My Practitioner Lineage

When I start working with a new practitioner, I like to know where they’re coming from: what their practices, influences, and philosophies are.

Practices

Deep conversation: If you’ve ever had a life-changing conversation with someone, you know how transformative just talking can be! I draw on many influences and modalities (some listed below) to create powerful experiences that help you see yourself and your situation in a new light.

Archetypal Astrology / Depth Astrology: working with your chart from an archetypal / Jungian perspective to see the underlying influences affecting your life. My mentor and inspiration in this work is Karen Hawkwood.

Guided trance work: as a certified clinical hypnotist, I’ll guide you through liminal experiences that help you tap into powerful inner resources and your brain’s ability to change itself. This is one of my favorite ways to work with people — my clients’ imaginations and insights frequently blow me away!

Tarot: When the situation calls for it, we might pull out a deck and use the cards to spark new insight and conversation. I’ve been reading for myself and others for years now, and it never ceases to surprise me what surfaces during these readings!

Below are some of the approaches I bring to our work together. I’m always reading and learning, but these are tried-and-true.

Psychology and Mental Health

NB: I’m not a therapist nor certified in the following modalities (unless noted), but I frequently use these approaches and philosophies in my client conversations.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: a modality that focuses on accepting current feelings and situations as they are, while continuing to act in accordance with your personal values.

Brief Solution-Focused Therapy: a modality that presupposes that you are a resilient individual with all the resources you need to overcome obstacles. It focuses on the times when you have been able to improve your situation to highlight your own creative problem-solving abilities and make way for new solutions.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: a modality that posits that thoughts are the main cause of emotions and actions, and that identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts will move your overall experience in a more positive direction.

Somatic Experiencing: a modality that focuses on gently moving the nervous system through the experience of releasing emotions stored in the body, especially through activating the vagus nerve.

Internal Family Systems / Parts work: a modality that separates the mind into disparate parts that each have their own emotions, motivations, instincts, etc. By working with these different parts, we can heal the wounded ones and bring balance to the system so that you can act from your “Self” (the healthy, wise core part of you).

sociological approach

My work is intersectional: feminist, LGBTQ+ affirming, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, body-positive, and acknowledging of systemic inequality. I’m committed to identifying and dismantling my own biases, although I know I still have work to do.

Touchstones

These are works and creators that have deeply impacted the way I work with people. Some are fairly obvious, but there may be a few that surprise you!

Books

  • Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore

  • Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

  • The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell

  • The Happiness Trap, Russ Harris

  • Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta

  • Art and Fear, David Bayles and Ted Orland

  • The Story Solution, Johnny Truant

  • Weaving Fate, Aidan Wachter

  • Kissing the Limitless, T. Thorn Coyle

  • The poems of Rumi

  • Make Ink, Jason Logan

Creators

Podcasts

  • The Other Others

  • The Huberman Lab

  • Maintenance Phase

  • Oh No, Ross and Carrie

  • Lux Occult