moves at this moment.

We're in a moment of profound disclosure—on every level. Therapists are seeing something striking: clients are experiencing unprecedented nervous system activation, attention fragmentation, and existential questions about what's true. They're noticing changes in themselves, their relationships, and the world around them. And often, what's happening in the macro is reflected in the micro, and vice versa.

Skye is currently offering a public talk exploring this exact terrain: Attention Fragmentation, Nervous System Regulation & Spiritual Sovereignty. She recently presented some of her content at Living Gods Light, a non-denominational spiritual conference led by NDE experiencer Vinney Tolman, in Salt Lake City, and has been offering this work in local Minneapolis venues. Skye is opening a conversation most therapists aren't having—how our awareness is being shaped, why grounding and nervous system regulation matter now more than ever, and how spiritual sovereignty and scientific understanding are inseparable.

This is the intersection of Science and Spirit made practical.

What audiences walk away with: Language for what many people are experiencing at this time. Normalization of the collective anxiety. Practical tools for nervous system regulation and understanding the importance of grounding and how to ground. A framework for discerning real threats from manufactured ones. The neuroscience behind spiritual experience. And validation that what people are sensing—in themselves and in the world—is real.

This work speaks to people who live between worlds — intuitives and experiencers who want grounded, science-backed language for what they already know, and clinicians and coaches who sense their training left something out.

Therapists, social workers, ritual practitioners, ceremonialists, energy workers, mediums, channelers, empaths, indigenous and earth-based practitioners, meditators, astral travelers, NDE and STE experiencers, seekers who've outgrown the frameworks they were given, podcast hosts looking for a guest who is open and authentic in conversation — you're in the right place.

If you feel energy in stones, in ceremony, in stillness, in the land beneath you, at sacred sites, along ley lines, or in the space that opens during deep meditation — and you've wished someone with clinical credentials would stop explaining you away and start supporting you holistically — this is a space for you, too. If you're navigating expanded perception, making sense of out-of-body experience, or simply tired of choosing between a therapist who gets the science but not the spirit and a healer who gets the spirit but not the science — this is where both live. If you want science only, Skye can meet you there. If you want a broad range — science and spirit, clinical and contemplative, lived experience and learned experience — Skye can meet you there, too. It's up to you.

For podcast hosts and event organizers: Skye is a guest who can hold a therapy conversation and a spiritual conversation in the same breath — with range, a bit of humor, and be real and deep in her conversational style. She won't flatten the science to make the spiritual comfortable, and she won't sanitize the spiritual to make the science crowd comfortable. She holds both.

Skye's path moves through systems at every level. International Relations degree from the University of Minnesota. Senate staff experience. Doctoral work in Developmental Psychology with a neuroscience emphasis at George Mason University. ICF-credentialed coaching and advanced Narrative Coaching certification. MA in Gerontology. And in 2022, clinical licensure as a marriage and family therapist (LMFT) from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, where she added trauma and family systems to a foundation that already spanned neuroscience, coaching, and contemplative practice. She has worked with clients since 2012.

The throughline: she sees and works with systems — individual, internal, family, neurological, vagal, geopolitical, relational, spiritual, and the Field that many are just now tapping into.

She also navigated her own significant STE — time shifts, expanded perception, and connections to lineages and traditions she hadn't consciously ever heard of or studied — largely without the kind of support she now provides. That's why this work exists.

Methods

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (A.R.T.) · CBT · DBT · ACT · IFS parts work · mindfulness · breathwork · grounding · Reiki Level II

Skye is available for podcasts, panels, and speaking engagements on topics at the intersection of Science and Spirit. She recently presented "Living the Healing Light: Psychology Meets Spiritual Wisdom" at the Living Gods Light conference in Salt Lake City.

Why Nearly Every Therapist's Intake Now Reveals Similar Themes A conversation about what attention fragmentation is doing to our nervous systems, why the clinical data should concern all of us, and why calm is not the goal — calm is the instrument of access.

Your Nervous System Isn't Broken — It Was Never Taught How to Regulate Practical, in-the-room somatic tools — breathwork, heart coherence, affect labeling — rooted in both neuroscience and contemplative practice. For people who are activated, overwhelmed, and looking for something that actually works.

Spiritual Sovereignty in the Age of Disclosure A three-category discernment framework for distinguishing real threats from structural collective threats from manufactured profit-driven threats — because you can't discern from a dysregulated state.

How Your Attention Is Being Manipulated Without Your Consent How engineered attention capture is reshaping family dynamics, adolescent development, and our capacity to think clearly — and what it looks like to respond with sovereignty rather than fear.

Discernment Over Judgment: How to Tell the Anxious Voice from Intuitive Knowing The path from reactive judgment to spacious discernment, grounded in the teaching that regulation restores access to what's true. Not to numb you to what's real — to restore your ability to tell what's real from what's manufactured.

When the Macro Shows Up in the Micro What therapists are seeing in session that mirrors what's happening in the world. Skye draws from her own clinical practice and her background in geopolitical systems to name what most therapists sense but few are saying out loud — that individual healing and collective transformation are not separate processes.

Media kit and headshot available upon request.

To book Skye: awareofthemoment@gmail.com