relationship tending

in this work we focus on tending relationships with your inner self, with existence, our therapeutic relationship, human relationships, community relationships, and reciprocate with more-than-human relationships. as a therapist and person i learn and grow alongside you.

systems of domination

colonization, extraction, displacement, habitat destruction, invasive species, monoculture, labor commodification, body commodification, racism, patriarchy, capitalism, ableism, body shaming, anti-fatness, productivity norms

domination interrupts relationship. these disruptions may be experienced as:

your symptoms

anxiety, depression, dissociation, hypervigilance, masking, shutdown/freeze, overwhelm, numbness, chronic tension/pain, sleep disruption, shame, isolation, difficulty concentrating, sensory overwhelm, identity crisis, etc.

what we cultivate

agency, meaning, self-compassion, connection, co-regulation, embodied choice, relational repair, more complex stories of self, capacity to grieve, relationship with place, integration, imagination, greater capacity for difference and multiplicity

clinical frameworks

person centered

somatic psychotherapy

relational therapy & interpersonal neurobiology

narrative therapy

parts work

place-based

  • moving at the speed of your nervous system

  • attunement

  • prioritizing your choice and consent

griefwork

mindfulness

expressive arts

  • trauma-informed processing

  • regulation

  • neuroplasticity

  • embodiment

  • bilateral movement

  • connection

  • co-regulation

  • attachment

  • relational repair

  • re-storying

  • externalization

  • meaning-making

  • multiple identities

  • tend to soul wounds through myth-making, dreams, and subconscious

  • inner multiplicity

  • compassion

  • integration

  • self-leadership

  • relationship with land

  • ecological tending

  • environmental attunement

  • witnessing grief

  • acknowledging different forms of grief

  • exploring your ancestral practices

  • cultivating awareness

  • cultivating spaciousness

  • cultivating self-compassion

  • cultivating choice

  • expanding capacity to be present with more complexity

  • bilateral movement through crafting

  • generating new neurological connections

  • externalizing feelings

theoretical orientations

folk & queer feminism

neuro-affirming

person-centered

existential

humanistic

eco-centric

transpersonal

liberation focused

connective orientations

relationality

positionality

curiosity

compassion

contextualization

interdependence

witnessing

multiplicity

roots

these ways of being and practices are ancient

craft / making

rhythm / drumming

movement / dance

oral storytelling

ancestral practices

ancestral memories

migration / immigration stories

ancestral grief rituals

relationship with land

myth, dream, imagination, unconscious

soul / spirit / interbeing

collective & relational knowing

the soil

healing happens beyond therapy, as we root deeper into our interconnectivity and the space that hold this. recycling, composting, and alchemizing waste, death, and excess.

context: land back, cultures, ancestries, histories / herstories, ecologies, communities, cosmological wombs,