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Offering coaching/ emotional support in the style of radical therapy. Here to help people understand the ways that participating in the oppressive systems in which we all swim is the cause of most if not all of our emotional distress (as opposed to the diagnoses in the DSM which center the cause of distress as arising within). I’m aware of the goodness and the strength already present within you while I act as a guide in noticing and helping celebrate those skills and strengths.
This is out of pocket (sorry, no insurance) and remote only, $100 for about an hour. Pro bono slots are currently full but will open eventually. I can see people anywhere but most of my time slots are in the afternoon pacific time.
Sessions are directed by the person receiving care and will unfold according to your will and in the style that suits you best. As examples, a session can include: supportive listening; meaning making; expressive arts including authentic movement, music, drawing, writing; practical exploration and advice regarding choices and changes; western herbal medicine suggestions; dreamwork; and journeywork.
Specialties include lgbtqia topics, trauma work, grief work, including the loss of self due to sickness, disability or oppression; support defining and staying attuned with anti-oppression or abolitionist values; and help adjusting to life changes.
For folks who are curious, I have training and experience of a master’s level mental health clinician but am not practicing in that way at all. My graduate education included expressive arts therapy and clinical psychology but I notice people are frequently harmed by the current infrastructure of mandated reporting and mental health. I also have a year’s formal training in herbal medicine and a lifetime’s worth of intuitive healing, food as medicine, and spiritual work. I tend to be more woo adjacent than woo and I expect this work to be grounding, uplifting, and practical for people receiving care.
