The times are urgent, we must slow down” Bayo Akomolafe

About Therapy

“Healing has an ancestral context. Healing has a political context. Healing has an embodied context. It is important for our healing that therapeutic work tends to and acknowledges the context in which we currently live daily life - the ways oppression, racism, colonization, historical and imperial violence, ableism, heterosexism, gender binaries, transphobia, sexism, fat-phobia, and body policing, compounds and intersects with how other stressors, wounds, traumas, difficulties, life transitions, and cumulative life experiences and healing from these are complex and intertwined. This complexity impacts how we uniquely navigate and find healing. I hold deep intentions to support the resilience, resources, ancestral healing, wisdoms, and brilliance that are already within your own unique being-ness. You are fierce in this journey and you deserve balance, rest, support, and care unique to you and your needs. It is my belief that a healing journey is co-created, personal pace guided, and held in sacred space. It is my hope that the healing process creates more opportunities for a deeper knowing of you and your ancestors wisdoms, trust of self, inspires different curiosities and insights, finds new possibilities to be in your unique creativity of spirit and expressions, allows for deeper connection to your embodied, somatic, and sensory experiences, disrupts the pathologization of your being-ness, helps to build more supportive connections to community, lineage, and culture, and that you find liberation and transformation through your healing practices. It is an honor to be here with you.

Therapy is for...

Connecting deeply to your own healing wisdom and intuition
Releasing guilt, shame, and self-negation
Reclaiming your inner voice and an embodied presence
Empowering you in a greater sense of safety, agency, and choice
Nourishing your mind, body, and spirit
Strengthening your inherent resiliency
Honoring your cultural, ancestral, and intergenerational wisdom
Establishing healthy boundaries and clear intentions
Embodying self-compassion and self-love
Connecting to your passions and purpose
Trusting you have important and unique gifts to share
Accountability for your power and impacts
Learning new skills, new insights, and how to trust yourself
Communicating more authentically
Cultivating meaningful connections, community, relationships
Deepening intimacy with self and in relation with others
Knowing what honors you and nurtures you
Feeling deeply that which needs to be felt Untangling and reweaving your stories Change as a opportunity for (r)evolution of self
Transforming for liberation
Being fully who you are

Therapeutic Specializations

Complex & developmental trauma

PTSD

Intergenerational & historical trauma

Grief and loss

Unresolved, complicated, or traumatic grief

Suicide loss

Stress management & chronic stress

Anxiety

Systemic and institutional abuse

Religious and spiritual trauma

Power and abuse in intimate, polycule, interpersonal, caregiver relationships

Consent & boundaries

Consent & boundaries

Chronic illness and chronic pain

Recent diagnosis/disability

Terminal illness

Medical trauma, life-saving medical interventions, transplant experiences

End of life transition

Self-esteem and self-compassion

Chronic shame

Experiences of disability

Neurodivergent affirming trauma healing

Depathogizing diagnosis & new diagnosis

Medical and health advocacy

Major life transitions and difficult life changes

Integration of cultural, traditional, ancestral healing practices

Decolonizing health & wellness

Disability justice and internalized ableism

Experiences of oppression, racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, fatphobia, gender and body policing, culutral/religious, prejudice, micro-aggressions, and code-switching

Burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma

Bi-racial, multiethnic, intersecting, and identities

Code switching, assimilation, internalized oppression

High impact care work i.e. social workers, crisis responders, healers, therapists, activists, and caregivers

All of my pain is a spider I’ve learned not to crush with the heel of my shoe but to guide with the page of my journal into an empty glass, asking questions about its life, its purpose, as I walk careful out to the garden, and rest it down on earth. My pain, how happy it is to leave me, whenever I treat it kind. -Andrea Gibson