Core Values
These are the principles that shape how I practice and how I show up. They inform everything from how I hold a session to how I talk about the medicines we work with and the traditions they come from.
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These medicines come from living traditions held, protected, and transmitted across generations by specific people and communities. That lineage deserves acknowledgment, not extraction. Reciprocity shapes how this work is practiced: naming the origins of what we work with, holding the traditions with accuracy and giving back where possible.
I also encourage clients to explore what reciprocity means for them personally, whether that looks like finding ways to connect back with the land, supporting Indigenous-led organizations, or simply carrying a sense of gratitude and responsibility for what these traditions have made possible.
As part of this commitment, I offer a limited number of subsidized containers each year for those who need financial support to access this work. Learn more about scholarship access.
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You are the expert on your own experience. My role is not to interpret what your journey meant, direct what you should do with it, or tell you who you're becoming. Authority stays with you. This work is in service of your own growing capacity to trust what you know, not a transfer of that knowing to someone else.
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I don't have all the answers, and I'm not meant to. The medicines we work with carry wisdom from traditions far older than any framework I was trained in. I hold my own perspective lightly, stay curious about what I don't yet understand, and try to remain a student of this work rather than an authority on it. That includes knowing when something is outside my scope and saying so clearly.
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The experience is not the point. What you do with it is. Integration is slow, non-linear, and often quiet. It shows up in how you speak about yourself six months later, in the patterns that have softened, in the things that no longer run you. This practice is built around that arc, not around peak moments.
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I show up to this work regulated, prepared, and honest. I maintain an active personal practice, ongoing supervision, and a commitment to my own integration work, because the quality of what I hold for you depends on the quality of what I tend to in myself. I don't perform wellness. I try to practice it.
These medicines come from living traditions held, protected, and transmitted across generations by specific people and communities. That lineage deserves acknowledgment, not extraction. Reciprocity shapes how this work is practiced: naming the origins of what we work with, holding the traditions with accuracy and giving back where possible.
I also encourage clients to explore what reciprocity means for them personally, whether that looks like finding ways to connect back with the land, supporting Indigenous-led organizations, or simply carrying a sense of gratitude and responsibility for what these traditions have made possible.
As part of this commitment, I offer a limited number of subsidized containers each year for those who need financial support to access this work. Learn more about scholarship access.
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Reciprocity
You are the expert on your own experience. My role is not to interpret what your journey meant, direct what you should do with it, or tell you who you're becoming. Authority stays with you. This work is in service of your own growing capacity to trust what you know, not a transfer of that knowing to someone else.
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Sovereignty
I don't have all the answers, and I'm not meant to. The medicines we work with carry wisdom from traditions far older than any framework I was trained in. I hold my own perspective lightly, stay curious about what I don't yet understand, and try to remain a student of this work rather than an authority on it. That includes knowing when something is outside my scope and saying so clearly.
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Humility
The experience is not the point. What you do with it is. Integration is slow, non-linear, and often quiet. It shows up in how you speak about yourself six months later, in the patterns that have softened, in the things that no longer run you. This practice is built around that arc, not around peak moments.
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The Long Arc
I show up to this work regulated, prepared, and honest. I maintain an active personal practice, ongoing supervision, and a commitment to my own integration work, because the quality of what I hold for you depends on the quality of what I tend to in myself. I don't perform wellness. I try to practice it.