Hi, my name is marlína dochartaigh
(Spanish and Gaelic spelling; legal name: Marlena Dougherty)
I am a neurodivergent, non-binary, queer somatic therapist, raised on occupied Coast Salish Territories, with roots in Irish, Mestizo, and other European lineages.
My professional path began in the colonial world of fashion design—spaces shaped by extraction, commodification of bodies, and narrow standards of worth. As my creative practices deepened through grief, ecological awareness, spirituality, liberation work, and ancestral healing, those structures unraveled.
What emerged was a devotion to practices that repair relationship—with body, land, lineage, and community.
Alongside therapy, I am an artist and craftsperson. I work with outcast materials—physical, emotional, ancestral—as carriers of knowledge, exploring how soul, earth, and community reweave themselves through mending and transformation.