Offerings
Finding Freedom in Everyday Practices
Coaching /Therapy sessions: $100-$150/hr. Most insurances accepted for Therapy in Arizona.
Ecotherapy
“As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Ecotherapy offers ways to connect deeper with Earth, human beings, and nature allies that can lead to individual and collective healing and transformation. Developed from a decolonization/uncolonization lens. Informed by mindfulness; interbeing; reciprocation with nature; Indigenous sovereignty, return of land; and honoring ancestors.
Connection to nature connects us to ourselves and one another.
I am a certified ecotherapist through The Earthbody Institute and participated in the Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet training through Plum Village. I regularly commune with nature through hikes in the Sonoran Desert and San Juan Mountains with my caramel colored fur-baby Kapri.
Simple Living
“Living simply makes loving simple.” -bell hooks
Explore everyday practices to simplify living while expanding your heart and helping the planet. Discover how to incorporate plant-based eating, no-tox/no-waste DIY home cleaning and self-care products. Voluntary simplicity, minimalism, tiny living are also covered.
The invitation here is to reimagine ways of living that reduce harm to Earth, animals, other human beings, and ourselves, while increasing quality of life and freedom.
I have trained as a Plant-based Eating Coach through the Food Revolution Network. My passions lie in cooking simple gourmet plant-based meals for friends, serving them tea, and sharing sustainable treasures for home and self-care. I’m also madly in love with my tiny space and minimal stuff!
Writing
“Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Writing as nonviolent action during this time of immense adversity is not only therapeutic and values-affirming for myself, the writer, but can bridge chasms of judgment, othering, and separation among humans and other-than-humans. Leaning on Buddhist concepts, minimalism, nature inspiration, and a desire to liberate my own and all living beings’ hearts, I offer poetry, essays, blog posts as gifts on Substack.
Intuitive Eating/Body Trust
“You were born knowing how to eat. You can trust your body again.”
-Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch, Intuitive Eating
Intuitive Eating and Body Trust are offered as approaches that enable you to be the expert on your body and what you eat, allowing for greater attunement with your own needs. Developed within social justice, anti-oppression, LGBTQ+ affirming, and fat-affirming, Health at Every Size frameworks.
I am a certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and am actively training with the Center for Body Trust. As a person who lives in a larger body and has lived experience with eating disorders, I have embraced this work myself. I believe in the power of reclaiming body trust as being integral to a liberatory journey from oppressive systemic structures of patriarchy, white supremacy, and diet culture. I would be honored to share in this journey with you.
Mindfulness / Meditation
“Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.”
-Thích Nhất Hạnh
Mindfulness and meditation coaching are offered as ways to support the cultivation of equanimity and the ability to respond from a place of conscious effectiveness, especially during these times of great tumult. Based in Buddhist concepts of interbeing, impermanence, and Bodhisattva intent, these offerings promote a path toward spiritual liberation while remaining grounded in accessible practices.
For those seeking a more secular approach to mindfulness, concepts from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) are offered to help increase emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
As a Licensed Independent Counselor, I have participated in numerous trainings on mindfulness and DBT. I have also received the Five Mindfulness Trainings through Plum Village. May all beings be free. This wish guides all that I offer.
Mental Health Therapy & Advocacy
“Mental health struggles are not personal failures. They are often sane responses to insane systems.”
-Johann Hari, Lost Connections
Mental health care and awareness are central to my own liberatory path and my focus in supporting others on their liberatory journeys. I am a mental health professional and a person with lived experience as being diagnosed with mental illness as part of the medical-industrial complex.
My work as a therapist includes a philosophy of walking beside my clients, believing they are the experts on themselves, as well as emotional decolonization and collective healing work, based on Dr. Jennifer Mullan’s work in Decolonizing Therapy. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Arizona and am able to accept insurance for clients in Arizona as a way to increase accessibility.
Let’s move toward more authentic personal and systemic mental health transformation together.
Feel Free to Reach Out
If you are feeling drawn toward any of these offerings, let me know if there are any questions I can answer. Looking forward to journeying with you!