About Roots

 I am an affirming mental health coach, activist, and community empowerment advocate for gender expansive as well as cisgender/heterosexual individuals. My practice is proudly anti-racist, pro-Indigenous, pro-immigrant and pro-abolitionist. I support decolonization in the mental health forum. I specialize in clients who are young adult (15 yo+) through mature adults. I have accrued more than twenty-five years of expertise supporting individuals struggling with Anxiety and/or Depression. Many of my clients are proudly neurodiverse, including (but not limited to) Autism Spectrum and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity. I have a niche supporting individuals who identify as gender non conforming.  Additionally, I work with individuals experiencing grief and bereavement, as well as with those navigating generational, racial and gender-based trauma, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

 

My practice is integrative, meaning I utilize traditional Western therapeutic ideologies and applications fused seamlessly with Eastern and Indigenous healing practices. Specifically, I use Dialectical Behavior, Humanistic and Solution Focused therapeutic applications combined with Art Therapy, Ecotherapy, Breathwork and Meditation practices. I specialize in psychological projective tools; specifically, I read Tarot and Runes and integrate those into my practice for receptive clients.  I meet with clients virtually, face to face, or using a hybrid format.

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My first objective when meeting with new or potential clients is to establish a trust-based connection and to build rapport. As we bond and feel safe working together, my clients and I co-create goals for their optimal alignment and fulfillment. My objective is to facilitate client growth correspondent with their customized comfort levels and pacing. Safety and vulnerability within a coach-to-client relationship is essential. I firmly believe that individuals house their own sacred medicine; often our wounds are our access points to our wisdom, gifts, and sovereignty. My role is to assist clients as they discover these access points,  and learn how to interpret and navigate their own range of medicinal tools. Through intentional practice, my clients learn to embody radical and expressive self-love. My role as a coach is ephemeral; I  conscientiously step back in correspondence to clients’ stabilization and evolution. As clients assume agency and emotional balance beyond the container of client/coach relationship, I celebrate and facilitate their sovereignty and promote their autonomous healing journey. Cultivating a relationship with self that embodies radical self love is the powerful legacy I hope to gift my clients. 

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My personal philosophy is that our intention and commitment to individual healing work has a profound impact on our ability to engage mindfully and positively with others. This impacts individuals in our immediate field, our extended family/kinship groups, friend networks, communities, the global collective and with our Earth Mother. I am passionate about sharing my love for Earth with clients. I utilize the amazing resources in our local ecosystem: the forests, the wetlands, waterways, and the ocean, to foster reciprocity and sustained healing for clients and for our home planet. I offer walk-and-talks for clients who would like to incorporate somatic movement into therapy sessions. As individuals and communities become connected to nature, they become more grounded, and they begin to perceive themselves as healing agents within our natural world .​​

 

An additional skill set I offer derives from my relationship with reading Tarot. I have been trained and certified to integrate tarot (as well as other projective tools) into therapeutic practice if clients are receptive. I read for individuals as well as groups. 

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 I am an advocate of practicing the medicine I profess. This includes my own daily grounding practices as well as acute awareness of my nervous system regulation, my capacity for stimuli, and my adherence to my own mindfulness practices. I model self care as a coach and support my clients as they develop and maintain boundaries and cultivate their unique self-care rituals and routines. I view my role with clients as a sacred, reciprocal relationship in which we share wisdom, affirm, and guide each other with humility and intentionality.