The Foundation
Body-based healing and intuitive support for real-life change.
Trauma-aware · Culturally responsive · Consent-led · 1:1 sessions
What I Do
I facilitate a process of honoring and listening to the nervous system, releasing stored stress, and reconnecting with your inner guidance. My work blends somatic practices, including felt-sense tracking, grounding, and micro-movement, with my energetic and intuitive gifts to help you integrate insight with embodied, lasting change.
My Approach
Trauma-informed and decolonized.
I honor your lived experience and your pace. There is no forced retelling here. Choice and consent come first, always.
Justice-rooted.
We name how systemic racism, capitalism, patriarchy, and colonization shape our health, our bodies, and our relationships. We center ancestral wisdom and collective healing practices alongside practical tools for everyday life.
Inclusive and culturally attuned.
All identities and backgrounds are welcome here. Sessions are adapted to your needs, your values, and what feels right for you.
Specialties & Areas of Focus
The work I am most called to do.
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I have experience working with adolescents navigating some of the most tender and complex terrain of their lives, including panic attacks, anxiety, self-esteem, and embodiment challenges. I am particularly passionate about supporting young people with gender identity, LGBTQ+ experiences, and the process of individuation and finding their own way in the world. This is sacred work, and I approach it with the care and respect it deserves.
Young adults learning to find their footing and step into themselves are also very welcome here.
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The parts of you that have been waiting to be seen.
Inner Child
Releasing childhood baggage and restoring confidence. We work together to identify the patterns formed in childhood that are quietly limiting your ability to live the life you want, and we meet those younger parts of you with compassion rather than judgment.Shadow Work
The shadow is the place where your rejected aspects live, both the painful and the surprisingly powerful. Most of us have never really looked there. In this work, we turn toward the shadow with curiosity, exploring the parts of yourself you have pushed away, suppressed, or never felt safe enough to acknowledge. What lives in the shadow is not something to be feared. It is something to be integrated. -
Exploring how you relate to yourself and to others, understanding the patterns, the defenses, and the deeper longings underneath them.
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Working with anxiety and chronic stress, not as problems to eliminate but as signals from a body doing its best. Together we learn to listen rather than suppress.
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Feeling at home in your own skin, building confidence, and shedding a limiting belief system.
The Frameworks I Draw From
The theories and traditions below are not rigid scripts. They are living lenses that help me meet you where you are, in your body, your history, and your wholeness.
Decolonized & Ancestral Frameworks
Western psychology does not hold all the answers, and it was never designed with all bodies in mind. This work is deeply informed by the writings and teachings of Resmaa Menakem, whose exploration of racialized trauma and somatic abolitionism in My Grandmother's Hands reshaped how I understand the body as a site of both wound and repair. The work of Prentis Hemphill on embodiment, liberation, and ancestral healing reminds me that somatics is not separate from justice; it is inseparable from it. And Jennifer Mullan's framework of Decolonizing Therapy calls us to name the ways that colonization, racism, and patriarchy live in our nervous systems, and to heal accordingly. This is not only personal work. It is relational, cultural, and rooted in something much older than any clinical model.
Present-Moment & Nervous System Awareness
Sessions are grounded in an understanding of how the autonomic nervous system responds to safety, threat, and everything in between, and how those responses are not flaws or failures but brilliant acts of survival. Alongside this, a Gestalt-informed lens invites us into present-moment awareness: noticing what is alive right now in the body, the emotions, and the space between us. Rather than analyzing the past from a distance, we bring it into the present where it can be met, felt, and moved through.