Therapy as a Sacred Pause
We begin each session with an invitation to ground and attune our nervous systems.
We slow down enough to listen to what your body, heart, and spirit are really communicating.
From there, the work unfolds intuitively as we navigate what wants to be witnessed, processed, and transformed.
Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy (IFOT) is a trauma recovery approach that brings together Indigenous values, relational ways of knowing, and Focusing meditation.
Rather than treating healing as something that happens only within the individual, IFOT recognizes that our experiences are shaped by our relationships, communities, cultures, histories, and the larger systems we live within. We learn to listen deeply to the body's own knowing, creating a compassionate relationship with our inner experience rather than trying to override, judge, or pathologize it.
With the integration of Indigenous values, healing becomes connected to collective liberation. We remember that our wellbeing is not separate from the wellbeing of our communities, our relationships, and the living world around us.
IFOT offers a way of coming back into relationship: with the body, with ourselves, with one another, with the great mystery of life and the land, and with the wisdom that has been there all along.
Indigenous Focusing Oriented
Buddhist Psychology
Buddhist Psychology is different from Western psychology in that it orients not toward pathologizing people, but toward recognizing our basic goodness: that beneath the layers of conditioning, fear, and suffering, you are whole and worthy just as you are. The work then becomes about becoming aware of and clearing the barriers that keep us from experiencing our inherent goodness and freedom.
There is also liberation available in the present moment. So often, we become stuck looping in our minds, caught in stories about the past or projections about the future. Buddhist Psychology invites us into the practice of arriving here, now, dropping the storylines, and tapping into the subtle joy, aliveness, and freedom that can be found in the present moment.
The aim of Buddhist Psychology is liberation from suffering. There is an understanding that it is possible for human beings to experience genuine wellbeing and freedom from the constant dissatisfaction that arises from clinging, grasping, and resisting what is already here.
Rather than asking, “How do we fix what is wrong with me?” we can begin to ask, “What is keeping me from experiencing the wholeness that is already here?”
A sign of progress is how attuned you are to the heart.
Progress is measured not by diagnostics or evaluations, but by how compassionately you can meet yourself.
Somatics and Embodied Parts Work
In our work, we explore feeling through the body rather than trying to figure things out with the mind. The body carries deep wisdom that often gets bypassed because it can be hard to be with difficult emotions. Together we slow down, listen, and create enough safety for the body to reveal what it needs. From this place, there is opportunity to feel a real shift in the body and nervous system, a sigh of relief, a gentle landing.
Embodied parts work is about entering into relationship with all the different parts of ourselves.
You may notice that there is a younger part of you that gets triggered at times and suddenly seems to take over the show. Maybe you find yourself procrastinating, shutting down, people-pleasing, becoming overwhelmed, or getting in the way of things you really want to do.
Through embodied parts work, we slow down and say hello to that part of you. Rather than trying to get rid of it, shame it, or force it to change, we become curious about what it is experiencing, what it is trying to protect, and what it needs.
Over time, the parts that once felt like they were running the show can begin to trust that they don't have to work so hard. They become integrated rather than exiled, and you develop a more compassionate and connected relationship with yourself as a whole.
Session Fee ($125-$175)
Sliding Scale
A sliding scale is used to invite people to pay according to their available resources. Those with greater financial privilege contribute more, allowing those with less access to pay according to their means.
The exchange that feels nourishing and sustainable for me to be well is between $125 and $175 per session.
I am always balancing how to have this deep work be sustainable to me AND accessible to my peoples. With that in mind, please reach out to ask about sliding scale availability.
Sliding scale inspired by the framework of Radical History Club, which encourages those with greater financial privilege to contribute more so that access is broadened for all. For guidance on assessing where you might fall on the scale, you can visit their “Sliding Scale” page, which offers a helpful breakdown for determining what you may be able to contribute.