There is no script. The session takes the shape you need that day.

Shamanic healing in the modern world

Shamanic healing in the modern world involves working to release the imbalance in energy due to the stressors we live with in this busy and toxic world.

This healing journey is focused on helping you to regain your balance and reminding you that we all experience cycles and periods in our lives where rest and contemplation are needed.

What I bring to it

My background is clinical. I am trained in trauma-based and cognitive-behavioral work, and decades of it sits underneath everything I do. My preferred focus runs Jungian and existential.

I am a Limited Licensed Psychologist in Michigan, so for people located in Michigan I offer psychotherapy directly, virtually. For everyone else, and for anyone I see in person in New Orleans, the work takes the form of shamanic and depth guidance. The training is the same either way. What changes is the container and what I am permitted to call it.

That means we care about your history, and we care about meaning. We look at the parts of yourself you learned to hide, and we look at the questions underneath everything, the ones about purpose and mortality and what your life is for.

Shadow work and inner child healing

Shadow work means turning toward the parts of you that got pushed out of view. The anger you were told was too much. The need you learned to be ashamed of.

Inner child healing means going back to the version of you who first learned those lessons, and offering that child something different than what she got.

Both are necessary. Both are often painful. I will not pretend otherwise.

The goal is to help you weave this into the tapestry of who you are now. In this moment.

And to recognize your worth despite every message and action that told you the opposite.

What a session actually looks like

Sometimes we talk. Sometimes we journey. Sometimes I pull out oracle cards or animal medicine cards, because an image will get past your defenses when a question will not. Sometimes I ask you to write, or to make something with your hands.

You are never required to do any of it. You will always know what we are doing and why.