Commune with your Inner World

“The doors to the world of the wild self are few but precious…”

This is a space carved out of love for the wild unknown, Jungian and depth psychotherapy, earth based wisdom traditions, ancestral healing arts and creative ritual. My work is a love letter to the body and to the earth. Here, psychotherapy is invoked as a form of ceremony, tending to the path of healing as a messy but sacred endeavor.

As a clinical psychotherapist, my work is to act as an accomplice, ally and guide to the gates of your inner world; to help cultivate and regrow parts of the psyche that have been neglected or suppressed out of survival. In traditional Greek, the word psychotherapy (“psyche” meaning “Breath, Spirit, Soul” and “therapeia”, translated as “Healing”) has always been held throughout time as a sacred journey to mend what feels wounded. Together, we trace the root of your individual and collective pain to its original source. Conjuring the healing balm of intuition and imagination, we are strengthened to reach back through time and memory to reclaim what has been lost, stolen or broken.

Areas of specialization:

◈ psychedelic & spiritual integration ◈ overwhelm, depression & anxiety
◈ cultivating & strengthening intuition ◈ recovering from narcissistic abuse ◈ “rewilding”: reconnecting to the instinctual life ◈ finding meaning, value & purpose in daily living ◈ creative blocks, self-judgement, perfectionism
◈ intimacy & communication in relationships ◈ healing connections to earth, elements & the non-human world
◈ ancestral patterns, individual/generational trauma, family dynamics
◈ codependency, setting healthy boundaries, identifying needs
◈ unconscious belief systems that undermine healing & growth ◈ confidence, worthiness, self-esteem & emotional self regulation ◈ thresholds, endings/beginnings, career changes & life transitions ◈ isolation, grief, loss, belonging, estrangement from community

Clinical Approach

  • Our relationship to the earth and the non-human world is often a reflection of our relationship to ourselves. The more than human world beckon us to slow down, listen and develop a new way of relating to the world.

    Eco-therapy is not solely about understanding how the land and animal realm can be of service to our nervous system, but restoring our sense of belonging, devotion and reciprocity to worlds seen and unseen. Integrating organic materials into ritual, art making and mindfulness, together we endeavor to re-wild the body and psyche and rekindle relationship to the Soul of the world.

  • Art and body-based therapies give an expressive form to emotions that are sometimes hidden from the conscious mind.

    Art making is a creative ritual to gather and process information. Symbolic imagery and art create paths of reflection, healing and transformation that stretch beyond the linear mind and language. We draw on art making, visualization, Tarot, dream images, myth and storytelling to help illuminate the path forward.

    The body is a source of wisdom and wild imagination. When we take the time to listen to our discomfort, pain, desires and pleasure, our bodily sensations can lead us to more fulfilling lives. Ignoring our bodily instincts leads us to disconnection and isolation from our closest ally.

    In our work together, we lean into the body as a guide, teacher, confidant and source of information about what is needed on the healing journey.

  • In depth psychotherapy, we work very slowly to excavate the deep roots of your unconscious feelings and choices, explore the ancestral origins of the invisible patterns that have influenced your life. Below are a few of the ways we can work:

    • Dreamwork: The unconscious speaks to us in riddles and rhymes, leaving a trail of breadcrumbs in our sleep for the waking mind to decipher. Dreams are a living bridge that connect us to the realm of Soul, Ancestors, Archetypes, Earth, Gods, Goddess, Spirit, Shadow and our Inner Wisdom, beckoning the physical and material world to slow, listen and lean into the wisdom the dark night holds.

    • Folk and fairytales, myth and storytelling are ways that humans have come to know and remember themselves since the beginning of time. Ancient tales contain archetypes and images that help us understand what it is to be human and give us models for how to navigate the complexity of our inner and outer worlds.

      While working with me, we will call on the power of myth to help us map the path ahead and understand what story you are living inside of.

  • Plant Medicine journeys can leave us with images, inspiration and revelations that can feel hard to incorporate into daily reality. Psychedelic integration offers support using creative tools that connect the Soul world to practical reality.

