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Cultures around the globe teach us that community really matters when it comes to resiliency, spiritual transformation, and living well. These sessions can strengthen relationships, increase confidence, and enable you to take better care of each other in your daily and weekly lives, which can be foundational for living a decolonial and spiritual life.
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The questions I ask and invitations I offer go beyond diagnosing problems into holistic understandings of who each partner is, decolonial understandings of what health and living well can mean, and how relationships with spirituality, the universe, and the ancestors may be involved. I'm also a trauma-informed practitioner committed to living an anti-racist life, and my values around undoing capitalism and other forms of oppression are in the room and our container. Sometimes clients are especially interested in working with me because I offer nervous system regulation techniques, as well as Ayurvedic approaches to filling one's cup, and I know each person has different needs when it comes to being nourished and showing up to life. I'm also a trauma-informed practitioner, and I hold colonial trauma and intergenerational trauma as important. Sometimes clients are drawn to me because my training is in global psychologies, not just western psychology, and I am interested in walking the line of being both action-oriented (like coaching encourages) and going deep and existential (like spiritual counseling encourages). Our work together can include ritual-making, breathwork, physical practices, spiritual questions and experiments, tarot, astrology, alongside the more mental realm of identifying and expressing needs and thinking outside of the box. Spiritual framing and questions are welcomed and honored. Decolonial intentions, concerns, and dreams are also welcomed and honored. |
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Together we build a supportive process and sacred relational space, tapping into all of our powers, wisdom, and brilliance. Collective attention and presence leads to all types of healing, growth, and breakthroughs for individuals.
We look at each partner's individual lives, challenges, desires, and growth, including what filling their cup looks like and what capacity expansion right now would mean. We identify ways for each partner to support each other outside of sessions. When working on conflicts, we make sure to get specific about the focus of each session and actions after each session. One of the ways this couples counseling is decolonial is that we focus on nourishing balance, starting with a phase of each person filling their own up before we approach a phase of engaging in the pain-points more deeply. In the last phase of working together, clients use sessions to go beyond their individual lives, brainstorming ways to live as a team, which can be practical and imaginative, like designing weekly rituals rooted in their ancestral cultures or experiments on how to have more fun together. |
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