At The Alchemist’s Vine,
Intuitive Spiritual Mentorship is About Guiding the Way
THROUGH the Valley, Not Around it…
I help people like you break free from limiting beliefs, reconnect with their soul’s purpose, and build a life that feels aligned, empowered, and fulfilling. If you’re ready to step out of self-doubt and into your full potential, you’re in the right place.
Where I Come From…
I was born awake in a place that needed me asleep.
I grew up inside 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.
It didn’t work. 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 growing. My path out was slow and spiral. 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. 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 found Buddhist psychology: a glorious way of being which offered something no other tradition had — the radical idea that I was already whole.
Along the way, I became a certified holistic life coach, a Reiki master, and 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 shadow work. And I built 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 • Reiki Master • 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.
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.
A Bit More About Ivy Godiva
When the lantern in 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.
