Welcome to our little corner of the internet
I’m Amie! I help thoughtful people develop the practices and relationships that allow them to navigate life’s thresholds of change with greater belonging, coherence, and care. I do this so we can feel more rooted, connected, and able to participate in a life deeply our own and contribute to the flourishing of the communities and living world we belong to.
Change is happening. Learn to meet what comes next together.
The longer version
Several years ago, Amie dreamed of living waterside in Halifax, casting spells, and writing her heart out while being close to family. After a major surgery and unexpected homecoming, those delicious dreams came true in unexpected ways. She now lives back home along a thriving Florida estuary with her husband, black cat, and parents around the corner. She’s learning to garden and spends as much time as possible away from her computer - usually at the beach, by the river, or thrifting with her mum.
Amie is currently pursuing her PhD in Women’s Spirituality at California Institute of Integral Studies. Her research centers on decolonizing human-water relationships with a special focus on rivers and the braiding of local, ancestral, and embodied ecologies through place-based learning and ritual. She offers academic coaching and writing support as an integral feminist educator and trained writing tutor.
As a practitioner and space holder, Amie guides thoughtful people on their journey back home to themselves, the earth, and each other in mind, body, and spirit. Her approach blends reflective writing, embodied nature connection, ritual, and relational practices with collaborative coaching, mentorship, and learning. She facilitates transformative remembering experiences through 1:1 containers, writing and academic coaching, and community workshops. Amie is also the co-founder of Witch Workshops, a year-long community program designed to uplift personal and collective witch wisdom.
Education and training
This list reflects some of the formal and informal education and coaching I’ve received. These spaces and people inform my work, along with many other unnamed teachers and experiences that shape who I am and how I move.
PhD Program in Philosophy and Religion, Women’s Spirituality Program, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
Center for Writing and Scholarship (CWS) Fellowship, Senior Fellow at CIIS
Earth Mentorship with Carina Lyall and our circle
The Nashua River, New Hampshire, Abenaki and Wabanaki land
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Women’s Spirituality Program, CIIS
UNRAVELED Programs with Staci Jordan Shelton
Coaching as Activism with Andrea Ranae
Beautiful You Coaching Academy (BYCA) Life Coaching Certification
Masters of International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington
B.A. International Studies and French, Elon University
Living in 8 countries has taught me a lot about transitions, culture, identity, and belonging (Canada, US, Spain, France, Senegal, New Zealand, Australia, India)
My standpoint
My work is rooted in the understanding that many of us have inherited stories of separation - from land, body, community, ancestry, the sacred, and the more-than-human world. My lived experience tells me re-membering this separation changes how we move through the world for the better. It is my honor to know nature as alive, water as teacher, and river as kin. It is a gift to feel unseen belonging and a charge to live like it.
As a white woman of Irish and Scottish ancestry living on colonized lands, I understand my own practice as one of incomplete learning, accountability, and relationship. Rather than offering certainty, I hope to create spaces where we can cultivate more ethical and reciprocal ways of remembering and belonging. This is an ongoing practice, unique to each person, and I welcome you.
What my clients say
"(Amie) has this gift of making you feel special, that regardless of where you are at, she has this capability to highlight your strengths, which I found so comforting and inspiring. Amie helped me believe in myself again, with her ongoing encouragement that always felt so loving and gentle. Amie has one of the biggest hearts I know..."
~ Camille
"I used to immediately dismiss writing about work because I didn't think I had anything original to contribute. Now I feel more confident sharing my opinions and insights because I know that what I'm doing has value, and Amie helped me gain perspective around that."
~ Jessica