How I Work
In my one-on-one work with people, I work at the intersection of Somatic Psychotherapy and Spiritual Awakening
Decolonizing oneself is a somatic, psychological, and deeply spiritual process. Decolonization on a macro level involves dismantling systems of oppression like capitalism, white supremacy, exploitation of the natural world, and so on. It requires getting out and engaging meaningfully in the world. But decolonization also requires doing one’s own personal work. This is where I come in. Decolonization of oneself is a subtle, intimate, and intra-psychic process that involves disentangling from internalized oppression, feeling the somatics of ways you may have been an oppressor yourself, reconnecting with your innate spiritual nature, reclaiming sovereignty over your consciousness, and much, more. I believe liberation from colonial psychology knows no bounds, and can take one all the way to ultimate liberation and spiritual enlightenment. I help you disentangle from colonial forces as you have internalized them for personal and collective liberation using the following methods:
Techniques:
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Shadow work
I help you see the unconscious motivations that are driving you that may be at odds with your higher purpose. I help you transmute your relationship with these forces so they can become a source of vitality and gift in the world.
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Psychodynamics
As a licensed psychotherapist, I am always attuning to how your attachment system is showing up in our dynamic and in your awakening process. I bring these observations into the room for you to become aware of. I steadily guide you into your direct experience of this, which can be phenomenologically intimate and confrontive at times. It can also dissolve old habit patterns of relating that no longer serve you, and make new ones possible!​​
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Being in right relationship
I help you navigate reciprocity and being in integrity with yourself, the natural world, other people, spirits, ancestors, etc. I support you in getting involved in liberatory movements.
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Grounding
I help you learn how to ground energetically into the Ground of Nature. This is a HUGEly nourishing and protective presence! I help people develop the skills and energetic hygiene to stay clear, grounded, and protected as a natural state of being (even when going into highly dissonant or triggering environments.)
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Discernment
I help you develop discernment so you can discern distortion, shadow, dark energies, abuse, ego, addiction, or things that may be trying to distract you from your path.
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Gratitude
I help you develop a sense of gratitude and humility as foundational to how you walk in the world. This is a hugely protective, healing, and connective force.
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Ego dissolution
I help you disentangle from the traps of ego and the false self, so you can live a deeply connected and authentic life from the natural flow of your life-force.
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​Surrender
I help you trust the natural unfolding of your psyche and spirit throughout your awakening process. Sometimes this entails going into painful or uncomfortable material. I help you create safe containers and support to let yourself go into hard places safely, to glean the wisdom and growth that is there.
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Cultivate your relationship with Spirit:
I help you develop the perception to sense Spirit, even if you are someone who thinks they can’t do it.
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Self-Love
I help you develop a deeply compassionate and unconditionally loving inner presence to hold all of your parts.
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Living guided
I help you consult Spirit and your higher self to make big decisions, and let that be the guiding force in your life.
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Preparation and integration for psychedelic use
I help you navigate how to pursue psychedelics safely. I support you to use insights from expanded states of consciousness for shadow work, personal growth, spiritual awakening, and integration.
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Sharing resources
I am a lifelong student! I continue to engage in ongoing self-study of many topics such as spiritual emergence, interspecies communication, metaphysics, nonduality, neuroplasticity, and transformative justice, just to name a few. I love sharing these gems with interested parties for their own education.
Offerings
Psycho-spiritual Counseling
For those who are awakening spiritually who want to use those insights towards sacred activism and collective liberation. Also for justice activists who want to connect more deeply to the spiritual roots of their movement and explore their intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics within broader social and environmental dynamics.
Prayer and Community Circles
Monthly virtual prayer circles around the full moon. An opportunity listen and speak from the heart in community, and create an enhanced field of care, wisdom, and gratitude for personal and collective wellbeing. These events are free of charge. Community-Building Circles for connection, resilience, and conflict resolution in the Transformative Justice style.
Psychedelics and Social Justice
Conscious use of psychedelics to deepen engagement in justice work. Use of psychedelics to excavate personal shadow, and build capacity to show up in integrity in decolonization work. Building a transformative justice community rooted in ceremony and connection to Spirit. Expanding consciousness to imagine liberatory possibilities.
Psychotherapy Services
Somatic psychotherapy for survivors of sexual trauma who want to heal and move into sexual vitality. Support for codependency, anxiety, relational trauma, and building healthy relationships. Brain retraining coaching for those for whom chronic illness if part of their awakening journey
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
-Anais Nin