“we need to become weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. it’s not enough just to change the system; we need to change ourselves.”
Assata Shakur
somatic coaching
do you want to better understand your own feelings, needs, and experiences? seeking to better align your actions, behaviors, and relationships with your conscious values? using a collaborative and relational approach, informed by Internal Family Systems (more commonly known as ‘parts work’) and psychodynamic practice, we will co-create goals for your wellness journey. i’ll support you in exploring how your past has shaped your current experiences and resourcing yourself to tend to past wounds. i will use a combination of dialogue, arts & crafts, somatic practices, and political education to create a therapeutic space where we can be playful, authentic, and accountable, supporting you in maintaining wellness for yourself, your relationships, and your communities.
conflict transformation & mediation
understanding conflict as a natural part of relationships, i use dialogue and art to support folks in understanding each other’s needs and perspectives, as well as their own. as a transformative justice practitioner, i recognize the most important conflict work as proactive and preventative. in this spirit, i encourage folks to create practices that nurture relationships before, after, and outside of conflict. i seek to tend to each person’s whole context, including circumstances, race, class, gender, age, and other power dynamics, as we work to transform the conditions that may have led to a conflict or rupture to occur.
relationship coaching
are you interested in building your skills for sustaining caring and supportive relationships? with relationship coaching, two or more people can be supported in gaining greater insight into your feelings, needs & experiences, and building skills to communicate about these with each other. using practices like emotion-focused therapy, dialogue, art, and relational skill-building, i can support you in co-creating relationships that meet each of your needs. this can be supportive for all kinds of relationships, whether these are platonic relationships, romantic relationships, sexual relationships, coparenting relationships, adult/child relationships, cohabiting relationships, or some combination. i approach this work with a communal lens that values all types of relationships & relationship structures.
“love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect & trust.”
bell hooks
relearning relationships 