Intuitive Spiritual Mentorship is About Guiding the Way
THROUGH the Valley, Not Around it…
In this sacred space, your wounds are honored as portals — not flaws to be fixed, not evidence that there is something wrong with you. At The Alchemist's Vine, healing is about illuminating the gifts that your wounds make accessible and alchemizing the pain into purpose.
I believe what grows in the dark is not lost. And neither are you — though you may have spent years trying to outrun it, outshine it, or simply outlast it.
What I offer isn't a formula. It's fire-tested presence, spirit-led intuition, and the compassionate heart and steady hand of someone who has walked this terrain herself — not just studied the map.
This work isn't easy. But it's real. And what waits on the other side of it is something no shortcut can give you — the experience of finally being at home in your own soul. Trusting your own sight. Carrying only what's actually yours.
Not a better version of yourself. The whole one. The one who was there all along, waiting in the dark for someone to stay long enough to find.
Where I Come From…
I was born awake in a place that needed me asleep.
I was born and raised within a documented cult in Illinois called The Perfect Church — a high-control religious environment where my intuitive gifts were treated as dangerous, where questions were met with punishment, and where goodness was a performance, you never stopped rehearsing. I spent years learning to shrink. To be acceptable. To bury the parts of me that saw too much, felt too deeply, knew things I had no business knowing.
But, shrinking didn’t work. My soul kept growing. The light in my vines didn’t dim — it went into the shadows for a time, to the roots that never stopped going deeper. My path out from there was a slow spiral of spiritual evolution. I found Reiki in my twenties, and for the first time something made sense in my body, not just my mind. Then I happened upon Druidic philosophy while exploring my own family lineage, and that opened a door to the sacred which demanded not obedience, but open eyes and the recognition of the Divine in all Living Beings. Extensive training in modern shamanism — my soul’s great joy — gave me a framework for the gifts I’d been carrying since childhood. And when I was finally ready, I was let to the path of peace that is Buddhist psychology: a glorious way of being which offered something no other tradition had — the radical idea that I was already whole. And so are you.
Along the way, I also became a certified holistic life coach, and a Usui Holy Fire Reiki master. Following this I trained extensively in integrated energy medicine. I sought ordination through the Unitarian Universalist Church. I learned Seidr mediumship in the tradition of my ancestral Scandinavian grandmothers. I studied transpersonal psychology and Jungian shadow work, building a practice rooted in the belief that wounds are not flaws — they’re apertures. Portals. The places where the light doesn’t get in — it’s where the light gets out.
Today, through The Alchemist’s Vine, I blend modern shamanism, Buddhist psychology, mediumship, Reiki, and intuitive mentoring into a practice that meets you where you are — not where you think you should be. I work with empaths, healers, and spiritual seekers who are done bypassing their pain and ready to alchemize it.
I don’t offer quick fixes. I don’t traffic in love-and-light bypasses. I offer presence, discernment, and the steady witness of someone who has sat in her own dark long enough to know what grows there is not lost. It’s just waiting to be found.
Credentials: Ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister • Certified Holistic Life Coach and Certified Spiritual Mentor • Reiki Master Teacher • Oracle & Medium • Sacred Stream Foundation (Buddhist Psychology & Shamanic Studies)
I Know How it Feels, too…
I know how it feels to walk into a room and carry everyone else's weather. To hold space until you're hollow. To be the one everyone turns to while quietly wondering — who holds space for me?
I know how it feels to need someone who doesn't flinch when you show them the parts you've been hiding. Someone who doesn't try to fix you because they know you were never broken.
That's who I am. That's what this space is for.
I know how it feels to be told your gifts are dangerous. To shrink yourself into something acceptable. To carry weight that was never yours and call it devotion. I know how it feels to sit in the rubble of everything you were taught to believe and realize the only thing that survived was the thing they told you to bury.
I know how it feels because I've been there. And I'm still here. That's why I do this work.
I know how it feels to sense there's something more — a calling, a thread, a pull you can't name — and to have no language for it. To have done the therapy, read the books, sat through the retreats, and still feel something underneath that hasn't shifted.
I know how it feels to be ready for something deeper. Something that doesn't bypass the pain but walks straight through it.
That's the work I offer. And you don't have to walk it alone.
You don't have to sit in this alone. I've walked the spiral — through the shadow, through the rubble, through the long slow tending of everything I was told to bury. I'm not here to fix you. I'm here because I know the dark well enough to sit in it with you, and I know what grows there when someone finally stays.
“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other, we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. ”
What Healing Looks Like Here
My approach isn't linear and it isn't clinical. It's intuitive, spirit-led, and rooted in the belief that real healing happens when we stop trying to fix ourselves and start tending what's actually there. We work with your shadow, your energy, your ancestral lines, your soul — not to create a better version of you, but to uncover the one that's been waiting beneath the performance.
Tend the Soul
We follow the thread beneath every wound and every mask, giving care to what’s been neglected.
Meet the Shadow
We meet the parts of you that were hidden — not to fix, but to bring home.
Heal the Wound
We see where pain reveals its purpose and the wound becomes a portal — gold from lead, light from dark.
Rooted in Saftey…
Trauma Informed, Spirit Led, and Always at your Pace.
Many of the people who find their way here carry wounds that were never meant to be witnessed — wounds shaped by religious harm, ancestral inheritance, relational rupture, or simply the long exhaustion of being told that what they felt wasn’t real. I don’t take that lightly. And I don’t approach this work as though healing is something I do to you.
Trauma-informed care, at its heart, is about one thing: creating conditions safe enough for something real to happen. That means you will never be rushed toward a depth you haven’t chosen. It means I ask before I move, name before I proceed, and follow your lead even when I can see further down the path than you can. It means your body, your pace, and your instincts are always the authority in the room — not mine.
It also means I bring my whole self to this work, including the parts that know what it is to sit in the dark. I am not a guide who has already arrived. I am someone who knows this terrain because I have walked it — and who will not flinch at what we find here together.
Safety.
Transparency.
Collaboration.
Empowerment.
These are not policies. They are the ground we stand on. Together.
A Bit More About Ivy Godiva
When the lantern is down…
When I'm not holding space, you'll find me stargazing, photographing whatever nature will hold still long enough, or filling journals with poetry and spiritual philosophy faster than I can shelve them. I take weekly salt baths like they're sacrament. I meditate by moonlight. I cuddle my cats with unreasonable devotion. And I spend every beautiful moment I can with the chosen family my soul has finally found.
And sleeping! Because without sleep, we cannot dream. Without dreams, we cannot see. And if we cannot see, we cannot awaken.
Are You Ready to Reclaim YOUR Sacred Wholeness?
The work starts when you're ready. Not when you've got it figured out — when you're willing to sit with what you don't. You bring whatever you're carrying. I bring the lantern. And we follow the tendrils from there.