  • Healing does not happen in isolation…and groups provide a space to be witnessed in our transformation. I offer community healing arts circles that focus on sharing wisdom, cultivating skills, and building circles of intimacy and trust within community. All groups have an art making component that may include working with clay, paint or collage, mask making, song and drum circles, dance and movement, altar building, and earth based rituals as a pathway towards healing and restoration.

“THE DOORS TO THE WORLD OF THE WILD SELF ARE FEW BUT PRECIOUS. IF YOU HAVE A DEEP SCAR, THAT IS A DOOR. IF YOU HAVE AN OLD, OLD STORY, THAT IS A DOOR. IF YOU LOVE THE SKY AND THE WATER SO MUCH YOU ALMOST CANNOT BEAR IT, THAT IS A DOOR. IF YOU YEARN FOR A DEEPER LIFE, A FULL LIFE, A SANE LIFE, THAT IS A DOOR.”

- Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Community

In my practice as a clinician, I specialize in working with artists, healers, creative women, femme and non-binary identified people, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, first generation, immigrant and refugee communities. I offer a loving and non-judgmental container for your experience, affirm your voice and accompany you as an ally to the gates of your inner world.

“I feel therefore I am free”
— Audre Lorde

Vision

The Inner Garden was born from a dream to integrate earth based healing traditions and expressive arts into clinical practice and honor them as the true source of what we consider modern psychotherapy. Calling on the collective memory of ritual, art making, storytelling & myth, movement & dance, dreamwork & relationship to land as potent forms of medicine and allies in anti-oppression. Working with the threads of these practices, we also focus on how we as humans embody generational patterns of our ancestral family line and explore how they manifest in our bodies, relationships, and daily life.

In an age where Black, Brown, Indigenous and Queer peoples have been so brutalized by the mental health system in the West, we are in dire need of medicines for our Spirits, families and communities that do not replicate the harm so many of us are seeking refuge from.

My practice offers a container that honors non-linear ways of knowing, allows room to rest, dream, imagine, and creates space to slow down long enough to listen for what medicine is needed.

    • M.A. Counseling psychology & expressive arts therapy, California Institute of Integral Studies

    • Certificate, Black psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies

    • Practicum, Community mental health, Art Therapy Institute of North Carolina

    • B.A. Environmental Studies, Antioch University

    • Finding ourselves in fairytales: A narrative psychological approach, Dr. Sharon Blackie, Pacifica Graduate Institute

    • Tending the Hearth: Pre-colonial European folk magic traditions, Sister Spinster

    • Eco-Therapy: Conceptualization, Frame and Liability: Axis Mundi Center for Mental Health

    • Connecting with Nature Indoors and on Zoom, The Earthbody Institute

    • "Reclaiming the Mythical Feminine: Jungian & post-Jungian dreamwork & Goddess mythology, Anima Mundi School

    • The 4 I’s of Oppression: Axis Mundi Center for Mental Health

    • Unnameable losses: The unmetabolized ambiguous grief of adult children of refugees, Collectively Rooted

    • Working with Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Clients, Axis Mundi Center for Mental Health

    • “Medicinal Plants of the Gulf South”, Rowan & Sage

    • Alchemical Herbalism, School of Evolutionary Herbalism

    • Mujeres de Barro: Clay and Cacao with Mariana Mae

    • Emotionally Focused Therapy Intensive: Attachment Based Interventions for Couples in Crisis, Sue Johnson, PESI

    • Play Therapy with African American Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences, Association of Play Therapy

    • Indigenous Healing Practices: Story Teaches – Art Heals, Collectively Rooted

    • Healing: I believe that you have the capacity to heal yourself. I am here as an ally, guide and witness for the transformation you are initiating.

    • Humility: I believe listening and humility are the soil in which understanding flourishes. I don’t presume to know better than you what is right for your life.

    • Community: I believe that we do not heal in isolation. Our unique knowing combines to create solutions.

    • Belonging: I believe that all parts of you are welcome here.

    • Body wisdom: Listening to the joy, discomfort, pain and desires of the body helps to create connection and integration in our lives.

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