welcome—i invite you to arrive just as you are.

my name is marlína dochartaigh (spanish and gaelic spelling; legal spelling: marlena dougherty) (they/them, ray/rem, she/her), an lpcc in Colorado, and a neurodivergent, non-binary, queer somatic therapist raised on occupied Coast Salish Territories. with roots in Irish, Mestizo, and other European lineages, i weave regenerative craft, somatic therapy, and ancestral remembrance to support individual and collective healing.

my professional path began in the colonial world of fashion design—spaces often shaped by extraction, commodification of bodies, and narrow standards of worth. as my creative practices deepened through grief, ecological awareness, neuroplasticity, liberation work, spirituality, and ancestral healing, these structures unraveled. what emerged was a devotion to practices that repair relationship—with body, land, lineage, and community.

i support people navigating anxiety, depression, ecological or personal grief, masking, burnout, chronic pain, identity shifts, and search for meaning. diagnostic systems often place challenges and disorders on individuals rather than within historical and interconnected contexts from which they arise. i hold this awareness with you, tending to relational fields between self, culture, and earth.

in Decolonizing Therapy, Jennifer Mullan writes that “colonization is a root core human trauma.” this understanding roots my work in resources more ancient than the world of the colonizer. through lenses of feminism, eco-spirituality, somatics, and liberation psychology, my work supports cultivating authenticity, intuition, body neutrality, radical acceptance, grief work, unmasking, shifting identities, and collaborates with community care.

my approach to somatics extends beyond the mind-body-spirit triad into past present and future stories of ecological bodies: from a cell, to a human, to stone, river, creature, migration, region, and collective bodiwa of earth. returning to this wisdom is a sacred elixir. 

as an artist and craftsperson, i work with outcast materials—physical, emotional, ancestral—as carriers of knowledge. through weaving, mending, and creative transformation, i explore where soul, earth, and community reweave themselves.

you are welcome here with all parts of yourself—especially ones who have felt cast aside.