Bodymind Support
Individual Bodymind Support sessions offer a compassionate space to explore diverse mental health experiences through a holistic, liberation health framework. Each session supports your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, honoring your autonomy and tapping into your inner healer.
We’ll navigate new perspectives, challenge societal norms, and integrate diverse healing practices to help you connect with your body, find inner peace, and empower your healing journey.
Bodymind: A term used to challenge the idea the body and mind are experienced separately (Descartes). Written in various ways, Bodymind or Body-mind, this usage foregrounds the understanding that experiences of the bodymind are integrated (Price)
What to Expect
Supportive and Sacred Space
​This is a space where you can process emotions, complete tasks, or simply co-regulate and coexist. It offers support in navigating daily stresses, trauma, and diverse mental health experiences. Here, you’ll be heard, supported, and validated.
Reinterpreting Labels and Identities
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Redefine the labels imposed on you through diagnosis. Together, we’ll examine your experiences, reclaim your identity, and rewrite disempowering narratives into empowering stories.
Nervous System and Healing-Centered Support
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Experience holistic healing by calming and regulating your nervous system through vagus nerve reset techniques, self-regulation methods, breathwork, and mindful movement. These practices blend neuroscience, embodiment, and magic to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom and capacity to heal.
Navigating Internalized Oppression
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Challenge internalized beliefs rooted in ableism and sanism. Together, we’ll explore strategies to confront these narratives, fostering self-compassion and empowering you to advocate for your access needs.
The Healing Power of Movement
Our sessions provide a sacred, personalized space for navigating daily stresses, trauma, grief, and a diverse range of mental health experiences. meeting you exactly where you are on your healing journey. When traditional talk therapies aren't enough to heal a traumatized nervous system, our movement-based practices offer a gentle, embodied approach to support your well-being.
Mindful Movement Practices
Engage in practices that ground you in the present moment, fostering a sense of safety and calm. Mindful movement helps you reconnect with your body, alleviating the urge to escape or avoid stress, and supports the regulation of your nervous system.
Breathwork Techniques
Utilize breathing techniques that promote relaxation and mindfulness, helping to balance your emotional responses and calm intense reactions. Breathwork aids in managing stress and encourages a more centered, composed state of being.
Embodied Awareness
Cultivate a deep connection with your body’s signals and needs through practices that relieve tension and support clarity. Embodied awareness helps you navigate feelings of being stuck or overwhelmed, and empowers you to honor your boundaries and prioritize your well-being.
Who Can Benefit
This approach emphasizes anti-carceral practices and centers access needs, offering support to individuals navigating various diverse mental experiences, including:​
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Psychiatric Survivorship
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Neurodivergence
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Pathologized Personalities (formally diagnosed or self-identified, with space to explore or reject diagnoses)
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Depression
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Anxiety
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Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
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Navigating relationships with alcohol and drugs
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Suicidality
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Self-Injury
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Hearing Voices
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Dissociation (including its many forms, such as plurality)
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Psychosis, altered states of consciousness, schizophrenia-spectrum symptoms, and other experiences beyond “ordered” thought
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Altered Realities
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Madness and other mental health experiences​​
Additional Resources and Support
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For those seeking to deepen their understanding and enhance their healing journey, I offer a variety of additional resources:
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Workshops and Group Sessions
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Online Resources
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Visit my Resource Hub for an array of tools, including zines, toolkits, articles, and more designed to support your mental health and healing journey. Explore my Blog for insightful posts and practical guidance on navigating mental health challenges and embodied healing practices.
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Recommended Readings
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Here is a curated list of books on trauma, madness, recovery, and embodied healing.​​​
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