Whatever brings one to the grounds of healing is sacred terrain and deserves to be named as such. How we approach something changes what is approached. My commitment is to be a source of illumination on your journey home to, and through, yourself.

Our time together is a process of remembrance and reclamation of the wisdom, love and clarity already within you. In addition to verbal processing and dialogue, we will call on the rituals of breath, meditation, sound, movement, prayer and ceremony to invoke the non-conceptual and the numinous. The container is intuitive and multidimensional; one where your embodied wisdom is welcomed and revered.

Rather than orienting to experiences of depression, anxiety and addiction as illnesses that one must learn to forever live with, we can also see them as symptoms — temporary, albeit painful, messengers carrying important information about the state of our inner and outer worlds.

Re-naming what are typically called mental illnesses as symptoms can create space to see them as indicators of dis-ease rather than diseases in and of themselves. This does not minimize the pain, but creates a different way to be in relationship with it.

Our work is to welcome, to listen and to be with these symptoms long enough to understand the medicine they need.

As the Buddhist teachings suggest, love and compassion are the only wise responses to the neuroses of mind. In my practice, we turn inward with kind eyes and a soft touch. Through loving awareness, we can make sacred the terrain that was once terrifying. Together, we remember how to keep our hearts open to what we don’t want to see; to trust that the pain being experienced needs to be explored so that it can be released and transformed.

Rather than indulging the pattern of rejecting and running from our pain, I hold the field of compassion (the courage to be with the suffering without becoming it) and over time guide you to be that steady, warm presence for yourself.

I view well-being of mind as intrinsically related to well-being of body, heart, spirit, community, society and ecology. My work honors the confluence of internal dimensions [mental, emotional, vibrational & somatic] and external dimensions [familial, generational, societal, ecological & spiritual].

Mainstream mental health narratives are disproportionately individualized and ignore broader, systemic influences. What we have been taught to call “mental illness” are often actually wise and protective responses to a very ill society. In addition to exploring the ongoing conversations between mind, body, heart and soul, my practice also addresses the impacts of generational trauma, societal oppression, colonial capitalism and ecological collapse.